Congregation Brith Shalom. (Bellaire, Tex)

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The Congregation Brith Shalom Records is comprised of 15 boxes offering a glimpse into the day-to-day goings-on of Congregation Brith Shalom, with documents spanning seventy years of the Jewish temple’s existence. Books, memorabilia, directories, programs, sermons, and bulletins from different decades show the similarities and changes at Brith Shalom as it continues to grow with the rest of Houston’s Jewish Community.

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The collection consists of five boxes of correspondence, newspaper clippings, newsletters, programs, photographic material, and media (digital oral history, VHS, audio cassettes, and CDs) that document some of Janice Rubin's activities as a teacher, musician, and photographer within the Houston Jewish community from 1941 to 2023. Also included is a packet of materials provided to Jewish service members during World War II.

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One box containing certificates, correspondence, a travel journal, photographs, a magazine article, event materials, and a Soviet Jewry nameplate documents Joyce Gilbert's activities in the Houston Jewish community and her work to assist Russian Jewry from 1975 to 2018.

Abstract The collection consists of one box containing a scrapbook of, primarily, Morton Levy's architectural drawings of the proposed renovation to Congregation Brith Shalom's interior, correspondence, newsclippings, and photographs of the congregation's interior from 1986-1996. In addition to the drawings in the scrapbook there are ten prints from Levy's portfolio (1997) of a number of synagogues that he worked on. The rest of the material -- two Congregation Beth Israel bulletins, newsclippings,...