The Jews in America Trilogy (179 page)

19. FROM POLAND TO POLO

Selected Bibliography

Applebaum, Phillip.
The Fischers: A Family Portrait
. Detroit: Harlo Press, 1982.

Bermant, Chaim.
The Jews
. New York: Times Books, 1977.

Cerf, Bennett.
At Random
. New York: Random House, 1977.

Cohen, Mickey.
Mickey Cohen: In My Own Words
. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1975.

Cooney, John.
The Annenbergs
. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1982. Dreher, Carl.
Sarnoff: An American Success
. New York: Quadrangle, 1977.

Eisenberg, Dennis, Uri Dan, and Eli Landau.
Meyer Lansky: Mogul of the Mob
. New York: Paddington Press, 1979.

Fishman, William J.
Jewish Radicals
. New York: Pantheon Books, 1974.

Gosch, Martin A., and Richard Hammer.
The Last Testament of Lucky Luciano
. Boston: Little, Brown, 1975.

Hecht, Ben.
A Child of the Century
. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1954.

Howe, Irving.
World of Our Fathers
. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976.

Lyons, Eugene.
David Sarnoff
. New York: Harper and Row, 1966.

Manners, Ande.
Poor Cousins
. New York: Coward McCann and Geoghegan, 1972.

Newman, Peter C.
Bronfman Dynasty
. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1978.
*

O'Higgins, Patrick.
Madame
. New York: Viking Press, 1971.

Rubinstein, Helena.
My Life for Beauty
. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1965.

Schoener, Allon, ed.
Portal to America: The Lower East Side, 1870–1925
. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1967.

Siegel, Richard, and Carl Rheins.
The Jewish Almanac
. New York: Bantam Books, 1980.

Woollcott, Alexander.
The Story of Irving Berlin
. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1925.

Yaffe, James.
The American Jews
. New York: Random House, 1968.

Yezierska, Anzia.
Salome of the Tenements
. New York: Boni and Liveright, 1923.

——.
Red Ribbon on a White Horse
. New York: Scribner, 1950.

*
Published in the United States under the title
King of the Castle
, in somewhat different form, by Pocket Books, 1979.

