Max Blumberg (1880–1938) was a Lithuania-born American businessman and philanthropist.

Biography

Blumberg was born to a

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family in Lithuania and immigrated to the United States when he was 14 settling in

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. He worked as a

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and later started his own business as a lumber wholesaler. Blumberg served as President of the Bensonhurst Sash and Door Company, the Globe Exchange Bank, the Globe Financial Corporation, and the Farmers Title Guarantee and Mortgage Company; he was Vice President of the Philippine Button Company. Blumberg was a prominent Jewish philanthropist. He founded the Jewish orphanage, Pride of Judea Children’s Home, in Williamsburg and the

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Personal life

He was married to Lina Gurian (c. 1882–1966); they had six children including George Blumberg (d. 1960), who served in the

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and the

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; Jack Blumberg (1910–1970) who took over the family's philanthropic activities; Elsie Blumberg Wolosoff who married homebuilder Leon Wolosoff; and William Blumberg who founded KF Lumber and Supply in

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. His granddaughter was Joan Wolosoff Wachtler, wife of

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, the

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. Blumberg died in 1938.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Blumberg, Max 1880 births 1938 deaths Jewish American philanthropists People from Brooklyn Businesspeople from New York City American people of Lithuanian-Jewish descent 20th-century American businesspeople 20th-century American philanthropists Lithuanian emigrants to the United States