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“Spector Award Response”

Collection
Sylvia and Donald Robinson Papers and Photographs [MSS 1035]
Source
Rauh Jewish Archives at the Heinz History Center
Date
June 1, 1994

Emanuel Spector Memorial Award acceptance speech, delivered by Sylvia Robinson. Robinson attributes her commitment to the Jewish community to her parents and to her need to help others; discusses her first United Jewish Appeal mission to Europe and Israel in 1959; the 1973 Yom Kippur War emergency campaign; the creation of the Disabled Israeli War Veterans program; attributes success to husband Donald Robinson and their children Carol and Steve. Typescript, English, three pages.

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