Louis Bamberger: department store innovator and philanthropist

Introduction: "One of New Jersey's most enlightened personalities"

Baltimore roots, 1855-1887

Building an empire, 1892-1911

The great white store, 1912-1921

One of America's great stores, 1922-1929

"A record of his benefactions": Bamberger as a philanthropist

Bamberger, the face of Newark's Jews

"Maecenas of all the arts"

Bamberger, Einstein, and the Institute for Advanced Study, 1930-1944

Epilogue: a life well lived.