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Macy’s Moguls The Straus Brothers The rags to riches story of Isidor and Nathan Straus.

by Ronda Robinson

M

iracle on 34th Street, a perennial classic this time of year about a man named Kris Kringle hired to play Santa at Macy’s, took poetic license. One of the main characters was R.H. Macy, who actually died in 1877, decades before the story in the 1947 movie took place.

In reality, two Jewish brothers, Isidor and Nathan Straus, had become the sole owners of Macy’s in 1896.

They were the first businessmen in America to form a mutual aid society to help their employees with medical care. They had a doctor and nurse on the premises. They also provided picnics and sleigh rides, low-cost lunches and Thanksgiving turkeys for their employees.

The German-Jewish family, who owned Macy’s for a century, became well known for their devotion to social welfare, not only for employees, but also the larger community, nation

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and Israel.

“Their legacy is of compassion and kindness and a serious commitment to business,” says Joan Adler, executive director of the Straus Historical Society Inc. “They were very, very employee conscious,” agrees Robert Grippo, author of two books about Macy’s.

“They believed in giving back.”

Grippo wrote in “Macy’s: The Store. The Star. The Story” that if one of the brothers notices an employee

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The Israeli coastal city Netanya was named in honor of Nathan Straus.

and he didn’t believe he could do both.

Although he never held a New York City office, he was active in many organizations that supported the commerce and industry of the city. He also devoted his time to philanthropic organizations.

Isidor & Ida Blun Straus (Courtesy of Straus Historical Society) He helped establish Montefiore Hospital and the Educational Alliance (Settlement House) in New York. The latter began as a place for immigrants in congested tenements to learn how to acclimate to the United States. All told, the alliance has helped 4 million New Yorkers of diverse backgrounds.

The Titanic Isidor was at the helm as president of Macy’s until he and his wife, Ida, died on the Titanic when it hit an iceberg and sank in 1912.

“Mrs. Straus had a chance to be saved, but she refused to leave her husband,” a Titanic survivor reported, explaining that lifeboats rescued women and children first. “As our boat moved away from the ship, the last boat of all, we could plainly see Mr. and Mrs. Straus standing near the rail with their arms around each other.

“The lights of the Titanic were all burning and the band was playing. To me the most affecting episode of the whole disaster was that final glimpse of this elderly couple awaiting the end together.”

The Ida and Isidor Straus Memorial Plaque mounted in the Manhattan Macy’s “Their lives were beautiful and their deaths glorious.” The sentiment long graced a plaque inside what became known as Macy’s Memorial Entrance, on 34th Street in New York.

Newspaper headlines like “Mr. and Mrs. Straus Go Down with Arms Entwined” riveted readers. More than 2,000 people packed Carnegie Hall to pay their respects and hear tributes to the Strauses. An estimated 40,000 attended a memorial service at The Educational Alliance.

A New York Times obituary recalled Isidor as a director in many

seemed troubled or unwell, he would inquire about the problem and provide whatever assistance was needed, whether it was money, a new suit or a doctor’s services. “This sincere interest created a warm family feeling and esprit de corps that was long remarked upon by Macy’s employees.”

The Straus Family history is a rags to riches immigrant story. Isidor and Nathan’s father, Lazarus, immigrated to the United States in 1852, following the 1848 revolution in Germany and the economic difficulties that ensued.

Philadelphia was the center of the German Jewish population at that time, but Lazarus was told he would find better opportunities in the South.

He made his way to Oglethorpe, Ga., where fellow German Jews set him up as a pushcart peddler to the plantation owners. By 1854 he had opened a drygoods store in Talbotton, Ga., and sent for his wife Sara and four surviving children. A fifth child had died at age 1½ years old.

In 1863 they moved to a larger town 40 miles away, Columbus, Ga., where

they became successful merchants.

Yet they couldn’t feel comfortable in the shadow of chaos once again: the Civil War. At the close of the war in 1865, much of Columbus was reduced to ashes. Lazarus moved his family to New York, opening a company that imported china, porcelain, glassware and crockery. The firm became known throughout the world.

In 1873 the Strauses convinced Rowland H. Macy to allow them to run a concession in the basement of his store on 14th Street. By 1884 they were part-owners of R. H. Macy’s & Co., and by 1896 they were the sole owners.

Like Macy’s, Isidor’s star was rising. More than any other, he was the man who made Macy’s, according to Joan Adler. ”They had a huge house on W. 105th Street with the first indoor porcelain bathtub.”

