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and an honorary L.H.D. degree from the Jewish Theological Seminary, making the first woman to receive an honorary degree from the latter school. In 1952, the Palestine Economic Corporation named her one of the six American builders of Israel. In 1956, the Joint Distribution Committee named a home for
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and an honorary vice-president of the International Youth Aliyah Committee. She created a $ 500,000 fund to support the Visiting Nursing Service of New York in 1924, and in 1951 she contributed $ 650,000 to the UJA for housing and educating new Israeli immigrants to Israel. She became a director of
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the Jewish Theological Seminary in 1938, like her father, husband, and brother before her. The first (and for much of her tenure only) woman director of the Seminary, she was consulted about their programs for women. In 1944, she donated
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In 1956, she donated the 150 acres of her Woodlands estate to the Greenburgh Central 8 school district, forming the school district known today as the Greenburgh Central School District (formerly Greenburgh Central 7).
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Warburg participated with her husband Felix in numerous cultural and philanthropic undertakings he was associated with. Active in interests of her own, she served as president of the
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and Therese Loeb. A member of New York City's German Jewish elite, her father was a preeminent Jewish communal leader and head of the banking firm
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in 1937, served as honorary vice-president of the Welfare Council of New York City from 1943 to 1945, and was an honorary president of the
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Schiff; February 3, 1876 – September 14, 1958) was a Jewish-American philanthropist and communal worker from New York.
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Warburg died at her home at Meadow Farm on her former estate in Woodlands in
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A patron of the arts, Warburg gifted paintings and etchings to the
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to commemorate her father's 90th birthday anniversary in 1937.
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to the Seminary. In 1947, they opened the mansion as the
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Anders Zorn
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York City, New York
Jacob Schiff
Kuhn, Loeb & Co.
Brearley School
Young Women's Hebrew Association
Hadassah
Rothschild-Hadassah-University Hospital
Jerusalem
Joint Distribution Committee
Visiting Nurse Service of New York
Jewish Theological Seminary of America
Jewish Welfare Board
American Friends of the Hebrew University
her husband's mansion
Fifth Avenue
Jewish Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Vassar College
Library of Congress
National Gallery of Art
New York Public Library
Morgan Library
Mannes College of Music
Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Science
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Springfield

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