The first comprehensive history of American Jewish philanthropy and
its influence on democracy and capitalism For years, American
Jewish philanthropy has been celebrated as the proudest product of
Jewish endeavors in the United States, its virtues extending from
the local to the global, the Jewish to the non-Jewish, and modest
donations to vast endowments. Yet, as Lila Corwin Berman
illuminates in The American Jewish Philanthropic Complex, the
history of American Jewish philanthropy reveals the far more
complicated reality of changing and uneasy relationships among
philanthropy, democracy, and capitalism. With a fresh eye and lucid
prose, and relying on previously untapped sources, Berman shows
that from its nineteenth-century roots to its apex in the late
twentieth century, the American Jewish philanthropic complex tied
Jewish institutions to the American state. The government's
regulatory efforts-most importantly, tax policies-situated
philanthropy at the core of its experiments to maintain the public
good without trammeling on the private freedoms of individuals.
Jewish philanthropic institutions and leaders gained financial
strength, political influence, and state protections within this
framework. However, over time, the vast inequalities in resource
distribution that marked American state policy became inseparable
from philanthropic practice. By the turn of the millennium, Jewish
philanthropic institutions reflected the state's growing investment
in capitalism against democratic interests. But well before that,
Jewish philanthropy had already entered into a tight relationship
with the governing forces of American life, reinforcing and even
transforming the nation's laws and policies. The American Jewish
Philanthropic Complex uncovers how capitalism and private interests
came to command authority over the public good, in Jewish life and
beyond.
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