A Reference List of Known Articles, Books and Box Files (in specified Libraries) containing information pertinent to the study of Jewish Texas History.
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100 Years of Jewry in San Antonio, Frances Kallison
The battle of the "Basic Principles", Congregation Beth Israel and the anti-Zionist revolt in American Reform Judaism, Bobby Brownstein, Masters thesis, University of Houston, 1991
Annie the Immigrant, History of Annie Harelik Novit, Date and Author Unknown, located in the Dublin Texas Public Library
The Austin Jewish Community 1850-1950 by Jay Silberberg. A senior thesis for the degree of Bachelor of Arts, plan II, Austin, Texas August, 1974
Being Rapoport: Capitalist with a Conscience, Bernard Rapoport as told to Don E. Carleton. Focus on American History Series, ed. Don E. Carleton, no. 2. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002
Brazos Jews, Bill Page, 1999
By the Brazos and the Trinity they hung up their harps : two Jewish immigrants in Texas, Juliet George Dees, Thesis, TCU, 1991
A Business History of Sanger Brothers 1857-1926, Leon J. Rosenberg, NYU Thesis 1967
The Business of Jews in Louisiana 1840-1875, Elliott Ashkenazi, The University of Alabama Press, 1988
THE CARVAJAL FAMILY, The Jews and the Inquisition in New Spain in the Sixteenth Century, Alfonso Toro, Univ. Of Texas Press, 2001
The Centenary History of Congregation Beth Israel 1854-1954, Anne N. Cohen, Houston, Congregation Beth Israel, 1954
Chicano Jews In South Texas, Carlos Larralde, Thesis, UCLA, 1978
Colorful Brenham Community has history of over 120 years, Rosa L. Toubin, Texas Jewish Post, 11 Sep 1980
A Corner of Tapestry: A history of the Jewish Experience in Arkansas 1820's-1990's, Carolyn Gray LeMaster, 1994, University of Arkansas Press
Deep in the Heart: Lives and Legends of Texas Jews, Ruthe Winegarten and C. Schecter, Eakin Press, Austin, 1990
EL PASO JEWISH HISTORICAL REVIEW, Floyd S. Fierman, Director. Vol. 1, No. 1 El Paso Jewish Hist. Soc. 1982
El Paso Merchant and Civil Leader, Samuel Freudenthal and Floyd Fierman, El Paso: Texas Western Press, 1965 Southwestern Studies No. 11
The El Paso press and the Holocaust, 1938-1945, Linda L. Loy, History seminar paper included in a Masters thesis, University of Texas at El Paso; no. 301, 1996
The first one hundred years : a history of the Austin Jewish community, 1850-1950, Jay Lawrence Silberberg, Austin TX, 1974
The First One Hundred Years of Temple Beth Israel Austin, Texas by Carolyn Turner, Milton Turner, Eddie Baum, etal
Galveston, Ellis Island of the West, Bernard Marinbach, SUNY Albany Press, 1983
Halff of Texas: Merchant Rancher of the Old West, Patrick Dearen, Eakin Publications, 2001
Handbook of Texas, Austin, Texas State Historical Society (also online)
Harris and others vs. Sensheimer, Southwestern Reporter, 3:307
Henry Cohen : The Life of a Frontier Rabbi, Jimmy Kessler, Austin, TX, Eakin Press 1997
Henry Cohen-Messenger of the Lord, A. Stanley Dreyfus, New York, Bloch, 1963
HIS & HERS. The Fantasy World of the Neiman-Marcus Catalogue, Stanley Marcus. NY:The Viking Press, 1982
A Historical Sketch of the Jews of Texas, Henry Cohen, Reform Advocate, 24 Jan 1914
History of the Jews of San Antonio : early history of the Jews in southwest Texas, Samuel Marks, Chicago : Bloch & Newman, 1914
History of Jews in Texarkana, ? James, (mimeographed sheets)
History of the Jews of Waco, Gizzelle Wohlbert, Reform Advocate, 24 Jan 1914
History of Laredo's Jewish Community, Stan Green, Webb County Heritage Foundation, 1992
The History of Temple Beth Israel 1976-1957, by the Temple Beth Israel Brotherhood, December 1957, Austin, Texas
A history of zionism in Houston 1897-1975, Gerald Salzman, Masters Thesis, University of Houston (1992-1993)
