Jacob Schiff & ‘The Schiff Era’

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a date which will live in infamy. [music] >> Both of those projects initiatives got off the ground because of the G. >> The 11 Olympic team members slain [music] in West Germany. to get help in Americ who were killed were Americans who had come to learn. with is that it's not so much about a his list of impressive accomplishments but more about how he changed the rules of the game entirely as far as American jury is concerned and leadership in American juries concerned. And in the spirit of it being uh basketball and New York um New York New York basketball now, so maybe we'll give a basketball mush even though the mush has nothing to do with New York. do with New York. But when you um argue with some of these generation Z uh fellas about who's better, Michael Jordan or LeBron James, what these Gen Z kids don't understand is that it's not so much about numbers and statistics and who put up better numbers. It's more about who changed the game of basketball entirely. And that's why it's obvious who's the better of the two. So, it's something about Jacob two. So, it's something about Jacob Schiff also. It's not just how many organizations he founded and how many things he led and and and how many how much money he gave to Daka and Jewish institutions. It's a long list, but that's not so much what it's about. It's more about an a broader view of what he did to American Jewish leadership and what he did for his longlasting legacy on the American

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1. 0:05a date which will live in infamy. [music] >> Both of those projects initiatives got off…
2. 6:14thing before we actually delve into two more things before we actually delve into the story.…
3. 12:36Rahers to be their rabbi. Um so that's that's important too. It wasn't a bunch of…
4. 18:16civil war immigration of German Jews, whatever still was going on. Again, we're talking about the…
5. 23:55other words, he is fully integrated into the aristocracy of the New York elite, I'm talking…
6. 30:08asking him. And he just helped it move along. uh Russian Jews decided to immigrate without…
7. 35:14wealthy and the established leadership, uh, respect him and he has a lot to say about…
8. 40:53type of leadership. He truly believed that he and his elite friends were in the better…
9. 46:38in February 1904. Zar Nicholas II, his Imperial Navy sustained a series of successive defeats and…
10. 52:17years later, almost 35 years later, um the uh the thousands of Polish refugees who arrived…

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