Rabinowitz Foundation

The Rabinowitz Foundation was founded in 1944 by Louis M. Rabinowitz and later managed by Victor Rabinowitz.

When Louis died in 1957, Victor, Lucille and Marcia became trustee and decided that "a sharp turn in the direction of the foundation was needed." Victor goes on to notes that: "We created an advisory board, which included some of the leading left-wing intellectuals in the New York area. Among those on the board at one time or another were Hugh Wilson, Carl Marzoni, Angus Cameron, Russ Nixon, Harry Magdoff, John Simon, David Haber, Carey McWilliams, Margaret Burnett, Ann Lane, and John Williams".

Grantees

• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
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• Murray Bookchin
• Michael Parenti
• Herbert Marcuse's famous book One-Dimensional Man obtained foundation funding (including Rockefeller Foundation funding) [1]
• "In 1967, with a grant from the Rabinowitz Foundation, both his" (Piri Thomas) "career and fame as an author were launched with the electrifying autobiography, Down These Mean Streets." [2]
• Maurice Zeitlin
• Piri Thomas
• Norman Birnbaum [3]
• Julian Mayfield [4]
• J.B. (Joseph Brown) Matthews [5]
• Paul Tillott
• Kirkpatrick Sale writes: "It was not all roses. The remaining money from the original UAW grant went very quickly, and by April 1964 ERAP was down to $700. Davis, in his phrase, "blitzed" the East trying to get money from unions, the few liberal foundations (such as the Kaplan Fund—later named as a CIA conduit—and the Stem Family Fund), and some sympathetic individuals like Harold Taylor and Victor Rabinowitz, the New York lawyer; but he warned ERAPers in April that each project itself would have to raise $50 per worker." [6]
• James Weinstein
• Harvey Matusow
• Theodore W. Allen [7]
• John J. Simon
• David Stoll "The author has been conducting a study of the Summer Institute of Linguistics with the

assistance of the Louis M. Rabinowitz Foundation. This paper summarizes parts of a book to be published by Zed Press in mid-1982."

• Harper Hubert Wilson
• Ed Greenberg
• William Appleman Williams
• Paul D. Tillett, Jr.
• Mark Naison
• Leon Nemoy [8]
• Marvin Surkin??
• Paul Buhle