Dorothy Wittenberg - 26-April -2001 -€“ Weaving Women's Words

About this film

Oral historian Pamela Brown-Lavitt interviewed Dorothy Wittenberg on April 26, 2001 in Seattle, Washington as part of the Jewish Women's Archive "Weaving Women's Words" project. A tireless and loyal volunteer for Jewish causes and Sisterhood, Dorothy Wittenberg initiated and planned, prepared and served the Ida Weinstein Luncheon at Council House for over 25 years. Born in Denver, Colorado, Dorothy grew up in one of the only Jewish families in Tacoma, Washington. After her father's death in 1933, when she was 17, she and her mother moved to Richmond, California where they sold retail clothes and cosmetics in an uncle's department store and Dorothy attended UC Berkeley. In 1948 Dorothy met and married Albert Rosengarten, a jeweler who opened a small business fixing watches in Bremerton, Washington. When her husband died suddenly twelve years later, Dorothy returned to San Francisco. In 1965 she married widower Samuel Wittenberg of Seattle and returned here with him, becoming stepmother to his son. Though she never had children of her own, Dorothy reveled in the role of grandmother and spent her free time baking confectionary masterpieces for her grandchildren and great-grandchildren…

Directors & creators

Jewish Women's Archive

Subjects

Family; volunteer of Jewish causes; sisterhood; Ida Weinstein Luncheon

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