Frieda Schiff Warburg

Frieda Warburg (née Schiff; February 3, 1876 – September 14, 1958) was a Jewish-American philanthropist and communal worker from New York.

She was active in Hadassah, serving as honorary chairman of the building fund campaign of the Rothschild-Hadassah-University Hospital in Jerusalem.

She regularly donated to various causes, creating a $500,000 fund for the Visiting Nurse Service of New York in 1924 and giving a $90,000 gift to the Jewish Theological Seminary of America to commemorate her father's 90th birthday anniversary in 1937.

She created a $500,000 fund to support the Visiting Nursing Service of New York in 1924, and in 1951 she contributed $650,000 to the UJA for housing and educating new Israeli immigrants to Israel.

Warburg died at her home at Meadow Farm on her former estate in Woodlands in White Plains on September 14, 1958.

Portrait Frieda Warburg, by Anders Zorn , 1894, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art