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Biographical/Historical Information
The textile-industrialist, art collector and philanthropist James Simon (1851-1932) was based in Berlin. Simon financed excavations at Jericho and in Tell-el-Amarna, and he founded the Deutsche Orient Gesellschaft. A large part of his collection of antiquities and other objects of art were bequeathed to Altes Museum and Neues Museum in Berlin in 1920. In 1901, James Simon founded the “Hilfsverein der Deutschen Juden” and served as its president until his death in 1932.
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James Simon, Leo Baeck Institute, F 3134.