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2 weeks ago | 
washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com | Brody Mullins |Luke Mullins |Diane Kiesel |Steven Ujifusa
The historian rediscovers a hidden founder of the Underground Railroad and a remarkably human clergyman. Author Q&A,
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Sep 5, 2024 | 
steveujifusa.substack.com | Steven Ujifusa
I’m pleased to release my first “Wet Lunch on the High Seas” author interview. The guest is Darrell Hartman, author of the acclaimed Battle of Ink and Ice: A Sensational Story of News Barons, North Pole Explorers, and the Making of Modern Media (Penguin Random House, 2023). The book chronicles the disputed 1909 North Pole expeditions of Robert Peary and Frederick Cook, and the prominent news barons (Adolph Ochs and James Gordon Bennett) who financed the voyages of these rival explorers.
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Jun 6, 2024 | 
zip06.com | Steven Ujifusa
The Last Ships from Hamburg by Steven Ujifusa Leading up to World War I, the United States has become the choice for those seeking religious, political, and economic freedom in the face of persecution. But soon resentment brings conflict. Voices to limit immigration grow louder. This maritime history of the great transatlantic steamship era is a lesson about the voices we hear today, and a masterful history to read in our own perilous time. Geoffrey, The Griswold Inn Store, Essex
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Mar 13, 2024 | 
radio.foxnews.com | Steven Ujifusa |Kaitlyn Miller
The Resilient Story of Russian Jews
Born to a Jewish mother and a Japanese American father, author and historian Steven Ujifusa has always taken a great interest in his family’s rich history. After digging into the life of his maternal grandmother, who was the daughter of Jewish immigrants from Russia, he discovered a largely covered-over period in history he felt compelled to share with the world.
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Feb 23, 2024 | 
steveujifusa.substack.com | Steven Ujifusa
Albert Ballin (1857-1918), general director of the Hamburg-America Line. A German Jew, Ballin transformed HAPAG into the largest shipping company in the world, and the biggest carrier of Eastern European immigrants to America. Thanks for reading Wet Lunch on the High Seas! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.
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Feb 15, 2024 | 
boisestatepublicradio.org | Steven Ujifusa
From 1890 to 1921, 2.5 million Jews fleeing anti-semitic violence in Eastern Europe came to the United States aided by three businessmen including German-Jewish shipping magnate Albert Ballin.
Author Steven 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 talk about the book.
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Dec 18, 2023 | 
washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com | Steven Ujifusa
It’s a grand, epic story. During America’s classic age of immigration, from 1880 until the 1914 start of World War I, almost 20 million people left their homes in Europe seeking a better life. They crossed hostile frontiers, then the Atlantic Ocean, facing risks and hardships. Once here, they fundamentally changed the complexion of the United States. For Jews, who represented about 1.5 million of those immigrants, the story has special poignance.
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Dec 8, 2023 | 
newsbreak.com | Steven Ujifusa
Forget your past, your customs, your ideals. Select a goal and pursue it with all your might. No matter what happens to you, hold on. You will experience a bad time but sooner or later you will achieve your goal. A bit of advice for you: Do not take a moment’s rest. Run, do, work and keep your own good in mind. A final virtue is needed in America—called cheek….
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Nov 27, 2023 | 
lithub.com | Steven Ujifusa
The Last Ships from Hamburg tells the story of how the ancestors of most American Jews arrived in this country. Between 1881 and 1914, over two million Jews came to the United States from Central and Eastern Europe, part of the largest human migration in human history. Most of them came from the Russian Empire, where antisemitism was encouraged by the absolutist czarist regime as a means to deflect political attention away from its own deep-seated problems.
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Nov 24, 2023 | 
airmail.news | Steven Ujifusa
When I disembarked at the Freistadt train station in October 2021, I was greeted by an empty platform and the twinkling of lights far in the distance. There were no taxis in the small Austrian village at eight P.M. on a Sunday, so, carrying my suitcase and laptop bag, I walked to my hotel in town, guided by the light of my phone’s map. Herr Heinz Hueber greeted me the next morning.
