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History of the Jews in Texas

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and all over Texas; you find them with tombstones over their heads.” In many ways, the KKK threat helped unify the Houston Jewish community, which fought against the racist, antisemitic organization with newspaper articles, business boycotts, and legal action. By 1924, the Klan had lost much of its local support and influence, and Mayfield's newspaper went out of business.
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Many Jewish immigrants thrived in Houston, such as Joe Weingarten. Weingarten, who was born in Poland, became a very successful grocery store owner. He pioneered the innovations of cash-and-carry and self-service grocery stores in Houston, building a local chain that reached 70 locations by the time
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became influential in Texas. Billie Mayfield edited a weekly Klan newspaper in Houston that regularly used antisemitic stereotypes to attack Jews as parasites only interested in extracting wealth from the community. In one article, Mayfield even wrote that “there are lots of good Jews in Houston
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states that "The formal preservation of the history of Texas Jewry goes back to Rabbi Henry Cohen of Galveston and Rabbi David Lefkowitz of Dallas, who set out to interview as many early settlers and their families as possible. They produced a historical account for the
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Even during the height of the KKK's influence, Houston Jews held powerful roles in the local economy. By the 1920s, big department stores in Houston, such as Foley's and Battlestein's, were owned by Jews. Brothers Simon and Tobias
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in 1943. Taub founded a new public charity hospital which is known as Ben Taub hospital today. The Jewish community in 1958, decided to build a $ 450,000 Jewish Institute for Medical Research, which they donated to the
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in 1859 as an Orthodox congregation. However, by 1874 the congregation voted to change their affiliation to the fledgling Reform movement. The ensuing years were accompanied by the spread of Judaism throughout Texas.
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in 1852. By 1856 the first organized Jewish services were being held in the home of Galveston resident Isadore Dyer. These services would eventually lead to the founding of Texas' first and oldest
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city of Galveston during this era, approximately one-third the number who migrated to the area of the Ottoman Empire that would become the state of Israel during the same period.
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TEMPLE B'NAI ISRAEL, GALVESTON | The Handbook of Texas Online| Texas State Historical Association (TSHA)
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community while B'nai Abraham, currently led by Rabbi Leon Toubin, is the state's oldest existing
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in 1816, and Maurice Henry was in Velasco in the late 1820s. Jews fought in the armies of the
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arrived in the region in the 16th century. In 1990, there were around 108,000 adherents to
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when it was completed in 1964. Leopold Meyer was a major donor and fundraiser for the
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became a surgeon to revolutionary Texan forces in 1835, participated in the capture of
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in 1936.". More recently, prominent Jewish Texans include the late retailer
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of his death in 1967. He was very active in Jewish social causes as well.
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Among the leading philanthropists in Texas were several Jews such as
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did not welcome easily identifiable Jews, but they came in any case.
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on January 13, 2009, was the first Jewish Speaker in Texas history.
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nearly as soon as it became a state in the 19th century. Judge
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Dallas Holocaust Museum/Center for Education & Tolerance
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Between 1907 and 1914, a resettlement program, known as the
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Temple & Henry Cohen Community House in Galveston, Texas
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Index

history of Texas
European
explorers
Judaism
Texas

Congregation B'nai Israel

Spanish Texas
Jao de la Porta
Jean Laffite
Galveston, Texas
Texas Revolution
James Fannin
Goliad
Battle of San Jacinto
Dr. Albert Levy
Bexar
conversos
Sephardic Jews
Simon family
Simon Theatre
Ashkenazi Jews
Galveston
Jewish cemetery
Reform Jewish
Temple B'nai Israel
Congregation Beth Israel of Houston
Houston
Temple Beth-El (San Antonio, Texas)

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