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Today the vast majority of Jewish Texans are descendants of Ashkenazi Jews, those from central and eastern Europe whose families arrived in Texas after the Civil War or later. [1] Organized Judaism in Texas began in Galveston with the establishment of Texas' first Jewish cemetery in 1852. By 1856 the first organized Jewish services were being ...
A distinction can be made between cisterns incorporated into the hiding complexes as water reservoirs, and those serving only as transit spaces and not as reservoirs, based on tunnel outlets in their walls; in the latter, tunnels were hewn in the cistern bottom rather than top, and the tunnel outlet's breach through the watertight plaster layer ...
The Houston Jewish community is centered on Meyerland. As of 1987 Jews lived in many communities in Houston. [2] In 2008 Irving N. Rothman, author of The Barber in Modern Jewish Culture: A Genre of People, Places, and Things, with Illustrations, wrote that Houston "has a scattered Jewish populace and not a large enough population of Jews to dominate any single neighborhood" and that the city's ...
Many Jews, primarily from various German principalities, arrived in Dallas during a wave of mid-nineteenth century immigration to Texas following the Revolutions of 1848 in Europe. [2] Some of these Jews were "Forty-eighters" who had supported the revolutions. The city's first Jewish cemetery was established in 1854. [3]
An investigation by the city's Department of Buildings uncovered a tunnel that was 60-foot-long (18.3 meter), 8-foot-wide (2.4 meter) and 5-foot-high (1.5 meter) located underneath the global ...
The society was founded in 1980 by Rabbi Jimmy Kessler of Galveston. He published letters in Jewish newspapers in Houston, Dallas and Fort Worth, inviting people to participate in the creation of a historical society to preserve and appreciate Jewish history in Texas. [1]
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