From Jacob H. Schiff by Cyrus Adler, 1929
Schiff was a firm believer in centralized responsibility of business management and in cooperation with banks and bankers in other localities in the United States and in Europe, rather than in competition with them. It was because of this that Kuhn, Loeb & Co. pursued the policy of not having any branches or agencies in other centres, or even exclusive arrangements with other financial houses, but of having intimate relations with a number of them. Among such in Europe were Barings, Rothschilds, and the Bank of Montreal in London, the Banque de Paris et des Pays Bas in Paris and Brussels, Hope & Co. and the Amsterdamsche Bank in Amsterdam, and Warburgs in Hamburg. His own closest personal relations were with Cassel and Fleming in London, Noetzlin in Paris, and Max Warburg in Hamburg . .There were various investment companies formed by his friends abroad with which he was at one time or another associated. One of these was the Investment Trust Co. of London, which had been formed by Fleming. . . . Noetzlin . . . preferred that the Banque de Paris s should have a special department for American transactions.
In Germany, other important connections were with the Disconto-Gesellschaft, and at times with the Deutsche Bank of Berlin. In dealings with the latter, Schiff has established pleasant personal relations with its officials, particularly with Dr. G. von Siemens and Arthur Gwinner. . . .
Holland was an important financial center, and at Amsterdam he had dealings at various times with the Bank of Amsterdam, Wertheim & Gompertz, and A. A. Boissevain & Co., but more particularly with Hope & Co.
Jacob H. Schiff His Life and Letters
Garden City, New York : Doubleday, Doran &ct., 1929, vol. , pages 194-6.
. . . if Lenin�s October Revolution had upset Jewish financial and other-plans, why was Jacob Schiff of Kuhn, Loeb and Co. so anxious to secure recognition for the Bolsheviks? �The well known Jewish banker, Mr. Jacob Schiff,� writes Wickham Steed, former editor of The Times, �was known to be anxious to secure recognition for the Bolshevists, among whom Jewish influence was predominant . . . I insisted . . . that the prime movers (to make Wilson acknowledge the Bolshevists), were Jacob Schiff, Warburg and other international financiers.�55http://www.thetribulation.com/chapter8.htm#05555. Through 30 Years, Vol. II, pp. 301, 302 (London, 1924) by B. Jensen in The �Palestine� Plot.
Note : � . . . Dr. [Max] Warburg . . . only considers matters from the commercial angle.� (Lucius von Stoedten, Stockholm, 15 June 1917, to State Secretary (Zimmermann, Berlin) ; ( per Germany and the Revolution in Russia 1915 - 1917, Oxford University Press, 1958, p. 63.)Comment : There may have been differing attitudes among the Jews themselves — as the above (somewhat credibly looking) fragment implies. The personal opinions could also have been changing as the actual events unfolded.
It seems that Max Warburg, for example, may have been no part to the gangs of the ideologues. Yet he reportedly was part of the money-train — which did include such figures as Olaf Aschberg of Sweden, credibly reported as one of the Red conspiracy by, among others, Claire Sheridan (although she was thoroughly deluded on the subject of her "friends" in the Bolshevik scam).
One admits that the role of Mr. Jacob H. Schiff in "all this" is not entirely clear.
His anti-Russian (or anti-tsarist — but he does not seem to have been making such distinctions) sentiments are plainly apparent not only in the writings of some of his critics — but in his own writings, including in the volume quoted above, sections dealing with some piece of anti-Russian legislation in the US Congress.
In a way some such sentiments may have been (partially) justified by some events, or some specifically anti-Jewish attitudes in (the tsarist) Russia. Anti-tsarist were, for example, the writings of another Jew, Helphand — whose idea it was for the Germans to have used Lenin as a sort of weapon against Russia in 1917.
