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Episode 84: Writing Page-Turning Banking History with Rebecca Kobrin
September 7th, 2026 | 47 mins 48 secs
antisemitism, banking history, columbia university, harvard university press, immigration history, jewish history, new york history, spatial history
We’re talking to Columbia University Professor of History Rebecca Kobrin about writing her most recent book, Credit to the Nation: Eastern European Jewish Immigrant Bankers and the Shaping of American Finance, 1873–1930, and about putting individuals at the center of our histories. We also talk about how leading walking tours leads to writing better histories, and Kobrin’s involvement in the online Mapping Historic New York project.