Index

Adams, C. M.,
122

Adenoids Riot,
4
,
11
,
24

Aldredge, Theoni V.,
375–76

Alexander II of Russia,
37

Alexander III of Russia,
37

Allgemeiner Jiddisher Arbeiter Bund,
38

Altman, Addie Richman,
12

Altman family,
15

Amboy Dukes, The
,
274

Ameche, Don,
278

America First Committee,
265–66

American Hebrew
,
24

American Jewish Year Book
,
73

Anastasia, Albert,
283

Andrews, Lincoln C.,
212

Annenberg, Leonore Cohn,
246–47

Annenberg, Moses L.,
xii

Annenberg, Walter,
xii
,
246–47

anti-Semitism,
275
,
339–40
,
343

in
Dearborn Independent
,
138

among Jews,
12
,
14–15
,
20–21
,
22
,
23–24
,
313–14
,
350–51

Lindbergh speech,
265

Nazis,
258–67
,
270–72

of other ethnic groups,
77–78

in Poland,
80–81

in Russia,
36–38

at West Point,
341

Apfelbaum, Maximilian,
287–88

Apple Tree, The
,
368

Arden, Elizabeth,
225

Arlen, Harold,
188

Arrowsmith
,
208

Astor, John Jacob,
104

Astor, Vincent,
104
,
106

Astor, Mrs. William,
12
,
15

Atherton, Gertrude,
111
,
197

Auden, W. H.,
222

Avedon, Richard,
32

Bacall, Lauren,
32

Baline, Isidore.
See
Berlin, Irving

Bankhead, Tallulah,
197

Banky, Vilma,
195–96

Bara, Theda (Theodosia Goodman),
189
,
192

Baron de Hirsch Fund,
20

Barondess, Joseph,
70

Baxter, Anne,
371

Beach, Rex,
197

Begin, Menachem,
259
,
281

Belasco, David,
86

Belfrage, Cedric,
254

Bell, Alexander Graham,
317

Belmont, Alva (Mrs. Oliver H. P.),
13
,
59
,
71

Ben-Gurion, David,
281
,
286

Bennett, Arnold,
176

Bennett, James Gordon,
100–01

Benny, Jack (Benjamin Kubelsky),
189
,
192
,
371

Berg, Gertrude,
347

Bergson, Peter,
259
,
260
,
263
,
264
,
266
,
280

Berkman, Alexander,
3
,
114
,
129

Berlin, Ellin Mackay,
349–50

Berlin, Irving (Isidore Baline),
189
,
190
,
272

childhood of,
182–83

early career of,
183–87

marriage of,
349–50

music of,
187–88

reasons for success of,
190–91

Bern, Paul,
111

Bernhardt, Sarah,
92

Best Years of Our Lives, The
,
296–97

Beverly Hills Supper Club (Newport, KY),
212

Bilsky, Lucy.
See
Bronfman, Lucy

Bingham, Theodore,
28–30

Birth of a Nation
,
88

blacklist,
344–49

Blaustein, Jacob,
xiii

Blaustein, Louis,
xii–xiii

Bond, Carrie Jacobs,
182

Bonnard, Pierre,
174

bootlegging,
151–55
,
162
,
210–12
,
293

Borscht Belt,
48
,
80
,
191
,
192
,
272

Brandeis, Louis,
259

Brice, Fanny (Fanny Borach),
176
,
189
,
190
,
191
,
192

Brinkley, David,
351

Bronfman, Abe,
155
,
156

Bronfman, Allan,
156
,
161
,
215
,
223
,
271

Bronfman, Ann Margaret Loeb,
332
,
364–65

Bronfman, Bessie,
156

Bronfman, Edgar,
250
,
293
,
332
,
337–338
,
363–69

Bronfman, Ekiel,
155
,
156–57

Bronfman, Georgiana Eileen Webb,
367

Bronfman, Harry,
155
,
156

Bronfman, Jean.
See
Matoff, Jean Bronfman

Bronfman, Laura,
155

Bronfman, Lucy Bilsky,
161

Bronfman, Melanie Mann,
367

Bronfman, Minda.
See
Gunzburg, Minda Bronfman de

Bronfman, Minnie,
155

Bronfman, Phyllis.
See
Lambert, Phyllis Bronfman

Bronfman, Rose.
See
Rady, Rose Bronfman

Bronfman, Saidye Rosner,
161–62
,
215
,
224
,
250

Bronfman, Samuel,
32
,
268

childhood of,
156–57

as executive,
222–24
,
333–38

family of,
155–57
,
293
,
331–32
,
337–38
,
361–69

funeral of,
380

trip to Israel of,
354

Meyer Lansky and,
155
,
159–63
,
210

in liquor business,
157–63
,
210
,
213–16
,
222–24
,
241–52
,
293
,
328–31
,
333–38

marriage of,
161–62
,
215
,
224
,
250

personality of,
215
,
222–24

philanthropy of,
271
,
354

Lewis Rosenstiel and,
245–48

Seagram's Seven Crown and,
243–44
,
331

Seagram tower and,
361–62

social aspirations of,
214–15
,
216
,
328–29
,
331–32

son Edgar and,
337–38
,
364–65

Bronfman, Samuel, II,
366–67

Bronfman Dynasty
,
334–36

Bronx, NY,
140
,
176–78
,
320

Bronx Tabloid
,
177

Brower, Ned,
375

Buchalter, Louis “Lepke,”
149

Burns, George (Nathan Birnbaum),
189

Butter and Egg Man
,
274

Byrne, Dominic,
366
,
367

Cahan, Abraham,
99

Campbell, Ralph B.,
122–24

Cantor, Eddie (Isidor Iskowitch),
32
,
176
,
189
,
190
,
192
,
231

Cantor, Ida,
231

Carnegie, Andrew,
xi

Carpathia
,
106

Carpentier, Georges,
234
,
235

Castle Garden,
21

Catherine II of Russia,
35–36

Catskill resorts,
47–48

see also
Borscht Belt

Cedarhurst, NY,
321
,
323

Century Country Club (New York City),
313–14

Cerf, Bennett,
378–80

Chancellor, John,
351

Chaplin, Charlie,
262–63
,
382

Child of the Century, A
,
280

Children's Strike,
4

Churchill, Winston,
381

City College (New York City),
178–80

Clark, Senator Bennett Champ,
265–66

Cobb, Lee J.,
192

Coburn, Charles,
304

Coca, Imogene,
272

Cocteau, Jean,
174

Cohan, George M.,
183

Cohen, Mickey:

descriptions of,
278–79
,
339
,
356–57

downfall of,
356

Benny Siegel and,
302
,
305
,
306
,
307

temper of,
356

Zionism and,
280–85
,
300

Cohn, Harry,
84
,
202
,
246
,
351