Arthur Rothstein Texas Photographs Arthur Rothstein made some of the most significant documentary photographs ever taken of rural and small-town America. These images were created during his years traveling throughout the nation on assignment for the US Farm Security Administration, one of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “New
Read more →Roster of Early Texas Jewish Officeholders State Legislators Jacob De Cordova (1808-1868), Houston, 1847-1848. Nicholas Adolphus Sterne, Nacogdoches, 1847-1851. Moritz Kopperl (1826-1886), Galveston, 1876-1879. Henry Labatt (1832-1900), Galveston, 1881-1885. Morris Lasker (1840-1916), Galveston, 1895-1897. Eugene Nordhaus (1865-1929), San Antonio, 1915-1919. Henry Hertzberg, San Antonio, 1919-1922.
Read more →Texas’s History of Jewish Elections The independent Mexican nation formed in 1821 declared itself Roman Catholic, did not welcome immigrants of other faiths, and forced conversion upon any who settled. The Declaration of Independence of the Republic of Texas in 1836 proclaimed that Mexico “denies us
Read more →Perry Kallison Values Codes I – H – E – P Perry Kallison was born in San Antonio, Texas, in 1903. He worked with his brother, Morris, in managing Kallison’s Farm and Ranch Store (also called Kallison’s Big Country Store), which sold everything from furniture to
Read more →Frances Elaine Rosenthal Kallison Values Codes I – E – L – P Frances Rosenthal was born in 1908, in Fort Worth, Texas. She earned her Master’s Degree in Biblical Archeology from Trinity University in San Antonio. Her thesis is titled, “100 Years of Jewry in San
Read more →Temple Beth El of San Antonio, Texas In 1870, the first Reform Congregation began meeting in the old Ruellmann Hall on East Commerce Street. Shortly thereafter, the Ladies Hebrew Benevolent Society of San Antonio was founded. In 1874, Temple Beth-El of San Antonio was officially founded,
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