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