Henry Cohen Papers

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Henry Cohen Papers

1875-1952

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Collection consisting of correspondence, newsclippings, publications, and miscellaneous items; topics represented include Mexican immigration to the U.S., social work, prison reform, the Leo M. Frank lynching case, and the Galveston Movement to divert East European Jewish immigrants from the Eastern U.S. to the interior of the country. Includes material relating to Reform Congregation B'nai Israel, Galveston, Tex.

0.8 linear feet (2 Hollinger boxes)

eng, Latn

The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives

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The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives

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Congregation B'nai Israel (Galveston, Tex.)

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Congregation B'nai Israel in Galveston, Texas, was organized by German Jewish immigrants in 1868, it is the oldest Jewish Reform congregation and the second chartered Jewish congregation in the state....

Cohen, Henry, 1863-1952

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Rabbi, of Galveston, Tex. From the description of Papers, 1875-1952. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70947200 Henry Cohen was born April 7, 1863 in London England. In 1884 he was ordained a rabbi and led congregations in Kingston, Jamaica (1884-1885) and Woodville, Mississippi (1885-1888) before transferring to Galveston, Texas where he led the Temple B'nai Israel from 1888 to 1949. Cohen was influential in religious and social welfare activities in Texas; he was especially w...

Frank, Leo, 1884-1915

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Leo Frank, a Jewish Atlanta businessman and Superintendent and Vice President of the National Pencil Factory, Atlanta, Georgia, was born 17 April 1884, in Paris, Texas, and died 17 August 1915, in Marietta, Georgia. Frank was sentenced to death by hanging (1913) for the murder of Mary Phagan, an employee he supervised at the National Pencil Factory. His sentence was commuted to life imprisonment (July 1915) because of doubt by some trial officials as to his guilt. Frank was abducted by a mob (Au...