The Jews in America Trilogy (182 page)

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

Sterling, Andy,
181

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

Up in Arms
,
272–73
,
274

Valentino, Rudolph,
192

Valley of the Dolls
,
381–82

Vanderbilt, William Henry,
xiv

Vidor, King,
205
,
228

Vladeck, Baruch,
137–38
,
139

Volstead Act,
150
,
210
see also
Prohibition

Vuillard, Jean Edouard,
174

Wald, Lillian,
5
,
6
,
7
,
11
,
13

Wallenberg, Raul,
266

Warburg, Felicia Schiff.
See
Sarnoff, Felicia Schiff Warburg

Warburg, Felix,
146
,
332

Wards Island buildings,
22

Warner, Harry,
261
,
262

Warner brothers,
192

Watch on the Rhine
,
344

Webb, Alexander,
178

Webb, Georgiana Eileen.
See
Bronfman, Georgiana Eileen Webb

Webster, Horace,
178

Weidman, Jerome,
274

Weinberg, Sidney,
313

Weislander, Anna,
53

Weislander, Jacob,
53

Weizmann, Chaim,
259

Westchester County, NY,
320–21

West Side (New York City),
140
,
176

Whalen, Richard J.,
257

Whiskey Trust,
209

Widener, Harry Elkins,
105

Williams, Earl,
205–06

Willkie, Fred,
329

Willkie, Wendell L.,
329

Wilshire Boulevard Temple (Los Angeles),
269

Wilson, Woodrow,
315

Winchell, Walter,
274

Windsor, Duchess of,
289
,
297

Wise, Isaac Mayer,
14

Wise, Rabbi Stephen,
266

Wizard of Oz, The
,
232

Woman Who Wouldn't, The
,
69

Women's Christian Temperance Union,
150

Woodmere, NY,
321
,
323

Woodmere Academy,
323–24

Wuthering Heights
,
208
,
296

Yarmulowsky, L.,
139

Yarmulowsky, M.,
139

Yezierska, Anzia,
108
,
109–13
,
237–39

Yiddish theater,
20
,
80
,
189

yikhes
,
214
,
216–17

Young, Loretta,
295

Young, Owen D.,
234

Young Edison
,
269

Yulnowski, Charlie “the Jew,”
283

Zangwill, Israel,
61

Zanuck, Darryl,
231

Zanuck, Richard,
381

Ziegfeld, Florenz,
190

Zionism,
280–86
,
289
see also
Israel

Zitkin, Clara,
254

Zukor, Adolph,
32
,
89–92
,
93
,
94–95
,
192
,
201
,
257
,
371–72

Zwillman, Abner “Longie,”
149

About the Author

Stephen Birmingham (1929–2015) was an American author of more than thirty books. Born in Hartford, Connecticut, he graduated from Williams College in 1953 and taught writing at the University of Cincinnati. Birmingham's work focuses on the upper class in America. He's written about the African American elite in
Certain People
and prominent Jewish society in
Our Crowd: The Great Jewish Families of New York
,
The Grandees: The Story of America's Sephardic Elite
, and
The Rest of Us: The Rise of America's Eastern European Jews
. His work also encompasses several novels including
The Auerbach Will
,
The LeBaron Secret
,
Shades of Fortune
, and
The Rothman Scandal
, and other nonfiction titles such as
California Rich
,
The Grandes Dames
, and
Life at the Dakota: New York's Most Unusual Address
.