The Jews in America Trilogy (181 page)

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

Picasso, 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