Heritage Vol.1 No.2 Newsletter of the American Jewish Historical Society Fall/Winter 2003
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HERITAGE VOL.1 NO.2 NEWSLETTER OF THE AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY FALL/WINTER 2003 “As Seen By…” Great Jewish- American Photographers TIME LIFE PICTURES © ALL RIGHTS RESERVED INC. Baseball’s First Jewish Superstar Archival Treasure Trove Yiddish Theater in America American Jewish Historical Society 2002 -2003 Gift Roster This list reflects donations through April 2003. We extend our thanks to the many hundreds of other wonderful donors whose names do not appear here. Over $200,000 Genevieve & Justin L. Wyner $100,000 + Ann E. & Kenneth J. Bialkin Marion & George Blumenthal Ruth & Sidney Lapidus Barbara & Ira A. Lipman $25,000 + Citigroup Foundation Mr. David S. Gottesman Yvonne S. & Leslie M. Pollack Dianne B. and David J. Stern The Horace W. Goldsmith Linda & Michael Jesselson Nancy F. & David P. Solomon Mr. and Mrs. Sanford I. Weill Foundation Sandra C. & Kenneth D. Malamed Diane & Joseph S. Steinberg $10,000 + Mr. S. Daniel Abraham Edith & Henry J. Everett Mr. Jean-Marie Messier Muriel K. and David R Pokross Mr. Donald L. SaundersDr. and Elsie & M. Bernard Aidinoff Stephen and Myrna Greenberg Mr. Thomas Moran Mrs. Nancy T. Polevoy Mrs. Herbert Schilder Mr. Ted Benard-Cutler Mrs. Erica Jesselson Ruth G. & Edgar J. Nathan, III Mr. Joel Press Francesca & Bruce Slovin Mr. Len Blavatnik Renee & Daniel R. Kaplan National Basketball Association Mr. and Mrs. James Ratner Mr. Stanley Snider Mr. Edgar Bronfman Mr. and Mrs. Norman B. Leventhal National Hockey League Foundation Patrick and Chris Riley aMrs. Louise B. Stern Mr. Stanley Cohen Mr. Leonard Litwin Mr. George Noble Ambassador and Mrs. Felix Rohatyn Mr. Steve Stowe Combined Jewish Philanthropies Ms. Deborah B. Marin Ann & Jeffrey S. Oppenheim Louise P. & Gabriel Rosenfeld Adele & Ronald S. Tauber Mr. Alan Elkin Mr. Gilbert Lang Mathews Mr. Lionel I. Pincus Zita & Edward Rosenthal Leo Wasserman Foundation Ms. Elizabeth Young $5,000 + Mr. G. Allen Andreas Mr. Don Garber Mr. Peter M Holt Pacers Sports & Entertainment Mei and Ronald Stanton Eleanor & Walter Angoff Mr. Rob Glaser Mr. Richard G Lesser Irene and Abe Pollin Mr. Fred Stein Mr. Roger BlumEncranz Mr. Shep Goldfein Shari B. and Harold J. Levy Irene & Arnold J. Rabinor Mr. Craig E. Weatherup Mr. and Mrs. Maxwell Burstein Mr. Richard N. Goldman Mr. Joe & Mr. Gavin Mrs. Sheila Johnson Robbins Kelly Schein & Efrem Weinreb Mr. Marshall Dana Mr. Milton M. Gottesman Maurice Maloof Mr. Jack Rudin Mr. and Mrs. James D. Wolfensohn Dinah A. & Uri Evan Sally & Robert D. Gries Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Milberg Mrs. Faye G. Schayer Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Wyner Joseph Rae Gann Hadassah Mr. Larry Miller Mr. Allan H. (Bud) Selig Judy and Arthur Zankel Charitable Trust Hemisphere Financial Services Judith and Arthur Obermayer Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Speyer $1,000 + Mr. Herbert Allen Richard and Rosalee Davison Ms. Abigail Kursheedt Hoffman Ms. Judith Notovitz Mr. John R Silber Ira and Mary Lou Alpert Dr. and Mrs. Ronald I Dozoretz Millicent and Leon A. Jick Marcy and Stanley Pantowich Mr. Sidney B