67.Reel 23, Schiff to Montefiore Board, 9 June 1919; reel 684, Schiff to S. Wach-
sman, 10 Jan. 1917.
68.Dorothy Levenson, Montefiore (New York, 1984), p. 3; reel 684, tribute to
Schiff from Henry Solomon; Joseph Hirsh and Beka Doherty, The First Hun-
dred Years of the Mount Sinai Hospital of New York (New York, 1952), p. 62.
69.Moshe Davis, America and the Holy Land (Westport, Conn., 1995), pp. 111–12;
Jewish Messenger, 25 Sept. 1885. Unless otherwise noted, all material for the
entire section is culled from Levenson, Montefiore, chaps. 1–6; Adler, Schiff,
1:369–81; AH, 30 Nov. 1894 (issue celebrating Montefiore’s tenth anniver-
sary).
70.AH, 29 Oct., 3–24 Dec. 1886.
71.Maurice Fishberg in AH, 5 Jan. 1917; reel 23, Schiff to E. Cassel, 8 Dec. 1913;
reel 694, Schiff to E. Cassel, 12 Jan. 1914, and Schiff’s will.
72.Reel 679, Schiff to M. Sulzberger, 12 May 1908; reel 689, memo by Leopold
Stern, 10 Aug. 1925; reel 23, M. Stroock to M. Schiff, 3 Oct. 1925; Barnard
Powers, “Jacob H. Schiff: Wall Street’s Grand Old Man,” Magazine of Wall
Street, 28 Sept. 1918; Samuel Schulman in AH, 5 Jan. 1917.
73.Reel 23, CA MSS; reel 1977, Schiff to L. Wald, 15 June 1914; reel 1978, Schiff
to H. Bernstein, 13 Jan. 1915; reel 1981, Schiff to P. Phillips, 15, 23 May 1916;
AH, 26 Aug. 1898, 3 Nov. 1893, S. Wachsman in AH, 5 Jan. 1917.
74.Reel 684, notes by Max Kohler, 14 Oct. 1925.
75.Reel 23, Schiff to F. Warburg, 21 Mar. 1918; reel 681, Schiff to B. Odell, 12
Mar. 1902; reel 1978, Schiff to O. Bannard, 5 May 1915; AH, 3 Nov., 29 Dec.
1893, 28 Dec. 1894; NYT,2 Feb. 1913, 8 June 1917.
76.Reel 23, Schiff to L. Wald, 28 May 1914, to S. Lindsay, 19 June 1917; reel 681,
Schiff to B. Odell, 12 Mar. 1902; reel 1985, Schiff to H. Bruckner, 16 Oct.
1918, to C. Craig, 15 Oct. 1918; NYT,2 Feb. 1913, 8 June 1917.
77.Reel 1978, Montefiore Home files, esp. Schiff to Mr. Bloch, 8 Nov. 1915, M.
Goodman to Schiff, 19 Nov. 1915; reel 689, Schiff to S. Borg, 10 Oct. 1917, to
H. Solomon, 22 Jan. 1899; reel 684, M. Stroock to M. Schiff, 3 Oct. 1925; AH,
23 Feb. 1894, 8 Oct. 1920. My thanks to Richard Kalmin for locating the Tal-
mud passage for me.
78.Reel 1978, Schiff to L. Shalet, 23 July, 1 Nov. 1915, to Harry Fischel, 15 June
1915; reel 684, notes by Fred Stein.
79.Reel 1978, Schiff to M. Goodman, 25 June 1915; reel 689, Schiff to T. Roose-
velt, 31 May 1901, to J. Obermeyer, 15 Feb. 1916; AH, 11 Nov. 1887, 21, 28
Dec. 1888.
80.AH, 21 Dec. 1888; Milton Goldin, Why They Give (New York, 1976), p. 37.
81.Reel 23, Board of Directors to Schiff, 8 May 1918, Schiff to Montefiore board,
9 June 1919, speech by William Goldman, 3 Jan. 1920.
82.Reel 694, Schiff to M. Warburg, 29 Dec. 1913.
83.Jacob R. Marcus, The Colonial American Jew, 3 vols. (Detroit, 1970),
3:1219–20; reel 691, Schiff to J. Applegate, 14 Dec. 1892, to C. Dodge, 11
Nov. 1913, to G. Perkins, 14 Jan. 1918; reel 1982, Schiff to L. Fosdick, 9 Oct.
1917; Adler, Schiff, 2:49.
84.NYT,26 Jan. 1914; reel 690, Schiff to W. Round, 11 July 1887; reel 691, Schiff
to M. Williams, 20 Dec. 1884; reel 1984, Schiff to J. Rogers, 22 Apr. 1918.264 Notes to Chapter 2