Includes bibliographical references (pages 615-628) and index.
Contents
Part One : From upstate to uptown -- Syracuse -- Manhattan and moral reform -- Part Two : A national organization for the Jews -- The origins of organized activism -- Abrogation -- Avoiding the guillotine of immigration restriction -- Part Three : War and peace -- World War I -- Paris and Haiti -- Part Four : Marshall law -- Ford -- Jews and birds -- Ethnic affairs in the 1920s -- Crimea and Eretz Israel -- Epilogue : Massena, Zurich, Emanu-el.