Tickets to Barry Boy's History Live at City Winery on Friday, December 12, 2025 are almost sold out.

Join me, Greg Young, and a roster of the city's best historians for an evening of stories from the past.

The show's theme, Hot Victorian Holiday.

That's Friday, December 12th, 2025.

Get your tickets at citywinery.com.

We hoped you enjoyed last week's new show on the other side of Ellis Island, featuring a tour of the ruins of the old Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital.

Next week, Tom will take you behind the scenes of the construction of America's great symbol of immigration,

back when it had many other different meanings.

But the show you're about to hear today links these two shows and adds a new dimension

to the story of American immigration in the late 19th and early 20th centuries,

an episode of the Gilded Gentleman from Carl Raymond

and an interview with historian Stephen Ujjifusa

about his book, now on paperback,

The Last Ships from Hamburg,

Business, Rivalry,

and the Race to Save Russia's Jews on the Eve of World War I.

It's one of my favorite books of the year,

and this is an especially fascinating

episode. Enjoy.

Hello. Hello, this is Carl Raymond, host of the Gilded Gentleman History Podcast,

where every two weeks we journey into corners light and dark of America's Gilded Age,

Francis Bellepuck, and England's late Victorian and Edwardian eras.

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