The Foundation awards grants to organizations dedicated to the furthering of Jewish culture. Examples include:

Yeshiva University Museum, New York
In addition to providing operating support, the Foundation has financed the restoration of an important mosaic that was part of the museum’s 2005 exhibition, "Printing The Talmud: From Bomberg To Scottenstein," and is lead sponsor of an upcoming exhibition entitled “Alfred Dreyfus: The Fight for Justice” and an international symposium on the Dreyfus affair.





The Leon Levy Garment Industry History Initiative has begun to document and preserve the history of the New York City garment industry in its golden age, from 1860 to 1975, when it was so important to the city’s economy and particularly to Jews in New York. After funding a fellow at the Graduate Center of City University of New York to prepare a comprehensive baseline bibliography and commissioning the Center for Humanities at GC-CUNY to convene an academic symposium on the understudied aspects of the industry’s past, the Foundation is sponsoring two public programs on the New York garment district through the Gotham Center at GC-CUNY. Link to the Leon Levy Foundation’s bibliography on the garment industry.

Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York
The Foundation is the lead sponsor of two exhibitions that will open in 2008: “Sosua” will tell the story of a small group of Jews who, when no other nation would take them, fled to the Dominican Republic in 1938 and established a refuge on an abandoned banana plantation owned by strongman Rafael Trujillo. "From Swastika to Jim Crow" will relate the compelling tale of about 60 Jewish professors who fled Germany in the late 1930s to take teaching jobs at America's historically black colleges.

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