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The Bowery Boys: New York City HistoryThe Last Ships From Hamburg: An Immigration StoryOur second in a series of podcasts about New York City and American immigration history. Between the late 1890s and early 1920s, over 2 million Jews from Eastern Europe fled their homes and made the long journey to America, escaping persecution and violence in their native countries. Many were fleeing state-sanctioned antisemitism in Russia.This mass immigration effort was, in large part, brought about by three entrepreneurial men: Albert Ballin, the director of the Hamburg-America line; Jacob Schiff, the German-born New York-based philanthropist and financier; and the Gilded Age financial titan J.P. Morgan.It is...
2025-11-2857 min
The Untold Story with Martha MacCallumThe Last Ships From HamburgMartha revisits her conversation with author and historian Steven Ujifusa, who shares his family's fascinating history. Born to a Jewish mother and a Japanese American father, he dug into his history and uncovered stories that he now feels compelled to share.
Steven also introduces his book 'The Last Ships From Hamburg', which covers the story of over two million Jews who fled their homes in Eastern Europe to escape discrimination and persecution between 1890 and 1921.
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2025-08-2223 min
The Gilded GentlemanThe Last Ships from Hamburg: The Untold Story of the Escape of the Russian JewsBetween the late 1890s and early 1920s, over 2 million Jews from Eastern Europe made the long, arduous and unsettling journey to America to escape persecution and violence in their native countries. Many of these Jews were fleeing Russia, where a state sanctioned antisemitism forced many to escape for their lives. This mass immigration was, in large part, the result of the efforts of three entrepreneurial men whose efforts insured escape for tens of thousands. -- Albert Ballin, the director of the Hamburg-America line; Jacob Schiff, the German born New York based philanthropist and financier; and the...
2025-04-0156 min
Nantucket Atheneum PodcastJapan-Nantucket (Rashomon): Episode 7 - Hen Frigates: Life was precarious.Jim spent more than a year researching the Nantucket diaspora in Japan, so a lot was left on the cutting room floor. There were a few books that we couldn’t quite fit into the main story line that we’re going the discuss in a bit more detail.First up, Hen Frigates by Joan Druett. This is a production of the Nantucket Atheneum. It is hosted and edited by Janet Forest. It was researched, fact checked and co-hosted by Reference Library Associate Jim Borzilleri. Special thanks to the Berkshire Athenaeum for use of t...
2024-08-0623 min
TITANIC TALKTITANIC TALK | Titanic Author & Oceanliner Historian Steven UjifusaSteven Ujifusa has a passion for oceanliners. The companies who build and ran them and the passengers who sailed on them - many immigrants coming to America to start a new life. In his book The Last Ships from Hamburg: Business, Rivalry, and the Race to Save Russia's Jews on the Eve of World War Steven explores the lives of the Jewish immigrants who fled Europe before war broke out.The Wall Street Journal calls it "Absorbing . . . a David-and-Goliath tale of the industrial age."In his book, Steven includes the stories of...
2024-07-0839 minNantucket Atheneum PodcastJapan-Nantucket (Rashomon): Episode 1 - What Happened After Nantucket?In Season Six of the Nantucket Atheneum Podcast, Janet and Jim are back to trace the travels of islanders that made their way around the world to Japan in the 19th century. In this first episode, we try to answer the question "What happened after Nantucket?" This is a production of the Nantucket Atheneum. It is hosted and edited by Janet Forest. It was researched, fact checked and co-hosted by Reference Library Associate Jim Borzilleri. Special thanks to the Berkshire Athenaeum for the use of their whisper booth and Shire Video for production support.SHOW...
2024-06-2512 min
New Books in Jewish StudiesSteven Ujifusa, "The Last Ships from Hamburg: Business, Rivalry, and the Race to Save Russia's Jews on the Eve of World War I" (HarperCollins, 2023)Over thirty years, from 1890 to 1921, 2.5 million Jews, fleeing discrimination and violence in their homelands of Eastern Europe, arrived in the United States. Many sailed on steamships from Hamburg.This mass exodus was facilitated by three businessmen whose involvement in the Jewish-American narrative has been largely forgotten: Jacob Schiff, the managing partner of the investment bank Kuhn, Loeb & Company, who used his immense wealth to help Jews to leave Europe; Albert Ballin, managing director of the Hamburg-American Line, who created a transportation network of trains and steamships to carry them across continents and an ocean; and J. P...
