The Joan and Stanford Alexander South Texas Jewish Archives (STJA) collections document Jewish people's relationship with their faith and culture and how that manifests within a specific geographic location. Items in the collection range from scrapbooks from Jewish organizations to radio programs with religious leaders and oral histories with members of the community.

Below you can explore the digital collections, as well as access the inventories for the physical archival collections and a listing of the rare books.

Explore the digital collections by theme or type.

Synagogues

Jewish Organizations and Businesses

Jewish Families

Oral Histories

To see these physical collections and rare books in-person, you must contact us for an appointment.

Synagogues

Jewish Organizations and Businesses

Jewish Families

Rare Books

Digital Collections List

If you are looking for a specific digitized collection, please consult the list below.

C

Cantor Meir Finkelstein Jewish Music collection

Congregation Beth Jacob collection

Congregation Beth Yeshurun of Houston records

Congregation Emanu El records

Congregation K'nesseth Israel records

D

Daily / Hart family papers

Daum / Gersch family papers

E

Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center of Houston records

H

Houston Hadassah collection

Houston Hillel scrapbooks

J

Jewish Federation of Greater Houston records

Jewish Herald-Voice papers

M

Marilyn Hassid SAR collection

Max Herzog World War II Memorabilia collection

R

Ruth Hutton Fred papers

S

Shelby D. Goodman collection

South Texas Jewish Archives oral histories

South Texas Jewish Archives vertical files

Synagogue Dedication and Anniversary books

U

United Orthodox Synagogues records

W

Westheimer / Simon family papers