The Texas Jewish Historical Society will hold its 47th Annual Gathering in Houston, Friday, April 24, through Sunday, April 26. The Gathering offers an opportunity to connect scholarship with storytelling and history with lived experience in a weekend that celebrates Texas Jewish heritage across generations.

Registration forms and detailed schedule of events are available at txjhs.org. Registration is available for the entire 3-day weekend or for individual Friday and Saturday events that include lunch or dinner. You do not need to be a TJHS member to attend.

The Saturday afternoon program, 2:30 to 4:30 (without lunch) is open to the public at no charge, with registration available through Holocaust Museum Houston for this session only.

The Gathering opens Friday evening at Houston Congregation for Reform Judaism with a welcoming Shabbat dinner, followed by Shabbat services.

Saturday morning and afternoon programs will be held at Holocaust Museum Houston and will focus on Jewish history as lived experience, education and legacy. Morning sessions include:

• “Houston Jewish History as Lived Experience: Women of Houston,” presented by Melissa Cohen Nickels, curator, Joan and Stanford Alexander South Texas Jewish Archives at Rice University

• “Educating Houston: Teaching and Researching Jewish Studies at the University of Houston,” presented by Dr. Caryn Tamber-Rosenau, director of Jewish Studies at the University of Houston, and joined by graduate student Miranda Ruzinsky

• “A House with a Jewish Soul: Memory, Love and Legacy in Galveston,” presented by Marilyn Flick and Shelley Kessler

Participants will have the opportunity to take part in docent-led tours of the museum

Saturday afternoon programs, held in the HMH auditorium, will include sixth-grade students from The Emery/Weiner School reading short essays about their own families’ “Texas Jewish Stories.”

The main event on Saturday afternoon is the official premiere of “Grit & Grace: How Jewish Women Built a Better Texas.” The film features five Texas Jewish women whose lives and leadership helped shape their communities. Filmmaker Barbara Rosenthal, the recipient of TJHS grants that supported production, will hold a Q&A after the screening.

Saturday evening activities return to HCRJ with a buffet dinner catered by Kenny & Ziggy’s New York Delicatessen. Restaurateur and cultural preservationist Ziggy Gruber will offer a special presentation. The TJHS Outstanding Recognition Award will be presented to Davie Lou Solka, from Austin, for her many years of service to the Society and as editor of the TJHS Magazine.

Sunday’s agenda includes the TJHS Annual Gathering Plenary for the full membership, to be held at the Hampton Inn by Hilton near The Galleria.

For additional details and registration information, go to TXJHS.org.