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Louis Bamberger : Department Store Innovator and Philanthropist, Hardback Book

Louis Bamberger : Department Store Innovator and Philanthropist Hardback

Part of the Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture, and Life series

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Louis Bamberger (1855-1944) was the epitome of the merchant prince as public benefactor.

Born in Baltimore, this son of German immigrants built his business-the great, glamorous L.

Bamberger & Co. department store in Newark, N.J.-into the sixth-largest department store in the country.

A multimillionaire by middle age, he joined the elite circle of German Jews who owned Macy's, Bloomingdale's, and Filene's.

Despite his vast wealth and local prominence, Bamberger was a reclusive figure who shunned the limelight, left no business records, and kept no diaries.

He remained a bachelor and kept his private life and the rationale for his business decisions to himself.

Yet his achievements are manifold. He was a merchandising genius whose innovations, including newspaper and radio ads and brilliant use of window and in-store displays, established the culture of consumption in twentieth-century America.

His generous giving, both within the Jewish community and beyond it, created institutions that still stand today: the Newark YM-YWHA, Beth Israel Hospital, and the Newark Museum.

Toward the end of his career, he financed and directed the creation of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, which led to a friendship with Albert Einstein. Despite his significance as business innovator and philanthropist, historians of the great department stores have paid scant attention to Bamberger.

This full-length biography will interest historians as well as general readers of Jewish history nationally, New Jerseyans fascinated by local history, and the Newarkers for whom Bamberger's was a beloved local institution.

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