Brysac and Meyer wrote: "As the lawyer and historian David Fromkin has shrewdly noted, out of an estimated three million Jews living in the United States in 1914, a mere twelve thousand belonged to an amateurishly led Zionist Federation, which claimed but five hundred members in New York.
Brysac e Meyer escribiron: «Como xa sinalou o avogado e historiador David Fromkin, dos aproximadamente tres millóns de xudeus que vivían nos Estados Unidos en 1914, tan só doce mil pertencían á inmatura Federación Sionista, que tan só tiña cincocentos membros en Nova York.