Joan and Stanford Alexander South Texas Jewish Archives: STJA Books
STJA Books
Below is a list of books, cataloged separately from manuscript collections, that are available at the Woodson Research Center as part of the South Texas Jewish Archives. They can be searched for in the library catalog using: "Forms part of the Houston Jewish History Archive"
Books A-K
The Aegis Annual by the Aegis Staff, Central High School
Call Number: LD7501 .H835 A33 1916
American Jewish Yearbook, Jewish Publication Society of America (Publisher)
Call Number: E184 .J5 A6 1899-1900
And Bring Them Closer to the Torah: The Life and Work of Rabbi Aaron H. Blumenthal by Aaron H. Blumenthal
Call Number: BM45 .B579 1986
Bellaire Directory by the Bellaire Chamber of Commerce
Call Number: JK4830 .B45 1964
The Book of Redemption by Henry Raphael Gold
Call Number: DS149 .J45 1939
Carillon, Bellaire High School
Call Number: LD7501 .B45 C37 1970
Catching the Tide on Old Middle Bayou: all along the bayou stories of the good times and fond memories straight from the heart, my stories, by Jeanelle (jean) West
Call Number: F392 .H38 W47 2020
Centennial journal, Congregation Shearith Isarel, Dallas, Texas, 1884-1984 by Congregation Shearith Israel (Dallas, Tex.)
Call Number: BM225 .D352 C66 1983
Congregation Adath Emeth, Golden Jubilee by Sol Waldman
Call Number: BM225 .H82 A33 1967
Congregation Shearith Israel, diamond anniversary, 1884-1959, seventy-fifth year, Dallas Texas by Congregation Shearith Israel (Dallas, Tex.)
Call Number: BM225 .D352 C664 1959
Death of a "Jewish American Princess": The True Story of a Victim on Trial by Shirley Frondorf
Call Number: HV6534 .S48 F76 1988
The Emery/Weiner School: A Community Partner of the Jewish Federation of Greater Houston by Jewish Federation of Greater Houston
Call Number: LD7501 .H835 E44 2001
Ethics for the 21st Century by Rabbi Moshe Cahana
Call Number: BJ1285.2.C34 2002
The Golden Book of Congregation Adath Yeshurun: Commemorating Fifty Years of Service to the Jewish Community of Houston, Texas, 1891-1941, D.H. White & Co. (Publisher)
Call Number: BM225.H8 A3
The Golden Book of Shearith Israel: commemorating the Congregation's fiftieth anniversary. 1884-1934 by Congregation Shearith Israel (Dallas, Tex.)
Call Number: BM225.D352 C663 1935
Henry Cohen: the Life of a Frontier Rabbi by Jimmy Kessler
Call Number: BM755.C6 K47 1997
הױפט ידיעות װעגען עמיגראציע אין גאלװעסטאן : שטאט טעקסאס.; Hoypṭ yedieś ṿegen emigratsye in Galṿesṭon : shṭaṭ Ṭeḳsas (Glavni︠e︡ĭshīi︠a︡ sv[e]di︠e︡nīi︠a︡ ob ėmigrat︠s︡īi v Galʹveston), Zhitomir: Elyohu Faynberg (Publisher)
Call Number: F395.J5 Y53 1907
The Immigrant by Mark Harelik
Call Number PS3558.A624142 2012
The Jewish Texans, University of Texas Institute of Texan Cultures at San Antonio (Publisher)
Call Number: F395.J5 I57 1974
The Jews in Texas by Henry Cohen
Call Number: F395.J5 C627 1895
Judaism in America, from the standpoint of a layman by Leo N. Levi
Call Number: E184 .J5 L48 1894
Justice, Justice: A Jewish View of the Negro Revolt by Henry Cohen
Call Number: E185.615 .C639 1968
The Kallah: An Annual Convention of Texas Rabbis by Kallah of Texas Rabbis
Call Number: BM30 .K35 1929
The Kinkaidian by Kincaid School, Houston TX
Call Number: LD7501 .H68 K564 1946
Books L-Z
The Letter and the Spirit by Robert I. Kahn
Call Number: BJ1280 .K3 1974
Lives Remembered: A Shtetl Through a Photographer's Eye by Jeffrey Shandler & Jonathan Rosen
Call Number: DS135.P62 S8955 2002
Living Creatively by William S. Malev
Call Number: BM45 .M315 1972
The Man Who Stayed in Texas: The Life of Rabbi Henry Cohen by Anne Nathan Cohen
Call Number: BM755 .C6 C6
Mazkeres ahavah = Remembrance of Love: a biographical account of Rabbi Yakkov and Sarah Geller and family - the transplanting of Jewish Life from Galicia to Texas 1863 to the present by Yakkov Geller, Yehi'el Laiter, and Shmuel Geller
Call Number: BM504.2 .G45 1988
Membership Directory & By-Laws by Texas Jewish Historical Society
Call Number: F395 .J5 T493
My Life and my Message by Samuel Rosinger
Call Number: BM225 .B4 R6
The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ / translated of the original Greek, and with the former translations diligently compared and revised by His Majesty's special command, Trinity Bible Society (Publisher)
Call Number: BS1901 1940
Oil Gevalt: The History of the Baytown, Texas, Jewish Community by Donald L. Teter
Call Number: in progress
El Orosito by San Jacinto High School (Houston, Tex.)
Call Number: LD7501 .H68 O76 1943
El Oroso by San Jacinto High School, Houston TX, (various years)
Call Number: LD7501 .S26 .O76
A Place of Exodus: Home, Memory, and Texas by David Biespiel
Call Number: PS3552.1374 Z46 2020
San Jacinto Star, San Jacinto High School (Publisher)
Call Number: LD7501.S26 S36
Sidur Rinah u-tefilah = Prayerbook and hymnal : for the American Orthodox Jewish youth / selected of the various prayer books and hymnals by Benj. Cohen
Call Number: BM674.243 .C64 1920
Sonia and Kay Marvins Portrait Collection by Anne W. Tucker
Call Number: TR610 .M89 1995
Texas' Big Bend: A Photographic Adventure - from the Pecos to the Rio Grande by Michael H. Marvins
Call Number: F392.B54 M37 2009
A Texas Greenhorn in Berlin and Moscow, 1928: Travel Diary of Joseph S. Werlin and History Lessons from my Father by Joseph Werlin & Joella Werlin
Call Number: DK27 .W47 2019
Texas Jewish Historical Society newsletters, 1987-2011
Call Number: F395.J5 N49
The Texas Hill Country: A Photographic Adventure by Michael H. Marvins
Call Number: F392.T47 M34 2018
This is the Way it Was: The Reminiscences of Sig Frucht by John Jones (compiler)
Call Number: HD9010 .F78 T 45 1979
The Zlabovskys and Hutmans come to America (and cousins too): from the Shtetls of Brahin & Mozyr, Belarus to Texas and beyond research and writing by Stacia Deutsch; Book layout and design by Carol Kantor Douglas
Call Number: F548.9.J5 Z53 2019