HURRAH FOR TEXAS! The Diary of Adolphus Sterne: 1838-1851, Archie P. McDonald, Austin, Eakin Press 1986
Hungary Sends A Dallas-Builder, The Story of Martin Weiss Carolyn Holmes Moses (with Myrtle W. Lowe), Dallas, 1948
Jewish Pioneers of Texas, David Lefkowitz, Dallas 1936
Jewish Stars in Texas, Hollace Weiner, Texas A&M University Press, 1999
The Jewish story and memories of Marshall, Texas, Audrey Daniels Kariel, Western states Jewish historical quarterly, v. 14, no. 3, Apr. 1982
The Jewish Texans, Institute of Texas Cultures, UTSA Press, 1974
In Jewish Texas: A Family Memoir, Stanley Levy, Fort Worth, TX, U.S.A.: Texas Christian University Press, 1998
The Jews in Texas, Henry Cohen, PAJHS(also AJHQ) 4(1896):9-19
The Jews in Texas, Henry Cohen, Jewish Herald (Houston) 23 Apr 1936:1-2
The Jews of Houston, An Ethnographic Study, Elaine Maas, AMS Press, 1990
'JOE' H. GOODMAN, Patriarch and Pioneer, Hymer Elias Rosen, El Paso, 1978
From Kempen, Poland to Hempstead, Texas: The Career of Rabbi Heinrich Schwartz, unknown author, WSJH 19(Jan 1987)
The Kruger family (videorecording), Institute of Texan Cultures at San Antonio, 1970's
Levy L. Laurens: An Early Texas Journal, AJA 27,1(Apr 1975):61-66
Max Levine oral interview 1969, John Burnham, microfiche, UT regional history of business in the SW, no. 6
The Man Who Had Faith, A Biography of Morris Catchman, Marcus Levinson, Houston, 1976
The man who stayed in Texas, The life of Rabbi Henry Cohen, Mary Anne Cohen, New York, NY Whittlesey House 1941
The Martyr: Luis De Carvajal a Secret Jew in Sixteenth-Century Mexico, Martin A. Cohen, Jewish Publication Society, 1973
Memorial Volume Leo N. Levi I.O.B.B. 1905, Leo N. Levi, Chicago, IL, Hamberger Printing Co., 1905
Merchant Princes, An Intimate History of Jewish Families who built Great Department Stores, Leon Harris, Harper and Row, 1979
Mexican Jewry in the Land of the Aztecs, Ira T. Lerner, 6th Edition, Costa Amic, Mexico, 1973
Minding the Store:A Memoir of Stanley Marcus, Boston, Little Brown, 1974
Neiman Marcus, Texas:The Story Of The Proud Dallas Store, Frank X. Tolbert, Henry Holt & Co., New York, 1953
Oleander Odyssey, The Kempners of Galveston, Harold Hyman, Texas A & M University Press, 1990
One Hundred Years of Jewry in Texas, Henry Cohen, Dallas, 1936
Dan Oppenheimer oral interview 1970, Larry Meyer, microfiche, UT regional history of business in the SW, no. 9
Pioneer Jews - A new life in the Far West, Harriet Rochlin, Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1984
Pioneer Jewish Texans, Natalie Ornish, Texas Heritage Press, Dallas, 1989
Pioneer Jews of Waco, Mordecai Podet
Raisins & Almonds and Texas Oil!: Jewish Life in the Great East Texas Oil Field, Jan Statman, Sunbelt Eakin, 2004
The return to tradition of Reform Judaism in Houston, Texas : two decades of change, Benjamin Leon Musher, Honors thesis, Harvard University, 1995
Sangers': Pioneer Texas Merchants, Leon J. Rosenberg, Austin, Texas State Historical Association, 1978
Schwartz family of El Paso, Floyd Fierman
Schwartz vs. State, Southwestern Reporter, 24:28
Settlement of Jews in Texas, Henry Cohen, PAJHS(also AJHQ) 2(1894):139-156
Some Early Jewish Settlers on the SW frontier, Floyd Fierman
Taken at the Flood - The story of Albert D. Lasker, John Gunther, 1960, NY, Harper and Bros
Texas Jewish Burials, compiled and edited by Gertrude and Don Teter, Texas Jewish Historical Society, 1997
Texas Jewish Historical Society Bulletin, 1980-present
Texas Merchants after the Civil War 1871, L. Mandelbaum, AJA 12(Apr 1960):71-74
They Came to Stay: The Story of the Jews of Dallas 1870-1997, Rose G. Biderman, Austin, Texas, Eakin Press, 2002
Unknown title, Henry Cohen, PAJHS(also AJHQ) 5(1897):39-43
You can't live all your life : a story about Fannie Lack , Ruth V.H. Lack, editor
