73.Reel 679, Schiff to N. Katzenelsohn, 24 Oct. 1913, to N. Straus, 27 Mar. 1912;
reel 693, Schiff to J. Magnes, 24 Apr. 1911; reel 1985, Schiff to M. Wertheim,
11 Oct. 1915; Jacob R. Marcus, United States Jewry, vol. 4 (Detroit, 1993), pp.
475–76.
74.Reel 693, Schiff to J. Rosenwald, 21 Nov. 1912, 27 Jan. 1913, to L. Marshall,
21, 28 Mar. 1910, J. Rosenwald to Schiff, 1 Dec. 1914; Reznikoff, Marshall,
2:705–6; Nathan Efrati, American Jewry and the Yishuv (Lecture. Jerusalem,
1993), pp. 6–7, 24; Gabriel Davidson and Max J. Kohler, “Aaron Aaronsohn,”
PAJHS 31 (1928): 202–3.
75.For the background of the Technikum, see Carl Alpert, Technion (New York,
1982), pp. 1–17, and Schiff in AH, 3 July 1914. Magnes papers, P3/828, Schiff
to J. Mack, 4 Feb. 1909, to J. Magnes, 15 Feb. 1909; reel 693, Schiff to P. Na-
than, 24 Dec. 1908, to I. Zangwill, 3 Feb. 1909, to L. Marshall, 21, 28 Mar.
1910; Reznikoff, Marshall, 2:704.
76.Of the numerous letters dealing with the matter, see esp. reel 693, Schiff to J.
Magnes, 10, 15 Feb. 1909, to P. Nathan, 8 July, 9 Oct., 13 Nov., 2 Dec. 1908, 3
Jan. 1909, to J. Mack, 13 Jan. 1909, to I. Zangwill, 3 Feb. 1909; reel 691, Schiff
to P. Nathan, 12 Dec. 1911; reel 681, CA MSS, pp. 957–58.
77.Alpert, Technion, pp.36–59, and “Language War” in Encyclopedia of Zionism and
Israel, 2:702–3, for background material on the language war; AH, 16, 30 Jan.,
6, 20 Feb. 1914; American Israelite, 8, 14 Jan. 1914; see also coverage for 1914
in the American Zionist monthly, Maccabaean.
78.For example, see Nahum Sokolow in AH, 28 Nov. 1913, Max Heller in Ameri-
can Israelite, 15 Jan. 1914; reel 1977, J. Mack to Schiff, 5 Feb. 1914. Nathan’s
pamphlet, Der Kampf um die Hebraische Sprache in Palestina, caused an unusual
split between Schiff and Louis Marshall at an AJC meeting. Pained by what he
considered Marshall’s unwarranted attack on Nathan, the banker threatened
to resign from the AJC. Reel 1978, Schiff to L. Marshall, 19 Jan. 1914; Reznik-
off, Marshall, 2:707–9.
79.Schiff supported a modern Hebrew periodical in America as well as the teach-
ing of Hebrew through the kehillah. Marcus, United States Jewry, 4:362,
576–77.
80.Reel 693, Schiff to L. Marshall, 17 Nov. 1913, 6 Apr. 1914, to P. Nathan, 10
Sept., 15, 28 Oct., 4, 7 Nov., 28 Dec. 1913, 27 Feb., 10 Apr. 21 July 1914, to S.
Levin, 13 Nov. 1913, to A. Kraus, 7 Nov. 1913, to J. Magnes, 3 Feb. 1914, to J.
Mack, 7 May 1914, to E. Lewin-Epstein, 6 Apr., 20 Nov. 1914; reel 684, Schiff
to I. Zangwill, 11 Feb. 1914; reel 694, Schiff to S. Wolf, 8 July 1914; reel 1977,
Schiff to E. Lewin-Epstein, 8, 20 Apr. 1914, to L. Marshall, 31 Oct. 1914; AH,
24 Nov. 1914; NYT,6 July 1914; Magnes papers, P/3 832, entire file deals with
Technikum; American Israelite, 22 Jan. 1914; Bentwich, Schechter, pp. 325–28.
81.AH, 12 Dec. 1913, 27 Feb. 1914; American Israelite, 22 Jan. 1914; Maccabaean
24 (Feb. 1914): 55–57; NYT,27 Jan., 1 Feb. 1914; reel 1977, J. Mack to Schiff,
26 Feb. 1914, J. Magnes to Schiff, 9 Jan. 1914, M. Sulzberger to Schiff, 25 Feb.
1914.
82.On developments that followed the compromise, see references in n. 80 to
1914 correspondence; American Israelite, 28 May 1914; reel 679, Schiff to P.
Nathan, 20 Jan. 1914.
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