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Cohen: Jacob H Schiff page i Jacob H. Schiff Cohen: Jacob H Schiff page iiblank DES:frontis is eps from PDF file and at 74% to fit print area. . . Cohen: Jacob H Schiff page iii Jac o b H. S c h i f f A Study in American Jewish Leadership Naomi W. Cohen Published with the support of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and the American Jewish Committee Brandeis University Press Published by University Press of New England Hanover and London Cohen: Jacob H Schiff page iv Brandeis University Press Published by University Press of New England, Hanover, NH 03755 © 1999 by Brandeis University Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America 5 4 3 2 1 UNIVERSITY PRESS OF NEW ENGLAND publishes books under its own imprint and is the publisher for Brandeis University Press, Dartmouth College, Middlebury College Press, University of New Hampshire, Tufts University, and Wesleyan University Press. library of congress cataloging-in-publication data Cohen, Naomi Wiener Jacob H. Schiff : a study in American Jewish leadership / by Naomi W. Cohen. p. cm. — (Brandeis series in American Jewish history, culture, and life) Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn0-87451-948-9 (cl. : alk. paper) 1. Schiff, Jacob H. (Jacob Henry), 1847-1920. 2. Jews—United States Biography. 3. Jewish capitalists and financiers—United States—Biography. 4. Philanthropists—United States Biography. 5. Jews—United States—Politics and government. 6. United States Biography. I. Title. II. Series. e184.37.s37c64 1999 332'.092—dc21 [B] 99–30392 frontispiece Image of Jacob Henry Schiff. American Jewish Historical Society, Waltham, Massachusetts, and New York, New York. Cohen: Jacob H Schiff page v Brandeis Series in American Jewish History,Culture,and Life jonathan d.sarna,Editor sylvia barack fishman,Associate Editor Leon A. Jick, 1992 The Americanization of the Synagogue,1820–1870 Sylvia Barack Fishman, editor, 1992 Follow My Footprints: Changing Images of Women in American Jewish Fiction Gerald Tulchinsky, 1993 Taking Root: The Origins of the Canadian Jewish Community Shalom Goldman, editor, 1993 Hebrew and the Bible in America: The First Two Centuries Marshall Sklare, 1993 Observing America’s Jews Reena Sigman Friedman, 1994 These Are Our Children: Jewish Orphanages in theUnited States,1880–1925 Alan Silverstein, 1994 Alternatives to Assimilation: The Response of Reform Judaism toAmerican Culture,1840–1930 Jack Wertheimer, editor, 1995 The American Synagogue: A Sanctuary Transformed Sylvia Barack Fishman, 1995 A Breath of Life: Feminism in the American Jewish Community Diane Matza, editor, 1996 Sephardic-American Voices: Two Hundred Years of a Literary Legacy Joyce Antler, editor, 1997 Talking Back: Images of Jewish Women in American Popular Culture Cohen: Jacob H Schiff page vi Jack Wertheimer, 1997 A People Divided: Judaism in Contemporary America Beth S. Wenger and Jeffrey Shandler, editors, 1998 Encounters with the “Holy Land”: Place,Past and Future in American JewishCulture David Kaufman, 1998 Shul with a Pool: The “Synagogue-Center”in American Jewish History Roberta Rosenberg Farber and Chaim I. Waxman, 1999 Jews in America: A Contemporary Reader Murray Friedman and Albert D. Chernin, 1999 A Second Exodus: The American Movement to Free Soviet Jews Stephen J. Whitfield, 1999 In Search of American Jewish Culture Naomi W. Cohen, 1999 Jacob H.Schiff: A Study in American Jewish Leadership Barbara Kessel, 2000 Suddenly Jewish: Jews Raised as Gentiles Discover Their Jewish Roots Jonathan N. Barron and Eric Murphy Selinger, editors, 2000 Jewish American Poetry: Poems,Commentary,and Reflections Cohen: Jacob H Schiff page vii for yonatan, who waited patiently for his book Cohen: Jacob H Schiff page viiiblank Cohen: Jacob H Schiff page ix Contents Preface xi 1. The Making of a Leader 1 2. Leadership and Philanthropy 41 3. The New Immigrants 82 4. Captivity and Redemption 124 5. In Search of a Refuge 153 6. The World at War 189 Questions of Loyalty 189 Questions of Leadership 209 Questions of Zionism and Unity 224 7. The End of an Era 238 Notes 251 Index 301 ix