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Jewish-community. Jewish community

 Record Group
Identifier: Jewish-community
Materials from the Jewish communities in and around Houston, Texas

Found in 145 Collections and/or Records:

Eisenberg Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 818
Overview This collection consists of one folder containing newsclippings, a marriage certificate, photographs of Adath Yeshurun and Beth Yeshurun, an Adath Yeshurun newsletter, and a list of San Jacinto High School class of 1949 graduates.
Dates: 1937 - 1999

Ellen Orseck Art Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0999
Overview This collection is made up of two boxes containing correspondence, drawings, and photographs from Ellen Orseck, spanning from 1991-2019.
Dates: 1991 - 2019

Emery-Weiner School collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 731
Overview The collection consists of publications for a variety of purposes: student recruitment; fund-raising; periodic reporting, particularly to parents; and recording of community guidelines. Also included are student publications and an I. Weiner School yearbook. There are a few programs from student theater productions. Newsclippings and correspondence are also included.
Dates: 1978 - 2003

Epstein Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 865
Overview This collection is made up of one box containing bulletins, certificates, correspondence, event materials, photographs, programs, and scrapbooks from the Epstein Family, spanning from 1939-1999.
Dates: 1891 - 2016

Farfel Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 879
Overview The collection consists of twenty four boxes containing correspondence, photographs, awards, news clippings, University of Houston Board of Regents records, contracts, financial documents and business records ranging from the 1920s to the 1980s.
Dates: Majority of material found within 1927 - 1988

Fink Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 759
Overview The Fink family Papers are comprised of photographs of the Fink family, the Purple Heart medal awarded to Harold Fink for his wartime service, and various papers related to the B’nai B’rith Youth Organization and Echo Hill Ranch---both organizations that nurture and encourage the growth of Jewish Teens.
Dates: 1930 - 1987

Fisher family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 819
Overview The Fisher Family papers include materials related to Rabbi Henry Cohen and his tenure at congregation B’nai Israel. A writer as a well as a scholar and community activist, Cohen’s knowledge of Jewry in Texas survives in the writings he left behind.
Dates: 1932 - 1941

Freed/Fisherman Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0974
Overview The collection is made up of three boxes and one map-drawer containing awards and certificates, correspondence, event materials, photographs, posters, and publications from the Freed/Fisherman family, spanning 1915 to 2011.
Dates: 1915 - 2011

Friedman Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 832
Overview Made up of mostly class photos from Beth Yeshurun Day school, the Friedman Family papers show David and Rachel Friedman growing up in the tight-knit community formed by Beth Yeshurun’s outreach to Houston Jews.
Dates: 1970 - 2013

Gaber / Kline Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 854
Overview This collection is made up of four boxes containing certificates, correspondence, event materials, memorabilia, news clippings, photographs, scrapbooks, and publications from the Gaber/Kline Family, spanning from 1916 to 2017.
Dates: 1916 - 2017