Isidor was also a U.S. Congressman from 1894-1895. He was asked to run for re-election but declined, stating his responsibilities at home were great

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and supporter of almost every philanthropic institution in New York.

That remains the family’s legacy several generations later – as individuals and business and community leaders.

Adler calls them an “unbelievably high-achieving family who are very mindful of the opportunity they’ve been given and believe in paying it forward.”

Nathan Straus’s Legacy Isidor’s business partner, his brother Nathan, brought pasteurization to the world. He may have become interested after a cow on his farm died of tuberculosis. He learned Louis Pasteur’s heat process to kill bacteria in liquids and hired scientists to build a laboratory to make clean milk. Then he created depots across New York to distribute pasteurized milk at low or no cost.

Nathan is credited with saving the lives of countless babies.

“It is due entirely to your campaign for the purification of the milk of the city of some years ago that the Health Department has been able to report recently that the mortality figures have been cut just in half. One infant out of every two in New York owes its existence to you,” the mayor of New York told him.

An avid Zionist after his first trip to Palestine in 1904, Nathan built food pantries and helped found the Joint Distribution Committee. He provided money for the establishment of the Jerusalem Health Center and gave the building over to Hadassah when it opened in 1929. Straus Street in Jerusalem is named in honor of him and his wife, Lina.

The Israeli coastal city Netanya, founded in 1928, was also named in honor of Nathan Straus.

With all their successes, the Straus family has known its share of heartache. “Theirs was an era when children died,” says Adler. “Each of them had children who didn’t make it.

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I think that was the biggest struggle, health.”

Lazarus, the patriarch who moved his brood from Germany to the United States, had to start over in a new country and then again when he lost almost everything during the Civil War. A century later, the empire his heirs built was gone with the wind.

“The Rain on Macy’s Parade: How Greed, Ambition, and Folly Ruined America’s Greatest Store” by Jeffrey Trachtenberg chronicles the takeover of Macy’s by the chairman (who wasn’t related to the Strauses) and a group of board members in 1986. Their leveraged buyout meant the end of a revered business culture.

However, the Straus culture lives on in more than 1,000 family members, according to historian Adler. They continue to donate time and money to worthy endeavors and put a proud face to the Jewish immigrant experience in America.

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Cleaning Queen What I learned from my Israeli cleaning lady.

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by Dina Coopersmith Well, that’s for sure. It seemed I couldn’t argue with her either.

The words just wouldn’t come out.

I shrugged in defeat. I wasn’t going to let this lady and the sudden hemorrhaging of my wallet get me down. I was going to focus on the wonderful cleaning job she was doing and forget about the money. For now.

Throughout the afternoon, whenever I stopped in to gauge her progress, she would stop, show me around my now gleaming windows/ doors, drawer handles, and ask me, “How have you survived this long without me? Don’t you do anything to maintain this place? Such a beautiful house and you can’t even see it! What has your other cleaning lady been doing? Now you can finally breathe in this room!” She sighed in pleasure, looking as if she were the only woman in the world who had discovered life’s purpose: cleaning!

Three hours later, there was soapy water all over my kitchen floor, and she was on a ladder shining the top windows of the porch (windows I don’t get to more than once a year).

“Um, Tzippy?” I gingerly started, “Normally, I’d like you to come for about two hours each time. I understand the first time takes longer, but when do you think, um, you’ll be done?”

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“Two hours? In this house? You’ll never finish it by Pesach at this rate!

Well, whatever! It’s up to you -whenever you want, I’ll leave. It’s your house, right?”

Right. Somehow I’d forgotten.

When she finally left -- an hour later -- her parting response to my feeble complaint about having been left completely broke was, “Well maybe you should get yourself another job.

You need me, sweetheart!”

I slumped down on the couch, drained. Why did I feel so inadequate?

Why did I find myself completely tongue-tied when faced with this woman who had this one skill I lacked -- the ability to make surfaces shine?

Didn’t I have a Masters degree and 15 years of teaching experience under my belt? And here I was giving myself a pep-talk after a few hours with a cleaning lady, for heaven’s sake! I was definitely losing it.

Then I realized (after bemoaning my fate as the only sucker who would buy no-brand Ajax for $13) that the issue was this: Tzippy had mastered the art of elevating the mundane to the meaningful. She took her expertise and perfected it. She was no mere cleaning lady; she was a “home organizer.” To her, every act of rubbing, scrubbing, shpritzing

and washing was immeasurably important, even holy. Her life was filled with excitement and pleasure.

And that’s what made me feel vulnerable. It was a lesson I needed to learn and integrate into my own life.

