First Jew In Waco

ID: 2349 ~ Source: Podet, Mordecai, interviewed by Daniel B. McGee, December 10, 1981, in Waco, texas, Baylor Institute for Oral History. View Full Interview
This file appears in: Jacob de Cordova

Rabi Mordecai Podet remembers some of Jacob de Cordova's history and how that was the start of Jewish presence in Central Texas.

This file appears in: Jacob de Cordova

By Anabel Burke
Settlers of the Texas Frontier were undeniably an eclectic bunch, and the founders of Waco were no exception. One of the main organizers of the new city was a Jewish, Jamaican-born Spaniard named Jacob de Cordova. De Cordova was not only…