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Major Donors

Leo Baeck Institute recognizes with deep appreciation the following individuals and institutions, who provided general support or funded major projects and initiatives in 2020.

INNOVATOR

Bernard Blum
Herbert Bodenheim Family Trust
Estate of Marianne Dreyfus
Estate of Sue Friedman
Peter S. Kalikow
The Loewenberg Foundation, Inc.
Richard L. Menschel & Robert B. Menschel, Vital Projects Fund
Estate of Marianne Phiebig
The Thompson Family Foundation
Anonymous Donor

CONSERVATOR

Axel Springer Stiftung
William Bernhard, The Bernhill Fund
Further Forward Foundation
Amy Goldman Fowler
David & Judith M. Marwell
Amy E. B. & Thomas Houston
Donald Newhouse, Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation
Robert S. & Arleen Rifkind

CURATOR

Dennis & Anne-Margaret Baum
David W. & Barbara M. Detjen
Estate of Hortense Lewin
Ismar & Sally Schorsch

HISTORIAN

Michael A. Bamberger
Joan C. Lessing
Richard & Anne Nathan

LIBRARIAN

Allianz of America
Arnhold Foundation
Michael Ballbach
Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel & Carl Spielvogel
Katherine K. Goldsmith
Kathryn O. Greenberg
Werner & Karen R. Gundersheimer
Michael G. & Linda Jesselson
Michael Kellen, Anna-Maria & Stephen Kellen Foundation
Patricia A. Kenner
Robert P. Morgenthau
Paul Nemitz
Judith Obermayer, Obermayer Foundation
Marian Scheuer Sofaer & Abraham D. Sofaer
Peter H. Schweitzer
Bruce Slovin
Ronald B. & Joanne Sobel
Cynthia Walk
Jack Weingarten

ARCHIVIST

Elizabeth Brody
Eva L. & Leo Gans
Brenda Gruss & Daniel O. Hirsch
Frederick J. Iseman
Jewish Philanthropic Fund of 1933, Inc.
Marina & Stephen Kaufman
Abraham F. Lowenthal & Jane S. Jaquette
David Marrus
Richard L. & Ronay Menschel
Robert Owens & Eve Klein
Eleanor & Daniel I. Peters
Marcia & Robert N. Waxman
Anonymous Donor

STEWARD

Myriam Ellis
Andrew Gans & Ronald Chavez
Henry Jasen, Roe Jasen Charitable Lead Trust
Peter Y. Sonnenthal

FRIEND OF THE LEO BAECK INSTITUTE

George E. Arnstein
Estate of Irene Bayer
Claude D. F. & Melody Bernstein
W. Michael & Barbara Blumenthal, Friends of the Jewish Museum Berlin
Ernestine Bradley
Ellen M. & Robert Calinoff
James N. Dreyfus & Ellen Weinberg Dreyfus
Zvi Erenyi
Feuerring Foundation
Tomas Friedlander
Jeffrey Himmel
Jack Intrator & Debrah Welling
Jewish Genealogical Society
Noerr LLP
Bettina B. Plevan
Jean Quataert
Amy Rader
S & L Marx Foundation
Gerrard & Brigitte Salomon
Raymond V. J. & Jean Schrag
Peter J. & Cathy M. Toren
Norbert R. & Elizabeth V. Wirsching