Henry Morgenthau III

Henry Morgenthau III
Born (1917-01-11) January 11, 1917
New York City, New York
Nationality United States
Ethnicity Jewish
Occupation author and television producer
Religion Judaism
Spouse(s) Ruth Schachter Morgenthau
Children Sarah Morgenthau Wessel
H. Ben Morgenthau
Kramer Morgenthau
Parent(s) Elinor Fatman Morgenthau
Henry Morgenthau, Jr.
Family Barbara Tuchman (cousin)
Mayer Lehman (great grandfather)

Henry Morgenthau III (January 11, 1917) American author and television producer, and scion of the famous Morgenthau dynasty and member of the Lehman family.

Henry Morgenthau III

Biography

Henry Morgenthau III is the son of Elinor (nee Fatman), granddaughter of Mayer Lehman, a co-founder of Lehman Brothers[1] and Henry Morgenthau, Jr., who was Franklin D. Roosevelt's U.S. Secretary of the Treasury.[2] He is also the grandson of US Ambassador Henry Morgenthau, Sr. and grandnephew[3] of New York Governor and Senator Herbert H. Lehman.[4] Henry Morgenthau III is brother of former New York County District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau,[5] as well as of Joan Elizabeth Morgenthau Hirschhorn (October 9, 1922 - October 1, 2012),[6] who was professor of clinical pediatrics and preventive medicine and the associate dean for student affairs at Mount Sinai School of Medicine.[7] His cousin is eminent American historian Barbara Tuchman.[8]

During the World War II, Henry Morgenthau III served in the US Army. From 1945 he was involved in the television business, at various times working as an author, producer and manager for the larger national institutions like NBC, CBS and ABC.[9] From 1955 to 1977, Henry Morgenthau III was a chief producer of WGBH (Boston).[10] His shows at WGBH won Peabody, Emmy, UPI, Educational Film Library Association, and Flaherty Film Festival awards. Also he was also the acting program manager at WYNC.[11] Henry Morgenthau III served as a vice president of the Eleanor Roosevelt Institute. He also was a manager of the Morse Communication Center[12] at the Brandeis University.

Morgenthau III was producer Prospects of Mankind with Eleanor Roosevelt (1959).[13] The Negro and the American Promise (1963), Conversation with Svetlana Alliluyeva (1967), of Screamers (2006 film). He was story editor of A Tale of Two Christmases (21 Dec. 1952)

Authorship

He wrote Morgenthau family saga Mostly Morgenthaus: A Family History (1991), focused on several patriarchs: The first Morgenthau of record, Moses (1773-1834), impoverished teacher of Hebrew from Gleusdorf in Bavaria, who later became a ritual slaughterer married to a rabbi’s daughter, was required to take a family name when the Jews of Bavaria were granted citizenship in 1813.[14] Waiting in line at city hall in the predawn, he looked at the damp ground and decided to call himself Morgen Tau ("morning dew'' in German). His and Brunhilda Morgenthau's son, Lazarus[15] (1815-1897) was making nicotine-free cigars, candy from pine needles, tongue scrapers, and gum-label machines. Married in 1843 to Seline Babette Guggenheim, he moved to the liberal city of Mannheim and opened a cigar manufactory, a business that grew rapidly when his brother Max (also called Mengo) wrote from California in 1849 suggesting he ship his cigars to the American market. Lazarus’ rise to success had been extraordinary, but the luck that had followed him could not prevent the business failure that followed the rise of protective tariffs in the United States when war broke out there in 1861. Financially overextended, Lazarus moved to New York in 1866, where his fortunes plummeted further. Lazarus's ninth child, Henry Sr. (1856-1946), saw his mission as restoring the family to its rightful position.[16] As Wilson's ambassador to Turkey during the crucial years before and during World War I, he supported the Jews in Palestine and heroically rescued Armenians persecuted by the Turks. Henry Jr. (1891-1967)[17] was a close friend of both Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt,[18] FDR's Secretary of the Treasury and leader of U.S. efforts on behalf of Holocaust survivors.[19]

In his book Henry Morgenthau III casts doubt on the alleged Communist associations of his father's Treasury aide Harry Dexter White, whom Whitaker Chambers accused of being a Soviet spy and conspirator.

