This 1940s paperweight includes advertising for the Dallas company “Rubenstein Produce Company.”
Started by Sidney J. Rubenstein and located on 1110 Hall Street in Dallas. The paperweight features two tiny moving dice, with the saying “You’re not taking any chances when you trade with Rubenstein Produce Company.”
This style of paperweight advertising was popular in the 1940s across the United States.
Rubenstein Produce Company Collection
Alexander Sanger, one of the five Sanger brothers of Dallas, was in the business of dry goods and retail. He was a successful business owner, but also helped organize and start the Texas State Fair; serving as the director from its start in 1886.
This coin was given to Alexander Sanger by The Texas State Fair & Dallas Exposition Association in 1894, which was its ninth year running, in appreciation of his time and efforts spent as president. The coin features Sanger’s portrait in profile in the middle of the coin.
This wedding cake topper was bought from Neiman Marcus, and we believe it’s from the 1930s.
This particular topper is made from plaster; the bride wears a tulle veil, with an arch of cut cloth flowers. Demand grew for similar matrimonial figurines in the 1920s. These early wedding cake figures could be made out of such things as wax, celluloid, plaster, paper, porcelain, etc.
Annie Selikoff Laves Collection
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This dime collector was given out by Hadassah, of the Women’s Zionist Organization of America, Inc.
“The new organization’s first act was to collect money and send two nurses to Palestine in 1913 to provide pasteurized milk to infants and new mothers, and to eradicate trachoma, an easily cured eye disease, that was robbing thousands of sight,”
This dime collector was in support of curing the eye disease, as it states: “Now is the moment, now is the time, $5.00 saves an eye, each day give a dime.” The dime collector was sent to Hadassah supporter, “Mrs. Herbert Friedman” or Sarah Bornfeld Friedman. Mrs. Friedman passed away in 2009, and her obituary states, “Sarah was a Life Member of Hadassah and an active member of Congregations Shearith Israel and Tiferet Israel and other Jewish organizations.”
This year, the Dallas Jewish Historical Society will be celebrating the Latin American Jewish community in Dallas with “Viva Shalom!,” our biennial “One Story at a Time” event.
Like so many other organizations in our community, we are feeling the effects of COVID-19. To preserve the health and safety of our staff, volunteers, and greater community, we have made the difficult decision to postpone this event until Fall 2020. We are currently working to set a date and will let you all know as soon as possible.
In the meantime, we are still committed to preparing for this event and will continue gathering data on the Latin American Jewish Community to incorporate into our permanent collection.
We encourage you to participate in our survey (click here or see link below) and share your family’s experience before and after making your home in Dallas.
The last question in the survey will prompt you to select how you would like to share your story in more detail. We recommend oral history interviews because of the richness of the final product—a video to share with your family for generations to come. Please note that Oral History interviews conducted by DJHS staff and volunteers are suspended until further notice. We will resume this service as soon as we know it is safe for our community.
The Viva Shalom! Presentation and all stories and other data collected will become a part of the Dallas Jewish Historical Society’s permanent reference collection detailing Latin American immigration to Dallas.
Please share this survey with others in the Latin American Jewish Community in Dallas so that we can include as many individuals and families as possible.
Thank you for your participation! Please don’t hesitate to contact our office at 214-239-7120 or info@djhs.org for more information or if you have trouble accessing the survey.
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