A Study in American Jewish Leadership
hotel and at Jacob’s request spent the entire night talking with him. Thus began a lifelong friendship between the Bonns and the ...
In 1865 the number of Jews in New York was estimated at seventy-five thousand; in the 1870s the total rose to over one hundred t ...
had come to America in 1839 and, like many other German Jews, had started out as a peddler. Ten years later, when he was the sen ...
Kuhn, Loeb had been a good example of the workings of kinship ever since the first Loeb married Kuhn’s sister. Schiff was Loeb’s ...
country, but the greater danger to Jewish survival was disappearance through rapid assimilation rather than conversion.^21 Schif ...
examined the influence of Judaism and Jewishness on Schiff’s principles and behavior, both analyses are for our purposes incompl ...
risks. The bankers were thereby in a position to mobilize huge sums for the railroads and industrial corporations and to reap gr ...
“unmatched” relationships with prominent bankers, Jews and non-Jews, like Ernest Cassel of London, Edouard Noetzlin of Paris, Ro ...
destroyed most letters he received, Cassel’s opinions must be pieced to- gether from Schiff’s answers. Schiff, who often wrote s ...
represented a German syndicate that invested $6 mllion to $8 million in Northern Pacific bonds.^35 Upon joining Kuhn, Loeb, Schi ...
for the consolidation of the Northern Pacific and the Great Northern. Nothing came of that idea until Morgan stepped in. The “Co ...
the executive board but not as chairman. If Harriman proved his strength, he could most probably win the chairmanship.^42 Schiff ...
Schiff believed that for sheer survival the Union Pacific needed to own the Burlington^46 or at least to prevent it from being s ...
with those more powerful than he (in this case the House of Morgan) sug- gested a negotiated peace: I went to Mr. Hill [during t ...
stocks. He reasoned that such purchases were good investments and would help to steady the market. But, as Kahn recalled, “Mr. S ...
rights over both the Burlington and the Union Pacific. Of greater signifi- cance, the rivals agreed to combine the three major l ...
The banker evaded most questions on the operations of specific rail- ways. When asked about the Northern Pacific and the recent ...
ing the president. Indeed, his letters about Roosevelt’s action usually con- tained expressions of confidence in TR’s sagacity a ...
hostile president now referred to Harriman as “an undesirable citizen.”^65 In the matter of the ICC’s investigation, Schiff was ...
could have been avoided. Schiff’s proposal was endorsed by Morgan and by several important railroad owners. Far better, they bel ...
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