New York City (continued)
Mitchel, 92, 206, 269n.26; the Mon-
tefiore Home and Hospital, 64–69;
Museum of Natural History, 75;
Schiff on Board of Education, 199;
Schiff Parkway, xi; Tammany Hall,
95, 199. See alsoLower East Side
New York Juvenile Asylum, 70
New York Life, 25, 26, 27
New York Peace Society, 191
New York Public Library, 266n.104
Noetzlin, Edouard, 11
Nordau, Max, 214
Northern Pacific Railway, 13, 14, 16–19
Northern Securities Company, 19, 20–
21
North German-Lloyd Company, 161
Norton, Charles, 77
Ochs, Adolph, 26
100 percent Americanism, 201
Ontario & Western Railroad, 53
Open Door policy, 33, 38
“Open Letter to the Rich, An” (Schiff),
63
Orthodox Judaism: Elhanan rabbinical
seminary, 80; in Frankfurt, 2, 101;
Jewish Theological Seminary criti-
cized by, 103; Schiff as having access
to, 45; Schiff contributing to Up-
town Talmud Torah, 80; Schiff on,
99–100, 101
Other People’s Money(Brandeis), 32
Ottoman Jews, 58
Pacifism, 205–7
Paderewski, Ignace, 241
Palestine: the Balfour Declaration on,
234–37; British mandate over, 236;
Christians on Jewish restoration in,
175; Haifa Technikum, 183–87; ha-
lukkahsystem, 181, 183; Schiff in
physical restoration of, 232; Schiff
negotiating with Zionists on, 227–
28; Schiff supporting schools and
charities in, 183; Schiff’s visit to,
181–82; as solution for Russian Jews,
174; as spiritual center for Schiff,
233; wartime relief for, 210–14
Palestine Oranges Committee, 210
Panic of 1901, 12, 17–18
Panic of 1907, 30–31, 70
Paternalism, 57, 64, 85, 158, 177
Patriotism, 176, 180, 193, 202, 228, 231
Peabody, Endicott, 49
Pennsylvania Railroad, 13
People’s Relief Committee, 211
Perkins, George, 27, 151
Philipson, David, 229–30, 236
Pilgrims’ Club, 192
Plehve, Vyacheslav Konstantinovich,
134, 135–36
Plimpton, George, 74
Pogroms: in Bialystok, 143; and Chris-
tianity, 48; of 1881, 85, 126; emigra-
tion resulting from, 82; at Kishinev,
109, 132–33; after revolution of
1905, 140, 160; after World War I,
240
Polish Jews, 239–41
Political Zionism, 175, 178, 228, 232,
233, 236
Populism, 54, 261n.34
Potter, Henry, 53, 72, 92
Pouren, Jan, 143, 278n.62
Prendergast, William, 93
Prison Association of New York, 70
Progressive era, 57, 89, 248
Prostitution, 84, 95–96
Protocol of Peace, 115
Protocols of the Elders of Zion,244, 245
Provident Loan Society, 90
Provisional Executive Committee for
General Zionist Affairs, 210
Pujo, Arsène, 31
Pujo committee, 31–32, 248
Purim Association, 57Rabbis, 41
Radicalism, 50
Reading, Lord, 192, 196–97, 198, 215
Reading Railroad, 53
Red Cross War Council, 204–5
Red Scare of 1919–20, 244312 Index