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Feb. 1915; Magnes papers, P3/1594, Schiff to J. Magnes, 8 Mar. 1916; Nor-
man Bentwich, For Zion’s Sake (Philadelphia, 1954), pp. 99–101; Boris D.
Bogen, Born a Jew (New York, 1930), chap. 9; Frank E. Manuel, The Realities of
American-Palestine Relations (Washington, D.C., 1949), pp. 140–42.
71.On Palestine see Reel 679, Schiff to J. Goldman, 4 June 1915, to E. Bicknell,
20 Jan. 1916; reel 693, Schiff to A. Kraus, 9 Oct. 1914, to H. Morgenthau, 2
Sept. 1914, to M. Warburg, 25 Feb. 1916, to A. Murray, 10 Jan., 16 May 1916,
to R. Lansing, 16 Nov. 1916; reel 1977, H. Morgenthau to Schiff, 17 July, 26
Sept., 22 Nov. 1917, to R. Tinsley, 17 Oct. 1914, L. Marshall to Schiff, 30 Oct.
1914; reel 1981, Schiff to C. Adler, 26 Jan. 1917, to Dr. Sobernheim, 25 Sept.
1916, A. Elkus file, A. Ruppin to Schiff, 16 June 1915; reel 1985, Palestine file;
Schiff papers (JTS archives, Jerusalem), C. Adler to Schiff, 25, 26 June 1916;
Magnes papers, P3/1593, Schiff to J. Magnes, 1 Nov. 1915; Henry Morgen-
thau, Ambassador Morgenthau’s Story (Garden City, N.Y., 1918), pp. 378–79;
NYT,28 Oct. 1914, 10 May, 31 Oct. 1915.
72.Reel 1977, Schiff to J. Magnes, 1 Nov. 1915, to L. Marshall, 31 Oct. 1914; reel
1978, Schiff to C. Melchior, 25 Jan. 1915, to J. Magnes, 3 Aug. 1915; reel
1979, Schiff to J. Magnes, 8 Mar. 1916; reel 1980, Schiff to J. Saffier, 5 Jan.
1916; AJC archives, “Minutes of the Executive Committee,” 16 May 1917;
American Jewish Year Book 20 (1918–19): 374–75.
73.See, for example, Urofsky, American Zionism, chap. 5; Yonathan Shapiro, Lead-
ership of the American Zionist Organization(Urbana, Ill., 1971), chap. 4; Reznik-
off, Marshall, 2:511–12.
74.Reel 1977, H. Schneiderman to Schiff, 6 May 1915; Schiff papers (JTS archives,
Jerusalem), L. Marshall to Schiff, 19 Feb. 1915; Goren, New York Jews,p. 222.
75.Reel 1978, J. Magnes to Schiff, 10 Aug. 1915; Maccabaean 26 (Apr. 1915): 58;
Urofsky and Levy, Letters of Brandeis,4:237; Goren, New York Jews,pp. 219–22;
Cohen, Not Free to Desist,p. 92.
76.Reel 1977, Schiff to C. Adler, 7 May, 21 Oct. 1915; reel 1978, Schiff to G. Sel-
ikowitsch, 5 Oct. 1915, to J. Magnes, 21 May, 3 Aug. 1915, to K. Sarasohn, 28
Oct. 1915; reel 1979, Schiff to C. Adler, 23 July 1916; Schiff papers (JTS
archives, Jerusalem), Schiff to C. Adler, 8 Mar., 23 June 1916; NYT,11 Mar.
1916; Ira Robinson, ed., Cyrus Adler: Selected Letters,2 vols. (Philadelphia,
1985), 1:292–93.
77.AJC archives, “Minutes of the Executive Committee,” 9 May 1915; see also
Magnes papers, P3/1594, Schiff to J. Magnes, 22 Mar. 1916; see references in
n. 76.
78.AJC archives, “Minutes of the Executive Committee,” 14 Aug. 1914; reel
1977, L. Miller to Schiff, 19 Aug. 1914; reel 1978, Schiff to E. Kaufman, 23
June 1915.
79.AH, 3 Mar. 1916; Goren, National Leadership,pp. 11–17; AJC archives, “Min-
utes of the Executive Committee,” 9 May 1915, Schiff file, Schiff to L. Mar-
shall, 10 Mar. 1916, to C. Adler, 8 Mar. 1916; Cohen, Not Free to Desist,p. 96.
80.Goren, National Leadership,pp. 1, 15; Justine W. Polier and James W. Wise,
eds., The Personal Letters of Stephen Wise (Boston, 1956), p. 152.
81.Magnes papers, P3/1593, J. Magnes to Schiff, 10 Aug. 1915, P3/1594, J.
Magnes to Schiff, 3 July 1916.


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