A Study in American Jewish Leadership

all knew that he rode, but he would not spoil the traditionalist ambience. At Montefiore Schiff passed on all policies, but he s ...

Dropsie College in Philadelphia, a postgraduate school that offered ad- vanced courses in Judaic studies. Incorporated in 1907, ...

scholarship that the directors envisioned. Schiff did not live to see the institution’s steady progress, but there is little que ...

The Western Jew treats his co-religionist from Eastern Europe as an infe- rior. He considers him ignorant, superstitious, bigote ...

patience for the belief that the ghetto exacerbated anti-Semitism. The so- cial status of the Jewish immigrants was higher than ...

the virtues of the new immigrants. Within fifty years, the banker predicted optimistically before World War I, the amalgamation ...

worse.” Arguing for an American Jewish congress, the paper opened its columns at the end of 1905 to supportive opinions from rea ...

two speakers asked, instead of validating the anti-Semitic canard that Jews, the stereotypical aliens, constituted a nation with ...

rested in the hands of a handpicked, all-powerful executive committee, vir- tually the same group that directed the NCRSRM. Alth ...

community, for the management and defense of their interests. In accord with the Progressive emphasis on broadening popular part ...

These gentlemen who have started this movement come to us and they say “here we are; we do not want to have it thrown in our mou ...

efforts at fighting crime and mediating labor disputes, Schiff shored up his leadership of the new immigrants. As one Yiddish ne ...

out or “to make capital against him with the working people.” To the contrary, “we should show him that we at least are unprejud ...

it held the line at a congress that joined Zionism with a push for democ- racy. Since differences over the degree of democracy c ...

New York.”^91 Clearly, even as homesteaders Jews failed to erase anti-Jewish stereotypes. Schiff readily lent his support to ear ...

peasantry.” A small number of idealists found the idea of colonization ap- pealing, but the overwhelming majority, inexperienced ...

each person a certificate indicating his destination. If he were directed to the interior but refused to leave New York, he woul ...

who were seemingly incapable of self-direction. One communal worker candidly explained how the philanthropists regarded the immi ...

B’nai B’rith, and the National Conference of Jewish Charities and of non- Jewish observers. Nevertheless, the agency was hardly ...

The immigrants, he said, had made New York a great communal center. Nevertheless, since the city’s absorptive capacity had peake ...