A Study in American Jewish Leadership

Taft, William Howard: dollar diplo-
macy of, 36; and the Galveston plan,
147, 166–67; government regula-
tion of business under, 30, 32; on
Jews maintaining their identity in
face of persecution, 208; message of
condolence for Schiff, 246; and
Open Door policy, 33; Russian
treaty abrogation campaign, 144–
52; and Union Pacific Railroad,
255n.68; White House meeting on
treaty abrogation, 147–48, 278n.61
Takahashi, Korekiyo, 34, 35, 37, 38, 136
Tammany Hall, 95, 199
Technikum (Haifa), 183–87
Temple Beth-El, 6, 66, 100, 101
Temple Emanu-El, 6, 45, 100, 101, 102,
246
Tobacco trust, 30
Town and Country Nursing Service,
203
Toy, Crawford, 78
Trotsky, Leon, 243
Trusts, 30–32

Union of American Hebrew Congrega-
tions (UAHC): American Jewish
Committee as undercutting, 111;
Committee of Agricultural Pursuits
of, 118; and eastern European Jew-
ish immigrants, 83, 84; and Galves-
ton plan, 161; and Hebrew Union
College, 42; immigration restriction
opposed by, 157; Industrial Removal
Office endorsed by, 121; on Judaism
as religion not nationality, 175; in
Russian treaty abrogation campaign,
147; Schiff in, 101
Union Pacific affair, 12–23
United Hebrew Charities: federated
fund-raising by, 62; and Henry
Street Settlement, 92; Lower East
Side making use of, 106; Schiff re-
questing “kindly” behavior from, 61;
Schiff supporting, 57, 60; temporary
closing after panic of 1907, 70
University Club, 54

Unrestricted immigration, 153–59;

Eliot as supporter of, 78, 157–58;

and immigrant distribution, 119,

155, 159; Jewish support for, 46. See

alsoImmigration restriction

Untermyer, Samuel, 31–32, 257n.92

Uptown Talmud Torah, 80

Versailles treaty, 238–39, 241, 250

Viereck, George Sylvester, 193

Vigilance Committee, 191

Villard, Oswald Garrison, 128

Wald, Lillian: on ghetto dwellers’ need

for air, 61; Henry Street Settlement

of, 63, 91–95; pacifism of, 291n.53;

Schiff loans automobile to during in-

fluenza epidemic, 201; in Schiff’s

founding of Town and Country

Nursing Service, 203; Schiff urged

to intervene in “Great Revolt” by,

115

Waldman, Morris, 164

Warburg, Felix (son-in-law): in Jewish

wartime relief, 213; joins Kuhn,

Loeb, 7; as Joint Distribution Com-

mittee head, 211, 250; kehillahedu-

cational work supported by, 114;

marries Frieda Schiff, 25; Schiff’s in-

fluence on, 247

Warburg, Frieda Schiff (daughter):

birth of, 5; Cassel rescues, 11; educa-

tion of, 6; mansion of, 50; marriage

to Felix Warburg, 25; religious edu-

cation of, 102, 229

Warburg, Max, 40, 74, 194, 210

Warburg, Paul (brother-in-law): on a

central bank, 29; Federal Reserve

Board appointment, 32, 52, 200,

289n.36; as Kuhn, Loeb partner, 7;

on Schiff in American Jewish Con-

gress debate, 221

Warburg family, 5, 11, 245

Ward’s Island, 85

Wartime relief, 210–14

Washington, Booker T., 71

Watchorn, Robert, 157

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