“I am divided into three parts. I am an American, I am a German, and I am a Jew.” A Zionist agitator named Shmarya Levin rose from the audience and asked Schiff whether he divided himself horizontally or vertically. And if the former, which section belonged to the Jewish people?[11] The episode was prophetic, for during the war the three parts of Schiff’s identity came increasingly into bitter conflict.
