Max Blumberg

Blumberg was born to a Jewish family in Lithuania and immigrated to the United States when he was 14 settling in New York City.^[1] He worked as a millworker and later started his own business as a lumber wholesaler.^[1] Blumberg served as President of the Bensonhurst Sash and Door Company, the Globe Exchange Bank, the Globe Financial Corporation, and the Farmers Title Guarantee and Mortgage Company; he was Vice President of the Philippine Button Company.^[1]

Blumberg was a prominent Jewish philanthropist. He founded the Jewish orphanage, Pride of Judea Children's Home, in Williamsburg^[1][2] and the Jewish Chronic Disease Hospital in Brooklyn.^[1][3][4]

He was married to Lina Gurian (c. 1882–1966);^[5] they had six children including George Blumberg (d. 1960), who served in the New York State Assembly and the New York State Senate;^[6][7] Jack Blumberg (1910–1970) who took over the family's philanthropic activities;^[1][8] Elsie Blumberg Wolosoff who married homebuilder Leon Wolosoff;^[9] and William Blumberg who founded KF Lumber and Supply in Queens, New York.^[10] His granddaughter was Joan Wolosoff Wachtler, wife of Sol Wachtler, the Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals.^[9]

Blumberg died in 1938.^[1]