Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Download
Faster access than browser!
 

Henry Cohen (rabbi)

Index Henry Cohen (rabbi)

Henry Cohen (April 7, 1863 – June 12, 1952) was a British-American rabbi, scholar, community activist and writer who served most of his career at Congregation B'nai Israel in Galveston, Texas, from 1888 to 1949. [1]

33 relations: Activism, Antisemitism, Centennial, Congregation B'nai Israel (Galveston, Texas), David Lefkowitz, East Coast of the United States, Eastern Catholic Churches, Eastern Europe, England, Galveston Movement, Galveston, Texas, Handbook of Texas, History of the Jews in Galveston, Texas, Immigration, Jews, Kingston, Jamaica, London, London School of Jewish Studies, Orthodox Judaism, Palestine (region), President, Russian Empire, Sephardi Jews, Shtetl, Shylock, South Africa, Texas, The Merchant of Venice, William Howard Taft, William Shakespeare, Woodville, Mississippi, Yiddish, 1900 Galveston hurricane.

Activism

Activism consists of efforts to promote, impede, or direct social, political, economic, or environmental reform or stasis with the desire to make improvements in society.

New!!: Henry Cohen (rabbi) and Activism · See more »

Antisemitism

Antisemitism (also spelled anti-Semitism or anti-semitism) is hostility to, prejudice, or discrimination against Jews.

New!!: Henry Cohen (rabbi) and Antisemitism · See more »

Centennial

A centennial is a 100th anniversary or otherwise relates to a century, a period of 100 years.

New!!: Henry Cohen (rabbi) and Centennial · See more »

Congregation B'nai Israel (Galveston, Texas)

Congregation B'nai Israel (בני ישראל in Hebrew) is a Jewish synagogue located in Galveston, Texas, USA.

New!!: Henry Cohen (rabbi) and Congregation B'nai Israel (Galveston, Texas) · See more »

David Lefkowitz

David Lefkowitz (April 11, 1875 – June 5, 1955), a rabbi, led Temple Emanu-El in Dallas, Texas from 1920 to 1949, after having worked at Temple Israel in Dayton, Ohio.

New!!: Henry Cohen (rabbi) and David Lefkowitz · See more »

East Coast of the United States

The East Coast of the United States is the coastline along which the Eastern United States meets the North Atlantic Ocean.

New!!: Henry Cohen (rabbi) and East Coast of the United States · See more »

Eastern Catholic Churches

The Eastern Catholic Churches or Oriental Catholic Churches, also called the Eastern-rite Catholic Churches, and in some historical cases Uniate Churches, are twenty-three Eastern Christian particular churches sui iuris in full communion with the Pope in Rome, as part of the worldwide Catholic Church.

New!!: Henry Cohen (rabbi) and Eastern Catholic Churches · See more »

Eastern Europe

Eastern Europe is the eastern part of the European continent.

New!!: Henry Cohen (rabbi) and Eastern Europe · See more »

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

New!!: Henry Cohen (rabbi) and England · See more »

Galveston Movement

The Galveston Movement, also known as the Galveston Plan, was a U.S. immigration assistance program operated by several Jewish organizations between 1907 and 1914.

New!!: Henry Cohen (rabbi) and Galveston Movement · See more »

Galveston, Texas

Galveston is a coastal resort city on Galveston Island and Pelican Island in the U.S. state of Texas.

New!!: Henry Cohen (rabbi) and Galveston, Texas · See more »

Handbook of Texas

The Handbook of Texas is a comprehensive encyclopedia of Texas geography, history, and historical persons published by the Texas State Historical Association (TSHA).

New!!: Henry Cohen (rabbi) and Handbook of Texas · See more »

History of the Jews in Galveston, Texas

Jews have inhabited the city of Galveston, Texas, for almost two centuries.

New!!: Henry Cohen (rabbi) and History of the Jews in Galveston, Texas · See more »

Immigration

Immigration is the international movement of people into a destination country of which they are not natives or where they do not possess citizenship in order to settle or reside there, especially as permanent residents or naturalized citizens, or to take up employment as a migrant worker or temporarily as a foreign worker.

