$50 Per Capita American Jews’ Contribution to Philanthropy in 1928

American Jews spent $235,735,855 in 1928 for both sectarian and non-sectarian philanthropies. according to a survey by Uriah Z. Engelman. conducted on the basis of reports in the Jewish Daily Bulletin” and the Anglo-Jewish weeklies. The results of the survey are contained in an article by Mr. Engelman in the current issue of The Jewish Tribune.” Information was also furnished Mr. Engelman by the Bureau of Jewish Social Research and the American Jewish Committee.

The Jewish per capita contribution to charity, religion. arts and sciences was three times as large as that of the rest of the population, the survey discloses. On the basis of a 4,000,000 Jewish population in the country, the figures show an average contribution of $60.

The comparative newness of a large (##) of Jewish institutional life in America.” Mr. Engelman writes, “has resulted in an impetns to building activities, as related to community centres and synagogues, necessitating a great outlay of funds. The aggravated economic situation of the Jews abroad since the war and the Palestine project have added to the pressure for money.”

The figures, according to Mr. Engelman, are more impressive when it is realized “that Jews do not count among their groups the Mellons, the Whitneys, the du Ponts, the Fords and the Rockefellers.” Outside of a few outstanding contributions, of which the largest was $5,000,000, the huge philanthropic budget was made up of minor gifts.

The total, Mr. Engelman pointed out, (Continued on Page 4)

is conservative as the sources of in(##) were necessarily incomplete no record being available of unpublished contributions.

Hospitals, asylums and homes spent (##) in the (##), on 257 per cent of the total For religious purposes 227 per cent, or (##) was given. Of that sum (##) was spent in twenty-four States for synagogues and temples.

Associations for the support of Jewish charities disturbed (##)(##)(##)(##)