Schiff, 29 July 1895; reel 677, Schiff to H. Rice, 7 Nov. 1889; Lillian D. Wald,
The House on Henry Street(New York, 1915); Adler, Schiff, 1:382–92; Allen F.
Davis, Spearheads for Reform(New York, 1967), chap. 1.
26.Reel 1982, Schiff to F. Clark, 27 June 1917, to J. Mitchel, 12 Apr. 1917, to W.
Prendergast, 24 Mar., 21 Sept. 1917; Adler, Schiff, 1:385–89; NYT,1, 2 Feb.
- At the celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the settlement,
Mitchel spoke in favor of the extension of settlement work.
27.Clare Coss, ed., Lillian D. Wald(New York, 1989), pp. 43–44.
28.Schiff letters to Wald from 1915 to 1917 in the Lillian Wald papers (New York
Public Library) attest to a deep friendship.
29.Doris G. Daniels, Always a Sister(New York, 1989), pp. 37–38; Boyer, Urban
Masses and Moral Order, chap. 16.
30.Reel 690, Schiff to L. Wald, 6 Dec. 1917; Lillian Wald in Survey, 2 Oct. 1920;
Daniels, Always a Sister, pp. 95–96.
31.Reel 690, Schiff to L. Wald, 15 Jan. 1906, 6 Jan. 1916; reel 691, to J. Asher, 7
Dec. 1906; Wald, House on Henry Street, passim.
32.Reel 691, Schiff to L. Wald, 28, 31 Dec. 1897, 20, 22 Dec. 1914; Coss, Wald,
pp. 46–47; Jeffrey Gurock, “Jacob A. Riis,” American Jewish History71 (Sept.
1981): 38–46.
33.Boyer, Urban Reform and Moral Order, pp. 179–81; Adler, Schiff, 1:292–96,
351–53; NYT,1 Feb. 1914.
34.Reel 22, Schiff and J. Goldman to C. Hallgarten and J. Plotke, 12 Nov. 1901;
Charles Reznikoff, ed., Louis Marshall, 2 vols. (Philadelphia, 1957), 2:977. Un-
less otherwise noted, all material for this and the next four paragraphs comes
from a fuller account in Cohen, Encounter with Emancipation, pp. 331–41.
35.Naomi W. Cohen, “The Ethnic Catalyst,” in The Legacy of Jewish Migration,
ed. David Berger (New York, 1983), pp. 143–45.
36.American Israelite, 2 Feb. 1905; Charlotte Baum, Paula Hyman, and Sonya
Michel, The Jewish Woman in America(New York, 1975), pp. 170–75.
37.Schiff hinted darkly in one letter that the real purpose for a seminary was to
avoid an imminent scandal, but he didn’t explain what it was. Reel 691, Schiff
to M. Ottinger, 19 Dec. 1902.
38.NYT,9 Feb. 1914, 28 Feb. 1916; Rebekah Kohut in AH, 8 Oct. 1920; Cohen,
Encounter with Emancipation, p. 313.
39.Reel 693, Schiff to J. Barondess, 21 Oct. 1912.
40.AH, 25 May 1900; reel 691, Schiff to S. Schechter, 11 Feb. 1904, to L. Mar-
shall, 28 Sept. 1908.
41.Reel 22, Schiff to A. Solomons, 24 Oct. 1900; reel 23, Schiff to A. Kohut, 26
May 1892, CA MSS on JTS; reel 691, Schiff to H. Mendes, 2 Feb. 1888, to M.
Ottinger, 19 Dec. 1902, to M. Sulzberger, 9 Oct. 1899, 2 July 1901, to L. Mar-
shall, 13 Nov. 1901, to A. Solomons, 15, 17, 23 May 1901; AH, 19 Nov. 1886,
17 Feb. 1888; Abraham J. Karp, “Solomon Schechter Comes to America,”
American Jewish Historical Quarterly 53 (Sept. 1963): 54; Robert E. Fierstein, A
Different Spirit (New York, 1990), pp. 99, 115–17, 133–34; Cohen, Encounter
with Emancipation, p. 314.
42.JTS miscellaneous archives, reel 46, speech by Cyrus Adler at memorial meet-
ing for Therese Schiff, 31 Mar. 1933; Reznikoff, Marshall, 2:863; AH, 27 Dec.
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