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18 de jun. de 2024 · In 1924, the Jacob H. Schiff Memorial was established by Frieda Schiff Warburg in memory of her father, to be administered by The New York Community Trust for charitable purposes.
Hace 2 días · Schiff was the lead impeachment manager in the first impeachment trial of President Donald Trump. He had previously served as the joint-lead impeachment manager in two judicial impeachments trials. Schiff is a candidate in the 2024 United States Senate elections in California.
Hace 3 días · Jacob Schiff played a major role. As a wealthy German Jew, Schiff shaped key decisions providing help to Eastern European Jews and fought against immigration restriction. A Reform Jew, he backed the creation of the Jewish Theological Seminary even though it was a Conservative project.
Hace 4 días · Jewish historian Howard Sachar's book A History of Jews in America notes "In 1914, Professor Emeritus Joel Spingarn of Columbia University became chairman of the NAACP and recruited for its board such Jewish leaders as Jacob Schiff, Jacob Billikopf, and Rabbi Stephen Wise."
Hace 4 días · In a bygone era of citizen responsibility, the philanthropist Jacob Schiff decided to donate a fountain to the people of the Lower East Side in 1894.
26 de jun. de 2024 · Leo Jung memorialized Jacob Schiff, stating that his life was a “symphony of goodness,” an apt reference for a musical program. The flyer accompanying the radio program is in the Leo Jung Papers in the Yeshiva University Archives.
Hace 2 días · In 1905, prominent Jews in New York, such as Jacob Schiff and the Guggenheim brothers, received threatening letters attached to boxes of explosives that read: “There is in existence, as you will better realize within the next year, [of] a power organization which will rid American soil of Hebrews.” 100 In 1928, Jewish cottage owners near Wisconsin’s Pewaukee Lake received anonymous notes ...