2024-04-151h 19
New Books in Economic and Business HistorySteven Ujifusa, "The Last Ships from Hamburg: Business, Rivalry, and the Race to Save Russia's Jews on the Eve of World War I" (HarperCollins, 2023)Over thirty years, from 1890 to 1921, 2.5 million Jews, fleeing discrimination and violence in their homelands of Eastern Europe, arrived in the United States. Many sailed on steamships from Hamburg.This mass exodus was facilitated by three businessmen whose involvement in the Jewish-American narrative has been largely forgotten: Jacob Schiff, the managing partner of the investment bank Kuhn, Loeb & Company, who used his immense wealth to help Jews to leave Europe; Albert Ballin, managing director of the Hamburg-American Line, who created a transportation network of trains and steamships to carry them across continents and an ocean; and J. P...
2024-04-151h 19
New Books in Eastern European StudiesSteven Ujifusa, "The Last Ships from Hamburg: Business, Rivalry, and the Race to Save Russia's Jews on the Eve of World War I" (HarperCollins, 2023)Over thirty years, from 1890 to 1921, 2.5 million Jews, fleeing discrimination and violence in their homelands of Eastern Europe, arrived in the United States. Many sailed on steamships from Hamburg.This mass exodus was facilitated by three businessmen whose involvement in the Jewish-American narrative has been largely forgotten: Jacob Schiff, the managing partner of the investment bank Kuhn, Loeb & Company, who used his immense wealth to help Jews to leave Europe; Albert Ballin, managing director of the Hamburg-American Line, who created a transportation network of trains and steamships to carry them across continents and an ocean; and J. P...
2024-04-151h 19
New Books in Russian and Eurasian StudiesSteven Ujifusa, "The Last Ships from Hamburg: Business, Rivalry, and the Race to Save Russia's Jews on the Eve of World War I" (HarperCollins, 2023)Over thirty years, from 1890 to 1921, 2.5 million Jews, fleeing discrimination and violence in their homelands of Eastern Europe, arrived in the United States. Many sailed on steamships from Hamburg.This mass exodus was facilitated by three businessmen whose involvement in the Jewish-American narrative has been largely forgotten: Jacob Schiff, the managing partner of the investment bank Kuhn, Loeb & Company, who used his immense wealth to help Jews to leave Europe; Albert Ballin, managing director of the Hamburg-American Line, who created a transportation network of trains and steamships to carry them across continents and an ocean; and J. P...
2024-04-151h 19The Untold Story with Martha MacCallumThe Resilient Story of Russian JewsBorn to a Jewish mother and a Japanese American father, author and historian Steven Ujifusa has always taken a great interest in his family's rich history. After digging into the life of his maternal grandmother, who was the daughter of Jewish immigrants from Russia, he discovered a largely covered-over period in history he felt compelled to share with the world.Steven shares his new book, 'The Last Ships From Hamburg,' which tells the harrowing tale of over two million Jews forced to flee their homes in Eastern Europe to escape violence and discrimination f...
2024-03-1323 min
NPR's Book of the Day'The Last Ships from Hamburg' recalls the plight of Jewish refugees before WWIBefore World War I, approximately 2 million Jewish people fled Russia and Eastern Europe for the United States. The Last Ships from Hamburg, a new book by Steven Ujifusa, recounts this time in history with a special focus on three businessmen who facilitated mass emigration: Jacob Schiff, Albert Ballin and J.P. Morgan. In today's episode, Ujifusa speaks with Here & Now's Scott Tong about how anti-immigrant rhetoric in the U.S. looks very similar today to how it did then, and why beyond historical record, this is a deeply personal story for him to write. To listen to Book...
2024-03-1310 min
That Said With Michael ZeldinA Conversation with Steven Ujifusa, Author, ‘The Last Ships from Hamburg: Business, Rivalry, and The Race to Save Russia’s Jews on the Eve of World War I’Join Michael in his conversation with Steven Ujifusa about his new book The Last Ships from Hamburg: Business, Rivalry, and The Race to Save Russia’s Jews on the Eve of World War I which chronicles the efforts to save Russian Jews from Czarist Russian pogroms.Steven is a historian who chronicles the confluence of American business, social, and maritime history. He is the recipient of the Washington Irving Medal for Literary Excellence from the Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York, a MacDowell artist residency, and the Athenaeum of Philadelphia's Literary Award for Non-Fiction....
