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The Family

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by David Laskin


  Mendelssohn, Moses, 37

  Metropolitan Museum of Art, 204

  Milkmaid, The (Vermeer), 203

  Miller, Harry, 133

  Miller, Marilyn, 117

  Mitchel, John Purroy, 89

  Moka (Gestapo head), 270

  Molotov, Vyacheslav, 210, 238

  Mossad, 142

  Munro, Alice, 2

  Murer, Frank (Mem), 255

  mustard gas, 107–8, 109

  Naftoli (bookbinder), 77

  Nahumke (yeshiva graduate), 77

  National Draft Registration Day,

  National Industrial Recovery Act, 153

  Nazism and Nazis, 183, 185, 195–96, 237

  Jewish communities destroyed by, 241–42, 245

  Jews exterminated by, see Klooga concentration camp; Ponar

  Neurological Institute of New York, 148

  New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, 96

  New York Times, 261

  New York World, 90

  Nicholas II (tsar), 119

  NKVD, 232–33

  October Manifesto, 44

  October Revolution, see Revolution of 1917

  Odessa pogrom, 45

  ONR Party (Polish Hitlerites), 189

  Ostra Brama (Black Madonna), 193, 241

  Oyzer (postman), 77

  Ozick, Cynthia, 6

  Pale of Settlement, 11, 13, 17, 20, 29, 30, 39, 41–42, 120

  Palestine, 178

  Arab nationalist movement in, 182–84

  British presence in, 176, 177, 184–85, 268–69, 312–13

  emigration to, 32, 60, 120, 157, 268–69

  Parker, Frank, 104, 107, 110

  Passing of the Great Race, The (Grant), 94

  Patria (ship), 268, 269

  Pearl Harbor, 271, 272, 279, 281

  Peel Report, 185

  Penn, Irving, 314

  Perelman, Ronald, 322–23

  Peretz, I. L., 37

  Picon, Molly, 134

  Piłsudski, Józef, 119

  Piłsudski (ship), 198, 199–200, 201

  Plastrich (salesman), 133

  Pogolensky, Moshe, 250–51, 265, 267, 275

  Poland:

  anti-Semitism in, 189

  German invasion of, 206, 209–12, 220

  Russian invasion of, 210

  Ponar mass murder site, 244–47, 256, 258, 262, 268, 285, 290, 292, 295, 298, 328

  Protection of Cultivators Ordinance (1929), 175

  Queen Mary (ship), 279

  Quesenberry, Joseph, 96, 102–3, 107, 110

  Rabin, Yitzhak, 324

  Radzekowski, Stosia, 57

  Ra’hel (poet), 127, 320

  Rakov, Poland, 20–21, 119, 189, 190, 209, 210, 328

  German occupation of, 240, 250–52, 272–74, 276, 280

  Jewish institutions of, 229

  Soviet occupation of, 228–29, 232–34

  Yom Kippur massacre in, 264–67

  Zelig Kost on, 315–16

  Raskin, Anna, see Cohen, Anna Raskin

  Raskin, Harry, 149–50

  Rath, Ernst Vom, 196

  Revolution of 1905, 40–41, 44

  Revolution of 1917, 25, 41, 85–86, 87, 91, 92, 146

  Ribbentrop, Joachim von, 210

  Riis, Jacob, 71

  Rishon LeZion, 23

  Riverside Memorial Chapel, 148, 225

  Rogovin, Reuven, 238–39, 240

  Rommel, Erwin, 236, 269, 289

  Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 153, 173, 220, 282, 283

  Roosevelt, Teddy, 72

  Rosenthal, Beatrice (Bea), 114, 138, 259

  Rosenthal, Ida (Itel Cohen/Kaganovich), 23–25, 48, 49, 74–75, 87, 112–13, 129, 139, 145, 151, 264, 271, 283, 325

  Bund membership of, 33–35

  and business partner Enid Bissett, 114–15, 116, 117, 118, 131–34

  as dressmaker and entrepreneur, 28–29, 56–57, 70–72, 113–15, 148

  Maidenform Bra Company and, 1, 2, 5, 116–17, 133–34, 137–38, 147, 150, 153, 187, 259, 263, 280–81, 302–3, 314, 320–21

  revolutionary background of, 28–43

  success and wealth achieved by, 130, 146, 187, 203–4, 223, 259–61, 315, 318

  Rosenthal, Lewis, 57, 72, 113, 138, 147–48, 225, 261

  Rosenthal, Moses (Moe), 37, 117, 138, 150, 153, 262

  Rosenthal, William, 35–36, 37–39, 41, 42, 48, 74, 87, 113, 129, 148, 151, 187, 204, 223, 264, 276, 283, 315, 318

  as Itel’s business partner, 70–72, 75, 115, 116, 132, 133, 137–38, 145, 153, 259–60, 261, 263, 281, 303

  marriage to Itel of, 56–57

  Rakov revisited by, 188

  Rosenthal, Wolf, see Rosenthal, William

  Rosh HaNikra, 158

  Roskolenko, Harry, 60

  Rothschild, Walter, 111

  Rubenstein, Betty, 283

  Rubenstein, Louis, 283

  Rubenstein, Rose, 283–4

  Rubenstein, Sol, 283, 317

  Rubenstein, Shmuel, 283

  Rudashevski, Yitzhak, 253, 257, 287, 289, 290–91

  Ruppin, Arthur, 184

  Russia (ship), 51, 52

  Russian Revolution, see Revolution of 1917

  Russo-Japanese War, 36–37

  Ruth (Sonia’s cousin), 159, 161

  Sachsenhausen camp, 273

  Salvator (ship), 268, 269

  Salvatore (gardener), 260

  Scandals (revue), 117

  Schneiderman, Rose, 73

  Second Aliyah, 32

  Senitski, Doba, see Kaganovich, Doba

  Senitski, Shabtai (Shepseleh), 137, 157–58, 165–66, 168, 169, 190, 192–93, 194, 197, 198, 201, 209, 210, 213–14, 220, 231, 232, 234, 235, 270, 328

