Benjamin Swig | |
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| Born | November 17, 1893 Taunton, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Died | October 31, 1980 (age 86) |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | real estate developer |
| Known for | Co-founder of Swig, Weiler & Arnow |
| Spouse | Mae Aronovitz |
| Children | Melvin Swig |
| Father | Simon Swig |
Benjamin Harrison Swig (born November 17, 1893 - October 31, 1980) was a real estate developer and a philanthropist active in Jewish and non-Jewish communities. [1]
Taunton, Massachusetts-born Benjamin Swig was the son of banker and politician Simon Swig and the father of Melvin Swig. After Simon died, Benjamin became treasurer of the Tremont Trust Company in Boston.[ citation needed ]
From 1925 to 1945, Benjamin Swig was a real estate operator. He was a partner of the real estate firm Swig, Weiler and Arnow that was founded in 1936, [1] [2] which became the Swig company. [3]
In the 1940s, he moved to San Francisco, which he loved. [4] He bought the Fairmont Hotel in 1945, and later the St. Francis Hotel. [5]
In 1956, he purchased the Mission Inn in Riverside. He sold 1,000 artworks and artifacts from the hotel to revitalize its finances to no avail. [6] [7]
In the early 1970s, the troubled elections at the Santa Clara University led the students to picket the Fairmont Hotel to protest against Benjamin Swig, who also served as SCU's Chairman of the board of trustees. [8] After Swig repeatedly petitioned in his favor, the City of San Francisco granted the Key of the City to Sun Myung Moon in 1973. [9]
In 1977, his son Melvin created the Mae and Benjamin Swig Chair in Judaic Studies at the University of San Francisco, the first ever Jewish Studies chair and program at a Catholic university worldwide. [10]
Fairmont Hotels & Resorts is a global chain of luxury hotel that operates more than 70 properties worldwide, with a strong presence in Canada.
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The Claremont Club & Spa, A Fairmont Hotel is a historic American hotel that is situated at the foot of Claremont Canyon in the Berkeley Hills. Located in the Claremont district, near the intersection of Claremont Avenue and Ashby Avenue, the site straddles the city limits of Berkeley and Oakland. The border between the neighboring cities runs down the former Key System E train right of way that now serves as a pathway between the tennis courts which belong to the Berkeley Tennis Club.
Melvin Morse Swig was an American real estate developer and philanthropist. He was also the owner of the National Hockey League's California Golden Seals and Cleveland Barons.
Andrew R. Heinze is an American playwright, non-fiction author, and scholar of American history. Growing up in New Jersey in a close-knit Jewish family, he left home at fourteen to attend Blair Academy, graduated from Amherst College in Massachusetts, and moved to California. He did his graduate work at the University of California, Berkeley, training in American history, with an emphasis on the history of race, immigration and the history of American Jews. During his academic career he taught both American and Jewish history at several American universities and was a tenured professor of history at the University of San Francisco, where he was director of the Swig Judaic Studies Program, holding the Mae and Benjamin Swig Chair and creating several new programs including an Ulpan and a Judaic studies lecture series.
The Swig Program in Jewish Studies and Social Justice is a Jewish studies program at the University of San Francisco in San Francisco, California. Originally founded in 1977, and re-established in 2008, it is the only program in the world to formally link the fields of Social justice and Jewish studies. It offers a minor in Jewish Studies and Social Justice (JSSJ), an annual Social Justice Lecture, an annual Human Rights Lecture, an annual Social Justice Passover Seder, intermittent films, presentations, and workshops, a study-abroad course, and Ulpan San Francisco.
Swig may refer to:
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