Friday, January 09, 2009

The Hyperbolic Philanthropy of James Simon - Forward.com"

The Hyperbolic Philanthropy of James Simon - Forward.com": "James Simon (1851–1932), a Jewish cotton magnate from Berlin, was a museum benefactor of such magnitude that his current obscurity is astounding at best and a scandal at worst. As his biography finally emerges from anonymity, so does one story of the Jewish philanthropy that made Berlin a cultural capital."

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