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J. Schiff (full name: Jacob Henry Schiff) is a Jewish-American banker, philanthropist, and social activist. Many areas of life in the United States, Schiff's second homeland, were covered by his colossal philanthropic activities. His attitude to the royal is given the definition: "personal war." Jacob Schiff compared the situation of the Jews in Russia with the disasters of their biblical ancestors in Egypt during the great exodus.
Biography
Schiff Jacob Henry was born in 1847 into a distinguished family associated with the Rothschild family. The father of the future banker was a rabbi. The young man received a good secular and religious education. In 1865 he emigrated to the United States, where he began working in one of the banks. In 1875, Jacob Schiff married the daughter of one of the leaders of the Kuhn bank, Loeb & Co, entered the business of his father-in-law, and in 1885 became a bank manager. Under the leadership of Schiff, the prosperity of the institution increases, it becomes possible for him to participate in the financing of many large projects in various sectors of the economy. Schiff Jacob Henry has been active in philanthropic work throughout his life.
He was married to Teresa Loeb (daughter of the owner of the bank in which the young man built a career). Children were born in the marriage: daughter Frida and son Mortimer. Jacob Schiff died at the age of 73 in 1920. Buried in New York.
Jacob Schiff - social activist
The famous banker was one of the leaders of the Jewish community in the United States. He financed many projects: the creation of a Jewish department in the New York City Public Library, Hebru Union College, the Jewish Theological Seminary, and others.
Jacob Henry Schiff also directed his philanthropic activities to a number of non-Jewish projects and institutions. So, he donated significant amounts to American educational institutions, the Boy Scouts of America, the Red Cross organization, etc.
Schiff has held various honorary positions, in particular, he was vice president of the US Chamber of Commerce, was a member of the New York City Board of Education.
Jacob Schiff: involvement in politics
In 1904, Schiff was awarded an audience with the King of Great Britain. For his active support of Japan in the Russo-Japanese War, the banker received awards from the Order of the Sacred Treasure and the Rising Sun. During the US presidential election (1909), Schiff supported candidate William Taft.
In 1914, Jacob Schiff acted as one of the founders of the "Joint" (American Jewish Distribution Committee). The politician was an opponent of Zionism, calling this idea a utopia.
"Balfour Declaration"
This did not prevent Schiff in 1917 from supporting the Balfour Declaration. In 1917, British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour addressed Lord Rothschild, representing the British Jewish community, with an open letter addressed to the Zionist Federation. The letter declared the government's sympathy for the Zionist aspirations of the Jews. Among the alleged purposes of the publication of the document, historians see:
- The creation of pressure on the US government by the American Jewish community in order to encourage its entry into the First World War as a member of the Entente.
- Creating pressure on the Jews of Russia in order to prevent the spread of the ideas of Bolshevism among them and to prevent the country from leaving the war.
- Ensuring the right to exercise control over the territory of Palestine by the UK.
According to the results of a public opinion poll conducted in 2004 among more than 20 thousand representatives of the Arab intelligentsia in different countries, the Balfour Declaration is considered the “most terrible document” of the past millennium.
Russia
Many historians have devoted their works to the topic "Schiff and Russia". Most of them characterize Jacob Schiff as a fierce opponent of Russian autocracy. This was due, first of all, to the discriminatory policy pursued by the tsarist government towards the Jews.
Schiff actively used his personal authority and his influence in the US banking and financial sector to put pressure on the Russian authorities. In order to force the Russian government to stop infringing on the human and civil rights of Jews, Schiff blocked the country's access to foreign loans from the United States, financed the Japanese army in the Russo-Japanese War, and was the author of many foreign policy initiatives that could lead to a deterioration in diplomatic relations between the United States and Russia. Biographers of the politician call his actions in relation to Russia a "personal war" that has turned "into an all-consuming passion." Schiff compared the situation of the Jewish population in this country with the disasters of the biblical ancestors in Egypt during the Great Exodus. I saw myself as the new Moses. It was the personal crusade against Russia proclaimed by Schiff, historians believe, that contributed to his rise, unusual for a Jewish leader.
