paragraph comes from the voluminous Schiff-Mack correspondence for 1918–
20 in Central Zionist Archives, A405/230 and A405/193. Reel 682, CA MSS,
pp. 1199–1201; NYT,10 Mar. 1919; AH,2Jan. 1920; Urofsky and Levy, Letters
of Brandeis,4:323.
120.Jacob H. Schiff, “Let American Jewry Unite for the Up-Building of Pales-
tine,” New Palestine,16 Jan. 1920; reel 693, Schiff to P. Nathan, 16 Jan. 1920, to
J. Rosenwald, 18 Dec. 1919; reel 1981, Schiff to E. Friedman, 26 Oct. 1917;
Central Zionist Archives, A405/230, interview of Schiff with Zionist leaders,
13 June 1919.
121.Reel 679, Schiff to P. Nathan, 16 Jan. 1920, to editor Jewish Morning Journal, 5
May 1920; reel 684, Schiff to I. Zangwill, 14 Aug., 10 Sept. 1919; reel 693,
Schiff to C. Eliot, 2 Feb. 1920.
122.Jacob H. Schiff, “The Need for a Jewish Homeland,” Nation,26 Apr. 1919;
reel 1986, Schiff to S. Bass, 11 Mar. 1919; NYT,9 Feb., 10 Mar. 1919.
123.Reel 679, Schiff to editor Jewish Morning Journal,5 May 1920; reel 682, CA
MSS, pp. 1199–1201; reel 684, Schiff to I. Zangwill, 14 Aug. 1919; reel 1986,
Schiff to S. Bass, 11 Mar. 1919, to M. Jastrow, 10 July 1919, special bulletin of
ZOA, 2 Feb. 1920; AJC archives, Schiff file, Schiff to H. Schneiderman, 17
Mar. 1919; Reznikoff, Marshall,2:539.
124.Levene, War, Jews, and the New Europe,pp. 96–98; Gwynn, Sir Cecil Spring
Rice,2:420–22; AJC archives, “Minutes of the Executive Committee,” 2 Feb
1918; Charles I. Goldblatt, “The Impact of the Balfour Declaration in Amer-
ica,” American Jewish Historical Quarterly57 (June 1968): 455–515.
125.Reel 1982, Schiff to H. Bernstein, 20 Nov. 1917; Schiff papers (JTS archives,
Jerusalem), Schiff to C. Adler, 21 Jan. 1918; AH,23 Nov. 1917, 4 Jan. 1918;
NYT,2 June 1918. One Yiddish journalist, without any evidence, suggested
that Schiff, like the Rothschilds, approved of the declaration for the purpose of
economic exploitation. Goldblatt, “Impact of the Balfour Declaration,” p. 481.
126.AJC archives, “Minutes of the Executive Committee,” 2 Feb., 7, 10 Apr. 1918.
127.Reel 1985, ZOA file, Schiff-Mack correspondence for Mar.–Apr. 1918;
Cohen, Not Free to Desist,pp. 109–10; Friesel, “Schiff Becomes a Zionist,” p.
81; Knee, Concept of Zionist Dissent,pp. 95–98.
128.Aaron S. Klieman and Adrian L. Klieman, eds., Zionism: A Documentary His-
tory,vol. 4 (New York, 1990), pp. 114–27; NYT,12, 14 Sept. 1918; Friesel,
“Schiff Becomes a Zionist,” pp. 82–83.
129.Reel 679, Schiff to editor Jewish Morning Journal,5 May 1920.
130.For example, AH,9 Apr. 1920, London Jewish Chronicle,5 Mar. 1920.
- The End of an Era (Notes to Pages 238–250)
1.Reel 22 (JTS archives), Schiff to E. Benjamin, 17 June 1919; reel 684, Schiff to
I. Zangwill, 10 Sept. 1919; reel 694, Schiff to S. Wolf, 7 Nov. 1918; reel 1978,
Schiff to S. Fleischer, 19 Feb. 1915; reel 1981, Schiff to J. Rosenwald, 12 May
1916; reel 1984, Schiff to G. Blumenthal, 24 Oct. 1918; reel 1985, Jewish War
Relief and Foreign Affairs files for 1919–20; reel 1986, Schiff to H. Schneider-
man, 22 Sept. 1919; NYT,4 May 1920.Notes to Chapter 7 297