Former executive director, Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma counties, 1974-1991 : oral history transcript / 1997

332 Pages·1998·7.7 MB·English

by  Lurie, Brian, 1942- ive

University of California Berkeley

Regional Oral History Office University of California
The Bancroft Library Berkeley, California
Jewish Community Federation Leadership Oral History Project
Brian L. Lurie
FORMER EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO,
THE PENINSULA, MARIN AND SONOMA COUNTIES, 1974-1991
With Introductions by
Wayne Feinstein
and
Jesse Feldman
Interviews Conducted by
Eleanor Glaser
in 1991
Copyright 1997 by The Regents of the University of California
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It is recommended that this oral history be cited as follows:
Brian Lurie, Former Executive Director,
Jewish Community Federation of San
Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma
Counties, 1974-1991, an oral history
conducted in 1991 by Eleanor K. Glaser,
Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft
Library, University of California,
Berkeley, 1997.
Copy no.
Brian Lurie, 1991.

Cataloguing information
LURIE, Brian L. (b. 1942) Jewish community executive
Former Executive Director. Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco,
the Peninsula. Marin and Sonoma Counties. 1974-1991. xv, 230 pp., 1997.
Family background, Jewish community, Cleveland, OH; education at Lafayette
College, and Hebrew Union College, 1964-1969; rabbinical student in Israel
during 1967 war; assistant rabbi, Congregation Emanu-El, San Francisco,
1969-1972; assistant to executive, United Jewish Appeal of Greater New
York, 1972-1974; executive director, San Francisco-based Jewish Welfare
Federation (renamed Jewish Community Federation), 1974-1991: management,
staff, lay leaders, federation board and presidents, innovations,
fundraising, allocations, confederation, demographic study, Jewish
Community Endowment Fund, Jewish education, national federation trends,
challenging United Jewish Appeal and Jewish Agency, projects in Israel;
executive vice president, United Jewish Appeal, 1991.
Introductions by Wayne Feinstein, Executive Director of the San
Francisco-based Jewish Community Federation; and Jesse Feldman, Past
President of the San Francisco-based Jewish Community Federation.
Interviewed in 1991 by Eleanor K. Glaser for the Jewish Community
Federation Leadership Oral History Project. Regional Oral History
Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.