A Study in American Jewish Leadership

Now he suggested a policy of “friendly persuasion,” by which he meant loans to Russia, which he thought would redound to the ben ...

same complaints against elitist control that accompanied the meeting with Witte, the NCRSRM, and the organization of the AJC and ...

that “when foreign Jews are equally entitled to cross the Russian border with other foreigners, then the Russian Government will ...

“that we are going to see this thing through.... We must not let him off.” Simultaneously, his differences with the administrati ...

White House. Taft thought that he could win the Jews to his side with the vague promise of continued reminders to Russia, but he ...

The disastrous conference gave the green light to the AJC to make pub- lic the fight for abrogation. They planned and executed a ...

issue and Jake Schiff is... spending money to rouse it, but he can’t frighten me into a useless injury to our National interests ...

Russia, that great Colossus, has received a slap in the face from a great na- tion, which act... must be of the greatest consequ ...

be remembered for good,” a reference to a palace eunuch who befriended Mordecai in the book of Esther), he told Straus, “Mr. Sul ...

5 In Search of a Refuge The American Solution: Unrestricted Immigration As long as the persecution of Russian Jews persisted, th ...

communal rifts, the stewards of the American Jewish Committee (AJC) held meetings with other groups and even consented to public ...

but since “I do not hesitate to admit that my sympathies are specially in be- half of the members of my own race,” he wrote a le ...

United States and perhaps Canada ran into the millions.^6 Two reasons best explain the contradictions: first, they were often im ...

the world owes him a living and who becomes a danger to society if that be not granted him in the manner he expects.” Another ti ...

in 1911 he distributed one hundred thousand copies of an address by Eliot on immigration.^10 For every Finley and Eliot there we ...

of 1912, congressional adoption of a literacy test was only a matter of time. The outbreak of World War I reinforced the restric ...

becoming overcrowded, would soon be unable to “digest the foreign ele- ments.” When Schiff asked him to suggest a solution other ...

of two million Russians seemed possible; and if a similar idea was adopted in England, another two million in Canada.^18 Althoug ...

Schiff paid little attention to the desires of the prospective emigrants. For them, as one administrator of the plan put it, the ...

Fathers and our God cannot be the God of our children.” Nor was he at- tracted to territorial autonomy outside Palestine even th ...