by Kate Stewart
Nazis, 16, 76, 183, 184
come to power, 11
Kristallnacht (“night of broken glass”), 23–24, 32, 97
New Soldier, The (Kerry), 248
Nixon, President Richard, 249, 271
No Silence! A Library Life (Eshelman), 194
Norton, Eleanor Holmes, 274
Notkin, Natalie, 64
O
Obama, President Barack, 293–294, 314
O’Connor, Commander John J., 236–237
Okinawa, 205–206
On Equal Terms: A Thesaurus for Nonsexist Indexing and Cataloging (Marshall), 284–285
Once an Eagle (Myrer), 245
Oregon State Library, 314
österreichisches Vaterlandsheim club and restaurant, 12
Other People’s Houses (Segal), 35
P
Pacific Air Force (PACAF), 211
Palestine, 102, 120, 121, 126, 129, 137
Partition Plan, 120, 121, 129
Pearl Harbor bombing, 70–71
Pearlman, Lieutenant Colonel Moshe, 153, 159
Perigut, Mike, 76
Pietris, Mary K. D., 265–266, 284, 285
Platoon (film), 242
Playboy magazine, 215, 245
Polish Jews’ expulsion from Leipzig, 23
Pollack, Gad, 149, 150
Portnow, Richard, 239
Portnoy’s Complaint (Roth), 244
Prejudices and Antipathies (Berman), 282–283, 284, 287
Press Information Office (PIO), 152, 153, 159, 162, 206
Pringle, Jim, 141–142
Prodigal Women (Hale), 156
Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC), 280, 286–287
Project 100,000, 241
ProQuest, 292
publishers in Leipzig, 10, 14
Pustay, Major John, 237
Puzo, Mario, 244
R
racial discrimination
at the Library of Congress, 272–275
in the Pacific Northwest, 103–104
Radnicky, Viktor, 144–149, 156–157, 162, 176, 179
Raider, Mark A., 126
Random House, 237
Rappaport, Bertha, 127
Rappaport, Chaja Rubinstein, 5, 12, 13, 30, 82, 100, 105–106, 107, 111
Rappaport, Clara, 4, 17, 62, 69, 76, 100, 106, 109, 127, 135, 162, 169
Rappaport, Frima, 4, 5
Rappaport, Irving, 17, 53, 127
Rappaport, Mendel, 4, 5, 8, 39, 40, 42, 82, 100, 105–111, 197
Rappaport, Mirjam, 4, 5, 8, 9, 13, 58, 69, 100, 125, 129, 196, 197, 303
Rappaport, Ruth
autobiographical essay, 184–186
bench at Congressional Cemetery, Washington, DC, 311, 312
in car accident, 181
and cats, 304–305
as chair of LC’s Employee Health Assistance Joint Advisory Committee, 304
as convention chairwoman of Junior Hadassah, 1942, 77–79
“Curriculum Vita,” 1938, 29
in Defense Army of Israel, 152–153
diary begins, 18, 34
English studies, 10
FBI’s investigation of, 176–180
gaining American citizenship, 92–93
humor of, 44–45
as Junior Hadassah president, 83–86
Library of Congress job, 258–259
list of books read in library school application, 186–191
as office manager of Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), 116
in Okinawa and Vietnam (1959–1970), 203–252
in Palestine/Israel (1948–1949), 129–166
in Paris, New York, and Berkeley (1950–1959), 167–202
as photographer for Acme United Press, 135–137
and Rabbi Cohn, 78–80
retirement from Library of Congress, 291–292
Romanian trip, 17–18
in Seattle (1939–1945), 51–94
in Seattle and San Francisco (1945–1947), 95–127
as Seattle Zionist Emergency Council secretary, 87–88
as Seattle Zionist Youth Commission president, 83
