Jews and Banking, 1800s-present

Jews are money-and-commodity-oriented people. Indeed, the Talmud is full of references to material goods.
So it is only natural that Jews would dominate banking and finance in the West.

It must be stressed that most of the Jewish bankers below ran a de facto international banking "family," with each bank aiding or cooperating with the other Jewish banks. Often these bankers were related to each other by blood or marriage, or at least by close friendship. Most of the Jewish bankers listed below were originally from German/Jewish families.

Let us take a look at the Jewish or Jewish-founded or Jewish-originated banking houses of the West; this list includes modern investment bankers:

-- The Warburgs of Hamburg

-- The Oppenheims of Cologne

-- Speyer of Frankfurt

-- The Sassoons of Bombay

-- The Lazard Brothers of Paris

-- The Lehman Brothers of New York

-- Goldman and Sachs of New York

-- Bleichröder of Berlin

-- Israel Seiff of Italy

-- Salomon Brothers of USA

-- Lazard Freres of USA

-- Cantor/Fitzgerald of USA

-- Hambros of London

-- The Rothschilds [five brothers] of Frankfurt and elsewhere

-- Mendelsohns of Berlin

-- Kuhn, Loeb & Co. of USA, once headed by Jacob Schiff

-- J.W. Seligman of USA

-- Ladenburg, Thalmann and Co. of USA

-- Bache of USA

-- August Belmont of USA

-- Haym Salomon of USA [late 1700s]

-- Isaac Moses of USA [co-founded the Bank of New York with
Alexander Hamilton]

-- Königswarter of Amsterdam

-- Wertheim & Gomperts of Amsterdam

-- Bisschoffsheim of Amsterdam and other cities

-- Hollander & Lehren [Dutch]

-- Raphael [Dutch]

-- Becker & Fuld [Amsterdam; founded by the Rothschilds]

-- Benedict H. Goldschmidt of Frankfurt

-- Lippmann, Rosenthal & Co. [Dutch]

-- Lissa & Kann [Dutch]

-- Ludwig Bamberger, co-founder of Deutsche Bank

-- The Eltzbachers of Cologne

-- Carl Fürstenberg of Berliner Handels-Gesellschaft

-- K.K. Priv. Oesterreichische Credit-Anstalt für Handel und Gewerbe
of Vienna [was, or is, part-owned by the Rothschilds]

-- Rudolf Schultzbach of Frankfurt

-- F.S. van Nierop of Amsterdam

-- Eichthal of Paris

-- Heine of Paris

-- Fould of Paris

-- Guenzburg of St. Petersburg, Russia



Sources for this document include, but are not limited to, the book "Schmoozing: the Private Conversations of American Jews," by Dr. Joshua Halberstam, Perigee, 1997; the book "Jews and Money: The Myths and the Reality," by Gerald Krefetz, Ticknor & Fields, 1982; the article "Who Controls The Federal Reserve System?" by Victor Thorn, plus web searches

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