A Study in American Jewish Leadership

Although Schiff believed he had proved his point, the Lee Frankel epi- sode, which followed shortly thereafter, compounded his u ...

thought it more prudent not to make it a Jewish issue, lashed out at the dis- criminatory ruling. Theodore Roosevelt was also al ...

Opposition to the militant pacifists came to a head in the mayoral elec- tion of 1917, which pitted a Socialist and Jew, Morris ...

Jews. When Magnes retorted that his own sympathies lay with the Bolshe- viks, his barefaced contradiction of Schiff, the man who ...

Jubilant New Yorkers staged mass meetings to celebrate the overthrow of the czar. Jews were especially elated; their archpersecu ...

rights might be saved: “Publication of this work will serve to show the world the enormous stride towards civilization which is ...

avoid compromise for the sake of rigid principle. Less concerned with the aggrandizement of personal power, he spent the latter ...

the AJC turned to the problem of relief. All recognized that unity among American Jews was essential to meeting the staggering n ...

back and emptied its contents upon the stage also.... One man sent a dol- lar bill, with a note saying that he had with him only ...

Schiff left the mechanics of administration principally to his son-in-law, Felix Warburg, but his own hands-on style was apparen ...

than neutral, they sought a greater say in the allocation and distribution of funds. To avoid a rupture over relief, Schiff ther ...

press for Jewish rights in postwar Europe, but sharp differences flared over who would formulate and present those demands to th ...

larger society, but during the Progressive era, when Americans were adopt- ing new devices to augment the political power of the ...

He said that only as representatives of a religious group, not as a national entity, would Jews command a hearing at the peace c ...

to Jewish affairs, except perhaps to Jewish physical charities. But even among this handful of men, how hard it is to get them t ...

majority and salvage some concessions, he insisted that the AJC, the best agent for American Jewish unity, keep to its plans for ...

charge of Zionism’s incompatibility with Americanism, reminiscent of his letters to Schechter in 1907, Schiff infuriated the Zio ...

Still seeking public vindication, the banker recounted the Asch episode in full at the dedication of the Central Jewish Institut ...

as far as his power goes, and the Russian Government.” He interpreted the vilification he endured as part of a “well-conceived” ...

who bitterly criticized them for succumbing to “mob rule,” in the opposi- tion. The banker was unhappy at the prospect, but, as ...