smoking, 41, 70, 73, 309, 313
social activism in Seattle, 60
United States visa, 47
on visiting Germany, 301–302
on visiting Israel, 302–303
in Washington, DC (1971–1993), 253–294
in Washington, DC (1993–2010), 295–311
youth in Leipzig (1923–1938), 1–25
Zionism involvement, 8–9, 16, 30, 45, 60–61, 78–81, 83, 87–88, 91, 98–99, 118, 139–140, 161–163
in Zurich (1938–1939), 29–50
Ravensbrück concentration camp, 106, 107
Reagan, President Ronald, 285
Red Crescent, 137
Red Cross, 137
Red Scare, 174
Reicher, Ruth, 85, 87
Reinharz, Shulamit, 126
Remarque, Erich Maria, 15, 245
Remington, David, 264
Ridgeway, Michael, 250
Ringer, Barbara, 275, 276, 279
Rolling Stone magazine, 240–241
Romania, 17–18
Röschard, Richard, 32, 33, 35–36, 50
Rosner, Clara. See Rappaport, Clara
Rosner, Guy, 62, 127, 162, 169, 177
Rosner, Salomon, 17, 69, 76, 98, 106
Roth, Philip, 244
Rothblatt, Shoshannah, 138
Rotschild, Ury, 19–20, 21
Rubinstein, Abraham, 5, 55, 177
Rubinstein, Carl, 5, 6, 36, 39, 47, 53–55, 57, 61, 65, 67, 68, 69, 70, 79, 99, 114, 135, 177, 197
Rubinstein, David, 18, 55, 56, 60
Rubinstein, Deborah, 18, 106–107
Rubinstein, Dora, 18, 53–56, 61, 62, 65, 67, 69, 70, 99, 114
Rubinstein, Helena (Chaja), 5, 55, 68–69, 163
Rubinstein, Leo, 5, 13, 18, 55, 57, 60
Rubinstein, Markus and Reizel Perlsheim, 5
Rubinstein, Marvin and Selma, 54
Rubinstein, Marvin “Scott,” 55, 127, 222, 224, 227, 229
Rubinstein, Meier and Rosel, 18
Rubinstein, Michael, 107
Rubinstein, Rose, 55, 56, 61, 114
Rubinstein, Sam “Sonny,” 55, 56, 67, 68, 76, 114, 162
Rudman, David, 288–289
Ruelf, Caroline, 87–88
Rules for Descriptive Cataloging in the United States (Library of Congress), 257
Ruth Rappaport Wisdom Award, 311
S
Saigon, 212
Saigon Library, 214, 228, 231, 245, 251
Saint Moritz, Switzerland, 29–30
Saint Nicholas Church, Leipzig, 25
Saint Thomas Church, Leipzig, 25
Salem Public Library, 314
Salvation Army home for women in Zurich, 31–32
Sarkowsky, Irving, 74–75
Sarkowsky, Mrs., 64, 75
Sarkowsky family, 71
Satin, Mark, 248
Sawyer, Kathy, 274–275
Schneider, Ben, 130
Schneider, Fred, 132–133, 135, 140–141, 143, 144, 163, 164
Schneider, Hadassah, 13
Schneider, Max, 13, 100, 124, 125, 130
Schneider, Miriam, 124, 130, 132, 141, 150, 163, 164
Schneider, Rita, 132
Schocken, Hilde, 61
Schulburg, Budd, 65
Schwartz, Carol, 301
Schwartz, Gail, 107, 309–310, 314
Schwarz, Morris, 118
Seattle, 94
Seattle Public Library, 64
Seattle Zionist Emergency Council, 87, 91
Seattle’s USO, 90, 100, 101
Second Sex, The (de Beauvoir), 191, 244
Sedky, Aziz, 113
Segal, Lore, 35
Seidenverg, Gladys, 67
Seinfeld episode, “The Library,” xiv
Sewall-Belmont House, 298
Shechter, Hillel, 12
Shyman, Al, 102
Siegel, Karola, 32–33
Silver, Rabbi Abba Hillel, 85
Simchonit, Yehudith, 123
Sittig, Bill, 230, 231, 256
Smart, Anne, 200–201
Smith, Lillian, 156
Solnik, Laurie, 310–311
Soul on Ice (Cleaver), 244
Spanish Civil War, 98
Sproul, Robert Gordon, 174–175
SS Veendam, 47–48
Stalin, Joseph, 179
