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Adler, “J. H. Schiff,” p. 34; JTS, Students’ Annual, 1916, p. 161; Moshe Davis,
The Emergence of Conservative Judaism (Philadelphia, 1963), p. 324.
55.Solomon Schechter, Seminary Addresses and Other Papers (New York, 1915), pp.
9–30; Michael Greenbaum, “Mission Conflict in Religiously Affiliated Insti-
tutions of Higher Education” (D. Ed. diss., Teachers College, Coumbia Uni-
versity, 1994), p. 20; Rosenblum, “Founding of the United Synagogue,” pp.
92–105; reel 23, Schiff to K. Kohler, 10 Oct. 1904, to S. Schechter, 18 Oct.
1904; reel 691, Schiff to H. Mendes, 4 July 1904.
56.Reel 691, Schiff to C. Adler, 16 Nov. 1903; Adler, “J. H. Schiff,” p. 34; Morde-
cai M. Kaplan diary (JTS archives), 31 Oct. 1915; Alexander Marx to Gerson
D. Cohen [1948]; JTS, Students’ Annual, 1915, pp. 43–45.
57.Reel 691, Schiff to C. Adler, 3 Nov. 1903, to S. Schechter, 27 Jan. 1909; Meno-
rah 40 (June 1906): 336; Schechter, Seminary Addresses, pp. 48–50; Cohen, En-
counter with Emancipation, pp. 315–17.
58.Jewish Theological Seminary, Semi-Centennial Volume, ed. Cyrus Adler (New
York, 1939), pp. 124–25; “NYT,5 Apr. 1914. For several years, Schiff actively
supported the Jewish Teachers’ College Fund, a joint venture of the seminary
and HUC that aimed at preparing teachers for areas both east and west of the
Mississippi. Schiff papers (JTS archives, Jerusalem), numerous letters and re-
ports relating to the fund, 1917–1920.
59.JTS, Semi-Centennial Volume, pp. 92, 95–96; Schechter papers, I. Friedlaender
to Schiff, 11 Jan. 1911; Solomon Grayzel, “Jacob H. Schiff and Jewish Books,”
Jewish Book Annual 5 (1946–47): 78–80; reel 693, Schiff to L. Marshall, 8 Aug.
1919; reel 694, I. Lehman to M. Schiff, 25 Nov. 1925; Louis Marshall papers
(JTS archives), file 79–1; Adler, Schiff, 2:58.
60.Reel 681, Schiff to M. Sulzberger, 6 Feb. 1906; Rosenblum, “Founding of the
United Synagogue,” pp. 100, 106–8; Ira Robinson, ed., Cyrus Adler: Selected
Letters, 2 vols. (Philadelphia, 1985), 1:128, 398; American Israelite, 27 June, 11
July 1907, 12 Mar. 1908.
61.Baila R. Shargel, Lost Love (Philadelphia, 1997), pp. 100, 128.
62.Arthur A. Goren, National Leadership in American Jewish Life, NinthAnnual...
Feinberg Memorial Lecture, University of Cincinnati, 8 Apr. 1986, pp. 4–9;
Moses Rischin, The Promised City (New York, 1964), pp. 104–6.
63.Sanders, Shores of Refuge, pp. 185–86; Leo N. Levi, “The Modern Disper-
sion,” Menorah 34 (June 1903): 331–32.
64.Henry Gersoni, Jew against Jew (Chicago, 1881); Cohen, Encounter with Eman-
cipation, pp. 308–14, 328–29.
65.Jacob Gordin, The Benefactors of the East Side (Yiddish), in Yakov Gordin, Eyn-
akters (New York, 1917); AH, 6, 20, 27 Mar. 1903.
66.AH, 17 July–25 Sept. 1903; Isaac M. Rubinow, “The Jewish Question in New
York City,” PAJHS 49 (Dec. 1959): 90–136.
67.Annette Kohn, “Break Down the Barriers,” Jewish Charity 3 (Mar. 1904):
140–41; American Israelite, 13 June 1901 (Tageblatt), 2 Feb. 1905, 10 Nov.
1910; Menorah 3 (Dec. 1902): 435; AH, 15 Nov. 1895; Cohen, Encounter with
Emancipation, p. 326; Cyrus Adler papers (AJC archives), L. Marshall to H.
Morgenthau, 1 June 1914.
68.See, for example, George Price, “The Russian Jews in America,” in The Jewish


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