Stepping Stones

By Marty Silverman

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0878755470
• ISBN13: 9780878755479
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: WHITSTON PUB. CO.
• Length: 4062 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.

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The life story of a major philanthropist

Morris Silverman grew up in Troy, New York . His parents had come to America from Poland, and there were two other sisters in his immediate family. He went on to a Law Degree, service as a captain in the US Army in the Second World War where he won two Purple Hearts. He founded the National Leasing Company , and was a successful businessman. He sold the company out in his later years for forty- million dollars. He also had a family of his own and three children. Though he was by no means the wealthiest of wealthy Americans his contributions to charity were all out of proportion to almost every other donor. Along with major contributions to the Albany Medical Center he also donated the funds for the Medical Prize which is the second largest medical prize in monetary terms after the Nobel Prize. One stipulation is that the prize- winner spend a day teaching in the Albany Medical Center. He also made major philanthropic contributions to a variety of other causes including the helping of settling Soviet Jewry in Israel. Morris Silverstein through his charitable efforts contributed a great deal to the Albany area he grew up in, and in a sense to the world in general. He lived thus in accordance with the idea , the Jewish religious idea that human beings whose task it is to emulate the Divine must know and understand the Divine as Giver of Goodness. Yehi Zichro Baruch.