After the victory of the February Revolution, Schiff changed his attitude towards Russia. The politician welcomed the Provisional Government, which abolished restrictions on religions, and financially supported its military loan.
Russian revolution
A number of historical sources indicate the likely involvement of Schiff in financing the revolution in Russia at the beginning of the 20th century. This topic was especially widely discussed in its time by emigrant right-wing monarchist circles. However, there were no sources that could convincingly prove or refute these accusations. Moreover, historians have been found compiled with the aim of discrediting Schiff, proving his participation in the financing of the revolution in Russia.
It is known that in 1919, one of the monarchist publications in Rostov-on-Don published a forged document claiming that the Bolsheviks received a multimillion-dollar subsidy from the banker Schiff, which helped them win the revolution.
The fight for the rights of the Jews
Schiff's attention to the situation of Russian Jews was drawn during the pogroms in 1881. At the beginning of the 20th century in the arsenal of means developed by the US Jewish community in its struggle for the rights of Jews in other countries, pressure on the US government was also considered the most effective. At the beginning of the 20th century, the arsenal replenished. Schiff added something new to it - international financial pressure to isolate Russia diplomatically.
In the early 1890s, Schiff provided financial support for the publication of the monthly "Free Russia", which represented a political organization engaged in the secret distribution of "moderate benefits" to the Socialist-Revolutionaries. By this time, the figure became close to J. Kennan, an American journalist known for his active support of revolutionaries in Russia. Kennan's public exposure of the difficult conditions in which political prisoners were kept in Siberian exile served as an impetus for the spread in the United States of critical views on the regime existing in the Russian Empire.
A more radical task was put on the agenda than improving the situation of Russian Jews. That task was to democratize Russia by overthrowing the Romanov dynasty.
Russo-Japanese War
In 1890, during a visit to the New York port of a Russian warship, Schiff organized a campaign to boycott this event on the part of the Jewish community. In the fight against Russia, Jacob Henry Schiff did not limit himself to any moral considerations.
Cyrus Adler, a historian, writes about this figure in his book: in February 1904, Schiff gathered representatives of Jewish public organizations in his house and informed them that war would begin between Japan and Russia in no more than two days. The banker also said that he was approached with a request for a loan for the Japanese government. Schiff wanted to hear the opinion of those present, how this could affect the position of their Russian co-religionists. Judging by everything, historians believe, a positive decision was made at the meeting. Did Schiff ever feel remorse for the enormous damage his actions had done to Russia? This story is not known.
Loans
At the beginning of the war, an American syndicate managed by Schiff (the Kuhn, Loeb and Co. banking house, National and Commercial Banks) issued Anglo-American loans to the Japanese government (the amount was about 110 million dollars. This played a decisive role in financing warring Japan In addition, Schiff was quite active and successful in preventing Russian loans from being placed on the US market, and he kept many other American banks from lending to the Russian government.
Schiff financed J. Kennan's project to distribute special revolutionary literature in the camps of Russian prisoners of war in Japan. The project was fairly well conspired. In the spring of 1917, Kennan personally told reporters about him. According to him, thanks to Schiff's support, it became possible to deliver tons of revolutionary literature to the camps, as a result of which about 50 thousand convinced revolutionaries returned to their homeland.
Russian attempts to negotiate with Schiff
The Russian government made attempts to negotiate with Schiff, to "pull" him over to their side, or at least neutralize him. No amount of persuasion could persuade Schiff to stop helping the Russian revolutionary movement. Peace with the Romanovs cannot be concluded, Schiff declared.
Pogroms
Many historians believe that the position taken by the banker during the Russo-Japanese War is directly related to the deteriorating position of the Jews in Russia. Schiff, historians believe, did more than anyone else to exacerbate the problems of his Russian co-religionists, since he did not hide the fact that the war between Japan and Russia was made possible thanks to the money of Jewish bankers.
