A Study in American Jewish Leadership

by organizational affiliation, he capitalized on the personal loyalty he had won from the community by his philanthropy and his ...

Schiff’s change of heart has been analyzed by historians. Evyatar Friesel notes several important reasons for it: the growing re ...

Early in 1916 the banker was attracted to a program (discussed below) put forth by Lucien Wolf of the Board of Deputies and the ...

Schiff may have expected that his affiliation with the movement would aug- ment his influence with both Zionist leaders and the ...

tolerated. Furthermore, demands like the union’s promised “close cooper- ation between all elements in Jewry, a desideratum whic ...

mission of the Jew, and I believe that somewhere there should be a great res- ervoir of Jewish learning in which Jewish culture ...

clashed with Philipson’s Reform views on the blessing of dispersion, but it flew in the face of the typical Jewish response to p ...

the purpose of strengthening religion, a Jewish center in Palestine to halt the disintegration of Judaism but the incompatibilit ...

the banker wrote Mack, who in fact had agreed to Schiff’s conditions, that the more he saw of Zionist leaders, except for Brande ...

Jewish nation” helped as well to placate the critics of Zionism. Moreover, in a letter to millionaire Julius Rosenwald, Schiff p ...

of Palestine under British control would benefit from improved administra- tive methods, that peace would reign between Arabs an ...

for the restoration of the Land of the Fathers to the children of Israel.”^125 The goal of unity was uppermost in Schiff’s mind ...

In line with the committee’s stand, Schiff and Marshall refused in Sep- tember 1918 to join David Philipson in a conference for ...

would supply the funds rather than the bodies for rebuilding a Jewish Pal- estine. After the war, when emphasis on the economic ...

7 The End of an Era A New Europe Until his death barely two years after the armistice, Schiff remained very much involved in Jew ...

with Germany and to the resurrection of “civilization” in that country. Senator William Borah of the Senate Foreign Relations Co ...

American officials in Poland to be inaccurate and biased. While Marshall accused the Red Cross of discrimination against Jews, S ...

Polish animosity the Jewish leaders also urged Polish Jewry to cooperate in good faith with the new government. Meanwhile, in th ...

Bolsheviks and Jews The jubilation with which Jews had greeted the overthrow of the czar was short-lived. The Bolshevik revoluti ...

Bolshevik. The charge that Jews had engineered the November revolution in an international conspiracy for world domination was n ...