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January 30, 1986

Edith Taub

Edith Green Taub was the daughter of Levy Green, known as Louie, who came from Romania by way of New York, San Antonio, and finally Dallas, drawn by friends in the city. Her mother also came from Romania, and her uncle was Julius Lichtenstein. Edith had a brother and a sister, both of whom died before her. Her father was a fun-loving man with a great sense of humor, remembered for once fitting sled runners to the family buggy in the snow and driving downtown to her uncle Jake Green's Busy Bee Fruit Store. He loved opera and was a fine cook.

Edith came to Dallas in 1902 and first lived in North Dallas, on or near Alamo Street, where most of the city's Jews then lived. Around 1906 or 1907 the family moved south to Romine Street, then to Cleveland Street about 1914, and in 1920 bought a two-story house at 3401 Wendelkin Street, where she lived until 1948 or 1949. She later built a brick home on Kenwood. She attended Colonial and Forest Avenue High School, and after a business course at the Metropolitan Business School worked as a stenographer for the Texas Cotton Growers Association, then for Dun and Bradstreet, which took her to New York, and later James T. White Publishing.

At the urging of her father she returned to Dallas and worked for the US Veterans Association and for cotton broker Louis Tobian. She married Hyman Taub of Fort Worth on June 20, 1926, and lived in Breckenridge before returning to Dallas during the Depression. Her husband worked in produce and later sold menswear for A. J. Smith and worked for the Finkelstein family at National Shoes until his death. Edith later worked at Harris Cuthbert in retail. She was a lifelong member of Temple Emanu-El, active in Hadassah, and recalled rabbis including Lefkowitz, Olin, and Klein, along with the temple's music and choir.

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