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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Ujifusa, Steven.     Subjects     Schiff, Jacob H. (Jacob Henry), 1847-1920.     Ballin, Albert, 1857-1918.     Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913.     Jews, Russian -- Migrations.     Jews -- Russia -- History -- 20th century.     Jews -- Soviet Union -- History -- 20th century.     Jewish refugees -- United States.     Capitalists and financiers -- United States -- Biography.     Capitalists and financiers -- Germany -- Biography.     Philanthropists -- United States -- Biography.     United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Ujifusa, Steven.       by title:      The last ships from ...       by call number:      947.0004924 U33L     Search the Web     Ujifusa, Steven.     Schiff, Jacob H. (Jacob Henry), 1847-1920.     Ballin, Albert, 1857-1918.     Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913.     Jews, Russian -- Migrations.     Jews -- Russia -- History -- 20th century.     Jews -- Soviet Union -- History -- 20th century.     Jewish refugees -- United States.     Capitalists and financiers -- United States -- Biography.     Capitalists and financiers -- Germany -- Biography.     Philanthropists -- United States -- Biography.     United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century.       MARC Display

The last ships from Hamburg : business, rivalry, and the race to save Russia's Jews on the eve of World War I / Steven Ujifusa. by Ujifusa, Steven. Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2023. Call #: 947.0004924 U33L Subjects Schiff, Jacob H. (Jacob Henry), 1847-1920.   Ballin, Albert, 1857-1918.   Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913.   Jews, Russian -- Migrations.   Jews -- Russia -- History -- 20th century.   Jews -- Soviet Union -- History -- 20th century.   Jewish refugees -- United States.   Capitalists and financiers -- United States -- Biography.   Capitalists and financiers -- Germany -- Biography.   Philanthropists -- United States -- Biography.   United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century. ISBN:  9780062971876 (hc.) Alternate title:  Business, rivalry, and the race to save Russia's Jews on the eve of World War I Edition:  1st ed. Description:  viii, 365 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Notes:  Steven Ujifusa is the author of A Man and His Ship and Barons of the Sea. He received a bachelor’s degree in history from Harvard University and a master’s degree in historic preservation from the University of Pennsylvania and has given presentations across the country and on the high seas. He is the recipient of a MacDowell Colony Fellowship, the Washington Irving Medal for Literary Excellence from the Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York, and the Athenaeum of Philadelphia’s Literary Award. He lives with his wife, a pediatric emergency room physician, and his two sons, in Philadelphia. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-350) and index. Summary:  "A propulsive human drama that chronicles the mass exodus of Jews from Eastern Europe to America in the early years of the twentieth century, and the men who made it possible. 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 narrative has been largely forgotten: Jacob Schiff, the managing partner of the investment bank Kuhn, Loeb & Company, who used his immense wealth to help Jews to leave Europe; Albert Ballin, managing director of the Hamburg-American Line, who created a transportation network of trains and steamships to carry them across continents and an ocean; and J. P. Morgan, mastermind of the International Mercantile Marine (I.M.M.) trust, who tried to monopolize the lucrative steamship business. Though their goals were often contradictory, together they made possible a migration that spared millions from persecution. Descendants of these immigrants included Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Estée Lauder, George Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Fanny Brice, Lauren Bacall, the Marx Brothers, David Sarnoff, Al Jolson, Sam Goldwyn, Ben Shahn, Hank Greenberg, Moses Annenberg, and many more—including Ujifusa’s great grandparents. That is their legacy. Moving from the shtetls of Russia and the ports of Hamburg to the mansions of New York’s Upper East Side and the picket lines outside of the notorious Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, The Last Ships from Hamburg is a history that unfolds on both an intimate and epic scale. Meticulously researched, masterfully told, Ujifusa’s story offers original insight into the American experience, connecting banking, shipping, politics, immigration, nativism, and war—and delivers crucial insight into the burgeoning refugee crisis of our own time."--Barnes&Noble. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Alderney Gate Public Library Adult Nonfiction 947.0004924 U33L Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Nonfiction 947.0004924 U33L Core Collection - Adult Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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