Stanton Park Neighborhood Association, 297
Steinbeck, John, 245
Stern, Avraham, 164
Stern, Professor Guy, 292
Sticht, Tom, 241
Strange Fruit (Smith), 156
Strickland, Nell, 232, 234
Strong, Edward K., 182
Subject Authority Cooperative Program (SACO), 280
Suen, Jannie, 219
Sun Vacuums Store, Seattle, 72
Sussman, Beatrice, 103
Sutro, Dr. Nettie, 32, 50
Suzzallo Library, University of Washington, 89, 94
Swensson, Anne, 86
Swiss Aid Society for Emigrant Children (SHEK), 32, 33, 50
Swiss National Museum, Zurich, 49
Switzerland, 29–30
Szold, Henrietta, 77
T
Tarshis, Sam, 119
Taylor, General Maxwell, 233
Tenney, Jack B., 174
Tet Offensive, Vietnam, 234
Tevya (film), 65
Thompson, Colonel, 209–210
To Spurn the Gods (Allison), 216
Tolman v. Underhill, 175
Transcript, The (Seattle Jewish newspaper), 82, 100, 102, 104, 113, 114, 177
Transmigration Bureau, 70
Truman, President Harry, 97, 102, 116, 170, 172, 175
Trumpeldor, Joseph, 8
Turner, Leo, 138
U
Under Cover (Carlson), 142
Union Station, Washington, DC, 298
United Jewish Appeal (UJA), 102
United Restitution Organization (URO), 195–196, 197
United Seamen’s Service (USS), 90
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), xii–xiii, 303
University of California, Berkeley, 174, 182, 183, 197
University of Washington Golf Course, Seattle, 113–114
University of Washington, Seattle, 89, 93, 97, 103, 175, 183, 197
University of Zurich, 42
V
Verdi, Mr. and Mrs., 121
W
Wakkanai Air Station, Okinawa, 209
Washington, DC, 262–263
Washington Émigré Bureau, 70, 100
Washington Quilt Company, Seattle, 82
Washington State Press Club, 103–104, 112
Waugh, Ethel, 179
Wedgeworth, Robert, 271, 272
Weiwei, Ai, 164
Westheimer, Dr. Ruth, 32, 308
Wharton, Edith, 244
What Makes Sammy Run (Schulburg), 64–65
White, Rabbi Saul, 115, 121
Why We Can’t Wait (King), 244
Wiesel, Elie, 110
Williams, Joslyn, 272
Williams, Robin, 239
Wilson, President Woodrow, 170
Woolf, Virginia, 244
World Holocaust Remembrance Center, 163, 302–303
Y
Yochelson, Dr., 222
Young, Peter, 231, 232, 234, 239
Z
Zionism
See also specific organization
Leipzig’s movement, 8
Ruth’s involvement with, 8–9, 16, 30, 45, 60–61, 78–81, 83, 87–88, 91, 98–99, 118, 139–140, 161–163
in Seattle and San Francisco, 115
victories in 1947, 120
Zionist Emergency Council, 115
Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), 115, 116, 179
Zucker, Ruth, 44
Zula, Floyd, 249–250
Zurich Central Library, 42–43
About the Author
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Kate Stewart is a third-generation librarian, born and raised in the Midwest. She graduated from Vassar College with a bachelor of arts in history and from the University of Iowa with master’s degrees in history and library science. She has worked as a librarian and archivist for ProQuest, the Library of Congress, and the US Senate in Washington, DC. She is currently an archivist at the Arizona Historical Society in Tucson, Arizona. Learn more about Kate at www.kate-stewart.com.