A Study in American Jewish Leadership
between leaders and constituents, and accountability. They alone were re- sponsible for what amounted to Jewish public policy. T ...
Proper credentials were also required for less significant posts within the Jewish community. In 1908 the trustees of Temple Ema ...
older German element and the newer Russians, the banker carved out a unique position. In his later years, according to a longtim ...
Schiff’s foreign contacts were primarily individuals like the Rothschilds of London, Sir Samuel Montagu, and Baron Maurice de Hi ...
more complicated. In the pre-Emancipation communities where Schiff’s ancestors had won renown as scholars and communal authoriti ...
he said, that Blackwell’s Island (where New York sent the incurably ill) had no Jewish chaplain. Since missionaries actively pli ...
The banker disapproved of intermarriage and conversion to Christian- ity, but his principles affected neither his relations with ...
He believed that the sight of Jewish workers striking against Jewish em- ployers tarnished the Jewish reputation, and he therefo ...
government, he skillfully marshaled his contacts and political contribu- tions to that end. In 1896 he suggested to President-el ...
such images nor his determination to refute them. The banker’s close rela- tions with Eliot kept his temper in check, but he did ...
magnate not listed in the Social Register,or, as Frederick Lewis Allen called it, the “Gentile Register.” Social exclusion of th ...
Minority status within a Christian society fixed the framework within which Schiff operated. Whether dealing with Jews or non-Je ...
money as making it.” The sums Schiff disbursed set standards for giving, and the causes he supported won him popular commendatio ...
occasion of Schiff’s $10,000 gift to the Sanitarium for Hebrew Children, did the burdens fall only on a few committed ones? The ...
functions, Schiff earned the reputation of one who learned about an organ- ization before he supported it.^45 A generous giver, ...
foundation for German culture at an American university was to demon- strate publicly that despite his preoccupation with Jewish ...
brought from the Old World, and he gave generously to several free loan societies. In 1900 his $5,000 donation enabled the Unite ...
ted him to undertake new ventures for building bridges between the Jewish and Christian worlds and, in particular, for enhancing ...
particular persons who caught his attention—an art student, a physician, a barber, the family of a murdered peddler—he operated ...
Wald’s house on Henry Street), and active social service outreach by syn- agogues (Stephen Wise’s Free Synagogue). Further afiel ...
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