Community college prof, writer, editor, historian of Texas Jews. Editing a memoir about Eagle Pass. Alte kaker in training. Same name @ Sky.
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Oct 17, 2021 • 21 tweets • 6 min read
I'm free now to report that I was a historical consultant on this case.
I haven’t posted about this before because I was waiting for the process to play out. But now that the judge has ruled, I'd like to describe my experience.
nytimes.com/2021/10/13/us/…
It’s rare, perhaps, that a historian’s expertise can be put to such good use as this. I study a niche area, a subfield of a subfield, and I teach at a midsized community college.
I never expected to be asked to consult on something so important.
Oct 17, 2021 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
There are massive swaths of the Texas historical experience we would have no idea existed if Russell Lee hadn't spent so much time here.
REMINDER, Houston: I’ll be speaking at Rice University on Monday about the Galveston Immigration Movement. It’s free and open to the public, and details are below. I hope some of you might be there!
But what is the Galveston Movement? Well, keep reading.
events.rice.edu/#!view/event/e…
Between 1907 and 1914, more than 9,000 Russian-Jewish immigrants arrived in the United States through the Port of Galveston, Texas, bypassing the more familiar but badly overcrowded Jewish neighborhoods in New York.
These were Yiddish-speakers literally "fresh off the boat."
