Thanks are hereby accorded to the following publishers and other sources, all of whom kindly gave permission for the use of excerpted material appearing in this volume.

• American Jewish Archives, for excerpts from Unwritten History by Captain N. Taylor Phillips, and from A Jewish Peddler's Diary, 1842-43, by Abraham Kohn, translated from the original German by Abram Vossen Goodman, appearing respectively in the Vol. I, No. 2 and Vol. 1, No. 3 issues of American Jewish Archives.
• American Jewish Historical Society, for excerpts from New York Chooses a Chief Rabbi, by Abraham Jay Karp, published in American Jewish Historical Society Publications, Vol. XLIV, September 1954.
• University Press of New England, for excerpts from The Americanization of the Synagogue, 1820-4870, by Abraham Jay Karp, copyright 1976 by Trustees of Brandeis University.
• Columbia University Press, for excerpts from An Old Faith in a New World, by David and Tamar deSola Pool, copyright 1955 by Columbia University Press.
• Holmes & Meir Publishers, Inc. for excerpts from People Walk on Their Heads; Moses Weinberg's -'Jews and Judaism in New York,' edited and translated by Jonathan D. Sarna (New York: Holmes & Meir, 1982). Copyright by Jonathan D. Sarna.
• The Jewish Publication Society of America, for excerpts from Three Years in America, translated by Charles Reznicoff from the original German by Israel Joseph Benjamin ("Benjamin Il"), copyright 1956 by the Jewish Publication Society of America.

I hereby express my gratitude to Shulamith Z. Berger, Archivist of Yeshiva University Archives, for her ready cooperation in making available various items relevant to this book. Particularly valuable were the Central Relief Committee Collection and the Benjamin and Pearl Koenigsberg Collection.

My warm thanks go to the following, whose readings of, and comments on, much of the manuscript of The Orthodox Union Story were of particular value: Moses I. Feuerstein, Rabbi Joseph Karasick, Rabbi Julius Berman, Professor Shimon Kwestel, Dr. Mandell I. Ganchrow, Donald Butler, Gerald Feldhamer, Michael Wimpfheimer (all officers of UOJCA), Rabbi Hyman Arbesfeld, Dr. Jacob Rothschild, Fred Friedman, Rabbi Bernard Rosenweig, Paul Schiffer, and Dr. Elliot Bondi.

The word-processing of the manuscript of this book underwent successive stages by several hands. Tribute and deeply felt thanks are due to Sylvia Bordzuk, and Caroline Torge of Resumes, Etc.... Their expertise and ever-ready cooperation contributed much to the progress of the work. Sincere thanks, also, go to Adrianne Lefkowitz, Edith E. Krohn, Eva Holczer, and Patricia Kupecki.

I take this opportunity to express much appreciation to Rabbi Pinchas Stolper for his interest in the launching of this book. Rabbi Raphael Butler, executive vice-president of the Orthodox Union, too has given continued cooperation which has meant much to me.

Dedicated to the memories of SAMUEL C. AND MITZI FEUERSTEIN Exemplars of the Torah way in American Jewish Life. The endeavors they led and the courses they sustained brought vigor and regeneration to America's Orthodox Jewish community. Among the prime movers in the apochal resurgence of Torah, Samuel C. and Mitzi Feuerstein left an imperishable heritage of courage and vision.