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The History of Jewish Involvement in Building New York
A Special Evening for the Real Estate CommunitySteven Roth honorary chair
Vornado Realty Trust
The Center for Jewish History is one of the great public Jewish historical and cultural institutions in the world. Opened to the public in October 2ooo as the campus to its five Partner organizations - American Jewish Historical Society, American Sephardi Federation, Leo Baeck Institute, Yeshiva University Mu-seum, and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research - the Center has achieved rec-ognition as a venue of unrivaled historical documentation and scholarship, im-aginative exhibitions of Judaic art and artifacts, and vital public dialogue. The collections of its Partners total more than 5oo,ooo volumes and 1oo million archival documents, and include thousands of pieces of artwork, textiles, and ritual objects, as well as music, films, and photographs. They comprise, taken as a whole, the largest repository of the modern Jewish experience outside of Israel.
Joseph D. Becker vice chairmanKenneth J. Bialkin vice chairmanErica Jesselson vice chairmanJoseph Greenberger secretaryMichael A. BambergerNorman BelmonteEva B. CohnDavid E. R. DangoorHenry L. FeingoldMax GitterMichael JesselsonSidney LapidusJoel R. MarcusTheodore N. MirvisNancy T. PolevoyRobert S. RifkindDavid P. SolomonJoseph S. Steinberg
William A. AckmanJonathan BaronStanley I. BatkinJoseph D. BeckerTracey BerkowitzKenneth J. BialkinLeonard BlavatnikGeorge BlumenthalAbraham H. FoxmanMark GoldmanJoan L. JacobsonIra H. JollesHarvey M. KruegerSidney LapidusIra A. LipmanTheodore N. MirvisJoseph H. ReichRobert S. RifkindStephen RosenbergBernard SelzBruce SlovinEdward L. SteinbergJoseph S. SteinbergMichele Cohn TocciFred S. ZeidmanRoy Zuckerberg
board of directorsBruce Slovin chairman
board of overseers
Elisheva Carlebach chairQueens College/CUNYJeffrey Shandler co-chairRutgers UniversityHasia DinerNew York UniversityTodd EndelmanUniversity of MichiganHenry L. FeingoldBaruch CollegeDavid E. FishmanJewish Theological SeminaryChaeRan FreezeBrandeis UniversityJane S. GerberGraduate Center of the CUNYJeffrey S. GurockYeshiva University Riv-Ellen PrellUniversity of MinnesotaPaul ShapiroU.S. Holocaust Memorial MuseumMark SlobinWesleyan UniversityChava WeisslerLehigh UniversityBeth S. WengerUniversity of PennsylvaniaSteven J. ZippersteinStanford University
academic advisory council
William A. Ackman Pershing Square Capital Management
Bruce BealThe Related Companies
Bruce BerkowitzFairholme Capital Management
Jeff T. BlauThe Related Companies
Jonathan D. Gray The Blackstone Group
Rick Kleeman Starwood Capital Group
Bruce Slovin 1 Eleven Associates
Joseph S. Steinberg Leucadia National Corporation
Simon Ziff Ackman-Ziff Real Estate Group
The History of Jewish Involvement in Building New York A Special Evening for the Real Estate Community
featuring
Steven RothChairman and CEO of Vornado Realty Trust
Wednesday, April 25, 2oo7
chairs
William A. Ackman, Pershing Square Capital Management Bruce Berkowitz, Fairholme Capital Management
Jonathan D. Gray, The Blackstone Group Rick Kleeman, Starwood Capital Group
Bruce Slovin, 1 Eleven Associates Joseph S. Steinberg, Leucadia National Corporation
Simon Ziff, Ackman-Ziff Real Estate Group
invite you to join them for
The History of Jewish Involvement in Building New York
A Special Evening for the Real Estate Community
Wednesday, April 25, 2oo7
at the Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th StreetNew York City
Opening Remarks by Dr. Kenneth T. Jackson
Columbia University
Keynote Address by
Steven RothChairman and CEO of Vornado Realty Trust
Couvert: $2,ooo / $2,5oo with spouse
Dietary laws observedBusiness attire
Cocktails - 6pm / Keynote - 7pm / Dinner and Breakout Sessions - 8pm
breakout sessionsThe Promised City: New York as the Jewish Metropolis presented by Kenneth T. Jackson, Columbia University
Bankers and Buildings: Early 20th Century Jewish Real Estate Developers presented by Rebecca Kobrin, Columbia University
The Architecture and Development of the Garment District presented by Andrew S. Dolkart, Columbia University
The Evolution of the Jewish Real Estate Family: A Conversation with Richard Mack and Kent Swig moderated by Simon Ziff, Ackman-Ziff Real Estate Group
