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. He supported charitable causes in the United States and Israel.

Early life Webb was born on March 2, 1917, in Łódź, Poland, to a Jewish family. He was one of seven children and had a twin sister. Collectively, he had five sisters and one brother.

With his second wife Anna, Webb endowed the Max Webb Family School of Languages Building and the Anna and Max Webb Chair for Visiting Scholars in Yiddish at Tel Aviv University.

Personal life Webb was married twice. He first married Sara Shapell in 1946. Webb died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California, on October 23, 2018. He was 101.