'He spent most of his career in the City of London, involved in the trading of base metals, especially copper. He was a protégé of top metal trader Manfred Kopelman .. one of the top metal traders at Philipp where Mr Farmer was mainly focused on the copper market.'
Philipp Brothers: The Rise and Fall of a Trading Giant 1901-1990 - Waszkis, Helmut
'In 1901 Julius Philipp, an Orthodox Jew, founded a small metal trading company in Hamburg, Germany and then in 1909, Philipp's younger brother, Oscar Philipp established a metal trading company in London under the name of Philipp Brothers '..
" Philipp Brothers became the largest metals merchant in the world in the 1960s.
In 1967, it was acquired and became the Philipp Brothers Division of Engelhard Minerals & Chemicals Corporation." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phibro
"In 1981 the company was spun off as Phibro Corporation, and that same year the company subsequently acquired Salomon Brothers, creating Phibro-Salomon Inc."..
"In 1983, Michael Farmer, Baron Farmer joined Anglo Chemical, which was part of Phibro-Salomon, as head of global base metal trading until 1989. Phibro Energy, Inc. was established in 1984, absorbing the oil department of Philipp Brothers." nytimes.com/2016/03/10/bus…
" In 1993, Phibro Energy, Inc. became the Phibro Energy Division of Salomon Inc. It was renamed simply "Phibro" in 1996, and in 1997, Salomon was acquired by Travelers Group , which merged with Citicorp to form Citigroup in 1998"
" At age 12, representatives of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society found Esther Kopelman and sent her to England, where she eventually was reunited with her siblings. She completed nurse’s training, and spent World War II helping wounded soldiers and enduring the London Blitz"..
"Afterward, she immigrated to the United States, and found work as a nurse in Beth Israel Hospital in New York City, which enabled her to send food packages to her sisters and brother in England..
In 1982, she and her husband Sam endowed the library at Congregation Shomrei Emunah, Montclair, in memory of their son Alan, who died in 1981."
HIAS (founded as the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society) established the HIAS Immigrant Bank at 425 Lafayette Street in the East Village in 1923. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIAS
"The street originated as a real estate speculation by John Jacob Astor,who had bought a large market garden in 1804, for $45,000, & leased part of the site to Joseph Delacroix, who erected a popular resort and called it "Vauxhall Gardens"after the famous resort nr. London."🎶
The Astor Library was sold sold in January 12, 1920 .. HIAS then hired architect Benjamin Levitan to oversee the necessary alterations to create a suitable New York City headquarters. ..🎶
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After the final structural reconstruction efforts were finished, a community bazaar was held to furnish the building, it was dedicated by President Warren G. Harding on June 5, 1920.🎶
In the port cities on the east coast of the United States in the late 19th and early 20th century, many charitable organizations aided immigrants arriving from Europe. The Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) was one of those organizations.🎶
"In 1951, HIAS and Council Migration Service of Philadelphia, .. acquired the steamship ticket purchase ledgers. HIAS Philadelphia utilized these ledgers to verify immigration information when assisting individuals with the naturalization process .. jewishgen.org/databases/usa/…
Although steamship agents and immigrant banks in Philadelphia were plentiful, few records of their activities are known to have survived with the exception of 4 steamship agents who primarily served the Eastern European Jewish population..
'These four steamship agents--M. L. Blitzstein and Co., M. Rosenbaum and Co., Peoples Bank and Trust Company, and Rosenbluth Brothers.'
"Jews of the Russian empire formed a special group among late 19thC immigrants. They came to the US fleeing persecution .. Jewish emigration grew in the 1870s, but the numbers leaving Russia exploded in the 1880s.
This was partly the result of pogroms set off by the assassination of Tsar Alexander II in 1881"🎶
"In Philadelphia, four major Jewish banks emerged: the Blitzstein Bank, the Lipshutz Bank, the Rosenbluth Bank, and the Rosenbaum Bank. All had similar patterns of development and activity. They were family enterprises generally founded during the 1890s, and they
became prosperous in the first decade of the twentieth century. Three, the Rosenbluth, Lipshutz, and Rosenbaum banks, were founded by Jewish immigrants from the Austro-Hungarian empire."
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