{"id":586,"date":"2014-04-23T20:08:55","date_gmt":"2014-04-23T20:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/shaulkelner\/?p=586"},"modified":"2018-10-21T23:08:23","modified_gmt":"2018-10-21T23:08:23","slug":"review-of-spirited-commitment-the-samuel-and-saidye-bronfman-family-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/shaulkelner\/2014\/04\/23\/review-of-spirited-commitment-the-samuel-and-saidye-bronfman-family-foundation\/","title":{"rendered":"Review of Spirited Commitment: The Samuel and Saidye Bronfman Family Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2014\/04\/spiritedcommitment.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-588\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2014\/04\/spiritedcommitment.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2014\/04\/spiritedcommitment.jpg 400w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2014\/04\/spiritedcommitment-203x300.jpg 203w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>Review of Roderick MacLeod and Eric John Abrahamson&#8217;s<br \/>\n<em> Spirited Commitment:<br \/>\nThe Samuel and Saidye Bronfman Family Foundation<\/em>.<br \/>\n(McGill\u2013Queens University Press, 2010.)\u00a0<em><\/em><\/h3>\n<p>2013. <em>Journal of Modern Jewish Studies <\/em>12:2<em>.<\/em> Pp. 360-1<\/p>\n<p>From the review: &#8220;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\u2019s founders\u2014the liquor baron, Samuel, and the Bronfman family matriarch, Saidye\u2014the foundation evolved into a professionalized institution committed to scientific philanthropy on the model of Rockefeller, Carnegie and Russell Sage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1080\/14725886.2013.824671\" target=\"_blank\">View the review on the journal website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Review of Roderick MacLeod and Eric John Abrahamson&#8217;s Spirited Commitment: The Samuel and Saidye Bronfman Family Foundation. (McGill\u2013Queens University Press, 2010.)\u00a0 2013. Journal of Modern Jewish Studies 12:2. Pp. 360-1 From the review: &#8220;Commissioned by the SSBFF on its fiftieth anniversary, this institutional history follows the Montreal-based foundation from its establishment in 1952 to its&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":588,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,27],"tags":[50,31],"class_list":["post-586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","category-reviews","tag-philanthropy","tag-reviews-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/shaulkelner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/shaulkelner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/shaulkelner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/shaulkelner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/shaulkelner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/shaulkelner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":737,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/shaulkelner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions\/737"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/shaulkelner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/shaulkelner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/shaulkelner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/shaulkelner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}