GENEROUS JEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20716, 8 November 1930, Page 11

GENEROUS JEWS.

GIFTS IN AMERICA. YEAR'S TOTAL OF £14,500,000. [from our own- correspondent.] NEW YORK. Oct. 15. American Jews gavo £14,500,000 to Jewish philanthropies hero and abroad and to non-Jewish causes for tho year ended September 15, 1930, according to an announcement by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. This body, which compiles an annual honour roll of American Jewry, based its figures on individual gifts of £IO,OOO or more, of which there were 41, and on the funds raised and expended by various national Jewish religious, educational, philanthropic, health and relief organisations, together with their local units. Tho amount raised for specifically Jewish causes by the national organisations was £7,500,000, and tho sum given in individual benefactions was £7,000,000, of which £5,600,000 was contributed to lion-Jewish causes. Tho largest gift from an individual was £2,000,000 by Mr. Maurice Falk, of Pittsburgh, for charitable purposes, to be known as tho Falk Foundation. Tho estate of Mr. Conrad Hubert gave £1,200,000 to Jewish, Catholic and Protestant charities. Mr. Louis Bamberger and his sister gavo £1,000,000 for advanced learning.