Women Pledge $159,950 to New York’s Quota of Allied Jewish Campaign

The sum of $159,950 was pledged to the New York Allied Jewish Campaign by women who attended a tea given by Mrs. Felix M. Warburg at her home, Wednesday, May, 7, in the afternoon, to organize the Women’s Division of which she is chairman. Encouraged by the prompt raising of so large a part of the quota of $250,000 assigned to the Women’s Division by James N. Rosenberg, chairman of the campaign, more than 50 women present voted to make every effort during the next few weeks to exceed their quota by a wide margin.

Mrs. Warburg’s own contribution to the campaign is $50,000. In addition she announced yesterday afternoon that she would give $100 for every $1,000 the Women’s Division raised other than her own contribution. Another large contribution announced at the tea was $15,000 a year for two years from Mrs. Jacob H. Schiff, widow of the philanthropist and mother of Mrs. Warburg. Mrs. Sol Rosenbloom, Mrs. Paul Baerwald and Mrs. Frederick Brown each gave $5,000. New York Chapter of the Hadassah gave $25,000.

The purposes of the campaign, improvement of the economic, social, cultural and physical welfare of the impoverished Jews of Eastern Europe and the development of Palestine, in cooperation with the British Government to facilitate the establishment there of a Jewish homeland were explained by Mrs. Warburg, who was the chairman of the afternoon, Mr. Warburg, and Mrs. Henry Moskowitz, a member of the Women’s Division advisory committee. Of the $6,000,000 sought nationally, $3,500,000 will be administered by the Joint Distribution Committee in Eastern Europe and $2,500,000 by the Jewish Agency.

The following is a list of the contributions: Mrs. Felix M. Warburg, $50,000; the New York Hadassah, $25,000; Mrs. Jacob Schiff, $30,000; Mrs. Paul Baerwald, $5,000; Mrs. Frederick Brown, $5,000; Mrs. Sol Rosenbloom, $5,000; Mrs. Bernard Mayer, $2,500; Mrs. Philip Lewisohn, $1,200.

Contribution of $1,000 each were given by: Mrs. Julius Bear, Mrs. Arnold Gottlieb, Mrs. Jerome Hanauer, Mrs. Charles Hirshon, Mrs. Charles J. Liebman, Mrs. Isaac Polstein, Mrs. S. S. Prince, Mrs. Albert D. Samuels, Mrs. Nathan Straus, Jr., and Mrs. Stephen S. Wise, the Lillian Schwarz Memorial Fund of the Hadassah, two anonymous, and one from the girls of the Young Women’s Hebrew Association. Mrs. Mortimer Schiff, Mrs. Henry Bernheim, and Mrs. P. J. King, $500 each; Mrs. Louis S. Wolf, $250; Mrs. Sidney Bernheimer, Mrs. Walter Emmerich, Mrs. Bernard Naumberg, $100 each; Mrs. Leonard Davidow and Mrs. G. L. Bear, $50 each.