Jacob H. Schiff Papers

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Materials include correspondence and reports concerning Schiff's philanthropic, political, educational, and immigration-related activities, relief problems, the outbreak of World War I, the inhuman treatment of the Jews in Poland, relief for Antwerp Jews and for Jewish sufferers from the war, the struggle between Zionists and non-Zionists in Germany, the language question in Jerusalem, the founding of a Jewish Institute of Technology in Haifa, American-German relations during World War I, Jewish agricultural and industrial problems, literary, scientific, and religious questions, business matters, financial transactions with the United States Treasury Department, and the restoration of Palestine.

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Finding Aid http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0456/ms0456.html

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Jacob H. Schiff Papers