Max Webb

Max Webb (March 2, 1917 – October 23, 2018) was a Polish-born American real estate developer and philanthropist from Los Angeles, California.

A Holocaust survivor born to a Jewish family, he was the co-founder of one of the largest real estate development companies in Southern California.

[1] By 1952, he moved to Los Angeles with his wife and brother-in-law, and started a career in real estate development.

[1] Webb established a real estate development company with his two brothers-in-law, Nathan and David Shapell.

[1] He was a founding donor of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.[3] He endowed a chair for David Wolpe, the Senior Rabbi of Sinai Temple.

In 2013, Webb featured in a fundraising video for Tel Aviv University alongside other prominent Jewish philanthropists from Los Angeles Guilford Glazer, Jona Goldrich and Izak Parviz Nazarian.

[5] Having turned 100 in March 2017,[7] Webb died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California, on October 23, 2018.