In August-September 1904, in October 1905, a wave of horrific Jewish pogroms swept through the cities and towns of Ukraine, Belarus, and then throughout Russia, caused by provocative accusations of Jews in unleashing a war and preparing a revolution. More than 800 Jews were killed during the pogroms (this number does not include those who died from injuries). The material damage caused to the Jewish population is estimated at more than 70 million rubles. According to other sources, more than 4,000 Jews died and about 10,000 were wounded in the pogroms. Schiff provided active financial support for the Jewish self-defense units.
As a result of the diplomatic pressure of Schiff and his entourage on the Russian government, the situation of Russian Jews worsened even more: in the period from 1912 to 1913, harsh laws were adopted in the country, by which Jews were deprived of the remnants of social rights and freedoms.
World War I
With the outbreak of war, the Russian government again turned to Schiff for help and did not change his position. He considered the provision of credit to Russia only under the condition of a change in the policy of the Russian authorities directed against the Jews.
February Revolution
Schiff enthusiastically welcomed the victory of the February Revolution. By a decree of April 6, 1917, Jews were given equal rights with the rest of the country's citizens. The revolution, according to Schiff, is a real miracle, even greater than the liberation of the biblical ancestors of the Jewish people from Egyptian captivity. They provided substantial financial support to the revolutionary government.
"Dissociate yourself from the Reds..."
In 1918, Schiff was accused of having won the Bolsheviks in Russia thanks to his money. Schiff sent a letter to the US Department, in which the banker categorically dissociated himself from the Reds.
Some historians, however, support information about the active financing of Leon Trotsky by Schiff. In addition, it is known that for almost thirty years after the victory of the revolution, American diplomats and intelligence officers were supplied with money from the Schiff syndicate.
Adler Cyrus book
The main sponsor of all Russian revolutions, Jacob Schiff, whose biography and success story are presented in the book of the historian and publicist Adler Cyrus, is still of interest today. The book was published in 2017 by the Moscow publishing house Tsentrpoligraf. 575 pages contain interesting facts from the life of the famous American banker, public figure and philanthropist, revealing the versatility of his personality. The book also contains Schiff's correspondence and other materials testifying to the versatility of his interests.
Before the revolution, the Jews had complete control over the tsarist government, just as they controlled the English government of Asquith and Lloyd George through Cassel, Spayer, Mond & Co.
Lloyd George, David (1863-1945) Photo from the book: The 20th century a chronicle in pictures. new york. 1989.
When the Asquith government fell, the Jews came to control Lloyd George through their brethren placed in literally every department in England and every place of any interest. At the same time, not only pure Jews work for the Jews, but also half-Jews and hidden Jews, in exactly the same way as it happened in Russia.
The Jewish danger is no longer a danger, it is already a fait accompli of the total Jewish dictatorship established over the whole world. Jews throughout the world are in complete control of all wealth, money, minerals and information. The sooner the British learn this fact for themselves, the better it will be for them, because until recently no one has prevented the Jews from carrying out the program of world control set out in the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
Victor Marsden. "Jews in Russia"
America's anti-Russian policy has been going on since 1904, when the Jewish banker Jacob Schiff financed the Japanese in the war against Russia, because it seemed to him that the Jews in Russia were treated without proper subservience.
Yakov Schiff, using his own money, organized a training camp in Japan for the training of revolutionary terrorists from among the Russian prisoners, among whom there were many Jews.
President Wilson's real boss at the Versailles Conference was the Jewish multimillionaire Bernard Baruch, who was the real head of the American delegation at the Versailles Peace Conference in Paris. This conference was by no means peaceful, as it was disguised. Bernard Baruch brought with him 117 Jewish specialists who, with the help of their compatriots in other delegations, shredded Europe in such a way that a new European war is indispensable.
How the Jewish Bull Terriers were set against Russia is clearly shown in Henry Ford's International Jewry, which contains a letter taken from official sources and addressed by a Russian Jew, Furstenberg, in New York, to a Jew named Rafael Scholan. The letter is dated "Stockholm September 21, 1917". The letter claims that Max Warburg, a Jewish banker from Hamburg, opened an account for Comrade Trotsky's enterprise, and that another person is responsible for supplying arms and ammunition and transporting weapons to their destination.
