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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:

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

Houston Chronicle Photo Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0814
Overview Photographs used in the Houston Chronicle and/or taken by Chronicle photographers document activities within the Houston Jewish community between the 1940s and 2000s.
Dates: ca. 1940s-2000s

Houston Hadassah collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 775
Overview This collection consists of two boxes of membership directories from 1955 to 1965 and 1993 to 2002 and two scrapbooks that span the years 1970 to 1976 and one scrapbook from 1981 to 1983 that include newsletters, event invitations, news clippings, marketing material, photographs, and memorabilia.
Dates: 1955 - 2002