communal service of, 45; American
Jewish Committee, 111, 112;
Baron de Hirsch Fund, 86–88;
cultivating government allies for
Jewish causes, 21; on federation
of charities, 62; on governing
councils of communal agencies,
56; Hebrew Free Loan Society,
89–90; Hebrew Technical Insti-
tute, 90–91; Henry Street Settle-
ment, 91–95; Jewish education
supported, 79–81; Jewish studies
supported, 75–79, 266n.103;
Jewish Theological Seminary,
96–106, 269n.37; kehillah,113–
14, 116; Montefiore Home and
Hospital, 64–69; in needle
trades’ labor disputes, 115–16;
Semitics Museum of Harvard
University, 76–79
discrimination fought by: antimis-
sionary activity, 48–49; on Chris-
tianity, 48–50; on Dreyfus affair,
125; on Ford, 245; in Frank case,
54; Jews recommended for public
office by, 51–52; on not swallow-
ing discrimination in silence, 75;
on public funds for sectarian in-
stitutions, 64, 67; social discrimi-
nation against, 53–54
and eastern european immigrants,
82–123; agricultural colonization
supported, 118–19, 273n.92; on
assimilation of, 45, 109, 260n.12;
on bicycling for ghetto dwellers,
61; the Galveston plan, 159–68;
on immigrant distribution, 119–
23, 127; immigrants’ attitude to-
ward, 108–9, 113
family life of: children of, 5; grand-
children of, 25; marries Therese
Loeb, 5; and his mother, 1; rebel-
lion against his father’s discipline,
1, 101; summer residences of,
253n.22; ties to his family in Ger-
many, 1
friendships of: Cassel as best
friend, 11–12; Eliot, 59, 78; Hill,
13–14; Rosenwald, 59; Stillman,
23; Takahashi, 34; Wald, 93
judaism of: as “faith Jew” not “race
Jew,” 175; Hebrew knowledge of,
2, 100; as integrationist, 55; Jew-
ish life kept separate from busi-
ness, 40; on Orthodox Judaism,
99–100, 101; on Reform Juda-
ism, 100, 101; religious practice
of, 100–102, 270n.47; Sabbath
observance of, 100, 270n.47
last years of, 238–50; cardiovascu-
lar problems, 245; death of, 245;
eulogies for, 246; funeral of, 246;
postwar realities and vision of, 248
as leader: Adler as ally of, 43; in
American Jewish Congress de-
bate, 215–24; on American Jew-
ish unity, 3, 41, 50–51, 115, 227,
237; American Jews looking to, xi;
articles about, 23; challenges to,
209–24; criticism of, 46; on dem-
ocratic governance of Jewish
community, 215; as elitist, xii, 43–
46, 88, 109, 112, 249; as foremost
leader of American Jewry, 41, 45–
46; Gordin’s The Benefactors of the
East Side on, 107; as “Grand Old
Man of American Jewry,” 236; as
“greatest Jew in America,” 201;
on Hofjudelabel, 44; on Jewish
separatism, 50, 203, 219, 221;
leadership style of, xiii; Marshall
as ally of, 43; as natural leader, 42;
overall plan of, 247–48; as pater-
nalistic, 57, 64, 85, 158, 177; the
“Schiff era,” 247; as “unser Yan-
kele,” 109; in world Jewry, 46–47
palestine activities of: Palestine
visit, 181–82; schools and char-
ities supported, 183; Technikum
of Haifa supported, 183–87
as philanthropist: as arts’ patron,
63; Carnegie compared with, 63–
64; charitable causes in will of, 59;
on charity,59; on the deservingIndex 315