jun 5, 1916 - "JACOB SCHIFF QUITS JEWISH MOVEMENTS" NY Times 1916, June 5
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NY Times 1916, June 5 - JACOB SCHIFF QUITS JEWISH MOVEMENTSHurt by Unjust Criticism, He Tells Kehillah He Will Work Alone for Reforms. SPEAKS HIS VALEDICTORY Says Attacks Were Based on Misquotations That Made Him Condemn Those He Defended.
Jacob H. Sehiff informed the Kehillah at its seventh annual convention at the Hebrew Technical School for Girls yesterday that he had been hurt by recent attacks made upon him in connection with his efforts to help to solve the problems of his co-religionists, and that hereafter "Zionism, nationalism, the Congress movement and Jewish politics in whatever form they may come up" would be a "sealed book" to him.
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jun 5, 1916
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