Gifts totaling $2,600,000 to three artistic, educational and religious institutions to endow a series of cultural activities, were announced today by Albert A. List, Jewish philanthropist and chairman of the Albert A. List Foundation. The gifts will be made by the Foundation and by Mr. List and his family.
The recipients and the sum each will receive are: the Lincoln Center for Performing Arts–$1,000, 000; the New School for Social Research–$1, 000, 000; and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and its Jewish Museum–$600, 000. The Foundation was created in 1945 by Mr. and Mrs. List to “enrich adult life by assisting institutions in carrying out imaginative, far-reaching artistic and educational programs.”
The gifts to the Seminary and its Museum consist of a $500, 000 grant for a new three-story building for the museum which will more than double its exhibition area and $100,000 to finance scholarships and the work of the Herbert H. Lehman Institute of Ethics.
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