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The Descendants of Jacob Schiff

Jacob Schiff emigrated to the U.S. in the late 19th Century and led an investment banking firm, Kuhn, Loeb & Co., which rivaled the house of J.P. Morgan. But his mastery of Wall Street was not his greatest accomplishment.  One of the city’s most generous philanthropists, Schiff poured much of his personal fortune into establishing charities to support the Russian Jews who came to escape the pogroms, including the 92nd Street Y and the Henry Street Settlement to help poor Jews. His philanthropic legacy extended to non-Jewish institutions as a founder of the New York Zoological Society and an early board member of the NAACP, and he encouraged his family members to follow his example of sharing their wealth. A German Jew, Schiff was an ardent supporter of Russian Jewry; he lobbied Congress and President Grover Cleveland to prevent the passage of legislation which would have prevented the massive wave of Russian Jewish immigrants from whom most current New York Jews descend. His son Mortimer Schiff, also an investment banker, was an early leader of the Boy Scouts of America, and his granddaughter Dorothy Schiff spent 40 years as publisher of “The New York Post.”

22 Responses to “The Descendants of Jacob Schiff”

  1. evelyn hirsch says:

    My uncle was David Schiff, from Germany. He and his brother brought over my mother, Mary, and her two brothers, George and Hymie and their mother, Eva Schiff Slabodsky from Minsk in Russia. Her first marriage was to a Jacob Schiff in Berlin., When she was young, she married a Schiff, then divorced him and went to Russia , and married the second husband, an artist. How do i get a family tree about my ancestors the Schiffs.

  2. Gladys Cansino Lehman says:

    My answer to you on how to get a family tree is simply write to the Cincinnaty Archives for information. Give them as many dates,names, country where they were born,any family information must have a document. Look for the Jewish encyclopidia in your library for sir-names. How did they come to America? Did they come by ship from Russia? Did they come to Ellis Island during the WW2? This is a tedious project but very well worth it. My Dad left us a great legacy when he decided to look into his ancestary and we did alot of surging and we go back as far as 1440 during the Spanish inquisition. My Dad owned 2 Columbus Circle triangle Building in N.Y. E-mail me back if you get this answer.

  3. Nitin Salian says:

    Hi,

    I am not a Jew. I usually browse the internet and was in particular reading about successful families in America.The legacy of Mr.Jacob Schiff is great and gives us the young generation; the inspiration and right attitude.

    I always feel i learn from people, so i thought i will comment here.

    Thanks,

    Nitin

  4. Lauren Aquino says:

    Hi,
    Jacob Schiff is my great-great cousin. My grandmother barely knew him, because he only visited after WW2. He lived at my grandmother’s house for a few months and then moved on to N.Y. where he began his legacy. It feels kind of weird how a person like him is related to me.

  5. Matt says:

    A significant contribution to humanity is lacking from the biography above. Jacob Schiff was largely responsible for denying WWI financing to Tsarist Russia, and financing the Bolshevik Revolution to overthrow the Anti-Semitic Tsarist regime. This was a crowning achievement; a monument to his support of world jewry.

  6. sue says:

    ILLUMINATI CROOK!!!!
    If that’s achievement, and inspiration than there is no JUSTICE
    or HOPE.

  7. TARIQ says:

    Nitin ! Your opening statment was a dead give away.jacob schiff helped financed the belshvik genocid against gentile europeans.be proud of that.

  8. vinnie says:

    Can the rest of the story be told starting from Rothchild and Jacobs mission for coming to the U.S.What other famous person was born in the Rothchild house? It is to much hidden history in this country.

  9. johnny says:

    zionist scum, criminal family, the schiffs, rothschilds, and all those zionist scum, have the blood of millions on there hands, they are behind every war, they dont care about america or about the people, they steal the people’s money, they only care about israel and keeping the criminal state of israel safe , i hope you zionists and elite criminals (schiff, rockefeller,rothschilds, goldman sachs,etc) meet your ending , and you will be punished by the free people of america and the free humans of the world…… remember that no empire in world history ever lasts and every tryant and criminal will meet there terrible ending they deserve in this life and the after life

  10. Art says:

    Al Gore’s DAUGHTER married Jacob Schiff’s GRANDSON….

  11. Nash says:

    Jacob Schiff is the same wealthy Wall Streeter Jew, who was part of International Jewry’s plot to bankroll the Bolshevik revolution of 1917, stealing the entire country from White Christian Gentiles and raking in billions for the “Money Trust.” Jews like Trotsky ended-up with millions in Swiss accounts

  12. barbara says:

    my last name is brown, but through family history i heard it was changed from braun to brown, i would like to trace my fathers family history as he never told us much about his family and i never knew my grandparents on his side, how do i go about doing this with the little info i have thanks

  13. jjp says:

    Historian Juri Lina in his book, Under the Sign of the Scorpion, describes Jacob Schiff gave the order to kill the Tsar and his family.

  14. Seth Bogdanove says:

    According to a hand sign letter in my family archives, Jacob H Schiff bought a painting from my grandfather, A.J. Bogdanove in 1917 to hang in his Bar Harbor home. Is either the home or the painting extant?

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  16. Rachael says:

    It’s most difficult finding the complete truth on the internet. One must search and search and piece together a puzzle in the hopes of finding complete truth. I have just been reading article after article of Jacob Schiff and the part he played over his lifetime in the big banking industry and the formation of the Western Reserve Bank and the control of the nation’s monetary system which the majority of people think the Western Reserve Bank is owned by the US Government. His life is tightly woven with the Rothschilds and with his loans to people like Rockefeller, this allowed Rockefeller to expand and control wealth in their own rights and seal the relationship between Schiff and them. By the turn of the century (1900) he had a tight control of the entire banking system in America including Lehman brothers, Goldman-Sachs, and other internationalist banks that where headed by men chosen by the Rothschilds. He was the central player in forming the Federal Reserve Banking system and assured it would be passed by eliciting help in Congress to slip the Federal Reserve Act through an ill prepared Congress during the Christmas break on the 23rd of December, I believe. It was signed by a President to which he was a heavy contributor. He was a heavy contributor and supporter of numerous causes around the world which certainly labeled him a very good guy. Whether he was or was not, I certainly would like to read the good and bad of a subject all in the same article so as to make an educated judgment on a subject.

  17. Davon says:

    He was a piece of shit! He was part of The Illuminati group! And helped pass the Federal Reserve Act which robbed the people of the United States of their had earned money,which under Amendment !6 ofnthe Constitution to this day if people did their research,they would know it was all a plot to enslave the people of the world and turn it into a mongrolized society. He had not an ounce of good in him! All of the Secret Society physcopaths were nothing but demonic people trying to hide behind prefabricted lies. Fuck Jacob Schiff,London Rothschild,John D Rockefeller,Paul Walberg any the rest of the host.May they burn in hell

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  19. Baron says:

    He was a Rothshield puppet (the jew who financed Hitler!!!) These international bankers have so much blood on their hands, just listen to Morgan Fagan on you tube , the Illuminati exposed.
    Jews wake up!

  20. everette says:

    He was a nasty bastard indeed! you family members have nothing to be proud of unless you believe in his principles

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