Morris Waldman, 22 July 1925; AH, 21 Feb. 1895. Schiff was also critical of
eastern Europeans for not donating to causes earmarked for their group. Reel
1977, A. Liebowitz to Schiff, 27 Feb. 1914.
13.Reel 1978, G. Kohut to Schiff, 28 Apr. 1915; American Israelite, 7 Dec. 1905;
Waldman, Nor by Power, p. 323.
14.Reel 679, Schiff to P. Nathan, 20 Jan. 1914; Judah Magnes Papers (Central
Archives for the History of the Jewish People, Jerusalem), P3/407, L. Straus to
B. Magnes, 5 Nov. 1912; Baila R. Shargel, Lost Love (Philadelphia, 1997), pp.
100, 110–11, 125, 135, 137.
15.AH, 21 Oct. 1890;PAJHS 6 (1897): 147; NYT,8 May 1904; reel 23 (JTS
archives), Schiff to S. Schechter, 28 June 1911.
16.See for example Josef S. Bloch, Ein Besuch beim Judentum in New York und Um-
gebung (Vienna, 1912).
17.For example, reel 691, Schiff to P. Nathan, 22 Jan. 1912.
18.Reel 691, Schiff to A. Dreyfus, 10 Mar. 1919, to L. Wald, 31 Dec. 1897, to J.
Riis, 26 Dec. 1906; reel 692, Schiff to E. Cassel, 23 Nov. 1905; reel 1977,
Schiff to J. Wilson, 11 Dec. 1914.
19.Reel 691, Schiff to J. Riis, 26 Dec. 1906, to J. Hall, 20 Apr. 1893, to L. Wald,
16, 23 Nov. 1903, to W. King, 20, 31 Jan., 2 Feb. 1905, to J. Asher, 7 Dec.
1906, to A. Ochs, 1 Aug. 1898; reel 690, Schiff to W. Round, 11 July 1887, to
M. Stern, 15 Sept. 1893; reel 678, Schiff to H. Rice, 11 Sept. 1891; reel 23,
Schiff to R. Grossman, 2 June 1919; Cyrus Adler, Jacob H. Schiff, 2 vols. (Gar-
den City, N.Y., 1929), 1:396, 2:60; David M. Eichhorn, Evangelizing the Amer-
ican Jew (Middle Village, N.Y., 1978), p. 179.
20.Reel 691, Schiff to J. Riis, 26 Dec. 1906, to E. Jenkins, 16 Dec. 1908, to E. Pea-
body, 5 May 1891, to C. Adams, 3 Apr. 1891; Samuel Schulman in AH, 5 Jan.
1917; Frieda S. Warburg, Reminiscences of a Long Life (New York, 1956), p. 82;
Jeffrey S. Gurock, “Jacob A. Riis,” American Jewish History 71 (Sept. 1981): 46.
21.Reel 691, Schiff to S. Wise, 1 Dec. 1910, 25 June 1914; reel 680, CA MSS, p.
730; reel 1982, Schiff to A. Dittenhoefer, 7 Feb. 1917; NYT,2 Dec. 1910.
22.Reel 691, Schiff to S. Coit, 14 Oct. 1902, to H. Moskowitz, 4 Feb. 1907, to I.
Singer, 9 July 1908, to I. Seligman, 18 Apr. 1910, to E. Seligman, 1 May 1916;
reel 23, Schiff to F. Adler, 17 Mar. 1903, to S. Coit, 25 Dec. 1902; Benny
Kraut, From Reform Judaism to Ethical Culture (Cincinnati, 1979), chap. 5.
23.Reel 691, Schiff to A. Dreyfus, 10 Mar. 1919; reel 22 (JTS archives), Schiff to
E. Cassel, 10 June 1896; reel 1984, Schiff’s speech to the Central Committee
for the Relief of Jews Suffering through the War, [5 Dec. 1918]; Kurt Grun-
wald, “‘Windsor Cassel’: The Last Court Jew,” Leo Baeck Institute, Year Book
14 (1969) :132–33, 157; Todd Endelman, Radical Assimilation in English Jewish
History (Bloomington, Ind., 1990), p. 76; Theodore Norman, An Outstretched
Arm (London, 1985), p. 21.
24.Morton Rosenstock, review of The Many Lives of Otto Kahn,by Mary Matz,
American Jewish Historical Quarterly 54 (Mar. 1965): 372; reel 691, Schiff to A.
Dreyfus, 10 Mar. 1919; Ron Chernow, The Warbugs (New York, 1993), p. 238.
25.Warburg, Reminiscences, p. 130.
26.Reel 691, Schiff to W. Dodge, 29 Dec. 1896, to E. Godkin, 23 Sept. 1896; to
O. Straus, 18 Apr. 1898.260 Notes to Chapter 2