President, Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties, 1996-1998
By: Alan E. Rothenberg ; with introductions by Roselyne C. Swig and Annette R. Dobbs. Interviews conducted by Eleanor K. Glaser in 1998 and 1999. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Contributors: Glaser, Eleanor.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.; Jewish Community Federation Leadership Oral History Project.
Published: 2002
Subjects: Brown, Jerry, 1938-; Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties.; Jews -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area -- Charities.; Jews -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area -- Interviews.
Genres: Interviews.
Description: Family background, Wheeling, West Virginia; education at Kenyon College and University of Chicago; to San Francisco, 1969, and career in mortgage and investment banking, Huret, Rothenberg & Co.; Governor Jerry Brown's secretary of business and transportation, 1977; San Francisco-based Jewish Community Federation: Homewood Terrace, senior housing at Menorah Park and Rhoda Goldman Plaza, 1986 Lloyd W. Dinkelspiel Award, 1993 campaign chairman, presidency 1996-1998 with goal of greater openness and involvement with Israel, activities with city and state organizations.