More than $51,000,000 were given by American Jews during 1929 in public benefactions, according to the figures published in the annual “Who’s Who” issue of “The American Hebrew,” appearing today. This figure includes only gifts in sums of $10,000 and over. The gifts are listed under five heads: Educational Benefactions-$15,780,000; Civic Benefactions-$13,760,000; International Benefactions-$1,760,000; Palestine Emergency Fund donations and benefactions-$7,025,000; Bequests-$11,543,000 and the $500,000 which was Daniel Guggenheim’s further gift to aviation this year.
The educational total of nearly $21,000,000 includes, in addition to the $9,000,000 William For movie educational project, the $2,000,000 of Julius Rosenwald to the University of Chicago building program, the $1,000,000 of Mr. and Mrs. Percy S. Straus to the endowment fund of New York University, the $1,000,000 of Max Epstein for an art center at the University of Chicago, and the building given to New York University by Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Brown.
The civic group includes the Mr. and Mrs. Marry Guggenheim $3,000,000
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(Continued from Page 1) Dental Clinic Fund, the Lucius N. Littauer $1,000,000 to promote Better Understanding, the $1,000,000 which Louis Bamberger, of Newark, distributed among his employees, and the $1,000,000 offered to New York Jewish philanthropies by Ralph Jonas for the merger of the Manhattan and Brooklyn Federation.
The international welfare figures include the Senator and Mrs. Simon Guggenheim $1,000,000 Fund for fellowships to foster Pan-American amity and the Daniel Guggenheim gift of $480,000 for educational purposes in Chile.
Outstanding in the Palestine total are Felix M. Warburg’s donation of half a million dollars, and the $2,000,000 country-wide special emergency fund, following the Arab anti-Jewish outbreaks, raised under the chairmanship of David A. Brown.
Among the large bequests are the Conrad Hubert $6,000,000 benefaction now administered by Julius Rosenwald, Alfred E. Smith and Calvin Coolidge, and the Alfred M. Heinsheimer $1,000,000 to 25 charitable, religious and educational institutions.
Three Christians are honored by “The American Hebrew” for their promotion of better understanding between Christians and Jews in America during 1929. These are, Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University; A. Lawrence Lowell, president of Harvard University; and John D. Rockefeller, Jr. The presidents of Harvard and Columbia are hailed because it was at their invitation and under the aegis of their institutions of higher education that seminars on Protestant – Catholic – Jewish relations were held during the year.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., is cited because he is financing the administration of the School of Religion of the University of Iowa, which was introduced into American education for the first time a Professor of Protestantism, a Professor of Judaism. “Providing an opportunity for university students to learn something about all religions.” “The American Hebrew” says editorially, “will go a long way towards the uprooting of religious prejudices among the youth of America.”
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