Jacob Henry Schiff (1847-1920) was the outstanding member of the American-German banking group that became important after the Civil War. He played a major role in railroads and in industrial mergers ...
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Following Niall Ferguson's talk about Jews & Money, a lady in the second row asked whether the Balfour Declaration of 1917, in which the British government committed itself to a homeland for th...
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Steve Walt fairly, in an article by Steve Erlanger and David Sanger about why Israel and the U.S. are joined in a war on terror from Gaza to Baghdad, and maybe on to Tehran.
Though, rest assured,...
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Commentary Magazine said that this was the clear thrust of Walt and Mearsheimer's paper, they were accusing supporters of Israel of being a fifth column. W&M have responded (in their recent reb...
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Upper East Side real-estate brokers like to speculate about the future of Frederick Warburg Peters. His exclusive and independent little brokerage, the storyline goes, may be fated for what so many...
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Jacob Henry Schiff
Marty Peretz on Louis Brandeis and Walter Lippmann
