100.Adler, Schiff, 2:39, 43; reel 691, Schiff to L. Marshall, 7 Dec. 1908; AJC
archives, “Minutes of the Executive Committee,” 1 Jan. 1909; cf. Rosenstock,
Marshall, p. 69.
101.Wechsler, Qualified Student, p. 176; reel 691, Schiff to J. Funk, 9 Feb. 1905.
102.Paul Ritterband and Harold S. Wechsler, Jewish Learning in American Univer-
sities (Bloomington, Ind., 1994), pp. 15–16.
103.Cohen, Dual Heritage, pp. 14–15; Naomi W. Cohen, Encounter with Emancipa-
tion(Philadelphia, 1984), p. 207; Jeffrey Gurock, “From Publications to Ameri-
can Jewish History,” American Jewish History 81 (winter, 1993–94): 155, 158.
Years later, a university in Kentucky used the same reasoning (i.e. Jewish stud-
ies as a means of countering prejudice) when it appealed to Schiff for funds.
Reel 1978, W. Amriger to Schiff, 18 Oct. 1915.
104.Reel 23, Schiff to C. Adler, 1 Apr. 1912. Schiff also donated large sums for the
same purpose to the New York Public Library. Reel 678, Schiff to G. Rives, 10
Dec. 1897; Adler, Schiff, 2:34–37; Philip Goodman, “American Jewish Book-
plates,” PAJHS45 (Mar. 1956): 151–52.
105.The following account is based primarily on the manuscript of David Gordon
Lyon, “Relations of Jacob H. Schiff to Harvard University” (courtesy of Har-
vard University library). Schiff also contributed to the American School of
Oriental Research in Jerusalem. Adler, Schiff, 2:37.
106.Lyon MS, pp. 2, 4, 10, 39–40; reel 690, Schiff to D. Lyon, 8 Jan. 1890; reel 23,
Schiff to S. Rosendale, 27 Feb. 1890; Ritterband and Wechsler, Jewish Learn-
ing, pp. 101–7; Charles W. Eliot, “Jacob H. Schiff,” Menorah Journal7 (1921):
19.
107.Reel 23, C. Eliot to Schiff, 10 Feb. 1903; reel 680, C. Eliot to Schiff, 3 Jan.
1906.
108.Charles Eliot in AH, 5 Jan. 1917; Lyon MS, pp. 43–47; reel 23, Schiff to C.
Eliot, 10 May 1905, to M. Sulzberger, 12 Dec. 1910; reel 690, M. Sulzberger
to Schiff, 11 Dec. 1910; Cowen, Memories of an American Jew, p. 124; Eliot,
“Jacob H. Schiff,” p. 20.
109.The Semitic Museum of Harvard University:Addresses ...at the Formal Opening
...on Feb. 5, 1903(Cambridge, Mass., 1903). See also Barbara M. Solomon,
Ancestors and Immigrants(New York, 1956), pp. 181–86; Baltzell, Protestant Es-
tablishment, pp. 144–48; reel 23, Schiff to C. Eliot, 2 Jan. 1906, C. Eliot to
Schiff, 3 Jan. 1906; reel 22, M. Kohler to M. Schiff, 14 Oct. 1925. On the
250th anniversary of Jewish settlement in America, Eliot publicly noted
civilization’s debt to the Jews (Edmund J. James, The Immigrant Jew in America
[New York, 1907], p. 4), and he wrote a laudatory account of Jews in his intro-
duction to Samuel W. McCall, Patriotism of the American Jew(New York,
1922).
110.Eliot, “Jacob H. Schiff,” pp. 17, 19–20; reel 694, C. Eliot to Schiff, 3 Apr.
1914; reel 23, Schiff to C. Eliot, 25 June 1906, to A. Faust, 15 Oct. 1912.
111.Adler, Schiff, 2:30–33; Lyon MS, pp. 51–53; reel 23, Schiff to A. Lowell, 15
Dec. 1910, 5, 14 Nov. 1913, CA MSS; Cohen, Encounter with Emancipation, p.
208; Ritterband and Wechsler, Jewish Learning, pp. 106–7.
112.Lyon MS, pp. 48–49; Ritterband and Wechsler, Jewish Learning, p. 286, n76;
reel 690, Schiff to D. Lyon, 2 May 1910.
266 Notes to Chapter 2