The Last Ships From Hamburg: An Immigration Story

<p><strong>Our second in a series of podcasts about New York City and American immigration history. </strong></p><p>Between the late 1890s and early 1920s, over 2 million Jews from Eastern Europe fled their homes and made the long journey to America, escaping persecution and violence in their native countries. Many were fleeing state-sanctioned antisemitism in Russia.<br /><br />This mass immigration effort was, in large part, brought about by three entrepreneurial men: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Ballin">Albert Ballin</a>, the director of the Hamburg-America line; <a href="https://www.britannica.com/money/Jacob-Henry-Schiff">Jacob Schiff</a>, the German-born<a href="https://www.britannica.com/money/J-P-Morgan"> New York-based</a> philanthropist and financier; and the Gilded Age financial titan <a href="https://www.britannica.com/money/J-P-Morgan">J.P. Morgan</a>.</p><p>It is through the research and writing of historian <a href="https://www.stevenujifusa.com/">Steven...