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Julius Rosenwald (August 12, 1862 – January 6, 1932) was an American businessman and philanthropist. He is best known as a part-owner and leader of Sears, Roebuck and Company, and for establishing the Rosenwald Fund, which donated millions in matching funds to promote vocational or technical education.
Julius Rosenwald was the son of German Jews who fled centuries-long persecution in Europe and settled in Springfield, Illinois. Born there in 1862, Rosenwald took seriously the Jewish concept of tzedakah – the injunction to treat every person with a sense of righteousness and fairness.
Inspired by Tuskegee Institute founder and first president Booker T. Washington’s efforts to provide quality education for African Americans, Julius Rosenwald donated millions of dollars to build schools for African American children in the rural south.
Rosenwald's unprecedented philanthropy, providing education to hundreds of thousands of African-American children and supporting African-American artists, scientists, and scholars, helped generations of leaders across all aspects of society who changed American culture and history.
Julius Rosenwald, one of the most important and socially impactful sons of Springfield, Illinois, is also one of the least known. The Jewish American man who grew up in the shadow of Abraham Lincoln became the president of Sears, Roebuck and Company, eventually amassing a fortune, most of which he dedicated to helping those who faced the ...
Apr 4, 2024 · Julius Rosenwald was an American merchant and unorthodox philanthropist who opposed the idea of perpetual endowments and frequently offered large philanthropic gifts on the condition that they be matched by other donations. He was especially noted for his aid to the education of African Americans.
Julius Rosenwald left a powerful imprint on numerous causes. He brought the inspirational science and technology museum to America by single-handedly funding the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.
May 11, 2021 · Yet Julius Rosenwald, the businessman, philanthropist and civic leader whose death in January 1932 was front page news across the country, is today, largely forgotten. An opponent of perpetual endowments, he designed the foundation that bore his name to sunset within 25 years of his death.
Aug 7, 2023 · Julius Rosenwald, president of Sears, Roebuck and Co., spent millions on schools for Black children across 15 states in the 1920s. A national effort to celebrate and restore these “Rosenwald ...
Born in Springfield, Illinois in 1862 to German-Jewish immigrants, Julius Rosenwald's family instilled the Jewish values of "tzedakah* and tikkun olam.**".
