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Kindler of Souls : Rabbi Henry Cohen of Texas / Rabbi Henry Cohen.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Focus on American History SeriesPublisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2009]Copyright date: 2007Description: 1 online resource (172 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780292794795
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 296.8/341092 B 22
LOC classification:
  • BM755.C6 C64 2007eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Chapter 1. From Torah to Tennyson -- Chapter 2. Being Jewish in Jamaica -- Chapter 3. Little Jerusalem -- Chapter 4. Planting Roots -- Chapter 5. The Storm and Its Impact -- Chapter 6. From Health to Horror -- Chapter 7. “Through the Gateway of Galveston” -- Chapter 8. “Dear Graduates”: On Being a Rabbi -- Chapter 9. From the Kaiser to the Klan -- Chapter 10. Prison Reform: The Rabbi and the Convict -- Chapter 11. Family Matters and Memory: 1930–1950 -- Chapter 12. The Rabbi and His Times -- Appendix: Selected Poems by Rabbi Henry Cohen -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: In September 1930, the New York Times published a list of the clergy whom Rabbi Stephen Wise considered "the ten foremost religious leaders in this country." The list included nine Christians and Rabbi Henry Cohen of Galveston, Texas. Little-known today, Henry Cohen was a rabbi to be reckoned with, a man Woodrow Wilson called "the foremost citizen of Texas" who also impressed the likes of William Howard Taft and Clarence Darrow. Cohen's fleeting fame, however, was built not on powerful friendships but on a lifetime of service to needy Jews—as well as gentiles—in London, South Africa, Jamaica, and, for the last sixty-four years of his life, Galveston, Texas. More than 10,000 Jews, mostly from Eastern Europe, arrived in Galveston in the early twentieth century. Rabbi Cohen greeted many of the new arrivals in Yiddish, then helped them find jobs through a network that extended throughout the Southwest and Midwest United States. The "Galveston Movement," along with Cohen's pioneering work reforming Texas prisons and fighting the Ku Klux Klan, made the rabbi a legend in his time. As this portrait shows, however, he was also a lovable mensch to his grandson. Rabbi Henry Cohen II reminisces about his grandfather's jokes while placing the legendary rabbi in historical context, creating the best picture yet of this important Texan, a man perhaps best summarized by Rabbi Wise in the New York Times as "a soul who touches and kindles souls."
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Chapter 1. From Torah to Tennyson -- Chapter 2. Being Jewish in Jamaica -- Chapter 3. Little Jerusalem -- Chapter 4. Planting Roots -- Chapter 5. The Storm and Its Impact -- Chapter 6. From Health to Horror -- Chapter 7. “Through the Gateway of Galveston” -- Chapter 8. “Dear Graduates”: On Being a Rabbi -- Chapter 9. From the Kaiser to the Klan -- Chapter 10. Prison Reform: The Rabbi and the Convict -- Chapter 11. Family Matters and Memory: 1930–1950 -- Chapter 12. The Rabbi and His Times -- Appendix: Selected Poems by Rabbi Henry Cohen -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index

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In September 1930, the New York Times published a list of the clergy whom Rabbi Stephen Wise considered "the ten foremost religious leaders in this country." The list included nine Christians and Rabbi Henry Cohen of Galveston, Texas. Little-known today, Henry Cohen was a rabbi to be reckoned with, a man Woodrow Wilson called "the foremost citizen of Texas" who also impressed the likes of William Howard Taft and Clarence Darrow. Cohen's fleeting fame, however, was built not on powerful friendships but on a lifetime of service to needy Jews—as well as gentiles—in London, South Africa, Jamaica, and, for the last sixty-four years of his life, Galveston, Texas. More than 10,000 Jews, mostly from Eastern Europe, arrived in Galveston in the early twentieth century. Rabbi Cohen greeted many of the new arrivals in Yiddish, then helped them find jobs through a network that extended throughout the Southwest and Midwest United States. The "Galveston Movement," along with Cohen's pioneering work reforming Texas prisons and fighting the Ku Klux Klan, made the rabbi a legend in his time. As this portrait shows, however, he was also a lovable mensch to his grandson. Rabbi Henry Cohen II reminisces about his grandfather's jokes while placing the legendary rabbi in historical context, creating the best picture yet of this important Texan, a man perhaps best summarized by Rabbi Wise in the New York Times as "a soul who touches and kindles souls."

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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