I frankly didn’t even know what a Jew was - in TX we’re more about the man than his religion - until I read Leon Uris’ The Haj. And then I kinda assumed a noble, intellectual, rugged character of the Jewish Man. Texanish.
There is a fair amount of Jewish presence in Texas.
Levi Strauss certainly left his imprint on Texas, for example.
And a fair number of original Texicans were Sephardic Jews fleeing Mexico because Mexico not only betrayed the Protestants in Mexico (forcing them to convert to Catholicism), but re-instituted the rules against Jews, as well.
Indeed, the humble flour tortilla (which is really only a Texas/North Mexico thing) was the result of Sephardic Jews (who mistakenly viewed corn as suspect at the time due to the Aztex near worship of corn) making non-leavened bread for Passover.
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In fact, way back, there were prosecutions of Jewish people for eating wheat tortillas during Passover in Mexico.