11. Jewish community

Photographs used in the Houston Post and/or taken by Post photographers document activities within the Houston Jewish community between the 1950s and 1990s.

The collection is made up of three boxes and one map-drawer containing awards and certificates, correspondence, event materials, photographs, posters, and publications from the Freed/Fisherman family, spanning 1915 to 2011.

Correspondence recommending and rejecting David Barg for Officer Candidate School and some military records, including separation paperwork, document some of Captain Barg's time in the U.S. military between 1936 and 1946.

Five boxes containing a 50th Anniversary quilt, correspondence, news clippings, a scrapbook, a photo album, yearbooks, educational and marketing materials, book: D'vorah Binstok Arbisser - Her Life Through Family and Food, LPs from KTRH radio titled "Congregation Beth Yeshurun," document the history of the Arbisser family and activities they were involved in from the 1956 to 2003.

One box of programs, news clippings, event materials, and family history materials, including a digitized memoir and news clippings, document the Butler family between 1924 to 1987.

One box and one map-drawer of newspaper clippings, event programs, newsletters, membership directories, service packets, magazines, photographs, and posters documents activities the Freed family was involved in from 1982 to 2020.

BBYO booklets and a group photo, a JCC event program, correspondence, and a photo from the 1974 Bellaire Senior Prom document some activities Karen Diane Katz participated in from 1972 to 1974.

The collection contains certificates, invitations, programs, news clippings, immigration paperwork, and photographs, which document the lives and activities of the Ehrenkranz / Wertheimer family from 1910 to 1990.

This collection is made up of two boxes containing correspondence, drawings, and photographs from Ellen Orseck, spanning from 1991-2019.

One box of correspondence, family history materials, photographs, and publications document the lives of the Loeb/Blank family from 1736-2002.