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"Our Crowd" The Great Jewish Families of New York Sally Waller and the incredible obsessions ofAuthor: Stephen Birmingham Publisher: Harper & Row, 1967 Condition: Hardcover, plastic covered, yellowed pages, annotations on first page, interior clean They immigrated to America from Germany in the nineteenth century with names like Loeb, Sachs, Seligman, Lehman, Guggenheim, and Goldman. From tenements on the Lower East Side to Park Avenue mansions, this handful of Jewish families turned small businesses into imposing enterprises and amassed