2024-02-291h 13
Booknotes+Ep. 153 Steven Ujifusa, "The Last Ships from Hamburg""Between 1881 and 1914, over ten million people crossed the Atlantic from Europe to America, the largest mass migration of people from one continent to another in human history." Those are the words of our guest, Steven Ujifusa, from his introduction to his book "The Last Ships from Hamburg". Over 2.5 million of these immigrants to America were Jews. A significant percentage came from Russia. Mr. Ujifusa focuses mostly on three men to tell the story: Jacob Schiff of Kuhn, Loeb & Company; Albert Ballin, managing director of the Hamburg-American Line shipping company; and J.P. Morgan, mastermind of the International Mercantile Marine...
2024-02-131h 09
C-SPAN BookshelfBN+: Steven Ujifusa, "The Last Ships from Hamburg""Between 1881 and 1914, over ten million people crossed the Atlantic from Europe to America, the largest mass migration of people from one continent to another in human history." Those are the words of our guest, Steven Ujifusa, from his introduction to his book "The Last Ships from Hamburg". Over 2.5 million of these immigrants to America were Jews. A significant percentage came from Russia. Mr. Ujifusa focuses mostly on three men to tell the story: Jacob Schiff of Kuhn, Loeb & Company; Albert Ballin, managing director of the Hamburg-American Line shipping company; and J.P. Morgan, mastermind of the International Mercantile Marine...
2024-02-131h 09
History Unplugged PodcastThe Last Ship From Hamburg: How Russian Jews Escaped Death on the Eve of World War IFor a 30-year period, from the 1880s to World War I, 2.5 million Jews, fleeing discrimination and violence in their homelands of Eastern Europe, arrived in the United States. Many sailed on steamships from Hamburg.This mass exodus was facilitated by three businessmen whose involvement in the Jewish-American narrative has been largely forgotten: Jacob Schiff, the managing partner of the investment bank Kuhn, Loeb & Company, who used his immense wealth to help Jews to leave Europe; Albert Ballin, managing director of the Hamburg-American Line, who created a transportation network of trains and steamships to carry them across continents and an...
2024-01-0447 min
Facepalm AmericaThe Last Ships from Hamburg with guest Steven UjifusaBeowulf speaks with Steven Ujifusa, author of "The Last Ships from Hamburg: Business, Rivalry, and the Race to Save Russia's Jews on the Eve of World War I" about the business magnates that made immigration from Central and Eastern Europe in the late 19th and early 20th centuries possible.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/facepalm-america--5189985/support.
2023-12-2729 min
Terrance Gelenter – Your American friend in ParisCafe Terrance – Episode 57 - Steven UjifusaCafe Terrance – Episode 57 - Steven Ujifusa by Terrance - Your American Friend in Paris
2023-12-1336 min
The CGAI Podcast NetworkEnergy Security Cubed: A Conversation on Energy Geopolitics with Daniel YerginOn this episode of the Energy Security Cubed Podcast, Kelly Ogle has a conversation with Daniel Yergin about the post-Ukraine global energy order, and reflections on the lesson from his book, "The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations". You can find his book here: https://www.amazon.ca/New-Map-Energy-Climate-Nations/dp/1594206430
For the intro session, Kelly and Joe Calnan chat about the COP28 climate conference and the UAE's position in global affairs.
Guest Bio:
- Daniel Yergin is a Pulitzer Prize winning author and the Vice Chairman of S&P Global
Host Bio:
- Kelly Ogle is the...
2023-12-0745 min
Keen On AmericaThe Last Ships from Hamburg: Steven Ujifusa on the race to save Russia's Jews on the eve of World War IEPISODE 1867: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Steven Ujifusa, author of THE LAST SHIPS FROM HAMBURG, about the race to save Russia's Jews on the eve of World War ISteven Ujifusa is a historian and a resident of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His third book, The Last Ships from Hamburg: Business, Rivalry, and the Race to Save Russia's Jews on the Eve of World War I, tells the story of Eastern European Jewish immigration to America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It will be published by HarperCollins in November 2023. Principal characters will include th...
