March 27. 1942

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle

HEADING THE LARGEST
JEWISH WELFARE STRUCTURE

Solomon Lowenstein, who head-
ed the Federation for more than
two decades, and whose death on
Jan. 20 was nationally mourned.
By SOLOMON B. MAYER
As his associates during recent
years, they shared the increas-
National interest attaches to creating of new services and
the announcement of the elec- merging of long-established ingly large responsibilities of the
New York community with him,
tion of Dr. Maurice B. Hexter,

and Joseph Willen as executive
vice presidents of the Federation
for the Support of Jewish Phil-
anthropic Societies of New York
City, headed for more than two
decades by the late Dr. Solomon
Lowenstein, "(lean of American
social workers." Dr. Ilexter was
formerly assistant to the execu-
tive vice president, and Mr. Wil-
len has been director of the
Business Men's Council, the
fund-raising body of the Federa-
tion.
Dr. Hexter and Mr. Willen
become the professional heads
of the largest Jewish welfare
structure in the world. Ninety-
one health and welfare agencies
are affiliated with the New York
Federation, including such
world-famous institutions as Mt.
Sinai Hospital, which gives 240,-
000 days of bed care annually;
Montefiore Hospital, largest in-
stitution in the world for the
treatment of the chronically ill ;
the Jewish Social Service Asso-
ciation, serving 7,500 needy fam-
ilies yearly; the New York Asso-
ciation for Jewish Children, look-
ing after more than 5,000
orphan and dependent children ;
and the Jewish Board of Guard-
ians doing correctional work for
more than 7,000 boys and girls
with behavior problems.
Size alone, however, does not
reflect the complexity of the
Jewish welfare picture in New
York, nor the overwhelmingly
heavy and growing responsibili-
ties of the Federation. The im-
pact of the events of the last
decade, depression, the parallel
growth of the government wel-
fare program, the threat and the
coming of war, have affected all
voluntary philanthropic agencies.
They have brought special prob-
lems to our Jewish institutions,
and the task of maintaining a
healthy and efficient welfare pro-
gram for the largest Jewish
community in the world has
n e c e s s itated countless adjust-
ments in program, changes in
the functions of institutions,

agencies.
It has been—and continues to
—a period of steadily increas-
ing need, taxing the capacity of
the institutions to the utmost,
and calling for ever larger bud-
gets. The task of raising the
vast sums necessary to finance
the work of the institutions—
$7,000,000 in 1941—necessitates

the maintenance of a year-
'round organization devoted en-
tirely to raising funds. It has
‘neceitsitated an intensive and
ever-expanding community or-
ganization to bring every sector
of the great metropolis into the
picture.
Today the New York Jewish
community is supported by a
far-flung machinery which en-
gages the active interest of sea-
soned volunteers organized into

140 trade and professionll
groups, a women's division, a
council of lodges and fraternal
societies, and borough divisions

covering every section of New
York City. Each of these groups
has its own officers and conducts
its own campaign for funds
within the general Federation
framework. Each of these cam-
paigns is a full-sized drive—the
Lawyers Division, for instance,
raises more money than the
United Jewish Appeal of Wash-
ington, D. C.—the Silks and Ray-
one Division raises as much
money as the Kansas City Jew-
ish Welfare Fund—the Paints
and Chemicals collections sur-
pass the total Federation budget
of Buffalo, N. Y..—the Women's
Division raises over $1,000,000
yearly.

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and by their recognized talents
and lengthy experience
are
equipped to carry on in the
great tradition which Dr. Low-
enstein so magnificently exem-
plified.
Dr. Hexter was born in 1896
in Cincinnati, Ohio, and was

graduated from the University
of Cincinnati in 1912. He re-
ceived his Doctorate in the de-
partment of economics at Har-
vard University in 1924 and was
instructor and tutor in Social
Ethics at Harvard from 1921 to
1929, and lecturer in Simmons
College School of Social Work
during the same period.
His first post in social welfare
was an executive director of the
Milwaukee Federation of Jewish
Charities, after which he served
as superintendent of the United
Jewish Charities of Cincinnati.
From 1919 to 1929 he was ex-
ecutive director of the Boston
Federation of Jewish Charities.
He gave up his post in Boston
to travel in Europe on behalf of
the Jewish Agency for Palestine,
and he served as American non-
Zionist representative of the Ex-
ecutive of the Jewish Agency
in Jerusalem until 1938, being
in charge of colonization work
in Palestine during that period.
He was a member of the com-
mittee which in 1930 and 1931
negotiated with the British Cab-
inet following the Passfield
White Paper. He returned to
America in 1938 to assume the
post of assistant to the execu-
tive vice president of the New
York Federation.
Dr. Hexter has been president
of the National Conference of
Jewish Social Work. He is the
author of "Children Astray," a
study of child care, published by
the Harvard University Press;
"Social Consequences of Busi-
ness Cycles," published by the
Pollock Foundation; and "Cycli-
cal Fluctuations in the Juvenile
Labor Market," published by the
Massachusetts Child Labor Com-

More than 400 luncheons, din-
ners and other meetings are held
yearly under the auspices of the
New York Federation, and each
needs careful planning and re-
sourceful organization.
The new executive vice presi-
dents of the New York Federa-
tion bring to the offices which
they now assume years of actual
experience in the work of the
New York Federation, years of
working hand-in-hand with Dr. mittee.
Joseph Willen was born in
1897 and was educated in the

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public schools of New York and
in the City College of New York,
class of 1919. Following his
graduation, he joined the staff
of the Federation, which had
been organized two years be
fore. For 21 years he has been
director of the Business Men's
Council, which is charged with
the responsibility for organizing
financial support in the commun-
ity for the 91 agencies, and is
credited with developing its or-
ganization and methods of fund-
raising through trade and pro-
fessional groups, which has been
a model for similar philanthropic
organizations elsewhere.
Following the merging of the
fund-raising activities of the
Brooklyn Federation of Jewish
Charities with the New York
Federation in 1937, he has di-
rected the merged appeals of
these two bodies for the past
five years. He has served as con-
sultant in many campaigns for
social welfare, both general and
Jewish, nationally and in New
York.

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