Jacob Henry Schiff (born Jakob Heinrich Schiff; January 10, 1847 – September 25, 1920) was an American banker, businessman, and philanthropist. He helped...
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granddaughter of financier Jacob Schiff. Schiff was interested in social services and reform, and was involved in several welfare groups. Schiff was born in New...
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the Schiff family gained significant influence in American banking through figures like Jacob H. Schiff, a partner at Kuhn, Loeb & Co. Jacob Schiff played...
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1976. Mortimer Loeb Schiff was born on June 5, 1877, the only son of the German Jewish American banker and philanthropist Jacob Schiff and his wife, Therese...
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Schiff, a primary care physician in Washington, D.C., and great-great grandson of Jacob Schiff, at the Washington National Cathedral. Andrew Schiff now...
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Adam Bennett Schiff (born June 22, 1960) is an American lawyer, author, and politician who is a United States senator-elect from California. A member of...
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History of the Jews in Kobe (section Jacob Schiff)
Russo-Japanese War was a Jewish New York City banker by the name of Jacob Schiff. Japan needed money to fight the war in 1904, and few banks in Europe...
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Jacob HaKohen Schiff, (1608–1644) (Hebrew: מאיר הכהן שיף) called the Maharam Schiff (מהר"ם שיף), was a German rabbi and Talmud scholar. Meïr Schiff was...
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Kuhn and his brother-in-law Solomon Loeb. Headed from 1885 onwards by Jacob H. Schiff, Loeb's son-in-law, it grew to be one of the most influential investment...
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Shapiro of Lublin, creator of the Daf Yomi Meïr b. Jacob Schiff (Maharam Schiff), Rabbi Meïr b. Jacob Schiff Mordecai Benet (Maharam Benet, 1753–1829), Rabbi...
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was a member of the US National Commission to UNESCO. Gaer directed the Jacob Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights of the American...
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owner and publisher Dorothy Schiff, a granddaughter of the American financier Jacob Schiff. Mercurial Publisher: Dorothy Schiff Sonneborn, The New York Times...
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The JDC began its efforts to save Jews with a donation of $50,000 from Jacob Schiff, a wealthy Jewish entrepreneur and philanthropist. He was the main funder...
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Smith as Charles Morse Timothy McNeil as Fritz Heinze Dieter Riesle as Jacob Schiff Larry Petersen as George Cortelyou Elisabeth Adams as Helen Barney Blue...
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jewelry bankruptcy of all time.[citation needed] The firm was named after Jacob Schiff and J.P. Morgan although the firm had no affiliation with either individual...
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Loeb & Co., where the influential Jacob Schiff was senior partner. Paul's brother, Felix, was married to Schiff's daughter and both brothers would be...
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Felicia Schiff Warburg Sarnoff (born 1927). She was the granddaughter of Felix M. Warburg (1871–1937) and great‐granddaughter of Jacob Schiff (1847–1920)...
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Quay Eddie Rickenbacker Henry H. Rogers Beardsley Ruml John D. Ryan Jacob Schiff[citation needed] Louis Severance James Stillman Feargus B. Squire Walter...
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Betty Gallenberg. Therese Loeb (1854–1933), married Jacob Schiff (1847–1920), banker Frieda Schiff (1876–1958), married Felix M. Warburg (1871–1937), banker...
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married Frieda Schiff, only daughter of Jacob H. Schiff, a banker who grew up in Frankfurt and had ties to the German Warburgs. Schiff financed most of...
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priority for the established German Jews. Jacob Schiff played a major role. As a wealthy German Jew, Schiff shaped key decisions providing help to Eastern...
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frontage. The financier Jacob Schiff had bought the parcel, but—ominously for the social future of the Upper West Side—Mrs. Schiff refused to move to the...
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Reserve Board of the United States Paul Warburg; Felix, son-in-law to Jacob Schiff and partner at Kuhn, Loeb & Co.; Fritz; Olga; and Louisa. He apprenticed...
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Schiff was born to a German-Jewish banking family in New York, the son of Adele (née Neustadt) and Mortimer Loeb Schiff. He was grandson of Jacob H...
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Stock Exchange, caused in part by struggles between E. H. Harriman, Jacob Schiff, and J. P. Morgan/James J. Hill for the financial control of the Northern...
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Huttleston Rogers, J. P. Morgan, Leland Stanford, Meyer Guggenheim, Jacob Schiff, Charles Crocker, and Cornelius Vanderbilt would sometimes be labeled...
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Warburg's parents had accepted their marriage, but an uncle by marriage Jacob Schiff objected to it. Warburg—using the pen name of Paul James—wrote lyrics...
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of the NAACP and recruited for its board such Jewish leaders as Jacob Schiff, Jacob Billikopf, and Rabbi Stephen Wise." In its early years, the NAACP...
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and IX, five incidental references to Jews. I recall that years ago, Jacob Schiff wrote me criticising these references and that I denied any thought of...
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trades schools in the USA. Judge Myer S. Isaacs was the fund's president; Jacob Schiff was the Vice President and the trustees included: Oscar S. Strauss, Mayer...
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