Alfred Abraham Weinstein, physician, author, and sculptor, was born in 1908 in Boston, Massachusetts, and died 25 February 1964 in Boston. Weinstein moved to Atlanta in 1938, after completing five years of post-graduate research work in surgery, medicine, and cardiology, to enter private practice and teach surgery at Emory University. He interrupted his practice to serve in the U.S. Army and spent three and one half years as a P.O.W. in Japan. His experiences as a P.O.W. were the basis for his book, BARBED-WIRE SURGEON (1948). A series of articles first published in the ATLANTA JOURNAL (1963) were subsequently published as AS I SAW RUSSIA (1963). Weinstein was a member of many professional, religious, and civic organizations including B'nai B'rith. As a sculptor, he exhibited his work at the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard and the Atlanta High Museum of Art.
From the description of Alfred A. Weinstein papers, 1940-1976. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 173863084
