O’Bryant said Hamburg declined long before the 1876 massacre. The Hamburg Massacre took place July 18, 1876, when Thomas McKie Meriwether and nearly 200 other members of a white mob attacked a ...

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 ...

Author Stephen Ujifusa tells the story in the book, "The Last Ships from Hamburg: Business, Rivalry, and the Race to Save Russia's Jews on the Eve of World War I." Ujifusa joins host Scott Tong to ...