Jewish Chautauqua Society of Philadephia, 76
Jewish Daily Forward, 27, 31, 47–48, 55, 61, 62, 99, 137–38
Jewish Daily News. See Tageblatt
Johnson, Lady Bird, 289
Johnson, Nunnally, 262
Johnson, Philip, 362
Jolson, Al (Asa Yoelson), 176, 189, 190, 231
Joyce, James, 174
Kael, Pauline, 274
Kahn, Otto, 321
Kansas City Star, 117–19, 126, 132
Kattleman, Belden, 246
Kaufman, George S., 274
Kaye, Danny (David Daniel Kominski), 32, 191, 272–74
Keaton, Buster, 184
Kennedy, Jacqueline, 289, 381
Kennedy, John F., 155, 381
Kennedy, Joseph P., 155, 256–58, 261, 267
Kennedy, Robert F., 155
Kern, Jerome, 188
Kessler, Julius, 248–52
Kid from Spain, 231
Kishinev massacre, 37, 68
Kiss, Aladar V., 168
Klopfer, Donald, 378
Kobre, Max, 139, 140
Kohler, Rabbi Kaufmann, 23
Kohlmar, Fred, 229
Kohn, Morris, 89–91
kosher food, 14, 312
Ku Klux Klan, 339
Laemmle, Carl, 202
Lahr, Bert (Irving Lahrheim), 192
Lambert, Jean, 361, 363
Lambert, Phyllis Bronfman, 361–63
Lamour, Dorothy, 233
Landau, Eli, 356
Lansky, Anna, 340
Lansky, Bernard (“Buddy”), 340, 341
Lansky, Meyer (Meyer Suchowljansky), xiii
Samuel Bronfman and, 155, 159–63, 210
as crime figure, 148–55, 300–07, 339
criminal record of, 356, 358
death of, 359
descriptions of, 82, 150, 160, 356–57
early gambling experience of, 82–83
family of, 340–42, 357
in gambling business, 212–13, 277, 299–307
government surveillance of, 355–59
home of, 176
Las Vegas and, 277–78, 300–07
philanthropy of, 271
in Poland, 80–82
Prohibition and, 151–55, 159, 209–11
social ambitions of, 340–42
Zionism and, 283, 284, 354, 358–59, 360
Lansky, Meyer, II, 342
Lansky, Paul, 340, 341, 342
Lansky, Sandra (“Sally”). See Rappaport, Sandra
Lansky Lardner, Ring, Jr., 345
La Rocque, Rod, 195–96
Lasky, Blanche. See Goldwyn, Blanche Lasky
Lasky, Jesse, 85, 86, 87, 88, 92, 94, 201
Lasky, Ruth, 94, 203, 270
Las Vegas, 277–78, 300–08
Laughing Bill Hyde, 197
Lauren, Jerry, 374
Lauren, Ralph (Ralph Lifschitz), 32, 373–77
Lauren, Ricky, 376
Lawrence, NY, 321, 323
Lazarus, Emma, 17
Lehman, Mrs. Arthur, 332
Lehman, Ernest H., 76
Lemlich, Clara, 71
Levine, Calman, 242–43, 249, 328, 329–31
Levine, Calman, II, 328
Levine, Isaac Don, 43–46
Levine, Rita, 331
Levy, Beatrice Nathan Straus, 327–28
Lewis, Thomas J., 225
Lilly, Doris, 282
Lindbergh, Charles A., 265
Linder, Lily, 270
Linen, James A., 364
Livingstone, Mary, 371
Lloyd, Mildred, 196
Loeb, Ann Margaret. See Bronfman, Ann Margaret Loeb
Loeb, John L., 332
Loeb, Phillip, 347–48
Loeb, Solomon, 332
Loew, Arthur, 230
Loew, Marcus, 89–91, 192, 201, 235
London, Meyer, 70
London Daily Mail, 3
Long Island, NY, 321–24
Loos, Anita, 204, 228
Louis of Battenberg, Prince, 185
Lubitsch, Ernst, 205, 261–62
Luciano, Charles “Lucky” (Salvatore Lucania), 148, 212–13, 306–07, 354
Ludwig, Daniel K., xi
Lullaby, 260
Lykusky, Dr., 172–73
Lynch, Mel Patrick, 366, 367
Lyons, Eugene, 105
MacArthur, Charles, 274
Mackay, Clarence, 349
Mackay, Ellin. See Berlin, Ellin Mackay
Mackay, John William, 349
Mackay, Katherine Alexander Duer, 349
McLellan, George, 30
MacRae, Joel, 295
Making Profits, 152
Mandel, Adolf, 139, 140
Mann, Melanie. See Bronfman, Melanie Mann Manuel of Portugal, 62
Marconi, Guglielmo, 101, 103, 315
Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America, 103
Marie, Queen, of Rumania, 297
Mark, Mitchell, 89, 90, 91
Marlow, Frank D., 124–25
Marshall, Louis, 11, 20, 21–22, 29, 30, 309–11
Marx, Sam, 231–32, 335
Marx Brothers, 191, 192
Matoff, Jean Bronfman, 156, 215
Matoff, Paul, 215, 363
Mayer, Irene. See Selznick, Irene Mayer
Mayer, Louis B., 32, 84, 191, 232, 261, 268, 335
feud of, with Samuel Goldwyn, 228
MGM and, 201–02
philanthropies of, xiii, 269
politics of, 294
racehorse breeding and, 294–95
social aspirations of, 293–95, 350–51
May Laws (Russian), 37
Medal for Benny, A, 344
Meir, Golda, 358–59
Meredith, Burgess, 264
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer:
Edgar Bronfman and, 368
formation of, 201
Metropolitan News Company, 98–99
Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, 362
Milestone, Lewis, 345, 348–49
Miller, Alice Duer, 111
Mix, Tom, 196
Montgomery, Field Marshal Bernard, 230
Moore, Annette, 126–27
Morgan, Anne, 13, 59, 71
Morgan, J. P., xi
Morgenthau, Henry, Jr., 245
Morton, Samuel “Nails,” 339–40
Mostel, Kate, 348
Mostel, Zero, 346, 348
Mother Earth, 3, 130n.
Mudd, Roger, 351
My life for Beauty, 170
Nast, Coudert, 203
National Broadcasting Company (NBC), 315, 318
National Council of Jewish Women, 10
Nazis, 258–67, 270–71 see also Adolf Hitler
Neales, Eddie, 280
Negri, Pola, 154, 205
Newhouse, Samuel Irving, xi
Newman, Peter C., 334–36
New York Herald, 100–01
New York Sun, 72
New York Times, 42–43, 52–53, 57, 61–63
New York Tribune, 5
Nicholas I of Russia, 36–37
Nicholas II of Russia, 46
Nicholson, Nick, 185
Nixon, Richard, 279
Normand, Mabel, 203, 204
North American Review, 29
O’Brien, Esmé, 332
Ochs family, 15
O’Higgins, Patrick, 170–71, 173, 175n.
Olympic, 104–05
Ostrow, Stuart, 368
Pale of Settlement, 22, 38
Paley, Mrs. William S., 289
Palmer, Alexander, 114
Pankhurst, Emmeline, 4
Paramount Pictures, 87
Parsons, Louella, 196, 296
Pastor, Anna, 61
Pastor, Rose Harriet. See Stokes, Rose Harriet Pastor
Patrick, Ted, 337
Patterson, John H., 263
Pepper, Senator Claude, 263
Perske, Betty Joan. See Bacall, Lauren
Phelps Stokes. See Stokes
Pica
sso, Pablo, 174
Pichel, Irving, 344
Pickfair mansion, 208
Pickford, Mary, 86, 208, 381
Pippin, 368
pogroms, 37–38
Popkin, Henry, 274–75
Porgy and Bess, 231
Post, Marjorie Merriweather, 289
Potok, Anna Apfelbaum, 288–89
Potok, Leon, 288
Prisoner of Zenda, The, 231
Pritzker, Nicholas J., xi
Prohibition, 150–55, 159–63, 209–12, 241–42, 245–46, 248
Proskauer, Bertha Richman, 12
Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, 138
Proust, Marcel, 174
Purcell, James N., 125, 134
pushcart peddlers, 18–19, 28–29, 75–76
Queen Elizabeth, 92
Quigley, Martin, 262
Radio Act, 105
Radio Corporation of America (RCA):
formation of, 233–34
television and, 317–19
World’s Fair pavilion of, 317
Rady, Maxwell, 161
Rady, Rose Bronfman, 156, 161
Raft, George, 148, 277, 304
Randall, George, 216
Random House, David Sarnoff’s negotiations for, 378–79
Rappaport, Sandra Lansky, 340, 341, 357
Rather, Dan, 351
Ratoff, Gregory, 264
Reagan, Nancy, 289
Reasoner, Harry, 351
Redford, Robert, 375
Red Ribbon on a White Horse, 238
Reform Judaism, 13–14, 311–12, 328
Reizenstein, Elmer. See Rice, Elmer