  under German occupation, 240–41, 242, 243–44, 246–47, 273, 286

  Senitski, Shimon (Shimonkeh), 137, 165–66, 167, 168, 169, 193–94, 208, 209, 212, 235–36, 244, 253–54, 257–58, 286–89, 294

  at Klooga death camp, 297–302, 304–8

  Senitski, Wolf (Velveleh, Volinkeh), 166, 168, 193, 208, 209, 212, 216, 235, 244, 253, 257–58, 286–87, 294–95

  Senitski, Yitzchak (Shabtai’s brother, Doba’s brother-in-law), 258, 286, 293, 294, 297

  Sforim, Mendele Mocher, 37

  Shakespeare, William, 72

  Shazor, Zalman, 320

  Shin Bet, 142

  Shishka, Benjamin, 240

  shtetls, 11, 20–21, 98

  Shtekel-Dreier, Der, 120

  Shulberg family, 55

  Siegel, Al, 133

  Simernicki, Fayve Yosef, 238

  Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 7

  Slocki, Saul, 298

  Snyder, Timothy, 317

  Sobibor camp, 292, 295–96

  Soissons, Battle of, 104–9

  Soviet Union (the Big Ones), 236, 244

  Rakov occupied by, 228–29

  Vilna occupied by, 213, 216, 231–32

  Speer, Albert, 299

  Stacher, Kurt, 300

  Stalag 342, 248–49

  Stalin, Joseph, 210, 239

  Stalingrad, 289

  State Department, U.S., 220

  “Story of My Dovecote, The” (Babel), 45

  Sturma (ship), 268, 269

  Summerall, Charles P., 107, 110

  Taft, William Howard, 72

  Taharat Hakodesh synagogue, 193

  “Tale of the Scribe, The” (Agnon), 9

  Tayan, Anton Bishara, 175–76, 177

  Temple, Shirley, 190

  Time magazine, 320

  Tolstoy, Leo, 37, 156

  Tot
zeret HaAretz tour company, 157

  Treblinka camp, 273, 292

  Triangle Waist Company fire, 73

  Trotsky, Leon, 25, 91–92, 97

  Trumpeldor, Joseph, 120–21, 141, 154

  Turgenev, Ivan, 37, 156, 194

  Turner, Michael, 298–99, 300

  Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Verne), 37

  Twain, Mark, 72

  Tyshkevitch, Count, 77

  United Nations, 312, 313

  United Wholesale and Warehouse Employees Union, 224

  Urbach, Tola, 300, 306

  Vallos (ship), 182

  Vermeer, Jan, 203

  Verne, Jules, 37

  View from Castle Rock, The (Munro), 2

  Vilna (Vilnius), 13, 50–51, 119, 192–93, 209, 210, 212, 213, 220, 234, 288, 328

  German occupation of, 240–41, 242, 245, 247, 252–54, 255–58, 262

  Soviet occupation of, 213, 216, 231–32

  Vilna ghetto, 255–58, 285, 290–93, 296, 310

  Vincent (chauffeur), 260

  Vitkin, Josef, 170

  Volozhin, 238–40, 270–71, 279–80, 310

  Volozhin yeshiva, 13–14, 17–18, 19–20, 22–23, 29–30, 57, 119–20, 229, 328

  Wadi al-Hawarith Bedouin tenant farm, 175–77, 313

  Wagner, Robert (Senator), 220

  War Department, U.S., 90, 92, 112, 280–81, 302

  War Industries Board, 112

  Weiser, Galit, 181

  White, George, 117

  Wilson, Woodrow, 72, 87, 88, 282

  Wittenberg, Itzhak, 288, 291–92

  Wolkowitch, Mendel, 279–80

  Workmen’s Circle (Arbeter Ring), 74

  World’s Fair of 1939, 202–3, 221

  World War I, 76–110, 112, 141, 279, 282

  Battle of Soissons, 104–9

  Hyman Cohen’s service in, 94–96, 101–110

  mustard gas used in, 107–8, 109

  treatment of Jews during, 80, 81, 98–99

  World War II, 9, 238–39, 278, 302–3

  “the phony war,” 223, 225

  Poland invaded by Germany, 206, 209–12

  Yad Vashem memorial, 323

  Yiddish Scientific Institute (YIVO), 192

  Yitzhak, Chaim ben, 14, 17, 23, 30, 226

  Yom Kippur:

  Maidenform strike on, 263

  Rakov massacre on, 264–67

  Yom Kippur War, 321

  Zalman, Elijah ben Solomon, 13

  Ziegfeld, Florenz, 117

  Ziegfeld Follies, 117

  Zimmermann, Arthur, 87–88

  Zimmerman, Celia, see Cohen, Celia Zimmerman

  Zionism, 23, 111, 120, 121, 145, 155, 180, 181, 184

  Zizmor, Jack, 118, 133

  Zola, Emile, 37

  Zyklon B gas, 272–73

 

 

 


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