A Study in American Jewish Leadership

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85.Adler, Schiff, 1:360; reel 23, Schiff to G. Gottheil, 20 Dec. 1887; reel 691,
Schiff to Rev. Friedman, 15 May 1902, to I. Seligman, 17 Dec. 1906.
86.Reel 691, Schiff to J. Reynolds, 7 Oct. 1895, to H. Turner, 19 May 1896, to J.
Speyer, 15 Jan. 1902; reel 690, Schiff’s correspondence with Jacob Riis, Nov.
1906.
87.NYT,22 Oct. 1908; reel 23, Schiff to R. De Forest, 22 May 1916.
88.Reel 682, Schiff to O. Bannard, 7 Dec. 1915, to R. De Forest, 27 Mar. 1916;
reel 691, Schiff/De Forest correspondence, esp. for Nov. 1916, O. Bannard to
Schiff, 16 Mar. 1916, Schiff to L. Plaut, 17 Dec. 1915, to J. Magnes, 1 May
1916, C. Lowenberg to C. Poskanzer, 28 June 1917; reel 1978, Schiff to E.
Breidenbach 13 Dec. 1915; reel 1983, National Employment Exchange files;
reel 1984, Schiff to C. Blumenthal, 24 Oct. 1918; Adler, Schiff, 1:362–65. On
discrimination against Jews by Jews, see Elias Lieberman, “Jewish Anti-
Semites,” AH, 22 Nov. 1918.
89.Adler, Schiff, 1:314–17, 360; reel 694, by the terms of Schiff’s will, Tuskegee
received $10,000; reel 696, Schiff to B. Washington, 16 June 1909; reel 1980,
Schiff to L. Marshall, 5 Jan. 1916; NYT,22 Nov. 1915.
90.Reel 676, Schiff to H. Potter, 18 Jan. 1898.
91.Schiff complained, for example, about the quota on Jewish students in the
Horace Mann School, reel 691, Schiff to G. Dodge, 27 Sept. 1898, to J. Rus-
sell, 20, 24 July 1899. On Harvard: reel 690, Schiff to H. Higginson, 6 June
1902; Goldstein, Crossing Lines, pp. 175–77.
92.Reel 1978, F. Boas to Schiff, 19 Feb. 1915, Schiff to F. Boas, 23 Feb. 1915; reel
691, Schiff to J. Schurman, 21 Feb. 1916; Schiff papers (JTS archives, Jerusa-
lem), Schiff to H. Livingston, 8, 10 Mar. 1915; H. Livingston to Schiff, 16
Mar. 1915.
93.Reel 22, Schiff to J. Schmidlap, 9 Oct. 1911; Adler, Schiff, 2:38; cf. W. E.
Mosse, The German-Jewish Economic Elite (Oxford, 1989), p. 319.
94.Reel 23, Schiff to A. Horvitz, 23 Oct. 1911, 26 Dec. 1912, to H. Hurwitz, 6
Dec. 1906; reel 691, Schiff to R. Treman, 30 Apr. 1917.
95.Reel 23, Schiff to S. Low, 19 Feb. 1896, 6 Feb. 1899, to N. Butler, 12 May, 7
Oct. 1902, M. Schiff to J. Nash, 16 Mar. 1899; reel 690, Schiff to S. Low, 2
Mar. 1891, 7 Mar. 1905; Gerald Kurland, Seth Low (New York, 1971), p. 57.
96.Reel 23, Schiff to N. Butler, 30 Jan. 1907; reel 690, Adler’s memo of interview
with George Plimpton, 11 Dec. 1925; Thomas Bender, New York Intellect (Bal-
timore, 1987), pp. 287–90; E. Digby Baltzell, The Protestant Establishment
(New York, 1966).



  1. Reel 23, Schiff to N. Butler, 30 Jan. 1907; reel 1979, Schiff to J. Billikopf, 13 Oct.
    1916; Harold S. Wechsler, The Qualified Student (New York, 1977), pp. 136–39.
    98.Reel 23, Schiff to J. Schurman, 2 Jan. 1912; unsorted Schiff papers (American
    Jewish Archives), Schiff to M. Warburg, 19 Jan. 1912; reel 690, Schiff to G.
    Plimpton, 3 June 1915; NYT,11, 12 Feb. 1913; Wechsler, Qualified Student, p.
    176.
    99.Adler, Schiff, 2:11–17; reel 690, G. Plimpton to Schiff, 2 June 1915; reel 23,
    Schiff to N. Butler, 3 Sept. 1915; reel 684, notes by Annie Meyer, [May 1926],
    notes by Virginia Gildersleeve; Virginia Gildersleeve in AH, 5 Oct. 1920;
    NYT,7 Oct. 1915.


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