{"product_id":"the-american-jewish-philanthropic-complex-the-history-of-a-multibillion-dollar-institution","title":"The American Jewish Philanthropic Complex: The History of a Multibillion-Dollar Institution","description":"\u003ch1 class=\"a-spacing-none a-text-normal\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; font-size: 16px; line-height: 36px; color: rgb(15, 17, 17);\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePrinceton University Press\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first comprehensive history of American Jewish philanthropy and its influence on democracy and capitalism\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor 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\u003ci\u003eThe American Jewish Philanthropic Complex\u003c\/i\u003e, the history of American Jewish philanthropy reveals the far more complicated reality of changing and uneasy relationships among philanthropy, democracy, and capitalism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith 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 governments regulatory effortsmost importantly, tax policiessituated 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 states 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 nations laws and policies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe American Jewish Philanthropic Complex\u003c\/i\u003euncovers how capitalism and private interests came to command authority over the public good, in Jewish life and beyond.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eUS\"Winner of the Saul Viener Book Prize, American Jewish Historical Society\"\"Winner of the Ellis W. Hawley Prize, Organization of American Historians\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eLila Corwin Berman\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eis the Murray Friedman Chair of American Jewish History at Temple University, where she directs the Feinstein Center for American Jewish History. She is author of\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eMetropolitan Jews: Politics, Race, and Religion in Postwar Detroit\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eand\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eSpeaking of Jews: Rabbis, Intellectuals, and the Creation of an American Public Identity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e.\"A meaningful addition to the fields of Jewish studies and philanthropy.\"\"This is a solid academic work published by an academic press, but Bermans lively prose serves her argument well.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e---Anne Nelson,\u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\"In the meticulously researched work, Berman a professor of American Jewish history at Temple University traces the history and the transformation of the extensive network of Jewish charitable organizations, exploring how they developed over time, and how that evolution was inextricably interconnected to both changing U.S. tax law and growing capitalistic sentiments.\"\"Professor Berman takes a deep and brave dive into the inner financial workings of the American Jewish community role in contributing to the entire American philanthropy industry.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e---Sam Bahour,\u003ci\u003eSam Bahour blog\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\"[Lila Corwin] Bermans book provides an excellent lens to understand how the American political system and the creative approach to evolving tax laws enabled the development of a philanthropic system that is now a model for philanthropy beyond the Jewish community.\"\"In this supremely intelligent book, Lila Corwin Berman finds in Jewish charitable institutions, legal experts, and magnates a case study of the financialization of American philanthropy over the course of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. This timely and provocative work merits careful reading and serious discussion by activists in, as well as scholars of, American philanthropy.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eDerek Penslar, Harvard University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42254529724581,"sku":"9780691242118","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0558\/8860\/9445\/files\/978-0691242118.jpg?v=1725093928","url":"https:\/\/www.israelbookshop.com\/products\/the-american-jewish-philanthropic-complex-the-history-of-a-multibillion-dollar-institution","provider":"IsraelBookShop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}