FELIX M. WARBURG

 

Letter, 1 page, July 18, 1929 on 52 & 54 William Street, NYC letterhead

to Paramount Studio executive, Jesse L. Lasky, Paramount Building

Times Square, New York City

Signed: "Felix M. Warburg"

Warburg solicits Lasky for a donation of support for Jewish charities. 

A minimum of $1,000 to a $125,000 maximum. 

Condition: very good

** Jesse L. Lasky (1880-1958) was an American motion picture pioneer. Produced the

 first film in Hollywood, The Squaw Man (1913).

 Formed studio with his brother-in-law 

Samuel Goldwyn and was a key founder of Paramount Pictures with Adolph Zukor.

Felix Moritz Warburg was a German-born American banker, a member of the Warburg banking

 family of Hamburg, Germany. Warburg was more interested in his charitable work than banking. 

 He was an important leader of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, founder and 

  first president of the American Friends of the Hebrew University. Warburg's house at 

1109 5th Avenue, NY was donated by his widow in 1944 to The Jewish Museum. 

 Born: 1871, Hamburg, Germany; died: 1937, New York City, New York.