"our Crowd": The Great Jewish Families Of New York. BIRMINGHAM, STEPHEN.
303X6 Harper & Row, New York: 1967. 404 pages Hardcover with dustjacket. Reading copy. An insider's view of New York's great Jewish banking families and upper-class life. Includes an Index. "Here are the Seligmans, transformed overnight from peddlars to financial advisors to presidents. Here is Jacob Schiff, not long out of the Frankfurt ghetto, contending with J. Pierpont Morgan himself....Here is Otto Kahn, engaging Gatti-Casazza and Toscanini to bring the Metropolitan Opera to the premier rank. Here are the Lehmans, rising from peddlars to cotton brokers to bankers to public servants...." - Life Magazine. $14.75USD Click here to order or message the dealer
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