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The life and influence of Jacob Schiff, a prominent Jewish philanthropist and financier.
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- 0:05a date which will live in infamy. [music] >> Both of those projects initiatives got off…
- 6:14thing before we actually delve into two more things before we actually delve into the story.…
- 12:36Rahers to be their rabbi. Um so that's that's important too. It wasn't a bunch of…
- 18:16civil war immigration of German Jews, whatever still was going on. Again, we're talking about the…
- 23:55other words, he is fully integrated into the aristocracy of the New York elite, I'm talking…
- 30:08asking him. And he just helped it move along. uh Russian Jews decided to immigrate without…
- 35:14wealthy and the established leadership, uh, respect him and he has a lot to say about…
- 40:53type of leadership. He truly believed that he and his elite friends were in the better…
- 46:38in February 1904. Zar Nicholas II, his Imperial Navy sustained a series of successive defeats and…
- 52:17years later, almost 35 years later, um the uh the thousands of Polish refugees who arrived…
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