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American people of Portuguese-Jewish descent (45 P) Pages in category "Portuguese-Jewish culture in the United States" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.
Today the vast majority of Jewish Texans are descendants of Ashkenazi Jews, those from central and eastern Europe whose families arrived in Texas after the Civil War or later. [1] Organized Judaism in Texas began in Galveston with the establishment of Texas' first Jewish cemetery in 1852. By 1856 the first organized Jewish services were being ...
Operation Texas was an alleged undercover operation to relocate European Jews to Texas, USA, away from Nazi persecution, first reported in a 1989 Ph.D. dissertation by Louis Stanislaus Gomolak at the University of Texas at Austin titled Prologue: LBJ's foreign-affairs background, 1908-1948. [1] The following are some of the key arguments of the ...
Eventually, “between 1907 and 1914, approximately ten thousand Jews entered the United States through the port of Galveston, Texas.” [citation needed] There was a push for Jewish immigrants to enter the United States through Galveston rather than Ellis Island because “the vast majority of Jewish immigrants remained in the ghettos of New ...
20th-century Portuguese Jews (9 P) 21st-century Portuguese Jews (12 P) This page was last edited on 27 November 2023, at 11:11 (UTC). ...
Pages in category "Portuguese Jews" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
List of people executed in Texas, 1930–1939 This page was last edited on 22 September 2019, at 20:19 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Nestor Paiva (1905–1966), 1930s–60s actor who appeared on Get Smart, The Beverly Hillbillies, and The Addams Family. [20] Harold Peary (1908–1985), American actor, comedian and singer. [3] Kevin Pereira (born 1982), co-host of G4's Attack of the Show! Frank Perry (1930–1995), film director, uncle of singer Katy Perry