At 89, LeRoy Hoffberger can look back on a full life brokering investments and business deals, fostering Jewish education, supporting health research, collecting art. When he was still a boy his father and uncles were involved in myriad businesses - from Pompeian Olive Oil to the Baltimore Orioles to ice, coal, fuel oil and beer. Roy Hoffberger expanded the family’s reach to other enterprises including real estate, especially the development of Germantown.
Yet, Hoffberger says he started writing his memoirs six years ago as a test – just to test if his long-term memory could still pull up the people, events and decisions that shaped his life. The book he produced is titled, Measure of a Life: Memoirs, Insights and Philosophies of LeRoy E. Hoffberger. He’ll be speaking about it Sunday at the Jewish Book Festival at the Jewish Museum of Maryland.
Here are links to Maryland Morning interviews with Lauren Silberman and Harry Ezratty, two other authors from this year's Jewish Book Festival.
And here’s LeRoy Hoffberger with more about how he went about writing his memoir:
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