Explore a lost chapter in New York, Jewish, and banking history. Beyond Goldman Sachs and the Lehman Brothers, learn about the ways that Eastern European Jews transformed American Jewish life and banking by financing the immigration, real estate, and banking systems that still power New York.
Class dates:
October 20
November 3, 10
Rebecca Kobrin is the Russell and Bettina Knapp Associate Professor of American Jewish History at Columbia University and author of Credit to the Nation:
Eastern European Jewish Immigrant Bankers and the Shaping of American Finance, 1873–1930.