Awards

On May 79, 2015, at Marriott Marques Hotel in Washington DC, during the National Commemoration of the Armenian Genocide Centennial Reception And Award Banquet, Catholicos Karekin II presented an award to Henry Morgenthau III.[20]

Personal life

Henry Morgenthau III is an observant Jew who rediscovered his religion after his marriage in 1962. His Viennese born wife, Ruth Schachter Morgenthau (January 26, 1931 - November 4, 2006), was professor of international politics at Brandeis University and an advisor to President Jimmy Carter on rural development in poor countries. Her parents, Osias and Mizia Kramer Schachter, owned a textile importing company until they fled from the Nazis in 1940. She graduated from Barnard College in 1952, then attended the Institut d’Études Politiques in Paris as a Fulbright scholar. In 1958, she received a doctorate in politics from Oxford. In 1964, she wrote “Political Parties in French-Speaking West Africa".[21] She was a member of the United States Mission to the United Nations, and in 1988 ran unsuccessfully as a Democratic candidate for Congress in Rhode Island.[22] He and his wife had two sons: Henry (Ben) Morgenthau (born 1964) and cinematographer Kramer Morgenthau (born 1966); and a daughter, Sarah Elinor Morgenthau Wessel (born 1963).[23][22][24]

References

  1. ↑ New York Times: "Joan Morgenthau Hirschhorn" October 7, 2012
  2. ↑ "Henry Morgenthau III". Goodreads. Retrieved 2015-07-14.
  3. ↑ Kestenbaum, Lawrence. "The Political Graveyard: Morgenthau-Lehman family of New York". The Political Graveyard. Retrieved 2015-07-13.
  4. ↑ "Lehmans To Celebrate Rich Family History - The New York Sun". The New York Sun. Retrieved 2015-07-13.
  5. ↑ Franks, Lucinda (August 19, 2014). Timeless: Love, Morgenthau, and Me (1st ed.). Sarah Crichton Books. ISBN 9780374280802.
  6. ↑ "Joan Morgenthau Hirschhorn's Obituary on". GreenwichTime. Retrieved 2015-07-13.
  7. ↑ "Alumni". Retrieved 2015-07-13.
  8. ↑ Pace, Eric (1989-02-07). "Barbara Tuchman Dead at 77; A Pulitzer-Winning Historian". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2015-07-13.
  9. ↑ "Henry Morgenthau | WYNC | ZoomInfo.com". ZoomInfo. Retrieved 2015-07-13.
  10. ↑ "Robert D. Farber University Archives and Special Collections Department | LTS | Brandeis University". lts.brandeis.edu. Retrieved 2015-07-13.
  11. ↑ Starr, Jerold M. (August 2001). Air Wars: The Fight to Reclaim Public Broadcasting. Philadelphia: Temple Univ Pr. ISBN 9781566399135.
  12. ↑ "Robert D. Farber University Archives & Special Collections | LTS | Brandeis University". Library & Technology Services of Brandeis University. Retrieved 2015-07-13.
  13. ↑ "Henry Morgenthau III Papers Relating to the Television Series "Eleanor Roosevelt: Prospects of Mankind", 1959-1962 | Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library & Museum". he Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum. Retrieved 2015-07-13.
  14. ↑ "Morgenthau Family Tree" (PDF). Museum of Jewish Heritage. Retrieved 2015-07-13.
  15. ↑ "The Henry Morgenthaus, I, II and III (and Henry's father Lazarus)". Arthur Thinks (He Thinks). Retrieved 2015-07-13.
  16. ↑ "The Morgenthaus: A Legacy of Service". Museum of Jewish Heritage. Retrieved 2015-07-13.
  17. ↑ "Henry Morgenthau". United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Retrieved 2015-07-13.
  18. ↑ "Henry Morgenthau, Jr. (1891- 1967)". www.gwu.edu. Retrieved 2015-07-13.
  19. ↑ Morgenthau, Henry (September 17, 1991). Mostly Morgenthaus: A Family History (First ed.). New York, NY: Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 9780899199764.
  20. ↑ "His Holiness Karekin II presents an award to Henry Morgenthau III during the NCAGC Reception And Award Banquet at Marriott Marques Hotel on May 79, 2015 in Washington DC.". Retrieved 2015-07-12.
  21. ↑ Morgenthau, Ruth Schachter (1964). Political Parties in French-Speaking West Africa (First ed.). Oxford University Press.
  22. 1 2 Hevesi, Dennis (2006-11-12). "Ruth S. Morgenthau, 75, an Adviser to Carter, Is Dead". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2015-07-13.
  23. ↑ Morgenthau Family Tree retrieved October 3, 2015
  24. ↑ New York Times: "WEDDINGS; Carlton Wessel, Sarah Morgenthau" September 6, 1993

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