11. Jewish community

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This collection is made up of eight boxes containing brochures, realia, school records, documents, art projects, photographs, books, correspondence, certificates, news clippings, awards, scrabooks, and a Cliffwood School banner, spanning from 1943-2005.

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Five boxes containing two Hadassah ledgers (1920s-1940s), five parochet, three photographs, 1908 prayer book and Judaism instruction book, and a wooden replica of the ten commandments document activities that took place in the Wharton County Jewish community from 1868 to 1988.

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One box contatining a bound volume of Noah's Ark childrens newspaper, Hadassah minutes, cookbooks, and a WWII ration book documents some activities that Linda Freedman Block's family was involved in from 1922 to 2012.

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This is a born-digital collection made up of materials collected from synagogues, businesses, organizations, and individuals documenting shifts made in the daily lives of members of Houston's Jewish community in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic from 2020 to 2021.

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This collection consists of a three-page manuscript explaining the early history of Jewish people in Houston.

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A portion of the book of David Robinson's family tree (roughly 35 pages) prepared by Laura Nicholson for her brother, covering the relatives and descendants of his great-grandmother Adele Levy Heyman from 1777-1948. The family tree also includes photographs and biographical information of family members.

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Event materials, a certificate, and a preschool roster document some activities at Congregation Beth El in Missouri City, Texas, from 2017 to 2024.

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This collections consists of photographic views of construction of Meyerland Plaza, and of its tenant businesses. Included also is a series of press clippings detailing the court conflict between a group headed by T.A. Robinson and another by Harris McAshan and Associates to charter a single bank in Meyerland Plaza.

Abstract The Lenard Gabert, Sr. Architectural Records, 1930-2002 contains over 250 drawings on a variety of paper types and sizes, reflecting the architectural style of the time. Older drawings are often on brown tracing paper, moving to sheaves of pre-marked white planning paper, with the more modern ones printed in bound packets. Some of the drawings have complete plans with indexes (Arranged by category: Constructive, Architectural, Structural, Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing), and many...

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The Congregation Beth Israel Collection offers a glimpse into the day-to-day goings-on of Congregation Beth Israel, with documents spanning a century of the Jewish temple’s existence. Books, memorabilia, directories, programs, sermons, and church bulletins from different decades show the similarities and changes at Beth Israel as it continues to grow with the rest of Houston’s Jewish Community.