35,470,020 dollars, or 25 per cent. of the total of 142,082,670 dollars given by individuals and philanthropic foundations in the United States in gifts of a million dollars or more during the year 1930, came from a Jew, according to figures just made public here. The third and fourth largest gifts came from Jews, Maurice Falk and the late Conrad Hubert who gave ten million and 8,750,000 dollars respectively.
The list of Jewish domors of a million dollars or more is as follows: one million dollars from Max Adler, for a planetarium in Chicago, five million dollars from Louis Bamberger, and Mrs. Felix Fuld, to establish an Institute for Advanced Study in Newark; one million from Max Epstein for an art museum to the University of Chicago; ten million from Maurice Falk, for the Pittsburgh Charitable Foundation; 1½ million from Daniel Guggenheim by his will to the Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Foundation; 8,750,000 from Conrad Hubert by his will to seven philanthropies; one million from Ralph Jonas, for the merger of the New York and Brooklyn Federations of Jewish Charity; two million from Mrs. Jules Mastbaum for the Rodin Museum in Philadelphia; 2,470,220 dollars from Harry H. Meyer by his will for the Montefiore Hospital in Pittsburgh and the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York; 2,550,000 from Julius Rosenwald in three gifts and one million dollars from Morris Schinasi by his will for a hospital in Constantinople.
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