Anna Weinstein

Anna was interviewed by Ginger Jacobs on March 24, 1981.

Anna Golman Weinstein was born in Chicago around 1906 and moved to Dallas when she was 5 years old. She has been living in Dallas for about 70 years and is involved in almost every single Jewish organization in Dallas. Some of the ones she has been affiliated with the longest, though, are Shearith Israel and Temple Emanu-El.

Edna Weinberger

Edna Weinberger was interviewed on August 21, 1989.

Edna Weinberger was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, and moved to Milwaukee, Wisconson once she married her husband. Then in 1942, along with their son, they moved to Dallas, Texas. In Dallas, she became involved with a number of organizations and synagogues, but the most prominent ones she attended were Temple Emanu-El and Hadassah, even becoming president of the Dallas chapter of Hadassah. She was also previously a Jewish National Fund chairman. In the interview, she talks extensively about her time with Hadassah and in Israel.

 

Morris Waldman

Morris was interviewed by William P. on January 14, 1988.

Morris Waldman is an ear, nose, and throat doctor. He was born in New York City on February 2, around 1901, and came to Dallas around the time he was in middle school. Growing up, Waldman studied Hebrew, and while he worked at an x-ray company, he taught short-hand typing in night school at Bryan High School. Afterward, he went to SMU for college and studied at Baylor Medical School. In his spare time, he taught Hebrew at Shearith Israel, the First Romanian-Austrian Congregation, and Temple Emanu-El. Waldman was involved heavily in the Jewish fraternity at Baylor and was a part of the Young Men’s Hebrew Association, B’nai B’rith, and the Temple Emanu-El Brotherhood. He was also a part of medical organizations such as the American Medical Association, Texas Medical Society, and the Dallas Country Medical Society and has worked in multiple hospitals around Dallas.