JACOB SCHIFF
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A reader asks, "Mike,
all roads eventually lead to the Rothschilds of Europe; but who do you
think was the most powerful Jew in American history?"
Upon
first thought, that almost seems like asking who the greatest baseball
player of all time was. Was it Ruth? Gehrig? DiMaggio? Williams? Mays?
Mantle? Bonds? (pre & post steroids) There are so many deserving candidates that it appears impossible to say with absolute certainty.
A strong case for the MVZ Award (Most Valuable Zionist)
can be made for Paul Warburg, Bernard Baruch, Adolph Ochs, William
Paley, Eugene Meyer, Arthur Hays Sulzberger, David Sarnoff, Jack Warner,
Carl Laemmle, Henry Morganthau, George Soros, Henry Kissinger, Sumner
Redstone, Michael Eisner and a few others. Just 'Google' each of those
names and marvel at the power which the chosen ones have wielded over
the last century. And although they weren't Jews, the Rockefellers and
Morgans were not lacking in political-economic muscle either.
But in the final analysis, the MVZ Award would have to go to the financier Jacob Schiff - hands down!
Jacob
Schiff washed upon America's shores in 1865, shortly after the Civil
War. During the 1700's, his Schiff ancestors had actually shared a home
with the legendary Rothschilds, in Frankfurt's Jewish quarter.
Schiff
went on to head the firm Kuhn, Loeb & Co. From his base in New
York, he was the foremost Jewish leader from 1880 to 1920 in what is now
referred to by Jewish-American historians as "The Schiff Era". He
served as the Director of many important corporations, including the
National City Bank of New York, Equitable Life Assurance Society, Wells
Fargo & Company, and the Union Pacific Railroad. Schiff, who made
his fortune from interest bearing loans, was the main player behind the
'Hebrew Free Loan Society' in 1892; an organization which issued interest-free loans only to Jews (and is still in operation!)
Schiff's
descendants exercised some power and influence in their own right,
though nothing like the Patriarch did. Schiff's granddaughter Dorothy
was the owner and Publisher of the New York Post for over 40 years. She
once claimed to have "had a relationship" with Franklin D Roosevelt.
Kareena
Gore Schiff, the daughter of former Senator, almost US President, and
Global Warming con man Al Gore, is married to Andrew Schiff, the great
great grandson of Jacob.
It's
not merely that Schiff wielded enormous power, but rather the fact that
his actions, more so than anyone else's,