Levin, Shmarya, 184, 186, 189
Levinson, Salmon, 191
Lewisohn, Adolph, 137
Library of Congress, 76
Library of Jewish Classics, 80
Lipsky, Louis, 186
Literacy test, 154, 156–59
Littauer, Lucius, 131
Lloyd George, David, 218
Lodge, Henry Cabot, 240, 241
Loeb, Betty, 92
Loeb, James, 6, 9, 72, 76, 78
Loeb, Morris, 90
Loeb, Solomon, 5, 6, 7, 9
London, Meyer, 205
Low, Seth, 52, 73, 95–96
Lowell, A. Lawrence, 78–79
Lower East Side (New York City): and
Bolshevism, 244; eastern European
Jewish immigrants settling in, 83–
84; the Educational Alliance, 99;
Henry Street Settlement, 91–95;
Jewish Socialist pacifism in, 205,
206, 207; prostitution in, 95–96; re-
lief for the ghetto, 88–96; on
Schiff’s death, 246–47
LPC law, 120, 165, 166
Lyon, David Gordon, 76, 77, 78
Mack, Julian: on the Balfour Declara-
tion, 234, 235; on Haifa Technikum
board, 184, 185; Schiff invited to pay
the shekel by, 226; and Schiff on
Zionism, 231, 232
Magnes, Judah: and American Jewish
Committee, 111; on American Jew-
ish Congress debate, 215, 217–18; at
Carnegie Hall meeting, 211; in Jew-
ish Self-Defense Association, 110;
and the kehillah,113, 114; in the
“language war,” 184, 185; in needle
trades’ labor disputes, 115; pacifism
of, 206–7; Schiff as relying on, 43;
and Schiff’s search for rabbi for
Lower East Side, 98; on the
stewards’ leadership, 283n.59; on
wartime relief commission, 214
Manchuria, 34, 36, 37, 38
Marinbach, Bernard, 166, 280n.13
Marshall, Louis: Allied sympathies of,
192; and American Jewish Commit-
tee, 111, 112; in American Jewish
Congress debate, 215, 216, 222–23;
on American Jews in World War I,
202; on the Balfour Declaration, 235;
cultural Zionism of, 226; on Ford,
245; in Frank case, 54; on Haifa
Technikum board, 184; immigration
restriction opposed by, 157; invited
to become a shekel-payer, 226; on
Jew-Bolshevik equation, 243, 244; on
a Jewish state, 233–34; Jewish studies
of, 102; and Jewish Theological
Seminary, 102, 105; and the kehillah,
113, 116; on loans to Russia in World
War I, 196, 198; Lower East Side
Jews on, 113; Mitchel endorsed by,
206; national leadership after Schiff’s
death, 249; at 1919 strategy meeting
with Schiff, 250; on Polish Jews, 240;
on proper credentials for Jewish
community posts, 45; on public
funds for sectarian institutions, 64;
on Red Cross discrimination against
Jews, 204–5, 240, 290n.46; as Re-
publican loyalist, 151; on Russian
Jewish immigrants, 108; on the Rus-
sian Revolution, 208; in Russian
treaty abrogation campaign, 145,
147, 148; on Schiff as natural leader,
42; Schiff recommends for Supreme
Court, 44, 147, 166; and Schiff’s fu-
neral, 246; Schiff’s influence on, 247;
as Schiff’s most important ally, 43;
on Schiff’s non-Zionism, 187–88;
on Schiff’s pro-German activities,
193, 287n.13; split with Schiff over
Nathan, 285n.78; strict neutrality
urged by, 288n.20; at Versailles, 241;
and Zionism, 181, 231, 296n.115
Masaryk, Thomas, 239
Masliansky, Zvi Hirsch, 177
May Laws of 1881 (Russia), 126, 130
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