Mining a Dynasty for Narrative Riches
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On March 19,1905, a funeral service took place for Meyer Guggenheim, 79 years old, at Temple Emanu-El, the great Reform Jewish synagogue on Fifth Avenue and 43rd Street. German Jews had established Temple Emanu-El, among whose congregants were some of the most important names in American business and finance. Present at Meyer’s funeral, for example, were Seligmans, Lehmans, and Schiffs. Not so many years before, Irwin and Debi Unger tell us in their excellent new book “The Guggenheims: A Family History,” (HarperCollins, 560 pages, $29.95) these German Jewish titans of finance had looked down upon Meyer.
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