A Study in American Jewish Leadership

were obstinate men—but after initial differences were ironed out, Zangwill and Schiff joined forces.^24 Schiff bolstered the Eur ...

of the inevitable difficulties and obstacles that beset the venture reached his desk: shabby treatment of passengers aboard ship ...

ropean effort that Schiff considered necessary for assuring proper recruit- ment. And when Russia temporarily closed down most o ...

undertaken, unless Mr. Cable retires.” Politely but in no uncertain terms he threatened Taft and the Republican party with the l ...

possible settlements in Mesopotamia and Cyrenaica precluded the optimal administration of the Galveston plan in Europe. Neverthe ...

and the British colonies. Barely ten years later, Baron Maurice de Hirsch, frustrated in attempts to improve Jewish life in Russ ...

an influx of discontented settlers from Argentina as well as of the instability of Latin American nations.^40 The latter objecti ...

similar negotiations at the same time between Schiff and western railroad magnate James J. Hill. Failure in both cases, however, ...

Jewish settlement in Mesopotamia would ultimately seek was too remote an issue to worry about. Although Schiff did not express r ...

nent bankers, Cassel and Schiff. Doubtless his hopes were also raised by the appointment of Oscar Straus as American ambassador ...

However ready he was with concrete advice, Schiff adamantly turned down Zangwill’s proposition that he, Schiff, head the project ...

apolitical refuge. In Schiff’s calculations, Zionism, inherently wrong, undercut the chances of other refuges. Not only did it s ...

words: ‘to return to it,’ if his inspiration had not told him that the law of God went forth from Zion and its bearers became di ...

but it endangered Jews in the Turkish empire as well. True Judaism, a faith without nationalist trappings, mirrored the essence ...

nationalist and democratic banner. An apprehensive Schiff estimated that 75 percent to 90 percent of the masses were Zionists. I ...

hopefully that the sooner Herzl’s followers realized that the movement lacked a “substantial foundation,” the better it would be ...

he fired a major salvo in a public letter to Schechter. To be sure, Schechter had the right to join the Zionist movement without ...

how courageous he was in exposing the Zionist menace. Enjoying a good fight, he did not permit the differences in opinion to mar ...

others, Zionists should depopulate Jerusalem of those “degraded” Jews and insist that they do “actual work” elsewhere. Only then ...

As a non-Zionist, Schiff contributed to a wide variety of charitable and ed- ucational enterprises in the yishuv (the Jewish set ...