Emanuel Spector Memorial Award - Rauh Jewish Archives

The Emanuel Spector Memorial Award is the highest volunteer award given by the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh. The award was created in 1954 to honor the memory of Emanuel Spector, a Fifth Avenue wholesaler who played an important role in the development and growth of the United Jewish Fund.

The following list of Emanuel Spector Memorial Award nominees was compiled from newspaper accounts and several archival collections. It lists links to biographical essays, when available.

Exhibit history

1954 Falk Jr., Leon view entry -

1955 Rosenbloom, Charles J. view entry -

1956 Levinson, Samuel M. view entry -

1957 Fineberg, Herman view entry -

1958 Caplan, Louis - -

1959 Reizenstein, Louis view entry -

1960 Kann, Stanley J view entry -

1961 Horelick, Samuel - -

1962 United Jewish Federation/Pittsburgh Jewish Community - -

1963 Weiss, Judge Samuel A. - -

1964 Reizenstein, Florence view entry -

1965 Kaplan, Bernard - -

1966 Abrams, Israel - -

1967 Kurtzman, David H. - -

1968 Hamburg, Lester A. - -

1969 Stark, William view entry -

1970 Finegold, Marcella - -

1971 Levinson, Aaron P. view entry -

1972 Rogal, Alvin - -

1973 Shapira, Saul F view entry -

1974 Rudolph, Leonard H. - -

1975 Robinson, Donald M. - -

1976 Blumenthal, Dorothy Hast view entry -

1977 Comay, Amos view entry -

1978 Katz, Joseph M. - -

1979 Cohen, Jessie - -

1980 Caplan, Gertrude - -

1981 Busis, Sidney - -

1982 Halpern, Ethel and Bernard - -

1983 Levinson, Harriet view entry -

1984 Davis, Jacob - -

1985 Shapiro Brothers view entry -

1986 Ostrow, Gerald - -

1987 Wolf, John - -

1988 Lowenthal, Alex - -

1989 Perlow, Edward A. (posthumously) - -

1990 Netzer, Leon - -

1991 Comay, Sholom (posthumously) view entry -

1992 unknown - -

1993 Shapira, David view entry -

1994 Robinson, Sylvia - -

1995 Berman, Edward - -

1996 Ruskin, Stanley - -

1997 Buncher, Jack G. - -

1998 Schachter, Ruth - -

1999 Shapira, Freda G. view entry -

2000 Burstin, David - -

2001 Palkovitz, Judy - -

2002 Shapira, Karen view entry -

2003 Neuman, K. Sidney - -