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SUMMARY:&quot\;'If I were a Rich Man...'  The extraordinary rise and fall 
 of the Jewish department store entrepreneur in Germany 1881-1939' - Dr Joh
 n F. Mueller\, Wolfson College
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CONTACT:Graham Allen
DESCRIPTION:The year 1881 is a remarkable one in German commercial history
 . It is the foundation date of half a dozen small provincial and seemingly
  unconnected haberdashery stores\, that would flourish within less than a 
 decade to become the leading retailers of the German Empire. Within a sing
 le generation a group of extraordinary Jewish entrepreneurs turned from ha
 wkers into the celebrated captains of the town's chambers of commerce. Whi
 le their pioneering fathers and mothers\, who had weathered many crisis an
 d war\, passed out of their businesses in the 1920s secure in the knowledg
 e that the family business would prevail\, seismic shifts in the economy b
 rought an enormous challenge to their children.
LOCATION:Combination Room\, Wolfson College
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