Henry Cohen (rabbi)
Henry Cohen (April 7, 1863 – June 12, 1952) was a Jewish Texan rabbi who served Congregation B'nai Israel in Galveston, Texas from 1888 to 1952, a period of rapid growth after early 20th century immigration. He organized the Galveston Movement, which worked from 1907 to 1914 to attract eastern European Jewish immigrants to Galveston and the Gulf Coast, away from Northeastern cities. Ten thousand passed through Galveston, Texas.
When his congregation built a community house in 1928, they named it in his honor. Together with rabbi David Lefkowitz of Dallas, Coehn interviewed many Jewish Texans to collect their histories for the Texas Centennial in 1936.
Read more about Henry Cohen (rabbi): History in Galveston, Jewish Texan Historian
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