Report to The Allotment Committee…
Inscribed to Ruth Szold Ginzberg
Whom he Married Several Years Later
[Judaica]. Ginzberg, Eli. Report to The Allotment Committee of the United Jewish Appeal for 1941.
12mo.; mimeographed typescript; blue wrappers, stapled; wrappers soiled and dampstained; spine repaired with tape.
The typescript outlines a proposal for how $8,800,000 received by United Jewish Appeal (UJA) should be distributed among three beneficiaries: the Joint Distribution Committee, the National Refugee Service, and United Palestine Appeal. This report was likely printed in a limited number for distribution to UJA membership and this copy appears to have been deaccessioned from a library. A presentation copy, inscribed by Ginzberg on the upper wrapper: For Ruth—The first real product of our collaboration— & which she contributed much more than she realizes. Ginzberg married Ruth Szold in 1946. Ruth Szold Ginzberg worked as an editor for the Conservation of Human Resources Project and the inscription suggests that perhaps she edited this typescript before it was presented to the Allotment Committee.
For each organization, Ginzberg provides a financial background and a description of their operating costs, as well as statistics regarding income and expenditures for the past year. Ginzberg also provides tables showing the average income of the Jewish population in the U.S. and how many Jewish citizens are annual contributors to UJA. Based on the data, Ginzberg concludes that more American Jews could donate money to the UJA and he offers suggestions as to how UJA could increase its base of contributors. He writes, “…despite the fact that the economic condition of American Jews has been improving these last two years, the needs of these organizations are being less adequately met. This is proof that not all is well in fundraising” (p. 10). Specifically, Ginzberg concludes that Jews who live in New York City should be especially targeted for fundraising, since they account for most of the Jewish Americans in the $100,000 income bracket.
Eli Ginzberg (1909-2002) taught on the faculty at Columbia University in the Economics department from 1935-1979.
http://www.college.columbia.edu/cct/mar03/obituaries1.php
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