Jewish-community. Jewish community
Record Group
Identifier: Jewish-community
Materials from the Jewish communities in and around Houston, Texas
Found in 151 Collections and/or Records:
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
Geller and allied families papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 0768
Overview
This collection contains photographs, clippings, correspondence, and newsletters related to members of the Geller and Leff families from 1896 to 2022.
Dates:
1896 - 2022
Gertrude Estelle Denn papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 765
Overview
News clippings, a dance card, reunion and senior class night programs, a high school yearbook, and photographs record events in Gertrude Denn's life - predominantly in the 1940s.
Dates:
1938 - 2002
Gigi Yellen-Kohn Family papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 856
Overview
The Gigi Yellen-Kohn family papers are comprised of documents, news-clippings, photographs, and memorabilia from the Yellen-Kohn family. A family tree of the Yellen-Kohn family can be found in the control folder.
Dates:
1913 - 1973
Greenfield Family papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 860
Overview
The collection consists of one box containing nine letters in Yiddish from Morris Greenfield to his future wife, Bessie Peters (Polycov), in 1915 and one large family photograph with three generation of Greenfields from 1918.
Dates:
1915 - 1918
Happy Katz Adath Israel Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS 889
Overview
This collection is made up of one box containing legal and financial documents of incorporation for the Adath Israel Congregation and miscellaneous materials from the Adath Israel Congregation, spanning from 1905-1966.
Dates:
1905 - 1966
Harry Croft's Bar Mitvah Audio Recording
Collection
Identifier: MS 921
Overview
This collection contains an audio recording of Shabbat services at Congregation Beth Yeshurun in 1956 - Rabbi William Malev, Cantor George Wagner, and Harry Croft's Bar Mitzvah.
Dates:
1956
Hertz Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 968
Overview
Three boxes of photographs, programs, flyers, correspondence, service packets, t-shirts, and newspaper clippings from Congregation Emanu El, Interfaith Charities, the Jewish-Herald Voice, West Houston B'nai B'rith, JCC West Houston, Greene Family Camp, and NFTY document some activities members of the Hertz family were involved in from from 1966-2011.
Dates:
1966 - 2011
Hoffman/Karchmer Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 0966
Overview
The collection consists of photographs, certificates, news clippings, and a framed katuba from 1960 to 1992.
Dates:
1960 - 1992