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The Center for Jewish History

Location: New York, NY

Category: Advocacy or Public Service

David N. Myers

President & CEO

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The Center for Jewish History is a library, museum and research institute with a focus on Jewish history. The Center hosts the collections of five partner organizations: the American Jewish Historical Society, the American Sephardi Federation, Leo Baeck Institute, Yeshiva University Museum, and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. The Center, which opened in Manhattan’s Union Square in 2000, houses over 500,000 volumes and 100 million documents related to Jewish history. Its staff works to preserve its collections and showcases them through exhibitions, speaking events, and performances.

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Recently named President and CEO of the Center for Jewish History, David N. Myers is also serving during the 2017-18 academic year as the inaugural director of the UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy. He served from 2010-15 as the Robert N. Burr Chair of the History Department. Prior to that, he served as Vice Chair for Academic Personnel in the History Department (2002-04). For ten years, Myers served as Director of the UCLA Center for Jewish Studies (1996-2000, 2004-09, 2010-11). Myers has served as a member of the board of the Association for Jewish Studies, as well as a teacher for the Wexner Heritage Foundation. He is also a member of the board of the New Israel Fund. Since 2002, Myers has served as co-editor of the Jewish Quarterly Review. An alumnus of Yale College (1982), Myers undertook graduate studies at Tel-Aviv and Harvard Universities before receiving his Ph.D with distinction in 1991 in Jewish History from Columbia University.

2016

Institution Revenue: $10,517,256

Institution Total Expenses: $10,852,018

Employees: 70

Salary: $330,000²⁵

2014

Institution Revenue: $7,815,090

Institution Total Expenses: $9,582,220

Employees: 79

Salary: $200,000⁹

Underpaid by: 37%

For information on previous years, see here.

For information on other Jewish nonprofits, see here.

For information on other Jewish advocacy and public service leaders, see here.

¹ _{Interim head of organization}

² _{Data from 2012}

³ _{Data from 2011}

⁴ _{Data from 2010}

⁵ _{Data from 2009}

⁶ _{Data from 2008}

⁷ _{Data from 2007}

⁸ _{Includes payment from SWC Museum Corp.}

⁹ _{Predecessor’s salary}

¹⁰ _{Partial year}

¹¹ _{Not a 501(c)3}

¹² _Annualized

¹³ _{Position currently vacant}

¹⁴ _{As per Form 990, JNF declined to comment}

¹⁵ _{Base salary}

¹⁶ _{Data from president-elect period}

¹⁷ _{2010 Employees}

¹⁸ _{Legally exempt from public disclosure of salary}

¹⁹ _{Highest paid professional, not CEO}

²⁰ _{Paid from two related organizations}

²¹ _{Data from 2013}

²² _{Data from 2014}

²³ _{Data from 2015}

²⁴ _{Includes a one-time honorarium of $55,000}

²⁵ _{Data from 2017}

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