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Subject Guide: Jewish Philanthropy

Archival and library highlights found at the Center relating to both personal and organizational philanthropic activities throughout history.

Aid packages being dispensed at the remittance office of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, Warsaw, Poland, c1920. RG 120. YIVO

Library Highlights

The Century of Max Zimmer : Builder and Philanthropist, an Amplied [sic] Oral History / Kramer, William M. Los Angeles, Western States Jewish History, 1993. Print. 

The Constitution of the Female Hebrew Benevolent Society of Philadelphia. Philadelphia, J.H. Cunningham, Printer, 1825. Print.

"In a World Still Trembling": American Jewish Philanthropy and the Shaping of Holocaust Survivor Narratives in Postwar America (1945 -- 1953) /  Deblinger, Rachel Beth. 2014. University of California, Los Angeles. PhD dissertation. Web.

Jewish Philanthropy: An Exposition of Principles and Methods of Jewish Social Service in the United States / Bogen, Boris David. New York, Macmillan, 1917. Print.

James Simon: Industrialist, Art Collector, Philanthropist; Compiled from Various Sources / Weltsch, Robert. London, 1965. Print.

Judah Touro, Merchant and Philanthropist. / Kohler, Max J. [Baltimore], [1905]. Print.

Louis Bamberger : Department Store Innovator and Philanthropist / Forgosh, Linda B. Waltham, Brandeis University Press, [2016]. Print. 

Philanthropy in Rabbinical Literature / Cronbach, Abraham. Jewish Tracts ; No. 9. Cincinnati, The Tract Commission, [1930]. Print.

Photography, Philanthropy, and the Politics of American Jewish Identity / Steinberg, Kerri P.,1998. University of California, Los Angeles. PhD dissertation. Print.

Türkenhirsch : A Study of Baron Maurice De Hirsch, Entrepreneur and Philanthropist. / Grunwald, Kurt. [Jerusalem], Israel Program for Scientific Translations, 1966.