A Study in American Jewish Leadership

appended an important condition to his donation. He stipulated that con- trol would rest primarily with Nathan in Berlin, but he ...

methods in attempting to seize communal control. He reported with satis- faction that even Schechter, an enrolled Zionist, agree ...

explained to Marshall, Schiff had resolved to attack the nationalists even though he felt very kindly toward the Hebraists. Most ...

hoped would testify to Jewish unity, became the property of the Hilfsver- ein. The outbreak of the war precluded further progres ...

... a man whose heart and soul are completely given to his people and whose only thought and concern is the fate of his sufferin ...

6 The World at War Questions of Loyalty In January 1917, Schiff celebrated his seventieth birthday, an occasion that brought for ...

have admitted that any of the three clashed with the others. The war years, however, particularly between 1914 and 1917, raised ...

anti-Jewish threats against Jewish financiers from a group called the Vigi- lance Committee.^4 Similar criticism emanated from P ...

for example, considered the idea of distributing democratic propaganda among German prisoners, just as Schiff and Kennan had don ...

the Warburg firm that heavily financed the German war effort, was also a natural target. German ambassador Johann von Bernstorff ...

and Kuhn, Loeb were not significant financiers of the German war machine came from an American government panel. In 1918 a subco ...

Answers from a hurt and indignant Schiff revealed the personal di- lemma of a man who desired to blend his Germanism with his Am ...

League to Enforce Peace. His message, which the organization quickly disavowed and which ran afoul of Allied sentiments, urged a ...

an Allied mission to the United States to secure a major loan for the Allies. In this instance, the banker again sought to balan ...

place in the public life of the country must have great courage to come out publicly and to say that he cannot take part in this ...

America at War Schiff’s pro-German sentiments never compromised his loyalty to Amer- ica. He was an American first: “I believe I ...

“moral” crusade. Now convinced that a war against Germany served the cause of justice, he said it was Germany’s responsibility t ...

for honoring dignitaries. He also cooperated with the Committee on Pub- lic Information and with the National Security League in ...

wake of events in Russia (March 1917), the concerns of Schiff and his friends suggest that the goal of 100 percent Americanism h ...

Integration and Americanization were the twin components of the mes- sage sent by the Jewish leaders to the community. Schiff, w ...