Just published a piece in Text/Context, the magazine of Jewish Week in NY, exploring the roles of the two top Jewish execs at Fred Harvey—David Benjamin and Herman Schweizer—and frontier Jewish immigrants in general. Check it out here.

Here’s a picture from 1915, the United Jewish Charities banquet in Kansas City. Dave Benjamin is front right, with his wife Linnie right behind him; to his left is his brother Alfred Benjamin, who was the city’s most important Jewish philanthropist (and whose counterpart in Catholic charities was Ford Harvey’s wife, Judy)

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