STEvEN RoTh is Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Vornado Realty Trust. Mr. Roth is the co-founder and Managing General Part-ner of Interstate Properties and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Alex-ander’s, Inc. He is a trustee of the Whitney Museum of American Art, trustee of the Intrepid Museum Foundation, member of the Board of Directors of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and board member of New York Uni-versity School of Medicine Foundation. From 1981 through 1987, he served as member of the Board of the Amos Tuck School, and has endowed a professor-ship there. He also is the principal donor to the Roth Center for Jewish Life at Dartmouth. He is a former Trustee of the Horace Mann School. Mr. Roth is a graduate of DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx. He received his AB de-gree from Dartmouth College in 1962 and an MBA degree with Highest Distinc-tion from Dartmouth’s Amos Tuck School of Business Administration in 1963. Mr. Roth completed a term as the 2oo2 - 2oo3 Chair of the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (NAREIT). Barron’s Magazine, in its March 27, 2oo6 and March 28, 2oo5 issue, named Mr. Roth one of the World’s Thirty Most Respected CEO’s for two consecutive years.
keynote address
Cover: Henry Street, Manhattan by Berenice Abbott, taken November 29, 1935 Collection of American Jewish Historical Society and the New York Public Library
William A. Ackman Pershing Square Capital Management
Bruce BealThe Related Companies
Bruce BerkowitzFairholme Capital Management
Jeff T. BlauThe Related Companies
Jonathan D. Gray The Blackstone Group
Rick Kleeman Starwood Capital Group
Bruce Slovin 1 Eleven Associates
Joseph S. Steinberg Leucadia National Corporation
Simon Ziff Ackman-Ziff Real Estate Group
William A. Ackman, Pershing Square Capital Management Bruce Berkowitz, Fairholme Capital Management
Jonathan D. Gray, The Blackstone Group Rick Kleeman, Starwood Capital Group
Bruce Slovin, 1 Eleven Associates Joseph S. Steinberg, Leucadia National Corporation
Simon Ziff, Ackman-Ziff Real Estate Group
invite you to join them for
The History of Jewish Involvement in Building New York
A Special Evening for the Real Estate Community
Wednesday, April 25, 2oo7
at the Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th StreetNew York City
Opening Remarks by Dr. Kenneth T. Jackson
Columbia University
Keynote Address by
Steven RothChairman and CEO of Vornado Realty Trust
Couvert: $2,ooo / $2,5oo with spouse
Dietary laws observedBusiness attire
Cocktails - 6pm / Keynote - 7pm / Dinner and Breakout Sessions - 8pm
breakout sessionsThe Promised City: New York as the Jewish Metropolis presented by Kenneth T. Jackson, Columbia University
Bankers and Buildings: Early 20th Century Jewish Real Estate Developers presented by Rebecca Kobrin, Columbia University
The Architecture and Development of the Garment District presented by Andrew S. Dolkart, Columbia University
The Evolution of the Jewish Real Estate Family: A Conversation with Richard Mack and Kent Swig moderated by Simon Ziff, Ackman-Ziff Real Estate Group
STEvEN RoTh is Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Vornado Realty Trust. Mr. Roth is the co-founder and Managing General Part-ner of Interstate Properties and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Alex-ander’s, Inc. He is a trustee of the Whitney Museum of American Art, trustee of the Intrepid Museum Foundation, member of the Board of Directors of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and board member of New York Uni-versity School of Medicine Foundation. From 1981 through 1987, he served as member of the Board of the Amos Tuck School, and has endowed a professor-ship there. He also is the principal donor to the Roth Center for Jewish Life at Dartmouth. He is a former Trustee of the Horace Mann School. Mr. Roth is a graduate of DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx. He received his AB de-gree from Dartmouth College in 1962 and an MBA degree with Highest Distinc-tion from Dartmouth’s Amos Tuck School of Business Administration in 1963. Mr. Roth completed a term as the 2oo2 - 2oo3 Chair of the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (NAREIT). Barron’s Magazine, in its March 27, 2oo6 and March 28, 2oo5 issue, named Mr. Roth one of the World’s Thirty Most Respected CEO’s for two consecutive years.
