Schiff, Moses (father), 1, 2, 3
Schiff, Otto (nephew), 173
Schiff, Philip (brother), 125
Schiff, Therese Loeb (wife), 5, 25, 96
Schiff Parkway, xi
Schulman, Samuel, 66, 187, 246
Schurz, Carl, 68
Secularization, 97
Seixas, Gershom M., 73
Selected immigration, 154
Self-determination, national, 239
Self-help, 59–60, 63
Self-Respect Fund, 60
Seligman, E. R. A., 91
Seligman, Isaac N., 73, 135, 136, 137
Seligman, Jesse, 120, 126, 127, 131
Seligman banking house, 9, 135
Semitics Museum (Harvard University),
76–79
Separatism, Jewish. SeeJewish separa-
tism
Shapiro, Yonathan, 225
Shargel, Baila R., 107
Sherman, John, 283n.52
Sherman Antitrust Act, 19, 30
Silverman, Joseph, 101, 246
Simons, George, 244
Sino-Japanese war of 1894–95, 33
Slaton, John, 54
Slawson, John, 261n.36
Smith, Charles Emory, 127
Social Darwinism, 64
Socialists, pacifism of, 205–7
Social Register, 54
Society for Ethical Culture, 49
Southern Pacific Railroad, 14, 255n.68
South Manchuria Railway, 35, 36
Spencer, Herbert, 64
Speyer, James, 90
Speyer & Company, 4, 9, 23, 253n.17
Spring-Rice, Sir Cecil, 142, 196, 234
Standard Oil, 30
Stewardship, 63
Stillman, James, 23
Stone, Melville, 143
Straight, Willard, 36, 37, 38
Straus, Isaac, 192
Straus, Isidor, 86
Straus, Nathan, 46, 106
Straus, Mrs. Nathan, 152
Straus, Oscar: Allied sympathies of,
192; as ambassador to Constantino-
ple, 173; cabinet appointment of,
52, 143, 160; entrée into govern-
ment circles, 43; and the Galveston
plan, 166; in gubernatorial race of
1912, 151–52; and Haupt, 171; and
Herzl, 178; and Hirsch, 86; and
Jewish Territorial Organization,
163; on loans to Russia in World
War I, 196, 198; and Mesopotamian
settlement plan, 174; in NCRSRM,
140; Origin of the Republican Form of
Government in the United States,76;
at Portsmouth peace conference,
137, 139; on purchasing lower Cali-
fornia, 291n.61; on Russian famine
relief, 129; and Russian Jews, 126,
127; and Schiff’s approach to Roose-
velt about pogroms, 142; and
Schiff’s funeral, 246; as softening
Schiff’s bluntness to government,
131; on Zionism, 181
Strauss, Samuel, 184
Strikes, 30, 115
Sulzberger, Cyrus L., 140, 163, 164,
176
Sulzberger, Mayer: in American Jewish
Committee, 112; on the Balfour
Declaration, 235; on Haifa Tech-
nikum board of directors, 184; and
Haupt, 171; on Jewish crime, 95; on
Jewish education, 99; and Jewish
Territorial Organization, 163; and
Jewish Theological Seminary, 103;
and Lyon’s archaeological excava-
tions, 77–78; Schiff as relying on,
43; on Schiff opposing all sugges-
tions but his own, 62; on Schiff’s
abrasive manner, 145; and Schiff’s
funeral, 246
Sulzer, William, 151–52
Supple, Barry, 6, 7
Szold, Henrietta, 46, 105, 180Index 317