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...independent financier whose family has been in banking since the Ottoman Empire find happiness working for American Express? The answer seems to be no. In 1983, American Express bought Edmond J. Safra's Trade Development Bank for $520 million in cash and securities. Lebanese-born Safra is one of the world's most respected moneymen. He built a banking empire by giving meticulous attention to the accounts of wealthy Middle Easterners. What better way for American Express's bank to hit world-class status than to hire a world-class banker? Safra was offered the company...
...personalized style did not work in the American Express bureaucracy. Said one Wall Streeter: "He did not mesh well in a large organization." American Express is trying to minimize any damage to itself. It negotiated a no-competition agreement with Safra that runs through March 1988. The parent company also named Safra to its board and agreed to allow him to buy back some of the other properties he sold to American Express...
Yerushalmi came to Harvard in 1966, after receiving his doctorate from Columbia, studying under Salo W. Baron. Four years later he received tenure at Harvard as he became Safra Professor of Jewish History and Sephardic Civilization...
Sephardic Jewry Between Cross and Crescent--Yosef H. Yershalmi, Jacob Safra, Professor of Jewish History and Sephardic Civilization, Boylston Auditoriu...
...Arab revolt just getting under way across the Red Sea. He made a general nuisance of himself till he got ten days' leave. He headed straight for Feisal's army, was received by Feisal with the question: "And do you like our place here in Wadi Safra?" Said Lawrence: "Well; but it is far from Damascus." The story of the Arab revolt and Lawrence's part in it is now history. He and Feisal took to each other immediately; so did he and Auda, sheik of the Abu Tayi Howeitat, most famed fighter in Arabia, who had killed...