The Jewish Encyclopedia
of Western Pennsylvania
A project of the Rauh Jewish Archives at the Heinz History Center
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.