keynote address
Cover: Henry Street, Manhattan by Berenice Abbott, taken November 29, 1935 Collection of American Jewish Historical Society and the New York Public Library
William A. Ackman Pershing Square Capital Management
Bruce BealThe Related Companies
Bruce BerkowitzFairholme Capital Management
Jeff T. BlauThe Related Companies
Jonathan D. Gray The Blackstone Group
Rick Kleeman Starwood Capital Group
Bruce Slovin 1 Eleven Associates
Joseph S. Steinberg Leucadia National Corporation
Simon Ziff Ackman-Ziff Real Estate Group
The History of Jewish Involvement in Building New York
A Special Evening for the Real Estate CommunitySteven Roth honorary chair
Vornado Realty Trust
The Center for Jewish History is one of the great public Jewish historical and cultural institutions in the world. Opened to the public in October 2ooo as the campus to its five Partner organizations - American Jewish Historical Society, American Sephardi Federation, Leo Baeck Institute, Yeshiva University Mu-seum, and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research - the Center has achieved rec-ognition as a venue of unrivaled historical documentation and scholarship, im-aginative exhibitions of Judaic art and artifacts, and vital public dialogue. The collections of its Partners total more than 5oo,ooo volumes and 1oo million archival documents, and include thousands of pieces of artwork, textiles, and ritual objects, as well as music, films, and photographs. They comprise, taken as a whole, the largest repository of the modern Jewish experience outside of Israel.
Joseph D. Becker vice chairmanKenneth J. Bialkin vice chairmanErica Jesselson vice chairmanJoseph Greenberger secretaryMichael A. BambergerNorman BelmonteEva B. CohnDavid E. R. DangoorHenry L. FeingoldMax GitterMichael JesselsonSidney LapidusJoel R. MarcusTheodore N. MirvisNancy T. PolevoyRobert S. RifkindDavid P. SolomonJoseph S. Steinberg
William A. AckmanJonathan BaronStanley I. BatkinJoseph D. BeckerTracey BerkowitzKenneth J. BialkinLeonard BlavatnikGeorge BlumenthalAbraham H. FoxmanMark GoldmanJoan L. JacobsonIra H. JollesHarvey M. KruegerSidney LapidusIra A. LipmanTheodore N. MirvisJoseph H. ReichRobert S. RifkindStephen RosenbergBernard SelzBruce SlovinEdward L. SteinbergJoseph S. SteinbergMichele Cohn TocciFred S. ZeidmanRoy Zuckerberg
board of directorsBruce Slovin chairman
board of overseers
Elisheva Carlebach chairQueens College/CUNYJeffrey Shandler co-chairRutgers UniversityHasia DinerNew York UniversityTodd EndelmanUniversity of MichiganHenry L. FeingoldBaruch CollegeDavid E. FishmanJewish Theological SeminaryChaeRan FreezeBrandeis UniversityJane S. GerberGraduate Center of the CUNYJeffrey S. GurockYeshiva University Riv-Ellen PrellUniversity of MinnesotaPaul ShapiroU.S. Holocaust Memorial MuseumMark SlobinWesleyan UniversityChava WeisslerLehigh UniversityBeth S. WengerUniversity of PennsylvaniaSteven J. ZippersteinStanford University
academic advisory council
William A. Ackman Pershing Square Capital Management
Bruce BealThe Related Companies
Bruce BerkowitzFairholme Capital Management
Jeff T. BlauThe Related Companies
Jonathan D. Gray The Blackstone Group
Rick Kleeman Starwood Capital Group
Bruce Slovin 1 Eleven Associates
Joseph S. Steinberg Leucadia National Corporation
Simon Ziff Ackman-Ziff Real Estate Group
The History of Jewish Involvement in Building New York A Special Evening for the Real Estate Community
featuring
Steven RothChairman and CEO of Vornado Realty Trust
Wednesday, April 25, 2oo7
chairs
The History of Jewish Involvement in Building New YorkA Special Evening with Steven Roth
wednesday, april 25, 2oo7
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