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108.Reel 677, Schiff to W. Straight, 19 Mar. 1909, to O. Kahn, 25 June 1909.
109.Reel 677, Schiff to K. Takahashi, 31 Aug., 24, 28 Dec. 1908, 24 Feb. 1910;
Adler, Schiff, 1:248–52.
110.Reel 677, Schiff to K. Takahashi, 24 Feb., 8 Mar. 1910; NYT,6, 9 Mar. 1910,
16 Mar. 1912; Adler, Schiff, 1:256–57.
111.Carosso, Morgans, pp. 558–78; reel 677, CA MSS, Schiff to E. Cassel, 23 Mar.,
9 Apr. 1913, reel 687, Schiff to E. Cassel, 29 Dec. 1912.
112.Reel 680, CA MSS, p. 1236; reel 687, William Wolff, “Edward Henry Harri-
man,” Elks Magazine, Sept.–Nov. 1927; reel 689, memo by Cyrus Adler, 3
Sept. 1926.
113.Reel 686, statement of H. Tatnall to C. Adler, 3 Sept. 1926.
114.Reel 680, CA MSS, p. 1256; reel 682, CA MSS, p. 1245; reel 1981, Schiff to L.
Wiley, 26 June 1916, Schiff’s secretary to M. Seidman, 16 Nov. 1916.



  1. Leadership and Philanthropy (Notes to Pages 41–81)


1.Jonathan D. Sarna, “Cyrus Adler and the Development of American Jewish
Culture,” American Jewish History 78 (Mar. 1989): 392.
2.Hasia R. Diner, “Jewish Self-Government, American Style,” American Jewish
History 81 (spring–summer 1994): 277–95; Arthur A. Goren, National Leader-
ship in American Jewish Life, Ninth Annual... Feinberg Memorial Lecture,
University of Cincinnati, 8 Apr. 1986.
3.Daniel J. Elazar, ed., Authority, Power and Leadership in the Jewish Polity (Lan-
ham, Md., 1991), introduction; Morris D. Waldman,Nor by Power (New York,
1953), p. 328; Louis Marshall in AH, 5 Jan. 1917.
4.Jeffrey Potter,Men, Money and Magic (New York, 1976), pp. 106–7.
5.Reel 697, CA MSS, p. 1099; reel 685, Schiff to E. Cassel, 3 May 1900; Max
Heller in AH, 3 Jan. 1907; NYT,26 Jan. 1914.
6.Maurice Simon, ed., Speeches, Articles and Letters of Israel Zangwill (London,
1937), p. 143.
7.Jonathan S. Woocher, “The Democratization of the American Jewish Polity,”
in Elazar, Authority, Power and Leadership, chap. 6; Goren, National Leadership,
pp. 3–8; Charles S. Liebman, “Dimensions of Authority in the Contemporary
Jewish Community,” Jewish Journal of Sociology 12 (June 1970): 32ff.
8.AJC archives, “Minutes of the Conference on Organization,” 4 Feb. 1906;
AH, 18 May 1900; NYT,26 Jan. 1917.
9.Reel 691, Schiff to W. Taft, 29 Oct. 1909; Ron Chernow, The House of Morgan
(New York, 1990), p. 177; Yonathan Shapiro, Leadership of the American Zionist
Organization (Urbana, Ill., 1971), pp. 63–70; NYT,1 Feb. 1916. Later Brandeis
said that he was unaware of Schiff’s opposition in 1913. Reel 1978, L. Brandeis
to Schiff, 14 Oct. 1915.
10.Charles Reznikoff, ed., Louis Marshall, 2 vols. (Philadelphia, 1957), 2:836–38;
AH, 7 Feb. 1908.
11.Samuel Schulman in AH, 5 Jan. 1917.
12.Reel 679, Schiff to M. Sulzberger, 12 May 1908; reel 693, Schiff to L. Stern, 1
June 1908; reel 694, I. Lehman to M. Schiff, 25 Nov. 1925; reel 684, notes by

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