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Religion

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Part of TARO subject browse terms

Found in 49 Collections and/or Records:

Jules H. Borger collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 810
Overview The Jules H. Borger collection offers a glimpse into the Houston Jewish community from the 1910 to 2015. Containing a number of materials such as bulletins, postcards, photographs, programs, magazines, and news clippings, the collection illuminates the day-to-day existence of some of Houston’s more prominent Jewish points of interest.
Dates: 1910 - 2015

J.W. Lively Diary

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0315
Abstract: Bound manuscript diary kept by J. W. Lively M.D. of Daingerfield, Connecticut, begun in December 1882 with entries dating to 1889, mostly recording his activities as a Methodist minister and including pages of financial accounts.
Dates: 1882 - 1889

Katz Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 872
Overview The collection consists of personal photographs, a play written about Ben Katz, Beth Yeshurun programs, a VHS recording, and materials about the history of Beth Yeshurun that document some activities and interests of the Katz family within the Houston Jewish community from 1939 to 1991.
Dates: 1939 - 1991

Kenneth Horwitz Beaumont [TX] Jewish congregation materials

 Collection
Identifier: MS 801
Overview The collection consists of one box of event materials, a booklet about the history of Beaumont Texas, and four photographs.
Dates: 1952 - 1987

Lack Family/Temple B'nai Israel [Victoria, TX] collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 902
Overview This collection is made up of one box containing administrative records, books, correspondences, news clippings, photographs, and programs from Temple B'nai Israel donated by the Lack Family, spanning from 1877-2019.
Dates: 1877 - 2019

Libby and Edward Marvins Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 782
Overview This collection contains documents and memorabilia donated by Libby and Edward Marvins related to their time as congregants at Emanu El as well as an oral history conducted with Libby Marvins by staff with the Houston Jewish History Archive in 2018. The materials (including photos, newsprint, correspondence, and other unique items) offer insight into the events and organizations of the Houston Jewish community in the latter half of the 20th century.
Dates: 1912 - 2018

Mathurin Guerin Sermons

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0219
Overview Sermons written by Mathurin Guerin, with prayers to be delivered before and after the sermons. There are nine sermons handwritten into a bound volume. The Reverend Mr. Henry Heywood, who died in October 1755, preached the first six in Charleston, South Carolina.
Dates: 1755; 1774

One Nation Under God? film project interviews and research materials

 Collection
Identifier: MS 604
Abstract This collection consists of interviews, research materials, production footage, and third party media created and compiled by John Fuller, director of One Nation Under God?. (8 boxes)
Dates: 2004-2008

Osterhout Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0355
Overview Correspondence, drawings, maps, scrapbooks, pamphlets, newspapers, and other papers, of John Patterson Osterhout (1826-1903), relating to his early life in Pennsylvania, early impressions of Texas, work as a judge, service in the Confederate Army, and leader of the Republican Party in Texas, and of his son, Paul Osterhout (1859-1944), relating to his studies at Baylor University and University of Pennsylvania Dept. of Medicine, activities fighting yellow fever during the digging of the Panama...
Dates: 1836 - 1941; Majority of material found within

Rabbi Hyman Judah Schachtel papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 730
Overview The holding consists of books (both written and owned by Rabbi Schachtel), unpublished sermons and miscellaneous writings, musical compositions, correspondence, newsclippings, transparencies, photographs (both loose and contained in scrapbooks), and architectural drawings and specifications. Also included are records, cassette tapes and reels containing recordings of Rabbi Schachtel speaking on the radio, and memorabilia related to President Lyndon B. Johnson, such as a telegram laminated to a...
Dates: circa 1935-2001