The reasons for the dislike by a Helphand — or by a Jacob H. Schiff — of the things Russian would not have differed widely, nor the importance thereof. Yet the text, "Jacob H. Schiff" (editor Adler) contains not the least mention of the Bolshevik Revolution ; or of any Russian affairs other than the anti-Russian legislation sponsored in the US by Mr. Jacob H. Schiff.
The responsibility for the choice of material seems to have been Mr. Adler's (though I do not know).
Mr. Jacob H. Schiff had been (rightly or wrongly) accused of aiding said Bolshevik revolution in Russia 1917. Considering his overall anti-Russian sentiments (perhaps part-justified) — that would have been a logical choice of enterprise for him to undertake.
The circumstantial evidence — the absence of any mentions of the Russian and/or Bolshevik affairs in "Jacob H. Schiff" (editor Adler) suggest that some data (such as can be presumed certain of importance) have been withheld from the reading public — either by Mr. Jacob H. Schiff himself — or by his editor.
Anybody's fooling others with 'anti-Semitism' would not be proper in this one instance. The reason for my own paying some attention to all this is plain : the criminal marxist organizations are very much present world-wide 2006 (it does take much blindness by the politicians to concentrate on other issues).
For example : is it North Korea that is the problem ? No : the problem are the criminal marxists presently in power in the (unnaturally divided) Korea — who are connected with any and every other criminal marxist organizations round the globe.
Since the Marxian rackets demonstrably depend for their very existence on falsifications of the history — (any "true believers" being simply misinformed themselves) — it becomes imperative exactly to find out the facts of these developments, possibly including the role in them — (there reportedly was some) — of Mr. Jacob H. Schiff — a person of considerable influence.
Absence of mentions of any Russian affairs in the volume of writings by Mr. Schiff does not suggest the lack of involvement on his part ; and rather the contrary.
For such, and similar reasons, may the reader forgive this writer his (i.e. mine) being skeptical about the person and the actual enterprises of Mr. Jacob H. Schiff.
"Sorry", but I am skeptical
The following volume just happened into my hands, and that at a time when I could afford some random choice in reading. "The Silent and the Damned" (by Frey and Thompson-Frey, Madison Books, 1988) is a story of some criminal case in 1913. Of murder was accused one Leo Frank, a Jew (who was eventually lynched by a mob, hardly favourable a circumstance to rational analysis)."By 1914, many prominent American Jews, including Albert D. Lasker, Julius Rosenwald, and Jacob H. Schiff were providing money, time, and talent in support of Frank." — etc., page 60.
By what I find in that volume, no one in 1914 could have had any certainty as to who exactly the murderer (or accomplices) in this one case were.
Thus the report of Mr. Jacob H. Schiff's involvement, if correct (one never knows about such things until having seem a million of sources), implies that he had inveighed on behalf a case of uncertain merits.
This would not be a sound judgment on the part of a sophisticated banker. This one report, if accurate, does not lend credibility either, to the assertions of innocence by Mr. Leo Frank — but rather takes away from it.
He seems to have been exonerated "beyond any doubt" — as per the volume in question. Unfortunately, I for one am still not convinced — due to a few details, in the main one found on the page 49.
Overall the appearances are of either (a) Mr. Schiff's error by way of aiding a case of uncertain merits — (based on circumstances external to the case) or (b) his error by way of knowingly aiding a case of no merit.
(By the way, I would not suppose that the authors of the volume had not done a largely or entirely honest job ; the question is, the crucial evidence towards the exoneration of Mr. Leo Frank came decades after the actual case was being deliberated, from a man who at the time was a boy who was "too shy" to tell what he knew in the court.
Nay, the official pronouncing Mr. Frank innocent occurred about a year, or so, after the death of this key witness, the formerly shy boy. All this may well have been entirely true : but all this is not extremely persuasive.
One question I would pose : would not some Jews hoax some other Jews — in cases like this one ; or in other cases ?
I do not know. But I would not suppose that impossible — no matter the oft-noticed Jewish solidarity. The question, whether Mr. Leo Frank was or was not guilty of the crime itself may be quite indifferent presently. Many of the larger political questions remain actual.)