"In your own state, in your own community" : Jewish and non- Jewish Texans' reactions to the early days of the Holocaust, 1933-1939, Kathryn Diane Cain, Masters thesis, University of Texas at El Paso, 1998
The Zale Corporation: A Texas Success Story, Tommy Stringer, Thesis, University of NorthTexas, 1984
AMERICAN JEWISH ARCHIVES HOLDINGS IN BOX FILES:
Henry Cohen papers, 3 boxes, 1906-1952
Julius Schepps, 1 folder, 1895-1971
Congregation B'nai Israel of Galveston TX, 1 box, 1868-1968
Moses Montefiore Congregation Adath Israel of Marshall TX, 1 folder, 1887-1921
Congregation Beth El of Odessa TX, microfilm, 1946-1959
Congregation Israel of Schulenberg TX, 1 box, 1945-1957
The Progress Club of Waco TX, 1913-1926
Congregation Rodef Sholom of Waco TX, 2 folders, 1871-1931
Rabbis of the South, 1885-1887
Fanny S. Goodman, "In the Beginning: The Jewish Community of El Paso TX" 1970
Marcus and Max Grossmayer, correspondence box file
Jacob Voorsanger, correspondence box file
Blum Family of Galveston, Biography file
Alexander Family of Laredo, Biography file
Max and Nathan Grossmayer, Biography file
David Lefkowitz of Dallas, Biography file
Samuel Sanger of Waco, Biography file
Sidney Wolf of Corpus Christi, Biography file
Jacob Voorsanger, Biography file
THE CENTER for AMERICAN HISTORY at UT-AUSTIN HOLDINGS:
Henry Cohen Papers, 1881-1951, 52 feet
Max Wilhelm Dehn Papers, 1899-1954, 1975-1979, 1 foot
Jewish Galveston Immigration Collection, 1908-1914, folder
Kariel Family papers(Marshall TX), 1893-1994, 7 feet
Ladies Hebrew Benevolent Society(Victoria TX), 1876-1927, folder
Fannie Mae Pravorne papers, 1913,1916,1916, folder
Alice Pearl Raphael papers, 1812-1960, folder
Bernard Rapoport (Waco TX), 1941-1995, 76 feet
Southwest United Synagogue youth and Tyler United Synagogue Youth records, 1945,1946,1960-1970, 1 foot
Texas Jewish Historical Society Records, 1838,1884-1996, 40 feet
Ruthe Winegarten papers, 1893, 1951-1995, 21 feet
Zionist Organization of America, Waco Chapter, records, 1880-1917, 1927-1933, 1952-1957, 1985-1988, folder
CUSHING LIBRARY AT TEXAS A & M UNIVERSITY
Raymond Reiser, 1 box (Biochemistry professor emeritus)
Hillel Foundation, 1 box (first A&M Jewish student organization, organized 1920)
Jacob Taubenhaus, 1 box (first A&M Jewish Faculty,1917)
Oral Interviews of Caldwell County- (some Lockhart and Luling Jewish Businessmen included)
Artie Browning, 1 box (Dept. Head Plant Pathology late 1980's - early 1990's)
Texas Tech Library in Lubbock
Many Thanks to Bill Page, TAMU archivist for this information
Adams, Arthur, (1895-?) Papers, 1925-1928 (includes UJC information, Jewish Relief, various correspondence)
Lee Bradley Papers, 1980-1982, Southwest Collection (Lee was the archivist for the Southwest Collection at TT, her husband was Robert Inselberg a member of the Lubbock Jewish Community, this collection represents notes and artifacts from her thesis on Jewish life in Lubbock)
Miscellaneous archival information
Many Thanks to Bill Page, TAMU archivist for this information
Levy-Goodman families papers (1850-1977) (El Paso families) Judah L. Magnes Memorial Museum, Western Jewish Historical Center, Berkeley California
Meyer Brothers (Clinton, La.,1855-1909), 10 ft. and 245 v., Louisiana State University, Hill Memorial Library, Special Collections, Baton Rouge Louisiana (The Meyer family had connections with the Galveston community, includes correspondence and financial records)
Bluhm, Arthur (1899-1962, Rabbi in Amarillo) Leo Baeck Institute, Library, Archives Division, New York New York
Rapoport, Bernard (1917-), 37 feet (1950-1975), University of Texas at Arlington, University Libraries, Special Collections Division, Arlington Texas
Harris, Leo and Gertrude, oral interviews, (Jewish merchant life in Nacogdoches 1930's-1940's) Stephen F. Austin State University, Ralph W. Steen Library, East Texas Research Center, Nacogdoches Texas