Fort Worth Jewish Archives

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HISTORICAL NOTE

The Fort Worth Jewish Archives documents the city’s Jewish community from the arrival of the first immigrant merchants in the 1850s, to the first burial at Emanuel Hebrew Rest in 1879, and the chartering of an Orthodox congregation in 1892 and a Reform congregation in 1902.

The collections at the Fort Worth Jewish Archives consist of more than 500 document boxes, hundreds of scanned images, dozens of scrapbooks, and decades of minutes books. The collection is housed at the city’s two synagogues—Congregation Ahavath Sholom, at the corner of S. Hulen at Briarhaven Lane, and Beth-El Congregation, located down the street at 4900 Briarhaven Lane.

 Among the unique items are Yiddish minutes from 1892-1939; second-mortgage bonds from 1921; WWII letters from Jewish soldiers; digitized home movies from Rabbi Robert Schur’s 1954 visit to Israel; and the papers, photographs, and scrapbooks of Rabbi Isadore Garsek, a Zionist leader, a voice for civil rights, and a popular book reviewer during his years on the pulpit at Ahavath Sholom from 1945 to 1985.

Visit the Fort Worth Jewish Archives website to learn more about their collections.

SCOPE AND CONTENTS

The Fort Worth Jewish Archives loaned the Tarrant County Archives its History of Fort Worth Section Council of Jewish Women scrapbook to be scanned. The scrapbook contains photographs, clippings, correspondence, programs, and newsletters. The materials are dated 1948 to 1954.

Materials in this collection consist of the following:

Scrapbook

Accessibility Notice: Due to the age and complexity of the original material, this linked scrapbook PDF is made up of scanned images. If you need assistance accessing the content in one of the documents, please contact the Archives at 817-884-3272 or archives@tarrantcountytx.gov.