Do you know much about Jacob Schiff?

The Schiffs ofFrankfurt-am-Main often compared themselves to the Rothschilds of the same city. (Jacob Schiff was of a younger generation of immigrants than the Seligmans, a gener- ation that was coming not from poor country families but from wealthy city ones as well.) In the eighteenth century the Schiffs and Rothschilds shared a double house in the Frankfurt Juden- gasse where the identifying house signs, "Zum Schiff and "Zum Roten Schild, " hung alongside each other until one of the Schiffs, already prosperous enough to move to London, sold the balance of the house to the first rich Rothschild

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