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28.Reel 1977, G. Wilenkin to Schiff, 6 Sept., 11 Oct., 4 Dec. 1914, Schiff to G.
Wilenkin, 13 Sept., 14 Dec. 1914; reel 679, Schiff to P. Nathan, 23 Sept. 1914;
reel 697, Schiff to G. Wilenkin, 23 Sept. 1914.
29.Reel 22, Schiff to H. Bernstein, 1 Mar. 1916, to L. Wiley, 14 Apr. 1916; NYT,
26 Nov. 1915, 29 Feb. 1916; reel 679, Schiff to Warburg, 23 Nov. 1915; reel
697, CA MSS, p. 579; Schiff papers (JTS archives, Jerusalem), Schiff to L.
Marshall, 15 Jan. 1915; AJC archives, “Minutes of the Executive Committee,”
17 Mar., 20 Sept. 1915; American Jewish Year Book18 (1916–17): 300–301;
Reznikoff, Marshall, 2:649; Chernow, House of Morgan, p. 196; Rappaport,
“Jewish Immgrants and World War I,” p. 143.
30.Reel 679, Schiff to W. Wilson, 25 Mar. 1915; reel 689, Schiff to J. Kean, 19
July 1916; reel 1977, L. Marshall to Schiff, 28 Aug. 1914; Schiff papers (JTS
archives, Jerusalem), Schiff to C. Adler, 14 Jan., 25 July 1916, C. Adler to
Schiff, 24 July, 7 Aug. 1916, L. Marshall to Schiff, 14 Jan. 1915; AJC archives,
Schiff file, Schiff to H. Bernstein, 7 July 1914; American Jewish Year Book 19
(1917–18): 458–61.
31.Adler, Schiff, 2:68, 192; NYT,29, 31 Oct. 1915; reel 691, Schiff to B. Richards,
8 Feb. 1919.
32.Reel 677, Schiff to J. Beck, 13 Jan. 1913; Adler, Schiff, 1:38–41, vol. 2, chap.
12, passim. According to a report in the New York Times(1921), Schiff once of-
fered to buy Monticello and present it as a gift to the country. Charles B. Hos-
mer, Jr., “The Levys and the Restoration of Monticello,” American Jewish His-
torical Quarterly53 (Mar. 1964): 247.
33.Reel 23, CA MSS; Adler, Schiff, 1:326–27; New York Sun, 13 Dec. 1904; Jewish
Comment, 16 Dec. 1904; American Israelite, 5 Jan. 1905; “Many-Sided Jacob H.
Schiff,” New York World Magazine, 16 Apr. 1905; reel 689, Schiff to A. Gwin-
ner, 9 Jan. 1905.
34.Reel 1981, Schiff to J. Bass, 1 Nov. 1916, to H. Morgenthau, 22 Sept. 1916;
NYT,19 June 1916, 24 Jan. 1917.
35.Reel 680, CA MSS; reel 1984, Schiff to M. Jastrow, 28 May 1918; reel 1985,
Schiff to F. Warburg, 18 Mar. 1918; Judah Magnes papers (Central Archives
for the History of the Jewish People), P3/118, Schiff to J. Magnes, 27 Mar.
1917; Adler, Schiff, 2:203–4.
36.Reel 686, Schiff to E. Cassel, 10 Apr., 14 May 1914; reel 689, Schiff to M.
Boardman, 26 Feb. 1915; reel 694, Schiff to S. Wolf, 10 July 1914; NYT, 11
July 1914, 16 Feb. 1915, 2 Apr. 1914. Warburg’s appointment generated ru-
mors of a link between Kuhn, Loeb and the government, obliging Warburg to
emphasize his dissociation from the firm.
37.Priscilla M. Roberts, “The American ‘Eastern Establishment’ and World War
I” (Ph.D. diss., University of Cambridge, 1981), pp. 207–8; Frieda S. War-
burg, Reminiscences of a Long Life (New York, 1956), p. 76; reel 684, M. Strook
to M. Schiff, 3 Oct. 1925; reel 697, Schiff to J. Schurman, 3, 17 June 1918;
David G. Singer, “The Prelude to Nazism,” American Jewish Historical Quar-
terly66 (Mar. 1977): 419.
38.References in the Schiff papers to the banker’s consultations on financial issues
with Wilson and the Treasury Department (1914–19), his participation in lib-
erty loan rallies, and his service on ad hoc committees are too numerous to cite


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