{{Short description|American businessman and philanthropist}} {{Infobox person | name = Malcolm Woldenberg | image = | caption = | birth_name = Malcolm C. Woldenberg | birth_date = 5 May 1896 | birth_place = Montreal, Quebec, Canada | death_date = 21 September 1982 | death_place = New Orleans, US | education = | occupation = Businessman and philanthropist | known for = | title = | term = | predecessor = | successor = | boards = | spouse = Dorothy Woldenberg | children = | parents = | relatives = | website = }} right|thumb|View of the Mississippi River from Woldenberg Park '''Malcolm C. Woldenberg''' (5 May 1896 - 21 September 1982) was an American businessman.
==Early life== Woldenberg was born in Montreal, Canada, the son of Jewish immigrants from Europe.<ref name="tulane.edu">{{cite web|url=https://freemancentennial.tulane.edu/2014/04/17/stephen-goldring-and-malcolm-woldenberg/|title=Stephen Goldring and Malcolm Woldenberg – Freeman Centennial|author=|date=|website=freemancentennial.tulane.edu|accessdate=12 November 2018}}</ref> His family moved to the US when he was a child.<ref name="tulane.edu"/>
==Career== He started working as one of the Canadian distillers Seagram's first employees in the US.<ref name="tulane.edu"/> In the course of his work, he met Newman Goldring, and together they moved to New Orleans in 1941 to start a wholesale liquor business.<ref name="tulane.edu"/><ref name="theadvocate.com">{{cite web|url=https://www.theadvocate.com/gambit/new_orleans/news/blake_pontchartrain/article_e271c8e6-b04e-5d13-a1cb-5e449a97279a.html|title=Blakeview: Woldenberg Park|author=|date=4 April 2016|website=theadvocate.com|accessdate=12 November 2018}}</ref> In 1944, Woldenberg founded the Magnolia Marketing Company with Goldring and his son Stephen Goldring, his long-time business partners.<ref name="isjl.org">{{cite web|url=https://www.isjl.org/goldring-and-woldenberg.html|title=ISJL - Stephen Goldring and Malcolm Woldenberg|author=|date=|website=Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life|accessdate=12 November 2018}}</ref> It later became Republic National Distributing Company, and is today known as the Sazerac Company.<ref name="theadvocate.com"/>
Woldenberg was an active civic leader in New Orleans's Jewish community.<ref name="neworleanspast.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.neworleanspast.com/art/id28.html|title=Woldenberg Park|author=|date=|website=www.neworleanspast.com|accessdate=12 November 2018}}</ref>
==Personal life== He was married to Dorothy Woldenberg.<ref name="auto">{{cite web|url=https://www.alyn.org/history|title=History - About Us - ALYN Woldenberg Family Hospital|first=Minicy Catom Software Engineering Ltd.|last=www.catom.com|date=|website=www.alyn.org|accessdate=12 November 2018}}</ref>
Woldenberg is buried in the Hebrew Rest Cemetery #3 in New Orleans.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/144348281/malcolm-woldenberg|title=Malcolm Woldenberg (1896-1982) - Find A Grave...|website=www.findagrave.com}}</ref>
==Legacy== The 14-acre Woldenberg Park in New Orleans is named in his honour, and contains a statue of him.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/new-orleans-journal/the-old-man|title=The Old Man|author=|date=12 August 2008|website=newyorker.com|accessdate=12 November 2018}}</ref><ref name="neworleanspast.com"/> It was created due to $5 million given by the Dorothy and Malcolm Woldenberg Foundation to the Audubon Institute.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://frenchquarterly.com/history/down-riverfront-french-quarter|title=Down by the Riverfront in the French Quarter|author=|date=29 April 2013|website=frenchquarterly.com|accessdate=12 November 2018}}</ref>
The ALYN Woldenberg Family Hospital in Jerusalem is named after Malcolm and Dorothy Woldenberg, who paid half of its cost.<ref name="auto"/>
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