Jack D. Weiler

Jack D. Weiler (1904–1995) was an American real estate developer and philanthropist.

Biography Weiler was born to a poor Jewish family in Svyatsk, Russian Empire, the seventh of ten children. They grew the business nationally including over 5 million square feet in New York City and 1.5 million square feet in California; properties owned included the Metropolitan Opera House (which they demolished to build 1411 Broadway at 39th Street); Weiler was a leader in the United Jewish Appeal, Israel Bonds and the American Joint Distribution Committee. He served as the chairman of the board of overseers for the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, and in 1985, Einstein Hospital in the Bronx was renamed the Jack D. Weiler Hospital. He served as chairman of the Housing Committee of the Jewish Agency for Israel which brought 50,000 diaspora Jews to Israel. Weiler stated "I tell them that you can't take it with you, that once you're stretched out in a box, your hands are always open, not closed."

Personal life In 1927, he married Doris Person; they had two children: Alan Weiler and Joan Weiler Arnow who was married to real estate developer Robert H. Arnow.