American newspaper "Jewish Chronicle" of April 4, 1919:
"The fact that there are so many Jews among the Bolsheviks simply reflects the fact that the ideas of Bolshevism in many places are also the very best ideas of Judaism."
Another American newspaper, The American Hebrew, writes in its issue of September 20, 1920:
“The Bolshevik revolution in Russia was the work of Jewish brains, Jewish dissatisfaction, Jewish planning, the goal of which was to create a world Jewish order. What was done in Russia in such an excellent way, thanks to Jewish brains, Jewish dissatisfaction and Jewish planning, will soon become a reality all over the world through the same Jewish mental and physical qualities.
Let's listen to the French. This is an excerpt from the correspondent of the French "L Illustration" R.Vaucher from the book "L Enfer Bolchevik a Petrograd" 1919.
“When we lived in close contact with the officials of the Bolshevik government, the fact that practically all of them are Jews is immediately evident. I am far from anti-Semitism, but I must confirm that everywhere: in Petrograd, in Moscow, in the provinces, in all the commissariats, in district offices, in Smolny, in former ministries, in the Soviets, I met Jews and only Jews. The more you study this revolution, the more you become convinced that Bolshevism is a Jewish movement.”
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Surely, you have already understood that the list of nominees is not limited to these people and it can be continued indefinitely. Someone changed the course of our history for the worse, and someone grandiosely did such deeds that the responses of his actions are felt even today, centuries later. Today we will tell you about one of these characters, whose actions are still changing our reality.
They said about him like this: "nothing Jewish is alien to his heart." The American Jewish Encyclopedia Judaica provides the following biographical information about Jacob Schiff: “Jacob Henry Schiff is an American financier and philanthropist. Born in Germany, descended from an outstanding rabbinic family. The founder of this family, Schiff Meyer Ben Jacob Ha-Cohen, is a major Talmudist and rabbinical author.
Jacob Schiff received a secular and religious education at a local school, following his father Moses, who was a partner in a Rothschild bank.
At the age of 18, Schiff emigrated to the United States, where he joined a brokerage firm in New York and became a partner of Budge, Schiff & K°. In 1875 he married the daughter of Solomon Loeb, who was the head of the banking firm of Kuhn, Loeb and Co., and joined that firm. And, as in that joke, it was here that the card flooded him. This bank was founded in 1867 by Abram Kuhn and Solomon Loeb. After the wedding, Schiff turned the bank, in which the main capital belonged to the wife's father, into one of the largest in America, and then bought out Abram Kuhn's share. It is noteworthy that the funds for this deal were given by the Rothschilds. It is also no less interesting that in 1894 the senior partner of Kuhn, Loeb and K ° Felix Warburg married Schiff's daughter, Frieda. Their daughter, in turn, married Walter Nathan Rothschild in 1916. This is probably pure coincidence, it just so happened that all these characters are closely related by family ties.
But back to Schiff, who was not limited to banking activities, but invested in industry. It was metallurgy, electrical, telegraph, and later telephone companies. A good profit was brought by investments in the development of railways.
As one of the leaders of the Jewish community in the United States, Schiff funded the creation of the Jewish Theological Seminary, Jewish departments in US public libraries. He was also vice president of the US Chamber of Commerce, was a member of the New York City Council for Education, and held many honorary posts.
In the biography of our nominee there are many examples of the support of God's chosen people, and everything would be fine if it did not harm the world around us, and in particular you and me.
Let's take a look at the three main goals pursued by Jacob Schiff that ultimately changed the course of our future.
Support any opponent of tsarist Russia
Jacob Schiff provided large loans to the American government, as well as to foreign governments. The largest of these, $200 million, was a loan to Japan during the Russo-Japanese War. Schiff believed that the tsarist regime in Russia was pursuing an anti-Semitic policy. Let's dwell on this issue in more detail.
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In July 1918, Jacob Schiff, an American Jewish banker and philanthropist, sent a message to the Russian Bolsheviks through US diplomatic channels ordering the extermination of the former Emperor Nicholas II and his family.
