Selected Letters, 2 vols. (Philadelphia, 1985), 2:39–40; Frieda S. Warburg, Rem-
iniscences of a Long Life (New York, 1956), pp. 4, 8, 10. A letter from Clara
Schiff to her son, 23 Apr. 1875, in Warburg, p. 10.
2.Warburg, Reminiscences, p. 4; reel 680, CA MSS, pp. 1204–5, 1231; reel 682,
CA MSS, p. 1239; reel 693, CA MSS. Schiff’s donations in memory of parents
were made as early as 1881 and were also included in his will. AH, 13 Jan.
1881; reel 694, Schiff’s will.
3.Cyrus Adler, Jacob H. Schiff,2 vols. (Garden City, N.Y., 1929), 1:2–3; Paul
Arnsberg, Jakob H. Schiff (Frankfurt, 1969), pp. 9–10; Gertrude Hirschler, ed.,
Ashkenaz (New York, 1980), pp. 284–85; Gotthard Deutsch, American Israelite,
4 Jan. 1917; reel 685, L. Jung to C. Adler, 11 Apr. 1927.
4.Robert Liberles, Religious Conflict in Social Context (Westport, Conn., 1985),
chap. 3; reel 696, CA MSS, pp. 1–3.
5.Max Heller, “Samson Raphael Hirsch,” Central Conference of American Rab-
bis, Yearbook 18 (1908): 197; Arnsberg, Schiff,pp. 10–11; Adler, Schiff,1:4; reel
694, Schiff to H. Spaulding, 11 June 1920; Cyrus Adler, “Jacob Henry Schiff,”
American Jewish Year Book 23 (1921–22): 23, 40; reel 23 (JTS archives), CA
MSS; Magazine of Wall Street,16 Oct. 1920.
6.Deutsch, American Israelite,4 Jan. 1917; Arnsberg (Schiff,p. 23) posits that the
spirit of Frankfurt underlay all of Schiff’s activities; reel 685, S. Ehrmann to C.
Adler, 3 Aug. 1928; reel 680, CA MSS, p. 1210; reel 693, Schiff to M. Hirsch
[10 Feb. 1893].
7.Adler, Schiff,1:4–5, 7; Warburg, Reminiscences,p. 4, 8; reel 685, memo by
Cyrus Adler, 29 July 1926; reel 693, Schiff to E. Cassel, 13 Oct. 1896. Many
years later, when his own son departed for an extended stay in Europe, Jacob
first understood how difficult the parting had been for his parents.
8.Avraham Barkai, Branching Out (New York, 1994), esp. chap. 6.
9.Reel 680, memo by Paul Warburg, p. 1234.
10.Adler, Schiff,1:6–7; reel 688, memo by Max Bonn, 29 June 1926.
11.NYT,16 Feb. 1914; Adler, Schiff,1:7; Arnsberg, Schiff,pp. 11–12; reel 684,
memo by Henry Budge, 10 Oct. 1926; Fritz Redlich, The Molding of American
Banking,2 vols. (New York, 1951), 2:386.
12.Warburg, Reminiscences,p. 8; reel 23, Schiff to A. Schulman, 30 Mar. 1910; Jef-
frey Potter, Men, Money and Magic (New York, 1926), pp. 22–23; reel 685,
Schiff to E. Cassel, 2 May 1892.
13.Reel 694, CA MSS on family; reel 693, CA MSS; Moses Rischin, The Promised
City (New York, 1964), chap.1.
14.Jacob R. Marcus, To Count a People (Lanham, Md., 1990), pp. 149–50; AH, 1
June 1900; Warburg, Reminiscences,p. 121. Schiff served on the board of the
YMHA; Adler, Schiff,2:59–60. Another young man of a prominent Jewish
family, Myer S. Isaacs, also alluded in his unpublished diary, 1868 (American
Jewish Archives), to unfulfilled Jewish cultural needs.
15.Adler, Schiff,1:8–9; Warburg, Reminiscences,pp. 9–10, 45.
16.“Many-Sided Jacob H. Schiff,” New York World Magazine,16 Apr. 1905; reel
685, memo of Cyrus Adler’s coversation with Mortimer Schiff and Felix War-
burg, 8 July 1927; Solomom Loeb: A Memorial (privately printed, n.d., courtesy of
David T. Schiff), pp. 3–13; Vincent P. Carosso, “A Financial Elite,” American252 Notes to Chapter 1