A Study in American Jewish Leadership
area of settlement of all the immigrants; some made their way to Harlem and to the other boroughs. But the section of Manhattan ...
restrictionists who ranted about the responsibility of immigrants for the spread of pauperism, disease, and crime. Second, it st ...
concerned with the plight of the eastern Europeans, ranked the thirty-five- year-old Schiff alongside two European philanthropis ...
throughout the country in order to relieve the ghetto and hasten the assi- milatory process. The trustees agreed to earmark a po ...
in a position to be dunned for significant contributions, and those men were already overburdened. Besides, since Americans disa ...
charities constituted the building blocks in his overall design for remaking the immigrants into proper citizens indistinguishab ...
Hebrew wrote, “and they were worth going to. The auditorium... would be crowded with bearded men and bewigged women who came to ...
neighbor, who has been accustomed to work, new methods and better ones.” In this case Christian opinion more than immigrant help ...
to live among the immigrant poor and minister to the sick. In 1893 the banker met Wald, then in her mid-twenties, and was impres ...
William Prendergast for municipal aid. In the public interest, he argued, it was wrong to classify Wald’s effective medical serv ...
ghetto world that Schiff hadn’t known, and it gave him a keener insight into the area and its residents.^30 Schiff and Wald agre ...
support of housing reform and child labor laws, his aid to strikers rendered hungry by their strikes, and even his gift of a pub ...
terms why the Jewish quarter was blamed for immorality, and it exhorted voters to vindicate Jewish honor by supporting the refor ...
Did the blueprint of the stewards mean the school to be merely transitional, that is, until proper Americanization was achieved ...
religion and seeks to supersede the Public School by Yiddish instead of En- glish schools,... then I shall prefer to have none o ...
debates. If not for his donations, Schiff said, the institution would have been ruined. Nonetheless, the school rapidly declined ...
nourished Reform. Like Solomon Schechter, with whom he worked closely on the reorganization of the Conservative school, he prefe ...
Visitors to his home saw a mezuzah on the door; non-Jews were impressed by the recitation of grace after meals. Younger members ...
his religious faith. At times the issue of Jewish peoplehood as opposed to Jewish religion, particularly with regard to Zionism, ...
liking to Schechter, an academic who fused eastern European roots and Western scholarship and who preached against religious ext ...
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