WPT
Schiff, Jacob H. (Jacob Henry), 1847-1920. Title Jacob H. Schiff; his life and letters, by Cyrus Adler. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, Doran, 1928. Publisher Grosse Pointe, Mich., Scholarly Press, 1968. Description 2 v. illus. 23 cm. Language English Note Bibliographical footnotes. Subject Schiff, Jacob H. (Jacob Henry), 1847-1920.Schiff, Jacob H. (Jacob Henry), 1847-1920. Title Jacob H. Schiff : his life and letters / by Cyrus Adler. Publisher London : Heinemann, 1929. Description 2 v. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm. Language English Note Includes index.
Schiff, Jacob H. (Jacob Henry), 1847-1920. Title Jacob H. Schiff; his life and letters, Publisher Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, Doran and company, inc., 1928. Description 2 v. fronts., pl., ports., facsims. 25 cm. Language English Note Foreword by Mortimer L. Schiff.
Steed, Henry Wickham, 1871-1956. Title Through thirty years, 1892-1922, a personal narrative / by Henry Wickham Steed. Publisher Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, Page, 1925,c1924. { London, Heinemann, 1925. } Description 2 v. in 1 ; 22 cm. Language English
Steed, Henry Wickham, 1871-1956. Title Through thirty years, 1892-1922, a personal narrative, Publisher Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, Page & company, 1924. { Publisher London : W. Heinemann, Ltd., 1924. } Description 2 v. 23 cm. Language English
Laufer, Berthold, 1874-1934. Title Chinese pottery of the Han dynasty. By Berthold Laufer. Publisher Leiden, E.J. Brill, ltd., 1909. Description xvi, 339 p. illus., LXXV pl. 26 cm. Language English Note At head of title: Publication of the East Asiatic Committee of the American Museum of Natural History.--The Jacob H. Schiff Chinese Expedition.
Schiff, Jacob H. (Jacob Henry), 1847-1920. Title Our journey to Japan : printed as a surprise to the author, Jan. 10, 1907 / by Jacob H. Schiff. Publisher [S.l. : s.n.], 1907, c1906 (New York : New York Cooperative Society) Description [175] p., [7] leaves of plates : ill., facsims., ports. ; 29 cm. Language English
Yitsḥaḳ Ayziḳ ben Fradman. Uniform Title [ Zikhron teruʻah] Title Zeh ha-shaʻar le-sefer Zikhron teruʻah : ginuḥe genaḥ, yilule yelil ʻal ... Shaʾul ben Ary. / ḥibarti ani Yitsḥaḳ Ayziḳ ben k.h. Fradman. Publisher Am�ṭerdam : Be-vet ubi-defus Y. ben Y. Prups, 550 [1790] Description 11 p. ; 22 cm. Language Hebrew Subject Shaʾul, 1717-1790.
Yi�raʾel ben Binyamin, a.b.d. ṿe-r.m. di-ḳ.ḳ. Hrimalov, 17th cent. Uniform Title [ Zeraʻ Yi�raʾel] Title Sefer Ḥidushe agadot ; Sefer Sheʾerit Yi�raʾel ; Sefer Tifʾeret Yi�raʾel ; Sefer Bet Yi�raʾel / Yi�raʾel b. mo. ha-r. R. Binyamin. Publisher Ṿilhermersh dorf : Nidpas ʻa.y. Hirsh ben Ḥayim, 490 [1729 or 1730] Description 58 [i.e. 116], 18 [i.e. 36], 79 [i.e. 158] p. ; 21 cm. Language Hebrew Note No collective t.p.; titles transcribed from individual title pages. Contents Sefer Ḥidushe agadot -- Sefer Sheʾerit Yi�raʾel -- Sefer Tifʾeret Yi�raʾel -- Sefer Bet Yi�raʾel.