2023-11-2540 min
History Nerds UnitedThe Race to Save Russia's Jewish People Before World War I With Steven UjifusaSend a textLet's ship out! Author Steven Ujifusa joins the podcast to talk his new book The Last Ships from Hamburg: Business, Rivalry, and the Race to Save Russia's Jews on the Eve of World War I. Buy The Last Ships From HamburgCheck out Steven's websiteSupport the show
2023-11-2236 min
The Not Old - Better Show#388 Clipper Ships, Opium, Trade & Racing - Steven UjifusaClipper Ships, Opium, Trade & Racing - Steven Ujifusa Smithsonian Associates Author Interview Series Welcome to the Not Old Better Show, I'm your host Paul Vogelzang, and this is episode number 388. Today's show is brought to by Plexaderm. As part of our Smithsonian Associates, Art of Living, author interview series, our guest today is historian, author Steven Ujifusa. Steven Ujifusa has appeared as a guest on CBS Sunday Morning and NPR. His new book, Barons of the Sea, brings to l...
2019-10-1022 min
Innovation HubThe Rise of the Sea BaronsBack in the mid-19th century, some American entrepreneurs sailed halfway around the world - to China - to make their fortunes. These merchants would later build dynasties back home by investing money in promising American industries, including railroads and coal, as well as new technologies, like the telegraph.
It was the invention of the clipper ship that made it all possible. These were ships that were built for speed and profit, a profit that came not just by importing goods like tea to the U.S., but also by smuggling opium to China.
We...
2019-07-0514 minInnovation HubFull Show: Trying to Keep UpFirst, it might be tough to keep up with your New Year’s resolutions - especially if they have to do with dieting. But here’s some good news: some fats may be a lot better for you than you think and calorie counting isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. We take a look at the latest developments in nutrition science, and explain what it all means for your waistline.
Then, we take a trip on the high seas and ask the question: How did America become such a dominant figure in global trade? As autho...
2019-01-1149 minInnovation HubThe Rise of the Sea BaronsBack in the mid-19th century, some American entrepreneurs sailed halfway around the world - to China - to make their fortunes. These merchants would later build dynasties back home by investing money in promising American industries, including railroads and coal, as well as new technologies, like the telegraph.
It was the invention of the clipper ship that made it all possible. These were ships that were built for speed and profit, a profit that came not just by importing goods like tea to the U.S., but also by smuggling opium to China.
We...
2019-01-1114 min
Rudy Maxa's World18 August 2018 – RMWorldTravel Connection - Hour 1Hour 1
— Topics & Guests on this hour of RMWorldTravel with Robert & Mary Carey and Rudy Maxa include:
Seg 1 – Robert & Mary Show Open, News and Travel Trio Banter
Seg 2 – Show Friend Toni Stoeckl, the Global Brand Leader at Marriott International updates us on his growing brands
Seg 3 – Steven Ujifusa details the darker history of American Clipper Ships ruling the China seas in 19th century
Seg 4 – Steven Ujifusa details the darker history of American Clipper Ships ruling China seas in 19th century (continued)
Seg 5 – Destination Spotlight 29 – Saratoga, NY with Chamber President Todd Shimkus
2018-08-1800 min
The World in Time / Lapham’s QuarterlyEpisode 32: Steven UjifusaLewis H. Lapham talks with Steven Ujifusa, author of “Barons of the Sea: And Their Race to Build the World’s Fastest Clipper Ship.”
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2018-07-2739 min
For Real#11 Nonfiction Beach ReadsThis week, Kim and Alice take a deep dive into types of nonfiction that are great for reading at the beach -- stunt and celebrity memoirs, science and nature stories, and historical true crime reads.While you’re here, don’t forget Book Riot’s YA giveaway! Go here to win $500 of the year’s best YA fiction and nonfiction: bookriot.com/500yagiveaway.FOLLOW UPFrom the Corner of the Oval by Beck Dorey-SteinNever Caught by Erica Armstrong DunbarDrinking in America by Mark Edward Lender
2018-07-2450 min
Grab Complete Audiobooks TodayBarons of the Sea: And their Race to Build the World's Fastest Clipper Ship : Steven UjifusaPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/341293 to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Barons of the Sea: And their Race to Build the World's Fastest Clipper Ship
Author: Steven Ujifusa
Narrator: Arthur Morey
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 12 hours 26 minutes
Release date: July 17, 2018
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 4
Genres: Business & Career Development
Publisher's Summary: “A fascinating, fast-paced history…full of remarkable characters and incredible stories” about the nineteenth-century American dynasties who battled for dominance of the tea and opium trades (Nathaniel Philbrick, National Book Award–winning author of In the Heart of the Sea). Th...
2018-07-1712h 26