Featured Collections
Isidore Zesmer Collection
An influential figure in the Dallas Jewish community with a lasting legacy.
Enid Klass Collection
A former assistant to Stanley Marcus and Dallas local who acquired an extensive collection.
Sylvia Margules Trugman Collection
An extensive collection of Jewish Dallas photographs and documents
Ellis & May Titche Collection
Letters of their courtship and early marriage are immortalized.
Ruth Kahn Family Collection
Ruth Kahn was a DJHS co-founder, and the wife of Laurence Kahn of E.M. Kahn Department Store. She was a humble woman who worked hard for her community.
Laurence Kahn Home Movie Collection
Laurence Kahn, son of E. M. Kahn and husband of Ruth Brown Kahn (co-founder of DJHS), recorded numerous family films in the 1930s and 1940s.
Ray Family Film Collection
This series of mostly sports-related films are a selection of home movies filmed by an unknown family in the 1960s and rescued at an estate sale in the 2010’s. Do you recognize anyone?
Renee Stanley Collection
An interactive sampling of Renee’s legacy as an avid community volunteer and advocate.