This Sephardic Jewish financier, born in 1740 in Leszno in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, emigrated to New York City in 1775 after studying finance in Western Europe. He became a major financial backer of the American Revolutionary War. Which figure is he?

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Haym Salomon. Haym Salomon, born in 1740 in Leszno in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, emigrated to New York City in 1775 and became a key financial backer of the American Revolutionary War. His Sephardic family had migrated from Spain and Portugal to Poland after 1492.