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Our Crowd: German-Jewish Banking Families in America

Center for Jewish History 15 W. 16th Street, New York City

Co-presented with the American Jewish Historical Society In 1967, Stephen Birmingham published his best-selling social history of New York’s elite German-Jewish banking families and posited a new, Jewish, American aristocracy. Historians Susie Pak (St. John’s) and Rebecca Kobrin (Columbia) join journalist Daniel Schulman (Mother Jones) to evaluate the legend and the reality of “Our Crowd” and the impact of the institutions they created on American life.…

Lecture: German-Jewish History in the 21st Century

Center for Jewish History 15 W. 16th Street, New York City

Roger Cohen, a columnist for the New York Times since 2009, is one of the most incisive observers of global affairs today. Cohen’s deep knowledge of German and Jewish history—he was the Times’ Berlin bureau chief from 1998–2001—informs much of his wide-ranging commentary. In the 2017 Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture lecture, he will synthesize the themes of this series into a broader narrative…

Panel: What if the Weimar Republic had Survived?

Leo Baeck Institute 15 West 16th Street, New York City

In 1925, the German-Jewish industrialist and former Foreign Minister Walther Rathenau emerged from self-imposed seclusion following a failed assassination attempt. Answering the call of the united center-left parties, he defeated Paul von Hindenburg to become president of the struggling Weimar Republic and quickly stabilized the economy with broad economic stimulus. Rathenau’s belief that the Jews should be viewed as another…