Ebook: Our Crowd -- The Great Jewish Families Of New York
Author: BIRMINGHAM Stephen
- Tags: Bache banker’s acceptances Belmont Equitable Life Gabler Goldman Guggenheim Hallgarten Hollywood issuing house Jews Kuhn Loeb Lehman Lewisohn Loeb Long Island Macy New York peddler railroad Rankin Rosenwald Rothschild Sachs Schiff Seligman Speyer Straus Warburg Wertheim
- Year: 1967
- Publisher: Longmans
- City: London
- Edition: Futura edition 1985
- Language: English
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"New York’s great Jewish banking families--aloof, mysterious, clannish; even arrogant. Considering themselves an elite, for generations the families married only within ‘our crowd’. Today, the branches of the family trees interlace endlessly.
‘Our Crowd’ provides a fascinating insider's view of one of the richest segments of a rich city: Jewish upper-class life in New York--vibrant, exotic, romantic, special. A city within a city: where sixty sat down for dinner attended by as many footmen; chateaux on Long Island, castles in Westchester; private railway cars, vast art collections; power, culture and the determination never to invade, or seem concerned to invade, the gentile 'Establishment'.
Remarkable individuals, resplendent dynasties--out of the opulent fabrics of their lives Stephen Birmingham has fashioned a superb social history."
"New York’s great Jewish banking families--aloof, mysterious, clannish; even arrogant. Considering themselves an elite, for generations the families married only within ‘our crowd’. Today, the branches of the family trees interlace endlessly.
‘Our Crowd’ provides a fascinating insider's view of one of the richest segments of a rich city: Jewish upper-class life in New York--vibrant, exotic, romantic, special. A city within a city: where sixty sat down for dinner attended by as many footmen; chateaux on Long Island, castles in Westchester; private railway cars, vast art collections; power, culture and the determination never to invade, or seem concerned to invade, the gentile 'Establishment'.
Remarkable individuals, resplendent dynasties--out of the opulent fabrics of their lives Stephen Birmingham has fashioned a superb social history."
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