Silverman Mr. Walter Anderson Mr. Jack A. Durra Amos and Matt Kaminski Mr. and Mrs. Maurice S Paprin Mr. Alan B Slifka Mrs. Eleanor W. Angoff Sybil and Alan M. Edelstein Deborah B. and Abraham J. Karp Mr. and Mrs. Steven Passerman Kenneth and Marisa Starr Mr. and Mrs. Robert Appel Mr. Victor Elmaleh Ms. Rosalie Katz Mr. Peter G Peterson Ken and Nancy Stein Mr. and Mrs. Henry Arnhold Mr. and Mrs. Richard England Mr. and Mrs. Gershon Kekst Betsy and Ken Plevan Miriam and Morton M Steinberg Mr. and Mrs. Robert Arnow Mr. Charles Evans Mr. Thomas H. Kennedy Mr. and Mrs. Lester Pollack Judith S. and Berton Steir Mr. J. Leiter Bamberger, Jr. Mr. Eli N. Evans Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Kenner Mr. and Mrs. John J Pomerantz Frank and Lisbeth Stern Mr. and Mrs. Victor Barnett Ms. Geraldine Fabrikant Mr. Roman Kent Ms. Helen Portnoy Jeffrey M. and Susan K. Stern Judy and Ronald Baron Mr. Robert Fagenson Mr. Andrew Klein Mr. Irving W Rabb Mr. Jerome L. Stern Reina Marin and Emilio Bassini Mr. David Finn Mr. Norman Klein RC Direct Mr. and Mrs. Walter Stern Mr. and Mrs. Alan Batkin Mr. Martin S. Foont Mr. & Mrs. Frederick Klingenstein Ms. Dina Recanati Mr. Joel W. Sternman Ms. Eleana Benador Dr. Charlotte K. Frank Mr. and Mrs. Arthur D. Kowaloff Mr. Richard Reiss Suzanne Last and Richard Stone Andrew R. and Froma B. Benerofe Mr. Helmut N. Friedlaender Constance & Harvey M. Krueger Mr. Robert S Rifkind Mr. and Mrs. Andrew H. Tananbaum Mr. and Mrs. Howard Berkowitz Pam and George Friedman Betsy and Donald Landis Mr. David Rockefeller Lawrence and Judith Tanenbaum Barbara and Barry Berlin Robert and Linda Friedman Mr. Roy Lapidus Mrs. Frederick Rose Harold and Nicki Tanner Mr. Philip Bleich Mr. Mark T. Gallogly The Honorable Frank Lautenberg Frances and Harold S Rosenbluth Ethel and Ronald Taub Elana and Aryeh Bourkoff Mr. Joe R. Gerson Mr. Philip Lax Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Rosenthal Mr. and Mrs. Theodore H. Teplow Mr. Michael Budman Rae and William M. Ginsburg Mr. and Mrs. Laurence Leeds Mrs. Doris Rosenthal Mr. Arnold Thaler Mr. Milton L. Cail Mr. Jay M. Goffman Mr. and Mrs. Fred Leighton Chaye H. and Walter Roth Mr. Malcolm Thomson Mr. Roger M. Cassin Mr. Eugene M. Grant Mr. Robert L Lenzner Joan and Alan P Safir Laurence and Billie Tisch Mr. Ezra Chammah Mr. and Mrs. Burton G. Greenblatt Mr. Leon Levy Mr. Arnold Saltzman Mr. Thomas I. Unterberg Ms. Debrah Lee Charatan Mr. and Mrs. Henry Grunwald The Martin R Lewis Charitable Mr. Ricky Sandler Mr. Marc A. Utay Mrs. Hilda Clayman Ms. Louise Grunwald Foundation Mr. Irving Schneider Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell M. Waife Dr. Naomi W. Cohen Mr. Emanuel Michael Gruss Ms. Nancy A Lieberman Mrs. Lynn Schusterman Sue R. and Felix Warburg Faye F. and Mr. Sheldon Cohen Gordon and Llura Gund Sandra H. and Norman Liss Charles Lynn Schusterman Family Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wechsler Mr. Arthur Cohn Mr. Samuel Halpern Mr. Earle I Mack Foundation Mr. Norbert Weissberg Dr. Peter F. Cohn Mr. Leonard Harlan Mr. Abraham E Margolin Cipora and Philip Schwartz Ms. Elizabeth Graham Weymouth The Colburn Family Foundation Susan T. and Charles E. Harris Mr. and Mrs. Morris Mark Batia and Shaul Shani Mr. Stephen M. Wynne Mr. Lester