103; eastern European Jewish criti-
cism of, 108; library of, 104; pro-
posed merger with Hebrew Union
College, 102; reorganization of, 99,
102–3
Jewish Welfare Board, 213
Jews: British Jews, 192, 196; court Jews,
44, 110; Emancipation of, 48; Otto-
man Jews, 58; Polish Jews, 239–41;
Romanian Jews, 131, 239; Russia as
reservoir of Jewish culture, 225;
stereotypes of, 52–53. See alsoAmer-
ican Jews; Anti-Semitism; Russian
Jews
Jews in the Eastern War Zone(American
Jewish Committee), 213
Joint Distribution Committee (JDC),
211, 213, 232, 250
Jones, George, 128
JPS (Jewish Publication Society), 80,
220
JTS. SeeJewish Theological Seminary
Judaeans (club), 110
Judaism: and Americanism, 177; Schiff
raising consciousness about, 79. See
alsoConservative Judaism; Orthodox
Judaism; Reform Judaism
Kahn, Otto, 7, 17–18, 38, 50, 197
Kallen, Horace, 215, 226, 232
Kaplan, Mordecai, 103
Katzenelsohn, Nissan, 178
Kehillah:criticism of, 116; decline of,
116; establishment of, 112–15; and
needle trades’ labor disputes, 115;
Schiff addressing during American
Jewish Congress debate, 221–22
Kellogg-Briand pact, 191
Kennan, George, 14, 128, 137, 139
Kennedy, John S., 90
Kishinev pogrom, 109, 132–33
Knox, Philander, 20, 36, 37, 146
Kohler, Kaufmann, 52, 79, 100, 103,
179
Kohler, Max, 157, 167
Kohut, Alexander, 98
Kolchak, Alexander, 242, 244
Korea, 34, 36
Kraus, Adolf, 137
Kuhn, Abraham, 5–6
Kuhn and Netter, 6
Kuhn, Loeb & Company: and Allied
war loans, 195–96, 288n.26; anti-
Semitic attacks on, 245; business
ethics of, 10; establishment of, 6; in
the Far East, 32–39; the federal
government and, 51; foreign con-
tacts of, 10–11; German lobbying
of, 192–93; and German war fi-
nance, 194; in the insurance scan-
dals, 25–28; Japan supported in
Russo-Japanese war, 33–34, 134;
kinship network at, 7; labor disputes
as affecting, 30; and National City
Bank, 23; origins of, 5–6; in Pujo
committee hearings, 31–32; in rail-
road reorganizations, 13; railroad
system controlled by, 24; refusing
business of anti-Semites, 53; Schiff
as head of, 9–11; Schiff joins, 5; as
second only to House of Morgan,
12, 23–24; securities’ underwriting
methods of, 10; Speyer & Company
as rivals of, 4, 23; Turkish railroad
investments, 173; the Union Pacific
affair, 12–23; and Warburg appoint-
ment to Federal Reserve Board, 32,
289n.36; 52 William Street offices
of, 24–25; World War I tarnishing
image of, 189, 195
Ku Klux Klan, 249Labor: on immigration restriction, 154;
in the needle trades, 115–16; Schiff’s
views on, 29–30; strikes, 30, 115
“Language war,” 184–87
Lansing, Robert, 35, 204, 214, 235, 241
League of Jewish Youth, 228, 296n.109
League of Nations, 238, 241
League of Small and Subject National-
ities, 239
League to Enforce Peace, 191, 196
Lehmann, Leo, 4
Levi, Leo, 83Index 309