2025-06-23 17:37 <br/> Tags: #EarlyZionism #AmericanJewry #people #Finance #Donor #KeyPeople ![[image-11.png|329x435]] # Jacob H. Schiff (1847-1920) - Jacob Schiff was a German-Jewish American investment banker and financier. - Schiff was an immigrant born to a prominent rabbinical orthodox family in Germany. - Schiff's family worked for the Rothschild banking family. - Schiff was given a banking job at *Kuhn, Loeb & CO.* by Abraham Kuhn, an American Jewish banker. - Schiff financed the Japanese war effort during the 1904-05 Russo-Japanese war. - Schiff loaned Japan over $5 billion dollars (inflation adjusted) to the Japanese. - Schiff was attempting to punish Russia for the antisemitism he perceived it to be guilty of. #RedPill *Classic case of a Jew financing wars. His motives were not that of his country or even his own enrichment; his motives were those of the Jewish people.* - Schiff loaned money to many countries but forbade his money from going to Russia, because he viewed the Tsar as antisemitic. - Schiff was a lifelong philanthropist. - He donated to a large number of Jewish groups particularly around New York City. - Schiff funded an immigration scheme to bring Jews to America through Galveston, Texas, instead of New York. - Schiff funded programs and institutions in Palestine during the early Zionist movement. - His donations to Jews in Palestine were routed through the [[American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)]]. - Schiff's $50,000 donation to the Jews in Palestine, prompted by [[Henry Morgenthau Sr.]], marked the founding of the JDC. - Schiff helped to found the [[American Jewish Committee (AJC)]] in 1906. - He served on its executive committee until his death. - Schiff funded the hiring of [[Felix Frankfurter]] at Harvard Law School in the mid 1910s. - Schiff was an early sympathizer and financial backer of the [[NAACP]]. - Schiff became a NAACP board member around 1914. #### Family Ties - Schiff's daughter Frieda married [[Felix Warburg]]. - [[Dorothy Schiff]], Jacob Schiff's granddaughter, was the owner and publisher of the New York Post for 40 years. - Dorothy's fourth husband was [[Rudolf Sonneborn]]. - Rudolf founded the [[Sonneborn Institute]] which sent money and arms to the [[Haganah]] in Israel at the direct behest of [[David Ben-Gurion]]. #### Recommended Reading - Our Crowd - Stephen Birmingham #### References - “Dorothy Schiff.” _Wikipedia_. Accessed June 28, 2025. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Schiff](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Schiff). - “Jacob Schiff,” _Wikipedia_, last modified **21 July 2025**, 18:09 UTC, accessed **23 June 2025**, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Schiff](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Schiff). - “Jacob H. Schiff.” _Encyclopedia Britannica_. Accessed June 23, 2025. Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica, "Jacob H. Schiff." [https://www.britannica.com/money/Jacob-Henry-Schiff](https://www.britannica.com/money/Jacob-Henry-Schiff). - “Jacob Henry Schiff (1847–1920).” _Jewish Virtual Library_. Accessed June 23, 2025. [https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jacob-henry-schiff](https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jacob-henry-schiff).