Prof. Shaul Kelner

Review of Spirited Commitment: The Samuel and Saidye Bronfman Family Foundation

Posted by on Wednesday, April 23, 2014 in Research, Reviews.

Review of Roderick MacLeod and Eric John Abrahamson’s
Spirited Commitment:
The Samuel and Saidye Bronfman Family Foundation.
(McGill–Queens University Press, 2010.) 

2013. Journal of Modern Jewish Studies 12:2. Pp. 360-1

From the review: “Commissioned by the SSBFF on its fiftieth anniversary, this institutional history follows the Montreal-based foundation from its establishment in 1952 to its decision in 2003 to spend down the endowment. The book traces a common trajectory among foundations. At first a vehicle for managing the ad hoc charitable giving of the dynasty’s founders—the liquor baron, Samuel, and the Bronfman family matriarch, Saidye—the foundation evolved into a professionalized institution committed to scientific philanthropy on the model of Rockefeller, Carnegie and Russell Sage.”

View the review on the journal website

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