This well-hidden historical fact, as well as the process of deciding to kill the royal family, is described in the book Under the Sign of Scorpio by Yuri Ling. The following is a brief excerpt from that book:
“The order to kill the king and his family actually came from New York. Lenin said almost nothing about this issue. The Bolsheviks were forced to flee Yekaterinburg so hastily that they did not have time to destroy all the telegraph tapes. After the capture of Yekaterinburg by the "Whites", these tapes were discovered in the telegraph building by Nikolai Sokolov [the author of a detailed investigation conducted in 1919 under the leadership of the leader of the "White movement" Alexander Kolchak], who collected them, but could not decipher them. The decryption was carried out by a group of experts in Paris only in 1922. Sokolov discovered that the telegrams were of a very revealing nature, since they were directly related to the murder of the tsar and his family.
Chairman of the Central Executive Committee Yakov Sverdlov sent a telegram to Yakov Yurovsky informing him that after he informed Yakov Schiff in New York about the approach of the White Army to Yekaterinburg, he received an order from Schiff to liquidate the tsar and at the same time his family. This order was delivered to Sverdlov through the American representation, which at that time was in Vologda.
Sverdlov ordered Yurovsky to carry out this order. But the next day, Yurovsky decided to check whether the order really applied to the whole family or only to the former emperor. Sverdlov confirmed that the whole family should be destroyed, and Yurovsky was appointed responsible for the execution of the order.
Thus, Lenin did not take part in making this decision. Historian Edward Radzinsky, a Jew by origin, is trying to argue that it was Lenin who gave the order to kill the tsar and his family. But no such telegram was found in the archives. Radzinsky's explanation that Lenin's telegrams were destroyed does not stand up to scrutiny, since a huge amount of material has been preserved that compromises Lenin in other respects. Why did he have to destroy only this particular telegram, not paying attention to other incriminating documents?
In November 1924, Sokolov told a close friend that his publisher was afraid to publish these sensitive facts. They have been removed from the publication. Sokolov showed his friend the original telegraph messages and their transcripts. A month later, Sokolov died suddenly. At the time, he was scheduled to travel to the US to testify for the auto magnate Henry Ford, who was being sued by Kuhn, Loub & Co. for the publication of the book International Jewry.
Sokolov's book "The Murder of the Royal Family" was published in Berlin in 1925 without the above information. These facts were made public only in 1939 in the periodical The Tsar's Messenger. The role of Jacob Schiff in the murder of the royal family became known to the Russian public only in 1990.
(End quote, pages 276-277).
This revealing and extremely dangerous information about the true perpetrators of communism is probably the main reason that the book "Under the sign of the Scorpio" was actually under an unspoken ban, since it cannot be bought in bookstores, and Amazon.com restrains its sale with an extremely high prices (now $157.95). However, the ban applies not only to the book itself, but also to its author.
Jüri Lina, a former Estonian citizen now living in "liberal" Sweden, has found that freedom of expression, at least for him, is of very limited use. Now he is again faced with the need to conduct semi-underground lectures for small groups, as was the case in the “old times” in Soviet Estonia, before the KGB gave him a choice: either emigrate or be imprisoned.
Reference: Nikolai Alekseevich Sokolov was born in Mokshan, not far from Penza, in 1882. After working as a law teacher in Kharkiv, he was a judge and magistrate. After the October Revolution, he fled to Omsk. As a monarchist, he took part in several unsuccessful attempts to free the Romanov family. On February 7, 1919, he was officially appointed by Admiral Kolchak as an investigator in the case of the murder of the royal family.
In 1920, after the defeat of the White Army, Sokolov left Russia and settled in the small town of Salbri in France. Sick and penniless, with a young wife and two small children, he devoted himself to working on the results of his investigation, until his death on November 23, 1924. In the same year, his book Enqu?te judiciaire sur l'assassinat de la famille imp? riale Russe” (“The murder of the royal family. From the notes of the judicial investigator N. A. Sokolov”; approx. mixednews) was published by the Payot publishing house. In this book, he concluded that the entire Romanov family was killed in the Ipatiev House, and their bodies were cremated.
