LEADER 03797nam 22006494a 450 001 9910818588803321 005 20230207224948.0 010 $a0-292-79479-7 024 7 $a10.7560/714618 035 $a(CKB)1000000000479633 035 $a(OCoLC)319492736 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10245671 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000187470 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11166164 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000187470 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10135170 035 $a(PQKB)11115634 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3443203 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3443203 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10245671 035 $a(DE-B1597)587249 035 $a(OCoLC)1286806475 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780292794795 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000479633 100 $a20060525d2007 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aKindler of souls$b[electronic resource] $eRabbi Henry Cohen of Texas /$fby Henry Cohen II 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAustin $cUniversity of Texas Press$d2007 215 $a1 online resource (169 p.) 225 1 $aFocus on American history series 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-292-71461-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [143]-145) and index. 327 $aFrom Torah to Tennyson -- Being Jewish in Jamaica -- Little Jerusalem -- Planting roots -- The storm and its impact -- From health to horror -- "Through the gateway of Galveston" -- "Dear graduates" : on being a rabbi -- From the Kaiser to the Klan -- Prison reform : the rabbi and the convict -- Family matters and memory : 1930-1950 -- The rabbi and his times -- Appendix : selected poems by Rabbi Henry Cohen. 330 $aIn September 1930, the New York Times published a list of the clergy whom Rabbi Stephen Wise considered "the ten foremost religious leaders in this country." The list included nine Christians and Rabbi Henry Cohen of Galveston, Texas. Little-known today, Henry Cohen was a rabbi to be reckoned with, a man Woodrow Wilson called "the foremost citizen of Texas" who also impressed the likes of William Howard Taft and Clarence Darrow. Cohen's fleeting fame, however, was built not on powerful friendships but on a lifetime of service to needy Jews?as well as gentiles?in London, South Africa, Jamaica, and, for the last sixty-four years of his life, Galveston, Texas. More than 10,000 Jews, mostly from Eastern Europe, arrived in Galveston in the early twentieth century. Rabbi Cohen greeted many of the new arrivals in Yiddish, then helped them find jobs through a network that extended throughout the Southwest and Midwest United States. The "Galveston Movement," along with Cohen's pioneering work reforming Texas prisons and fighting the Ku Klux Klan, made the rabbi a legend in his time. As this portrait shows, however, he was also a lovable mensch to his grandson. Rabbi Henry Cohen II reminisces about his grandfather's jokes while placing the legendary rabbi in historical context, creating the best picture yet of this important Texan, a man perhaps best summarized by Rabbi Wise in the New York Times as "a soul who touches and kindles souls." 410 0$aFocus on American history series. 606 $aRabbis$zTexas$zGalveston$vBiography 606 $aReform Judaism$zTexas$zGalveston 607 $aGalveston (Tex.)$xSocial conditions 607 $aGalveston (Tex.)$vBiography 615 0$aRabbis 615 0$aReform Judaism 676 $a296.8/341092 676 $aB 700 $aCohen$b Henry$f1927-$0327569 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910818588803321 996 $aKindler of souls$94048567 997 $aUNINA