New Mexico

The booklets are the product of the New Mexico Jewish Historical Society's Jewish Pioneer Oral History Video Archive Project, conducted in partnership with the Department of History and the Center for Regional Studies at the University of New Mexico. The booklets are composed of recollections of the family members. There is also an exhibition catalog from "Jewish Pioneers of New Mexico, 1821-1917" held at the Museum of New Mexico in 2003.

Edith Weil sits on a horse in front of her family home in New Mexico. Her parents, Nathan and Clara S. Weil, sit on the porch in the background with their younger daughter Pauline standing between them.

The booklet is the product of the New Mexico Jewish Historical Society's Jewish Pioneer Oral History Video Archive Project, conducted in partnership with the Department of History and the Center for Regional Studies at the University of New Mexico. The booklet is composed of recollections of Dorothy Shipman, Clara Goldsmith Weil was born in Denver. Kansas Territory in 1860, married Nathan Weil in Pueblo, and then the family moved to New Mexico.