page_title: Louis M. Rabinowitz
section_title: Personal life and death
hierarchical_section_title: Louis M. Rabinowitz / Personal life and death
context_page_description: Louis M. Rabinowitz was an American businessman, philanthropist and art collector. Born in Lithuania, he emigrated to the United States, where he founded a manufacturing company and became a millionaire. He established endowments at Yale University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He funded Nelson Glueck's archaeological trips to the Negev of Israel. His art collection is held posthumously at the Yale University Art Gallery.
context_section_description: Rabinowitz had a wife, Rose, a son, Victor, who became a lawyer and a daughter, Lucille. His daughter-in-law, Joanne Grant, was a journalist and Civil Rights activist.
  Rabinowitz was an art and antique book collector. For example, he owned four First Folios. He also owned paintings by Benjamin West, like his 1768 Agrippina Landing at Brundisium with the Ashes of Germanicus, later donated to the Yale University Art Gallery.
  Rabinowitz died on April 27, 1957 in New York City. He was 69 years old. By December 1957, the Yale University Library established the Louis M. Rabinowitz Memorial Fund in his honor.
caption: Benjamin West, Agrippina Landing at Brundisium with the Ashes of Germanicus (1768), formerly owned by Rabinowitz.
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