New!!: Henry Cohen (rabbi) and Immigration · See more »

Jews

Jews (יְהוּדִים ISO 259-3, Israeli pronunciation) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and a nation, originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The people of the Kingdom of Israel and the ethnic and religious group known as the Jewish people that descended from them have been subjected to a number of forced migrations in their history" and Hebrews of the Ancient Near East.

New!!: Henry Cohen (rabbi) and Jews · See more »

Kingston, Jamaica

Kingston is the capital and largest city of Jamaica, located on the southeastern coast of the island.

New!!: Henry Cohen (rabbi) and Kingston, Jamaica · See more »

London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

New!!: Henry Cohen (rabbi) and London · See more »

London School of Jewish Studies

The London School of Jewish Studies (commonly known as LSJS, originally founded as Jews' College) is a London-based organisation providing adult educational courses and training to the wider Jewish community.

New!!: Henry Cohen (rabbi) and London School of Jewish Studies · See more »

Orthodox Judaism

Orthodox Judaism is a collective term for the traditionalist branches of Judaism, which seek to maximally maintain the received Jewish beliefs and observances and which coalesced in opposition to the various challenges of modernity and secularization.

New!!: Henry Cohen (rabbi) and Orthodox Judaism · See more »

Palestine (region)

Palestine (فلسطين,,; Παλαιστίνη, Palaistinē; Palaestina; פלשתינה. Palestina) is a geographic region in Western Asia.

New!!: Henry Cohen (rabbi) and Palestine (region) · See more »

President

The president is a common title for the head of state in most republics.

New!!: Henry Cohen (rabbi) and President · See more »

Russian Empire

The Russian Empire (Российская Империя) or Russia was an empire that existed across Eurasia and North America from 1721, following the end of the Great Northern War, until the Republic was proclaimed by the Provisional Government that took power after the February Revolution of 1917.

New!!: Henry Cohen (rabbi) and Russian Empire · See more »

Sephardi Jews

Sephardi Jews, also known as Sephardic Jews or Sephardim (סְפָרַדִּים, Modern Hebrew: Sefaraddim, Tiberian: Səp̄āraddîm; also Ye'hude Sepharad, lit. "The Jews of Spain"), originally from Sepharad, Spain or the Iberian peninsula, are a Jewish ethnic division.

New!!: Henry Cohen (rabbi) and Sephardi Jews · See more »

Shtetl

Shtetlekh (שטעטל, shtetl (singular), שטעטלעך, shtetlekh (plural)) were small towns with large Jewish populations, which existed in Central and Eastern Europe before the Holocaust.

New!!: Henry Cohen (rabbi) and Shtetl · See more »

Shylock

Shylock is a character in William Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice.

New!!: Henry Cohen (rabbi) and Shylock · See more »

South Africa

South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.

New!!: Henry Cohen (rabbi) and South Africa · See more »

Texas

Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the second largest state in the United States by both area and population.

New!!: Henry Cohen (rabbi) and Texas · See more »

The Merchant of Venice

The Merchant of Venice is a 16th-century play written by William Shakespeare in which a merchant in Venice must default on a large loan provided by a Jewish moneylender.

New!!: Henry Cohen (rabbi) and The Merchant of Venice · See more »

William Howard Taft

William Howard Taft (September 15, 1857 – March 8, 1930) was the 27th President of the United States (1909–1913) and the tenth Chief Justice of the United States (1921–1930), the only person to have held both offices.

New!!: Henry Cohen (rabbi) and William Howard Taft · See more »

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised)—23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as both the greatest writer in the English language, and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.

New!!: Henry Cohen (rabbi) and William Shakespeare · See more »

Woodville, Mississippi

Woodville is a town in and the county seat of Wilkinson County, Mississippi, United States.

New!!: Henry Cohen (rabbi) and Woodville, Mississippi · See more »

Yiddish

Yiddish (ייִדיש, יידיש or אידיש, yidish/idish, "Jewish",; in older sources ייִדיש-טײַטש Yidish-Taitsh, Judaeo-German) is the historical language of the Ashkenazi Jews.

New!!: Henry Cohen (rabbi) and Yiddish · See more »

1900 Galveston hurricane

The Great Galveston Hurricane, known regionally as the Great Storm of 1900, was the deadliest natural disaster in United States history.

New!!: Henry Cohen (rabbi) and 1900 Galveston hurricane · See more »

Redirects here:

Rabbi Henry Cohen.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cohen_(rabbi)

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »