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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 2019.

INNOVATOR

Bernard & Elizabeth M. Blum
James N. & Ellen Weinberg Dreyfus
Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany
Goethe-Institut
Werner & Karen R. Gundersheimer
Estate of Gaby Hereld
Interior Ministry of the Federal Republic of Germany
Peter S. Kalikow
Estate of Evelyn Lang
The Loewenberg Foundation, Inc.
Ilse Melamid
Richard L. Menschel & Robert B. Menschel, Vital Projects Fund
Anonymous Donor

CONSERVATOR

Axel Springer Stiftung
William Bernhard
CBS Corporation
Further Forward Foundation
Amy Goldman Fowler
Katherine K. Goldsmith, Clifford & Katherine Goldsmith Philanthropic Fund
Robert S. & Arleen Rifkind
Anonymous Donor

CURATOR

Dennis & Anne-Margaret Baum
Michael G. & Linda Jesselson
Marian Scheuer Sofaer & Abraham D. Sofaer

HISTORIAN

Michael A. Bamberger
David W. & Barbara M. Detjen
Marianne C. Dreyfus
Eva Eckert

LIBRARIAN

Allianz of America
German Insurance Association
Ira H. & Andrea L. Jolles
Michael Kellen, Anna-Maria & Stephen Kellen Foundation
Joan C. Lessing
David & Judith M. Marwell
The Nathan Family
Judith Obermayer, Obermayer Foundation
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
Ismar & Sally Schorsch
Raymond V.J. & Jean Schrag
Bruce Slovin
Ronald B. & Joanne Sobel
The Stanley & Dorothy Winter Fund
Anonymous Donor

ARCHIVIST

Adler Living Trust
Inge Berger
Ernestine Bradley
Deutsches Historisches Museum
Helen B. Dreyfus
Adam & Pamela Emmerich
Brenda Gruss & Daniel O. Hirsch
Jeffrey Himmel
Beckett Horowitz & Matthias Rebmann
Frederick J. Iseman
Jewish Philanthropic Fund of 1933, Inc.
Lilli Kalmenson
Stephen Lesser
Abraham F. Lowenthal & Jane S. Jaquette
Eleanor & Daniel I. Peters
Peter J. & Cathy M. Toren
Gerald Westheimer
Norbert R. & Elizabeth V. Wirsching

STEWARD

Claude D.F. Bernstein
Elizabeth Brody
Myriam Ellis
Jack Intrator & Debrah Welling
Michael Kowal
The Feuerring Foundation

FRIEND OF THE LEO BAECK INSTITUTE

George E. Arnstein
Michael Ballbach
Ethan Bensinger
W. Michael Blumenthal, Friends of the Jewish Museum Berlin
Amy & Morton Friedkin
Stephen Goldberg
Hans & Doris Grunwald
Betty Himmel
Paul J. Isaac
Roe Jasen Charitable Lead Trust
Noerr LLP
Lynette S. & Jacob Polatin
S & L Marx Foundation
Gerrard & Brigitte Salomon
Elliot G. Sander
Marianne E. Steiner
Cynthia Walk
Nora Wells & Ted Weinreich