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immigrants who organized for Palestine. Jews like Galveston mayor Isaac Kempner and Houston Judge Henry Dannenbaum rose to civic leadership, but with the rise of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s, Texas Jews became a "persecuted minority" (p. 136). In the 1924 gubernatorial election Jewish voters chose between a Klan candidate and an antisemitic populist. East European immigration in the 1880s brought Orthodoxy and Yiddishkeit, and communities bifurcated between shul and Temple. Texas Jews worked to rescue Jews from Nazi Europe. The state was a stronghold of the anti-Zionist American Council for Judaism, but Jews supported Israel philanthropically. An "Israel Revolt" splintered Houston's Beth Israel. During the civil rights era Jewish merchants resisted integration before being among the first to desegregate. Sunbelt transformations brought population growth, suburbanization, and an end to feelings of provincialism, of living on a periphery. Writers of Texas Jewish fiction, however, still measure the Jewish experience against the frontier. Texas Jewry, Stone concludes, "typifies the fundamental nature of Jewish life wherever it occurs" (p. 236). This interior, universal "frontier remains an evocative and eminently useful idea" (237), Stone argues, but it is the specific "frontiers" of the subtitle, the local histories, that will
Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies – Purdue University Press
Published: Jun 1, 2011
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