Reles, Abe “Kid Twist,” 149
Rice, Elmer, 69, 108
Richman, Julia, 4–29
affluence of, 11–13
background of, 7–8
death of, 76
personality of, 6, 7
pushcart vendors and, 28–29
as school administrator, 9–11, 24–27
smallpox vaccinations and, 4–5
as teacher, 8
writings of, 75–76
Rinehart, Mary Roberts, 197
Risse, Louis, 177
RKO Pictures, formation of, 257
Robinson, Edward G. (Emmanuel Goldberg), 32, 192
Rockefeller, John D., 114
Rogers, Ginger, 334
Rogers, Lela, 334
Rogers, Will, 110, 197
Romaine, Isaac, 219
Romeo and Juliet, 232
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 234–35, 255, 256, 264, 297, 315
Roosevelt, Theodore, 20, 51, 52
Rose, Billy (William Rosenberg), 190
Rosenfeld, Morris, 69
Rosenstiel, Leonore Conn, 246–47
Rosenstiel, Lewis, 245–48, 330
Rosenthal, Jack, 354
Rosenwald, Julius, 18
Rosenwald family, 15
Rosner, Saidye. See Bronfman, Saidye Rosner
Roth, Emery, 32, 166–69
Roth, Richard, 169
Roth, Richard, Jr., 169
Rothstein, Arnold “the Brain,” 149
Rubin, Robert, 201, 202
Rubinstein, Ceska, 172
Rubinstein, Helena, 32, 170–75, 224–27, 292–93, 336
Rubinstein, Horace, 336
Rubinstein, Manka, 172
Rubinstein, Roy, 336
Rubinstein, Stella, 226
Ruby, Jack, 155n.
Russian Jews, 12–32
assimilation of, 139–41, 145–47, 267–70, 289, 372–73
attitudes of, 16–17, 19
bank collapses of, 139–40
crime among, 78–80, 147–50, 338–40 (see also bootlegging; Las Vegas)
differences among, 31–32, 73
drive of, 236–39
education of, 24–27, 178–80
gambling and, 79, 82–83
German Jews vs., 12, 15, 20–21, 22, 23–24, 291–92, 309–14, 332–33
humor of, 19–20
immigration of, 16, 20–21, 33–35, 39–43
language of, 24–25, 27
living conditions of, in New York City, 16, 17, 18–19, 22–23
in Los Angeles, 267–69
names of, 17, 24n.
reaction of, to Nazis, 258–67
in New York City, 12–32
occupations of, 16–17, 19, 146–47
postwar mobility of, 320–24
prostitution among, 79, 150
refugees during World War II, 271
religion of, 14
life in Russia of, 35–38
in show business, 189–93
theater of, 20, 80, 189
Sacco and Vanzetti, 114
Salome of the Tenements, 108, 112
Salter, “Nigger Mike,” 184–85
Sanders, George, 304
Sands, Lettice. See Stokes, Lettice Sands
Sanger, Margaret Higgins, 69
Sarnoff, Abe, 99
Sarnoff, David, 32, 268, 347
career in broadcasting of, 101–07, 316–19
childhood of, 39–40, 97–100
ego of, 377–80
emigration of, 39
as executive, 233–36, 378–79
forms RKO Pictures, 257
home of, 314–19
trip to Israel of, 354
son Robert and, 333
television and, 316–19
Titanic and, 104–07
Sarnoff, Edward, 315
Sarnoff, Felicia Schiff Warburg, 332
Sarnoff, Irving, 97
Sarnoff, Leah, 97, 102
Sarnoff, Lew, 97, 99
Sarnoff, Lizette, 314, 379
Sarnoff, Morris, 97, 99
Sarnoff, Robert, 315, 332–33
Sarnoff, Thomas, 315
Saturday Evening Post, 337
Schenck, Joseph, 201, 257–58
Schenck, Nicholas, 201
Schiff, Dorothy, 350
Schiff, Jacob H., 5, 11, 20, 21–22, 29, 30, 146, 309–10, 332
Schulberg, Budd, 236
Schwartz, Richard, 357, 358, 361
Schwartzhaupt, Emil, 249, 251
Schwengel, Frank, 329
Scoundrel Time, 344
Seagram, Joseph, 215–16
Seagram tower, 361–62
Seligman, Joseph, 30
Seligman family, 12
Selwyn, Archibald, 95, 201
Selwyn, Edgar, 95, 201
Selznick, David O., 84, 230, 261–63
Selznick, Irene Mayer, 261
Selznick, Lewis, 261
