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14 kwi 2023 · Some ten thousand Germans immigrated to the region from 1840 to 1850, and by 1860 that number had more than doubled. The Texas climate, Ernst wrote in his letter, resembles that of lower Italy!
24 paź 2023 · In Galveston, Texas, a refuge for Jews escaping pogroms — and perhaps a lesson for today’s ‘migrant crisis’. For Jewish immigrants, Galveston was once ‘the Ellis Island of the West ...
Today the vast majority of Jewish Texans are descendants of Ashkenazi Jews, those from central and eastern Europe whose families arrived in Texas after the Civil War or later. [ 1 ] Organized Judaism in Texas began in Galveston with the establishment of Texas' first Jewish cemetery in 1852.
1 lip 2005 · Today, more than 60 years after the Holocaust, it is hard to grasp the similarities between Germans and Jews, which in the space of 12 short years became the source of a genocidal antipathy.
25 mar 2022 · Many rose to prominent positions: Nicholas Adolphus Sterne, a German Jewish immigrant, was a close friend of Sam Houston’s and a key financial supporter of Texas independence; Henri Castro,...
Two national groups that were particularly prominent in the early settlement of Texas were the Germans and the Czechs, with the former comprising a very large part of the population since Texas gained its independence from Mexico.
Texas Germans (German: Texas-Deutsche) are descendants of Germans who settled in Texas since the 1830s. The arriving Germans tended to cluster in ethnic enclaves; the majority settled in a broad, fragmented belt across the south-central part of the state, where many became farmers. [1]
