The last ships from Hamburg business, rivalry, and the race to save Russia's Jews on the eve of World War I
Over thirty years, from 1890 to 1921, 2.5 million Jews, fleeing discrimination and violence in their homelands of Eastern Europe, arrived in the United States. Many sailed on steamships from Hamburg. This mass exodus was facilitated by three businessmen whose involvement in the Jewish-American narra...
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New York, NY :
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers,
[2023]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. The Jew boy of Morris & Co. ; Convert, emigrate, or disappear ; Schiff, the immigrant success story ; Albert Ballin takes over HAPAG ; Immigrants and "Asia's fearful scourge" ; The aristocrats mobilize
- Part II. A banker's charity ; Morganizing the Atlantic ; The Kaiser's Jews ; Morgan's big offer
- Part III. The Weinsteins: One journey of many ; The most infamous pogrom ; Gaming the Russo-Japanese war ; Making peace with the Aid Society ; Revolution and rebuilding ; Revolution and rebuilding ; Immigration restriction goes mainstream ; Halting the march to armageddon
- Part IV. Betraying the Morgan Trust ; The martyrs of the Titanic ; My field is the world ; A life's work ruined ; He who saves one life, savs the world entire
- Epilogue: Kaddish for those left behind.
