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'The Last Ships from Hamburg' recalls the plight of Jewish refugees before WWI
Listen to the episodeA historical account of the mass emigration of approximately 2 million Jewish people from Russia and Eastern Europe to the United States before World War I, focusing on three businessmen — Jacob Schiff, Albert Ballin, and J.P. Morgan — who facilitated this migration, and drawing parallels between anti-immigrant rhetoric then and now.
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