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The New York Times bestselling history of the rise of the most powerful and privileged Jewish families in America
They immigrated to America from Germany in the nineteenth century with names like Loeb, Sachs, Seligman, Lehman, Guggenheim, and Goldman. From tenements on the Lower East Side to Park Avenue mansions, this handful of Jewish families turned small businesses into imposing enterprises and amassed spectacular fortunes. But despite possessing breathtaking wealth that rivaled the Astors and Rockefellers, they were barred by the gentile establishment from the lofty realm of "the 400," a register of New York's most elite, because of their religion and humble backgrounds. In response, they created their own elite "100," a privileged society as opulent and exclusive as the one that had refused them entry.
"Our Crowd" is the fascinating story of this rarefied society. Based on letters, documents, diary entries, and intimate personal remembrances of family lore by members of these most illustrious clans, it is an engrossing portrait of upper-class Jewish life over two centuries; a riveting story of the bankers, brokers, financiers, philanthropists, and business tycoons who started with nothing and turned their family names into American institutions.
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- Shayla
- 03-28-21
Finance heavy
This was wayyyy too finance heavy. 30% in you’re still talking about railroad bonds. I say this as someone who has a background in finance and often reads nonfiction finance books. That’s just not what this book pitches itself as. I wanted a nonfiction tale of posh high society in NY and I got bonds and trade discussions. Maybe it gets better at some point but I had to walk away after wasting so many hours.
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- donna60
- 07-29-19
Very informative
I really enjoyed learning about the history of these great families. As an immigrant who came to the US at the age of 9, I am now 60, it has given me more insight into the history of the great families of New York.
A terrific read for those who would like to learn more about the famous financial institutions.
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- Fred
- 11-10-21
Interesting if you have patience
Who can follow most of the who married whom? I don't know maybe a chart would help, not in an audio book though.
I did find the book interesting in may parts. Also the early, kind of Downton Abbey stuff was pretty interesting to me.
I got the book free and it was worth every penny I paid for it.
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- Yanomami
- 10-31-20
Fantastic history of the German Jews that came to the USA and created Financial empires in a matter of decades.
The ultimate rags to riches story of the German Jews that came to the USA in the mid-late 1800’s and created some of the country’s leading financial corporations. This is the story of the Seligmans, Loebl, Kahns , Schiffs, Lehmans, Goldman and Sachs families and how they built their empires. Great feeling for the NY of the turn of the century.
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- Paul
- 10-21-20
Very informative
This was a lite book that was enjoyable to listen to. Very amusing informative and entertaining it’s amazing how much money these people had and what an amazing lifestyle they had
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- Doug Easterling
- 11-07-21
Landmark book that can be overwhelming at times
I've been wanting to read this for yrs & finally did. Though interesting & informative, it's as much a history of Wall Street as it is of the families. Understanding the financial manipulation & strategies that built the families' fortunes is challenging. As the generations turn up, the intanglement of relationships is confusing. If there's a family tree diagram in the printed book that might minimize confusion? Overall it's a good read if you're interested in American Jewish & NYC history.
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- Profound Glass
- 04-18-21
Great listen
Some parts a little dry but fascinating look at Jewish history in NY from the vantage point of the mid 1960s.
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- Peter Ryers
- 01-16-21
Excellent
I am Jewish so this history is particularly interesting to me. If turn of the century history, finance, and social history is of interest to the reader this book will not disappoint.
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- Brian
- 06-09-23
Fascinating
I wasn't sure I would go for this book, but it was great. I learned a lot of new things about banking in America and the tremendous contributions of The Crowd! The narrator was super.
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- Debra
- 05-30-23
Highbrow Gossip
There were a few parts that were fascinating, including the foundations of US banking systems, Jewish families helping fund the the Civil War. I also appreciated some of the social commentary about how the attitudes of the immigrants evolved. So much listing of names, assets, and gossipy or silly family tales got tedious. I listened to the end, hoping to have some sort of wrap up, which did not come. Overall it felt dated – sometimes interesting in itself – and I would have loved an abridged version.
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- rebecca t.
- 06-15-23
Fascinating
I thought I wouldn't enjoy this as much as I did. While it is a comprehensive list of endless names I'm surprised by just how much I learned while enjoying the achievements and exploits of "Our Crowd".
Facts about the super rich are so fascinating.
Wonderful narration of what could have been a very dull book read in a dull way. This was a good listen!
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- Susanne Klüver
- 04-12-23
Our Crowd - good story
Most interesting piece of history here that I didn’t know I had been curious about.
A most enthusiastic reader.
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- Linda T
- 12-21-22
Our crowd
Could’ve,should’ve,would’ve been better if they told the stories separately. You got muddled up by the time they had families and who married who,then when their kids came along and took over. To much to take in.
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A razor-sharp, hilarious, and poignant memoir about growing up in the closed world of the ultraorthodox Jewish community. The third of six children in a family that harks back to a gloried Hassidic dynasty, Judy Brown grew up with the legacy of centuries of religious teaching and the faith and lore that sustained her people for generations.
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More than a love story...
- By Margaret on 09-02-15
By: Judy Brown
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The Auerbach Will
- By: Stephen Birmingham
- Narrated by: Stan Adams, Maria Freeman, Charles Fuller, and others
- Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
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Ambitious young Essie Litsky defies a rigid upbringing by immigrant Russian Jewish parents to achieve wealth and success. But her children tear Essie and her husband Jack Auerbach's family apart in fights over their fortune, and Essie finds that money will not mend broken lives.
