Irving I. Stone (1909 in

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– January 19, 2000) was an American

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, businessman, and founder-chairman of

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. He was born to Jacob Sapirstein; the ''stein'' ending, in Yiddish, when pronounced "''SHtine''", means "stone".

Career

Stone turned a small family business, Sapirstein Greeting Card Company, into "the world's second-largest maker of greeting cards.". In the 1930s, rather than merely sell what others had designed, he began what is now the ''American Greetings Creative Department'', which the New York Times described as "one of the biggest art studios in the United States." He authored the company's "''From Someone Who Likes to Remember Someone Too Nice to Forget''" card, using skills he developed and improved by taking courses at night. The company he built has over 20,000 employees, and competes with

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Philanthropy

Among the causes supported by Stone were

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, and the Chinuch Atzmai Torah schools in

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

. The Stones supported projects under the guidance of Rabbi

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, in Cleveland. Irving I. Stone was also the main benefactor to Camp Stone, a Zionist summer camp in Sugar Grove, Pennsylvania. The Stone in Manhattan was named after him, as he was a frequent concert goer. The

Jerusalem Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...

suburb of

Kiryat Yearim ( he, קִרְיַת יְעָרִים), also known as Telz-Stone, is an strictly Orthodox town in the Jerusalem District of Israel. It is located in the approximate area of an ancient place mentioned in the Bible, from which it takes its name. ...

, also known as Telz-Stone, was named in his honor.

Stone Chumash

His name is the source for the Stone Chumash's name.

References

External links

*http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/release?id=13120 *https://web.archive.org/web/20110926232645/http://www.ohrtorahstone.org.il/rabi4.htm {{DEFAULTSORT:Stone, Irving 1909 births 2000 deaths Greeting cards Jewish American philanthropists 20th-century American philanthropists 20th-century American Jews