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The story of the feather industry's boom and bust spans three continents and nearly four decades, involving transnational trade, culture clashes, questionable labor practices and a ridiculous bubble market that, when it burst in roughly 1914, wreaked havoc on thousands of people, particularly--argues Sarah Abrevaya Stein in her new book Plumes: Ostrich Feathers, Jews, and a Lost World of Global Commerce--Jews.
FORBES: Magazine Article
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Five years ago he handed over the management of Seagram to his son Edgar Jr. (while retaining the chairmanship) and took up the cause of financial justice for Jews who lost their homes and possessions in World War II.
FORBES: The confrontationist
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The statement Senator Durbin made last week gave at least as much offense to victims of past systematic and violent wrongdoing - to Jews and others who lost some six-million loved ones to Hitler's gas chambers and death camps, to those whose kith and kin were among the 20 or so million exterminated by Soviet Communism and to those subjected to Pol Pot's murderous terror.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Dustbin Durbin