A Study in American Jewish Leadership

Britain. SeeGreat Britain
Bryan, William Jennings, 191
Budge, Henry, 4
Budge, Schiff & Company, 4, 5, 12–13,
33
Bukharin, Nikolai, 243
Butler, Nicholas Murray, 73–74

Cable, Benjamin, 166–67
Cahan, Abraham, 59, 139, 140
Carnegie, Andrew, 63–64, 246
Carnegie Hall meeting (1915), 211–12
Carosso, Vincent, 7, 31
Cassel, Sir Ernest: Baghdad railroad in-
vestment of, 173; Chinese activities
of, 35, 37; conversion of, 50; in Gug-
genheim ventures, 24; Japan sup-
ported in Russo-Japanese war, 33; on
leadership, 42–43; and Mesopota-
mian settlement plan, 173; message
of condolence for Schiff, 246; Mexi-
can business interests of, 170; on
Russian Jews, 143–44; Schiff confid-
ing Jewish concerns in, 40; as Schiff’s
closest friend, 11–12; in Schiff’s cru-
sade for Russian Jews, 125
Castle Garden, 49, 84
Central Conference of American Rab-
bis, 42, 175
Central Jewish Institute, 221
Central Relief Committee, 211
Chamber of Commerce, 8, 25, 51, 53,
129
Charity Organization Society, 70, 71,
90
Chicago & North Western Railroad, 13
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Rail-
road, 15–16, 18
China, 33–39; American China Devel-
opment Company, 36; Boxer Rebel-
lion, 36; foreign concessions in, 36;
Hukuang railroad loan, 37, 38; Man-
churia, 34, 36, 37, 38; Sino-Japanese
war of 1894–95, 33
City College of New York, 79
Clemenceau, Georges, 191
Cohen, Henry, 164

Colonization, agricultural, 117–19

Columbia University, 61, 72, 73–74,

158

Committee of Agricultural Pursuits

(UAHC), 118

Committee of Jewish Delegations, 241

Committee on Public Information, 201

Commons, John, 122

Coney Island, 67

Conscription, 202, 205

Conservative Judaism: Schiff as at-

tracted to, 100; Schiff as having ac-

cess to, 45; Schiff contributing to

rabbinical seminary of, 80. See also

Jewish Theological Seminary

Conversion: Christian missionary activ-

ity, 48, 68, 108; Schiff on, 50

Corbin, August, 53, 67

Cornell University, 72, 74, 192, 200

Court Jews, 44, 110

Cowen, Philip, 89–90

Cox, James, 200

Crime, Jewish, 84, 95, 108, 112, 156

Cultural Zionism, 179, 182, 225, 226,

230, 236

Currency reform, 29

Curti, Merle, 63

Cutler, Harry, 223

Cyrenaica, 283n.48

Czechoslovakia, 239

Damascus Affair of 1840, 125

Davis, Allen, 92

Davis, Robert, 243

Davison, Henry, 39, 204, 290n.46

Day(newspaper), 197, 218, 284n.59

Dearborn Independent(newspaper), 116,

150, 244–45, 299n.18

De Forest, Robert, 71

Dernburg, Bernhard, 193, 194, 287n.13

“Deserving poor,” 61

Deutsch, Gotthard, 101

Devine, Edward T., 158, 280n.11

Dewey, Melvil, 52

Dillingham immigration bill, 157

Distribution of immigrants. SeeImmi-

grant distribution

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