My life is filled with many meaningful and satisfying activities. Being a wife, mother and teacher give me purpose and joy. But every day also contains those repetitive, dull, less-thaninspiring moments that I frequently find taxing. After a few hours worth of teenager rantings, children’s insistent requests and demands, running around with a two-year-old in the park, changing diapers, feeding, cooking, doing laundry, cleaning up over and over again, I often feel justified in being bad-tempered. How can I feel energized and fulfilled, I reason, after so many hours of tedious, physical activities?

I often rejuvenate by doing some stimulating Jewish learning, going out for coffee with a friend, or having a phone-date with a study partner. I assume I need to escape from these mundane responsibilities to maintain my equilibrium. Seeing Tzippy take charge like a queen in her palace showed me that instead I can find purpose within the concrete activities themselves. I can choose to view every

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It’s not easy, but it is possible for me to reframe and review all those physical acts in my day as having immense value and meaning. In any routine, mundane moment, there exists the potential for spirituality and fulfillment.

Don’t get me wrong. I’m not about to give up my teaching job to make sure I have enough time to keep the tub spotless and shining. I still can’t quite connect to the wonderful joy of cleaning floors that will get dirty again moments later. So thank God for the Tzippys of the world!

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DAIKON AND CARROT SALAD Instructions

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Ingredients ½ lb white raddish/daikon ½ lb carrots 3 stalks scallions 1 red pepper, cut in strips 1 tsp salt Dressing 2 Tbs apple cider vinegar or plain lemon juice 4 Tbs olive oil 1 Tbs maple syrup 3 Tbs sesame seeds toasted (optional)

Peel and grate the daikon; sprinkle with some salt and set aside for 30 minutes.

Peel and grate the carrots. Chop the scallions. Toast a pan sesame seeds in a pan in the oven for 10 minutes, or in on the stove stirring frequently so that they do not burn. ts, Drain the grated daikon. Combine daikon, carro ing scallion and red pepper. In a glass bowl combine dress and ingredients and mix well. Pour dressing over vegetables d. toss well. Sprinkle with toasted sesame seeds if desire

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LAD WARM OYSTER MUSHROOM AND VEGETABLE SA Coarse sea salt (gray salt) ote Oyster mushrooms or Tree oysters, known as Pleur Freshly ground pepper e. mushrooms in French, are very popular in French cuisin 2 tsp finely chopped garlic round They are large grayish beige mushrooms with a 1/2 chopped (1/4 inch) red bell pepper of funnel-shaped hat that grow in clusters on the trunk 1 large tomato cubed tomed trees. Unlike the common mushrooms we are accus 3 cups chopped (1/4 inch) zucchini taste to consuming, the Oyster mushroom gives a delicious 3 cups finely chopped (1/4 inch) yellow summer not be to salads or cooked dishes. When fresh they need in squash peeled and only need a quick checking over. Find them 1/4 cup coarsely chopped fresh basil (optional) the vegetable section of supermarkets.

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In 12-inch skillet sautĂŠ onion and garlic in the oil over I thoroughly enjoy these mushrooms any which way and medium-high heat, until translucent. Add all vegetables they are served. kle Sprin r. tende cook about 10 minutes until vegetables are , water and tarch with salt and pepper to taste. Pour in corns Ingredients e becom re mixtu stir everything thoroughly and watch the thick and delicious.

3 Tbs extra-virgin olive oil of Serve warm or at room temperature. Serve over a bed 2 cups sliced fresh Oyster/Pleurote and/or Portobello is. as fluffy brown rice, or your favorite pasta, or mushrooms (cut into 1/4 inch thick) 1 onion chopped Preparation 20 minutes Serves 8 2 cloves garlic 1 cup thinly sliced leeks (white portions only)

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Add cubed vegetables and allow to sweat for 20 minutes. Cover generously with water and add spices to taste. Allow to cook for 45 minutes. At this point, thi s soup can be left as is, or it can be pureed and it will be a most tasty cream of squash soup. Add strands of spaghe tti squash (baked for 20 minute s) last to simulate noodles.

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HEARTY RICE AND BEANS ry, This meal is the national dish in my native count called beans and rice ate lation popu Brazil. The general lunch arroz e feijao, literally 3 times a day, for breakfast, For ious. nutrit very is it in, prote full and dinner. As a to used We . nient conve and cheap Brazilians it was very Rice time. lunch at l schoo in day the of eat the main meal item and beans was featured daily along with one other and food rt comfo a dish this der consi I for variety. Today, by. gone days for lgia nosta prepare it with some First, prepare the rice.

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