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Jay I. Kislak
Jay I. Kislak (June 6, 1922 – October 3, 2018) was an American businessman, philanthropist, bibliophile, and aviator.
Kislak was born in Hoboken, New Jersey on June 6, 1922. He earned his first real estate license in high school at the Newark Academy in Livingston, New Jersey. He attended and graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he majored in economics.
Upon graduation, he served as a U.S.Navy aviator in World War II. In 1945, Kislak returned to New Jersey to enter the family real estate business full-time. In the early 1950s, Kislak moved his family to Miami, where established one of the country's largest privately held mortgage banks, originating and servicing loans nationally for over 40 years. He served as chairman of the Kislak Organization.
From 1984 to 2020, the Kislak Foundation's philanthropic giving was focused on rare books, art, and historic documents. Many of the items in the collection have been donated to the Library of Congress and several university libraries.
The Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. received $10 million from the Kislak Family Foundation to support the creation of the new "World War II in the Air" exhibition. It will be named the "Jay I. Kislak World War II in the Air" gallery. The gallery will explore how World War II transformed aviation and warfare and inaugurated a new era in military aviation. Flying was a family legacy and Kislack celebrated his 95th birthday on the USS Intrepid (CV-11) aircraft carrier.
In 2022, the Kislak Family Foundation donated $10 million to the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. to create a gallery exploring the history of the early Americas.
Kislak first donated nearly 4,000 items from his collection to the Library of Congress in 2004. This included rare masterpieces of indigenous art, maps, manuscripts, and cultural treasures documenting more than a dozen Native cultures and the earliest history of the Americas. In 2018, the Library of Congress appointed the first Jay I. Kislak Chair for the Study of the History and Cultures of the Early Americas.
In 2023 an annual Kislak Family Foundation Prize to recognize an organization in the United States or abroad with an outsized impact on literacy relative to its size or years of operation was announced by the Library of Congress.
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Jay I. Kislak
Jay I. Kislak (June 6, 1922 – October 3, 2018) was an American businessman, philanthropist, bibliophile, and aviator.
Kislak was born in Hoboken, New Jersey on June 6, 1922. He earned his first real estate license in high school at the Newark Academy in Livingston, New Jersey. He attended and graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he majored in economics.
Upon graduation, he served as a U.S.Navy aviator in World War II. In 1945, Kislak returned to New Jersey to enter the family real estate business full-time. In the early 1950s, Kislak moved his family to Miami, where established one of the country's largest privately held mortgage banks, originating and servicing loans nationally for over 40 years. He served as chairman of the Kislak Organization.
From 1984 to 2020, the Kislak Foundation's philanthropic giving was focused on rare books, art, and historic documents. Many of the items in the collection have been donated to the Library of Congress and several university libraries.
The Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. received $10 million from the Kislak Family Foundation to support the creation of the new "World War II in the Air" exhibition. It will be named the "Jay I. Kislak World War II in the Air" gallery. The gallery will explore how World War II transformed aviation and warfare and inaugurated a new era in military aviation. Flying was a family legacy and Kislack celebrated his 95th birthday on the USS Intrepid (CV-11) aircraft carrier.
In 2022, the Kislak Family Foundation donated $10 million to the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. to create a gallery exploring the history of the early Americas.
Kislak first donated nearly 4,000 items from his collection to the Library of Congress in 2004. This included rare masterpieces of indigenous art, maps, manuscripts, and cultural treasures documenting more than a dozen Native cultures and the earliest history of the Americas. In 2018, the Library of Congress appointed the first Jay I. Kislak Chair for the Study of the History and Cultures of the Early Americas.
In 2023 an annual Kislak Family Foundation Prize to recognize an organization in the United States or abroad with an outsized impact on literacy relative to its size or years of operation was announced by the Library of Congress.
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