[Sca-cooks] OT/OOP NYT Article on Math Formula For the PerfectBacon Sandwich...

[Terry Decker]

Jews are a very small minority (less than 1 percent, IIRC) in Texas, but 
they've been there a long time, the first being conversos that arrived 
during the 15th and 16th Centuries.  The practice of Judaism was forbidden 
in Texas until 1821 when Mexico became an independent state.

There was a small but steady influx of Jews among the immigrants from Europe 
between the late 18th Century and the Civil War, establishing themselves as 
landowners, shopkeepers and professionals.  Adolphus Sterne, who helped 
finance the Texas War of Independence and was a Rhinelander, Albert Moses 
Levy, chief surgeon to the Army of the Republic, Henri De Castro, and the De 
Cordova family of Waco are among the best known.

The majority of the current Jewish population are descendents of Ashkenazi 
Jews from Eastern and Central Europe who immigrated to Texas after the Civil 
War (and into the 20th Century).

Bear


> Well, I'd think nothing is ever a done deal without evidence, but
> there's a good chance of it. I remember being surprised to discover
> that Texas has been pretty well stocked with Germans for quite a long
> time, but I hadn't known there were many Jewish people (Kinky
> Friedman notwithstanding).
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> Adamantius