Sert, Misia, 174
Shearer, Norma, 196
Shubert, Jacob, 190, 198
Shubert, Lee, 190, 198
Shubert, Sam, 190, 198
Shulman, Irving, 274
Siegel, Benjamin “Bugsy,” 148–49, 150, 277–79, 300, 301–08
Siegel, Esther Krakower, 301–02, 306
Silberfeld, Louis, 171, 172
Simon, Sir John, 258
Simpson, A. E., 4–5
Slaughter Trail, 346
Smiley, Allen, 306
Smith, Alfred E., 177
Smith, Gerald L. K, 339
Smith, Howard K., 351
Snow, C. P., 350
Snyder, Ted, 186, 188
Socialist party:
public attitude toward, 139
split in, 116
Rose Stokes in, 68–71, 74–75, 108, 113, 116, 118–37, 218–19, 252–53
violence and, 71, 113–15
Zionism and, 280
Social Register, 57, 58–59, 67, 134
“Songs of Labor,” 69
Sousa, John Philip, 181
South of God, 254
Spellman, Francis Cardinal, 269
Spiegel, Sam, 264
Squaw Man, The, 87–89
Stanwyck, Barbara, 371
Stedman, Seymour, 120–21, 122–24, 126, 134–36
Stein, Gertrude, 174
Stella Dallas, 208
Stern, Joseph, 185, 186
Stern Gang, 281
Stewart, Jimmy, 371
Stokes, Anson Phelps, 57
Stokes, Anson Phelps, Jr., 58
Stokes, Caroline M. Phelps, 58
Stokes, Ethel Phelps, 58
Stokes, Isaac Newton Phelps, 58
Stokes, James Graham Phelps, 53–64
background of, 57–58, 59–60
death of, 352
description of, 56, 57
divorce of, 217–18
engagement of, to Rose Pastor, 53, 59–62
marriage of, 62–66, 108, 136–37
remarriage of, 218
at Rose’s sedition trial, 136–37
in Socialist party, 69, 108, 113
Stokes, Lettice Sands, 218, 351–52
Stokes, Mildred Phelps, 58
Stokes, Rose Harriet Pastor, 51–74,107–09, 118–37, 352
background of, 53–54, 59–60
death of, 252–54
divorce of, 217–18
engagement of, to Graham Stokes, 53, 59–62
marriage of, 62–66, 108, 136–37
remarriage of, 219
sedition trial of, 119–37
in Socialist party, 68–71, 74–75, 108, 113, 116, 118–37, 218–19, 252–53
in Social Register, 67, 134, 219
as Tageblatt reporter, 55–56
temperament of, 109
Stokes, Sarah Phelps. See Halkett, Sarah Phelps Stokes
Stone, Harold, 347
Story of Seagram’s Seven Crown, The, 331
Stout, Mr. (Kansas City Star editor), 126
Straus, Beatrice Nathan. See Levy, Beatrice Nathan Straus
Straus, Irma Nathan, 327
Straus, Isidor, 104
Straus, Jesse Isador, 327
Straus family, 15
Suchowljansky, Meyer. See Lansky, Meyer
Sullivan, Eva J., 124
Sullivan, Harry, 120, 134–36
Sulzberger family, 15
Swan, The, 203
Swanson, Gloria, 154, 203, 257, 381
Taft, William Howard, 104
Tageblatt (Jewish Daily News), 29–30, 54, 55, 56, 61, 62, 97, 98, 99, 137
Talmadge, Constance, 196, 205
Talmadge, Norma, 196, 205
Tarnower, Dr. Herman, 313–14
Taurog, Norman, 232
Taussig, William, 152
Taylor, Robert, 346
Temple Emanu-El (New York City), 292, 310–13
Tender Comrade, 345
Tenderfoot, The, 274
Teriaca, Craig, 357
Thalberg, Irving, 84, 196, 202
Thayer, E. V. R., 199
They Shall Have Music, 232
Thirty a Week, 197
Thornton, Jimmy, 181
Tilzer, Harry Von, 181
Titanic, 102, 104–06
Titus, Edward, 174
Too Many Kisses, 203
Toscanini, Arturo, 315
Townshend, Lady Carolyn, 365–66
Tracy, Spencer, 381
Triangle Shirtwaist Company, 52, 73, 75n.
Truman, Harry S, 284–85
Trumbo, Dalton, 345
Tucker, Sophie (Sonia Kalish), 176, 189, 191, 272
Turner, Lana, 278
Turn of the Wheel, The, 197
Ullmann, Liv, 371
United Hebrew Charities, 20, 21
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