Cecelia Feld
Cecelia Feld was born in 1942 in the Bronx. By the time she was in junior high, Cecelia’s artistic talents were revealed. At the suggestion of her teacher, she attended the High School of Music and Art where she majored in art. Upon graduating, she attended Hunter College and received her BA in Art, while simultaneously minoring in Education. She went to the University of North Texas for graduate school and received a Master of Fine Arts degree. Cecelia has been primarily a painter, printmaker, and photographer, and she sells and exhibits her artwork. She moved to Dallas in 1969 with her husband, Stanley, a retired endocrinologist, who started the first private endocrinology practice in Dallas in 1970. She and Stanley have two children, both raised in Dallas.
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Dr. Burt Einspruch was born in 1935 in the Bronx. His father, born in Czechoslovakia, first served in the Austrian army and then ultimately served in the Polish army. His family moved to Dallas when he was 11 years old and Burt attended Highland Park High School. Dr. Einspruch married his wife, Barbara, in October of 1960. He went to medical school at UT Southwestern and was commissioned in 1956 into the military. Dr. Einspruch went into psychiatry due to his interest in the brain and made great advances by organizing many programs, including a geriatric program. He has greatly served the Jewish community, having endowed the Holocaust Lecture Series at the University of Texas at Dallas.
Eli Davidsohn, one of three children, was born in 1943 in La Paz, Bolivia, and was raised in Lima, Peru, where he lived until the age of eighteen. His parents ended up in Bolivia after having escaped Nazi Germany; his father became a mining engineer. Eli has played the accordion from the time he was a little boy, and has always loved leading services with his musical talents. Eli attended a Jewish day school in Bolivia, but shares that he experienced much anti-semitism in the country. He decided to move to America and ended up in Houston. Eli served in the U.S. Army, worked for General Dynamics in Fort Worth, and then married two months after the completion of his service. He is a proud father of four and grandfather of many, and continues to share his contagious energy and passion through his teaching and song-leading.
Gerry Cristol was born in 1935 in Haverhill, Massachusetts. She attended grammar school in Massachusetts and was the only Jewish child in school there at the time. After high school, she attended Goucher College and met her husband, Charlie, who was originally from San Antonio, at age 21. After marrying, they moved together to Dallas. When her children were young, Gerry went to SMU and obtained a Master’s in History. She became the archivist at Temple Emanu-El, authored the book entitled A Light in the Prairie, and also became the President of the Dallas Jewish Historical Society.
Miriam Creemer was born in Calgary in 1936 to Polish immigrant parents. Miriam grew up in a very close-knit family and later attended the University of Alberta, where she graduated with a degree in teaching. She became a teacher in one of the largest elementary schools in Calgary and later was head of the English Department at the Jewish day school that she had attended when she was a young child. Miriam met her husband, Al, in Vancouver, British Columbia, and they moved to the United States in the late 1970s. When she first arrived, she worked at an old age home and really grew to love working with seniors. After moving to Dallas, she eventually became the Director of the JCC Senior Adult Program, where she worked for 20 years. Miriam instituted a senior drama group, choir, reading club, and many other programs that she led. As a speaker of Yiddish, she shares her passion for the language and translates and teaches it as well.
Annette Corman was born in 1937 in Chicago, Illinois, but moved with her family shortly thereafter to Texas. Annette grew up in Corpus Christi and attended high school there as well. After high school, she attended the University of Michigan and the University of Cincinnati. In 1991, she married Jack Corman, and combined their families. They have five children and multiple grandchildren. Annette has been involved in Temple Emanu-El’s Sisterhood in addition to Brandeis Women’s book group while working as a stock broker for over 25 years.
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