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Interesting family dynamics
- By NH Wifey on 10-11-20
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"The Rest of Us"
- The Rise of America's Eastern European Jews
- By: Stephen Birmingham
- Narrated by: Mel Foster
- Length: 18 hrs and 2 mins
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The wave of Eastern European Jewish immigrants who swept into New York in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by way of Ellis Island were not welcomed by the Jews who had arrived decades before. These refugees from czarist Russia and the Polish shtetls who came to America to escape pogroms and persecution were considered barbaric, uneducated, and too steeped in the traditions of the "old country" to be accepted by the more refined and already well-established German-Jewish community. But the new arrivals were tough, passionate, and determined.
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Book 3 of 3
- By Etoile NEOhio on 11-15-22
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The Grandees
- America's Sephardic Elite
- By: Stephen Birmingham
- Narrated by: Mel Foster
- Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
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In 1654, 23 Jewish families arrived in New Amsterdam (now New York) aboard a French privateer. They were the Sephardim, members of a proud orthodox sect that had served as royal advisors and honored professionals under Moorish rule in Spain and Portugal but were then exiled by intolerant monarchs. A small, closed, and intensely private community, the Sephardim soon established themselves as businessmen and financiers. They became powerful forces in society, with some, like banker Haym Salomon, even providing financial support to George Washington's army during the American Revolution.
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Amazing American History - Jews Made a Profound Impact
- By Jimmy Rosen on 12-27-21
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Life at the Dakota
- New York's Most Unusual Address
- By: Stephen Birmingham
- Narrated by: LJ Ganser
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
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When Singer sewing machine tycoon Edward Clark built a luxury apartment building on Manhattan’s Upper West Side in the late 1800s, it was derisively dubbed “the Dakota” for being as far from the center of the downtown action as its namesake territory on the nation’s western frontier. Despite its remote location, the quirky German Renaissance-style castle, with its intricate façade, peculiar interior design, and gargoyle guardians peering down on Central Park, was an immediate hit, particularly among the city’s well-heeled intellectuals and artists.
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Written 40 years ago
- By Anonymous User on 05-30-19
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Turning Judaism Outwards
- A Biography of the Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson
- By: Chaim Miller
- Narrated by: Shlomo Zacks
- Length: 16 hrs and 39 mins
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Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson (1902-1994), the Lubavitcher Rebbe, took an insular Chasidic group that was almost decimated by the Holocaust and transformed it into one of the most influential and controversial forces in world Jewry. This superbly crafted biography draws on recently uncovered documents and archives of personal correspondence, painting an exceptionally human and charming portrait of a man who was well known but little understood.
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Great narration for an inspiring book
- By Yisroel Newman on 09-28-14
By: Chaim Miller
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This Is Not a Love Story
- A Memoir
- By: Judy Brown
- Narrated by: Sarah Rose Humphrey
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
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A razor-sharp, hilarious, and poignant memoir about growing up in the closed world of the ultraorthodox Jewish community. The third of six children in a family that harks back to a gloried Hassidic dynasty, Judy Brown grew up with the legacy of centuries of religious teaching and the faith and lore that sustained her people for generations.
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More than a love story...
- By Margaret on 09-02-15
By: Judy Brown
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The Auerbach Will
- By: Stephen Birmingham
- Narrated by: Stan Adams, Maria Freeman, Charles Fuller, and others
- Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Ambitious young Essie Litsky defies a rigid upbringing by immigrant Russian Jewish parents to achieve wealth and success. But her children tear Essie and her husband Jack Auerbach's family apart in fights over their fortune, and Essie finds that money will not mend broken lives.
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Interesting family dynamics
- By NH Wifey on 10-11-20
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My Mother's Wars
- By: Lillian Faderman
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
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A story of love, war, and life as a Jewish immigrant in the squalid factories and lively dance halls of New York’s Garment District in the 1930s, My Mother’s Wars is the memoir Lillian Faderman's mother was never able to write. The daughter delves into her mother's past to tell the story of a Latvian girl who left her village for America with dreams of a life on the stage and encountered the realities of her new world: the battles she was forced to fight as a woman, an immigrant worker, and a Jew with family left behind in Hitler’s deadly path.
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Outstanding in all areas
- By Lisbeth on 11-17-14
By: Lillian Faderman
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The Heroic Struggle
- By: Alter B. Metzger, Yosef Y. Schneersohn
- Narrated by: Shlomo Zacks
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
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This book traces the history of the arrest and subsequent release from prison for "counter-revolutionary activity" of the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn in 5687 (1927). The Rebbe staunchly endured deprivation and torture, physical and mental, in an event meant to destroy the Jewish underground, and emerged from his ordeal miraculously alive and undaunted, his defiant stance entirely intact.
By: Alter B. Metzger, and others
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Survival in the Shadows
- Seven Jews Hidden in Hitler's Berlin
- By: Barbara Lovenheim
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
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The remarkable true story of two families that survived against all odds in the heart of the Nazi capital. Survival in the Shadows rivetingly chronicles the incredible survival of seven German Jews in Berlin through the final and most deadly years of the Holocaust.