In an effort to preserve city history, Fort Worth Report has agreed to archive more than 40 of Weiner’s local history columns beginning in 2025. This column originally ran in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram July 31, 2021.
When a Cowtown couple began restoring a ramshackle, century-old bungalow in Fort Worth’s Fairmount National Historic District, they realized that attached to a doorway was a tiny, 3-inch-long mezuzah — a slender religious object that marks the entry to a Jewish home.
From a title search, they knew that the two-story house at 1717 Hurley Ave. had once belonged to a Jewish cobbler — Wolff Moses, a Russian immigrant who lived there from 1920 to 1948. His son R.D. Moses, born in 1928, had grown up in the house, with its wraparound front porch and hitching post at the curb…