American. Born 1901. Patron of the arts who helped found New Friends of Music and helped save many Jews from Europe during the Holocaust, Hirschman’s papers are interesting to American Jewish music history due to his contacts and friends, and influence on modern music. Also founded an FM radion station.NYPL contains papers in the Music Division.
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