Crown Mr. and Mrs. Norman Hascoe Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Mark Mr. Benjamin Shapell Toni P. and Stuart B. Young Mr. Joseph F.Cullman, 3rd Mr. Michael Heisley Carol and Arthur Maslow Mr. and Mrs. Arie L. Shapiro Ms. Hedy Davis Kaye Zankel Joan P. and Ronald C. Curhan Mrs. Fanya Gottesman Heller Mr. Martin E Messinger Ralph and Shirley Shapiro Mr. Gary A. Zimmerman Mrs. Judith Darsky Mr. John Heyman Mr. and Mrs. Joseph S Metz Mr. Shelby Shapiro Isaac and Ivette Davah Mr. Arthur B. Himmel Mr. and Mrs. Jack Nash Mr. Isadore Sharp Robert and Betty David Misher and Allen Ereich Norman Mr. Herbert J Siegel $500 + Mr. Richard S. Abramson Mr. Charles M. Diker Professor Howard L. Greenberger Mr. Lawrence S. Levine Mr. Daniel E. Rothenberg Caroline & Stephen Adler Mr. Richard A. Eisner Mr. Robert S. Gruber Ms. Bonnie Lipton Mr. Mark Rubin Mr. Arthur S. Ainsberg James N. and Patricia L. Fingeroth Shirley and Dick Jaffee Ambassador John L Loeb, Jr. Mr. Richard Savitt Mr. Louis H. Barnett Joan and Aaron Fischer Mrs. Frances R. Kallison Mr. Richard J. Lubasch Joan and Stuart Schapiro Mr. Jack Bendheim Ms. Hilda Fischman Mr. and Mrs. Harry Kamen Ms. Nancy F. Neff Mr. Alan G. Schwartz Mr. Norman S. Benzaquen Ms. Lesley M. Friedman Samuel & Nancy Ann Stern Karetsky Mr. Augustus K. Oliver Mr. Sherwood M. Schwarz Mr. Abraham Biderman Mr. and Mrs. Howard L Ganek Mr. Jerome S. Karr The Esther & Seymour Padnos Mr. Larry S. Steingold Mr. Lawrence S. Blumberg and Family Philip Garoon Mr. Sandy Koufax Foundation Mr. Paul Tannenbaum Anne and Milton C. Borenstein Mr. Robert Gendelman Ms. Lynn Korda Kroll Ms. Kate C. Paley Mr. Bradley J. Wechsler David and Helen Gurly Brown Mr. Leonard Ginsberg Nancy and Jeffrey Lane Mr. David Pincus Mr. James L. Weinberg Mr. and Mrs. Bertram Cohn Carol and Avram Goldberg Mr. Harold S. Larkin Mr. John F. Poster Mr.& Mrs. Lawrence Jay Weinberg Mr. Dave Coskey Mr. Jay S. Goodgold Mr. Bernard Laterman Mr. Stephen B. Potter Mr. Paul J. Weinstein Mr. and Mrs. Gerald B. Cramer Mr. Leonard Goodman Ms. Marta Jo Lawrence Lt. Col. James N. Pritzker Mr. Joseph T. Yurcik 2 Mr. Denis Cronin Felice W. and David M. Gordis The Lemberg Foundation Mr. Charles J. Rose Lawrence and Carol Zicklin HERITAGE NEWSLETTER OF THE AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY VOLUME 1, NUMBER 2 • FALL/WINTER 2003 CONTENTS Letter from Sid Lapidus, American Jews in America’s Game Page 10 President Baseball’s First Jewish Superstar Page 11 Great Jewish-American Photographers Page 12 Archival Treasure I have the honor and privilege to succeed Kenneth J. Bialkin as Trove: The BWR Page 18 President of the American Jewish Historical Society. During his five years as President of the American Jewish Historical Society, Ken was NJWB & the Chaplains Page 19 largely responsible for the Society’s ascent to prominence in Little known story of American Jewish cultural life. America has been remarkably good for us Jews, as we Jews have "A Particular Responsibility" been remarkably good for America. In no other place or time in Page 20 world history have we been given such an opportunity to flourish; and we have taken advantage of the opportunities afforded us. We Library of Congress have much to be thankful for, but there is much to do.