Jewish Texas Before and Beyond Galveston

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The history of Jewish Texas extends far beyond the familiar story of the Galveston Movement. This lecture by Dr. Katz of University of Houston, looks at Crypto-Jewish families whose ancestors lived under Spanish and Mexican colonial rule, when Jewish identity often had to be hidden, adapted, or remembered quietly within the home. Drawing on oral histories, archival research, and family narratives, the lecture explores how fragments of memory, ritual, and identity survived across generations in South and West Texas and the broader borderlands. It asks what we can learn when we place these hidden or less visible stories at the center of Jewish Texas history. 

Remembrance 

Brittany Sakowitz Kushner & Kevin Kushner 

Advocate 

Sheila Aron 

Friends of the THGAAC 

Tissy & Rusty Hardin 

Kimberly & Harris L. Kempner, III 

Phyllis Cohen & Lewis Linn 

Lewis and Joan Lowenstein Foundation 

Texas Jewish Historical Society  

The David & Sara Weston Fund 

Friend 

Andrea & John B. Bryan 

Martha & Don Freedman 

Drs. Hani & Djenita Jneid, & Mr. Daniel Jneid 

Dorothy L. Levinson 

Margery & Robert Loeb 

A.I. and Manet Schepps Foundation  

Marsha & Lionel M. Schooler 

Joy & Benjamin Warren 

Patron 

Marcela Donadio & Lawrence Dickerson 

Christine & Mike Glover 

Rose Blanchard & Michael Moreno 

Heidi & Matt Seinsheimer 

Francine & Bradley Beckman 

Margaret & Matt Callihan 

Angie & Grant Dorfman 

Opera Gallery (Gilles & Florence Dyan) 

Cheryl & Stephen Golub 

Lisa & Lee E. Herman 

Shelley Nussenblatt Kessler 

Guylene & Jay Lendrum 

Rhonda & Eric Lipper 

Trish & Mike McDaniel 

Grateful descendants of Lillian Seeligson Winterbotham, granddaughter of Michael Seeligson, first Jewish Mayor of Galveston 

Jeff Seinsheimer 

Debbie & Jeff Warren 

Kelly & Luis Zúñiga 

Steward 

Adrienne Barker 

Lisette & Anthony Brown 

Lily & Charles C. Foster 

Marc Grossberg 

Ronnie & Al Harrison 

Meg Walker & Craig Janek 

Mary & Jeth Jones, II 

Joel Loshak 

Melanie & Chris Promecene 

Kim & Fred Raschke 

Marie & Christopher Robb 

Gary Weisserman