Oral history interview with Jack B. Weinstein, 2011.

Biographical Note

United States federal judge, Eastern District of New York.

Scope and Contents

Background and childhood: Born August 10, 1921, Wichita, Kansas, mother born in Brooklyn, New York, father born in Hungary; Education: Public School (P.S.) 4, P.S. 205, Brooklyn, New York, Seth Low Junior High School, Lincoln High School, Brooklyn College; Career: U.S. Navy, Columbia University professor, New York City Southern District Judge; Themes: paternal grandparents' immigration from Hungary, father's work on mail trains, maternal grandparents' immigration from Russia, job delivering milk while in High School, attending and building of Brooklyn College, Brooklyn Navy Yard history, Wallabout Market, Spanish Civil War protest, illegal immigration, joining the Navy after Pearl Harbor, meeting wife Evelyn at Brooklyn College, Navy Yard asbestos legal cases, Mark Twain School legal case, Vietnam dissenter cases, Navy ship workers and toxic paint, Actors' Equity child worker.

Subjects

• Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)--History.
• Columbia University. School of Law--Faculty--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Judges--New York (State)--Interviews.
• New York Naval Shipyard.
• Oral histories.
• Sullivan, Sady, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• United States. District Court (New York : Eastern District)
• Weinstein, Jack B.--Interviews.

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