1889; Proceedings of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, 1909, p.
6241; American Israelite, 9 Jan. 1902.
43.Menorah33 (July 1902): 62; NYT,6 May, 3 June 1912, 10 Feb. 1913; reel 691.
Schiff to B. Bettman, 3 Apr. 1893; reel 23, Schiff to editor, AH, 11 Mar. 1919;
reel 1984, Schiff’s speech to the Centeral Committee for the Relief of Jews
Suffering through the War [5 Dec. 1918].
44.Reel 23, Schiff to B. Bettman [Apr. 1900], 18 July 1904, to H. Mendes, 14 Mar.
1902, to editor, AH, 11 Mar. 1919; NYT,6 May 1912; Michael A. Meyer, “A
Centennial History,” in Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion at One
Hundred Years, ed. Samuel E. Karff (Cincinnati, 1976), pp. 42–43.
45.Reel 679, Schiff to I. Zangwill, 17 Oct. 1905; reel 1984, Schiff’s speech to the
Central Committee for the Relief of Jews Suffering through the War [5 Dec.
1918]; Jacob H. Schiff, “Social Service and the Free Synagogue,” Free Syn-
agogue Pulpit 1 (Mar. 1908): 49; Solomon Schechter papers (JTS archives), S.
Schechter to M. Sulzberger, 15 Aug. 1899; Adler, Schiff, 2:45; Cyrus Adler,
“Jacob Henry Schiff,” American Jewish Year Book 23 (1921–22): 37.
46.Reel 691, Schiff to D. Philipson, 20 Jan. 1905.
47.Samuel Schulman in AH, 5 Jan. 1917, 8 Oct. 1920; reel 678, CA MSS on
chap.13; reel 684, M. Boardman to C. Adler, 29 July 1925; reel 691, statement
by Max Bonn, 29 June 1926; reel 1979, Schiff to E. Herz, 13 Dec. 1915; Adler,
Schiff, 2:44–46; Adler, “J. H. Schiff,” pp. 37–38; James P. Warburg, The Long
Road Home (Garden City, N.Y., 1964), p. 19; Ron Chernow, The Warburgs
(New York, 1993), pp. 91, 314. Frieda S. Warburg (Reminiscences of a Long Life
[New York, 1956], p. 43) wrote that her father composed his own prayer for
grace at meals. Testifying to vestiges of his rigid observance, she also recalled a
severe scolding from her adoring father for having picked a flower on the Sab-
bath. Jessica Feingold to author, 24 May 1993. (Variations of the story tell how
a different child, not Frieda, was scolded.)
48.AH, 27 May 1898; American Israelite, 4 Jan. 1917; Robert Liberles, Religious
Conflict in Social Context (Westport, Conn., 1985), p. 109; Adler, Schiff, 2:45.
49.Reel 691, Schiff to L. May, 6 May 1892, I. Lehman to M. Schiff, 25 Nov. 1925;
reel 694, E. Friedman to C. Adler, 28 Oct. 1926; reel 1977, Schiff to L. Mar-
shall, 1 Oct. 1914. On the outreach program of the Brotherhood of Emanu-El
to the Lower East Side and on Schiff’s support, see reel 691, Schiff to J. Silver-
man, 23 Nov. 1903, and Myron Berman, “A New Spirit on the East Side,”
American Jewish Historical Quarterly 54 (Sept. 1964): 60–79.
50.Warburg, Reminiscences, pp. 78–79; Adler, Schiff, 2:47.
51.AH, 25 May 1900; Herbert Rosenblum, “The Founding of the United Syn-
agogue of America,” (Ph. D. diss., Brandeis University, 1970), pp. 39–41.
52.Cyrus Adler, I Have Considered the Days (Philadelphia, 1945), p. 243; Rosen-
blum, “Founding of the United Synagogue,” p. 84; cf. Fierstein, A Different
Spirit, pp. 133–34.
53.Reznikoff, Marshall, 2:874; Schechter papers, L. Marshall to S. Schechter, 25
Aug. 1908; Cyrus Adler papers (JTS archives), C. Adler to L. Marshall, 21 July
1922.
54.Reel 691, Schiff to B. Drachman, 9 July 1902; reel 695, Schiff to K. Kohler, 14
Aug. 1900; reel 23, M. Sulzberger to Schiff, 27 Apr. 1903, CA MSS on JTS;270 Notes to Chapter 3