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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Cohen, Rabbi Henry,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Focus on American History Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (172 p.)

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 recko...

Table of 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