over the masses, Schiff toyed with the idea of making the Day, a Yiddish paper
he supported, pledge an anti-Zionist stand. Reel 1977, J. Magnes to Schiff, 8
Apr. 1914.
60.Robert Gordis, Understanding Conservative Judaism (New York, 1978), p. 122;
Richard Gottheil papers (Zionist archives, formerly in New York), R. Gottheil
to T. Herzl, 4 June 1903; Adler, Schiff, 2:162–64; Cohen, Dual Heritage, pp.
88–90; reel 679, T. Herzl to Schiff, 10 Apr. 1904; reel 695, Schiff to O. Schiff,
5 May 1903.
61.Raphael Patai, ed., The Complete Diaries of Theodor Herzl, 5 vols. (New York,
1960), 4:1501, 1620–33, 1628, 1631; reel 22, Schiff to N. Katzenelsohn, 31
July 1904; reel 23, Schiff to N. Katzenelsohn, 7 July 1904; reel 693, Schiff to
K. Kohler, 6 May 1907; reel 695, Schiff to N. Katzenelsohn, 19 May, 21 June
1904.
62.Reel 679, Schiff to S. Schechter, 12 July 1904; reel 693, Schiff to H. Rosenthal,
23 Nov. 1904, to N. Rothschild, 7 Dec. 1905, to B. Bettman, 8 Feb. 1907; Ev-
yatar Friesel, “Jacob H. Schiff Becomes a Zionist,” Studies in Zionism, no. 5
(Apr. 1982): 60–61.
63.Reel 679, Schiff to S. Schechter, 12 July 1904; reel 693, Schiff to Schechter,
undated, to K. Kohler, 6 May 1907; Solomon Schechter papers (JTS archives),
S. Schechter to H. Bentwich, 7 July 1904; Norman Bentwich, Solomon Schech-
ter (New York, 1938), p. 316.
64.Reel 691, Schiff to M. Margolis, 7 May 1907; reel 693, Schiff to K. Kohler, 6
May 1907, to S. Schechter, 23 Sept. 1907; Herbert Parzen, “The Purge of the
Dissidents,” Jewish Social Studies 37 (summer–fall 1975): 291–315; Naomi W.
Cohen, Encounter with Emancipation (Philadelphia, 1984), pp. 294–96.
65.NYT,29 July 1907; Adler, Schiff, 2:164–66.
66.Comments by individuals and newspapers are too numerous to cite. For the
remainder of the paragraph, see reel 693, Schiff to S. Schechter, 23 Sept. 1907,
to A. Isaacs, 3 Oct. 1907; Adler, Schiff, 2:166–69; Cohen, Encounter With
Emancipation, pp. 296–97; AH, 20, 27 Sept. 1907; NYT,15 Sept. 1907; Baila R.
Shargel, Lost Love (Philadelphia, 1997), p. 133; Harry Friedenwald, The Atti-
tude of the American Zionist (Baltimore, 1907).
67.L. Marshall, AH, 20 Sept. 1907; Straus papers: O. Straus to Schiff, 25 Sept.
1907, Schiff to O. Straus, 26, 29 Sept., 4 Oct., 19 Nov. 1907.
68.Reel 693, Schiff to S. Schechter, 24 Jan. 1909, to B. Richards, 4 Oct. 1907, to
H. Friedenwald, 18 Nov. 1907, to J. Magnes, 10 Feb. 1909; reel 691, Schiff to
J. Frankel, 6 Jan. 1910.
69.Reel 679, Schiff to P. Nathan, 24 Dec. 1908; reel 693, Schiff to C. Adler, 9 Apr.
1908, to L. Marshall, 6 Oct. 1908; Judah Magnes papers (Central Archives for
the History of the Jewish People, Jerusalem), P3/828, Schiff to J. Magnes, 24,
26 Apr. 1911; Schechter papers, L. Marshall to S. Schechter, 24 Mar. 1908;
American Israelite, 14 May 1908.
70.Reel 693, Schiff to I. Levi, 5 Jan. 1910; American Israelite, 29 July 1909.
71.Reel 679, Schiff to N. Katzenelsohn, 24 Oct. 1913; reel 693, Schiff to I. Zang-
will, 29 Aug. 1912; Bentwich, Schechter, pp. 322–31; AH, 20 June 1913.
72.Reel 693, Schiff to I. Zangwill, 29 Aug. 1912, to J. Rosenwald, 4 Dec. 1914;
Schiff in AH, 20 June 1913; Maccabaean 24 (Jan. 1914): 6–7.284 Notes to Chapter 5