by David Laskin
Mendelssohn, Moses, 37
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 204
Milkmaid, The (Vermeer), 203
Miller, Harry, 133
Miller, Marilyn, 117
Mitchel, John Purroy, 89
Moka (Gestapo head), 270
Molotov, Vyacheslav, 210, 238
Mossad, 142
Munro, Alice, 2
Murer, Frank (Mem), 255
mustard gas, 107–8, 109
Naftoli (bookbinder), 77
Nahumke (yeshiva graduate), 77
National Draft Registration Day,
National Industrial Recovery Act, 153
Nazism and Nazis, 183, 185, 195–96, 237
Jewish communities destroyed by, 241–42, 245
Jews exterminated by, see Klooga concentration camp; Ponar
Neurological Institute of New York, 148
New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, 96
New York Times, 261
New York World, 90
Nicholas II (tsar), 119
NKVD, 232–33
October Manifesto, 44
October Revolution, see Revolution of 1917
Odessa pogrom, 45
ONR Party (Polish Hitlerites), 189
Ostra Brama (Black Madonna), 193, 241
Oyzer (postman), 77
Ozick, Cynthia, 6
Pale of Settlement, 11, 13, 17, 20, 29, 30, 39, 41–42, 120
Palestine, 178
Arab nationalist movement in, 182–84
British presence in, 176, 177, 184–85, 268–69, 312–13
emigration to, 32, 60, 120, 157, 268–69
Parker, Frank, 104, 107, 110
Passing of the Great Race, The (Grant), 94
Patria (ship), 268, 269
Pearl Harbor, 271, 272, 279, 281
Peel Report, 185
Penn, Irving, 314
Perelman, Ronald, 322–23
Peretz, I. L., 37
Picon, Molly, 134
Piłsudski, Józef, 119
Piłsudski (ship), 198, 199–200, 201
Plastrich (salesman), 133
Pogolensky, Moshe, 250–51, 265, 267, 275
Poland:
anti-Semitism in, 189
German invasion of, 206, 209–12, 220
Russian invasion of, 210
Ponar mass murder site, 244–47, 256, 258, 262, 268, 285, 290, 292, 295, 298, 328
Protection of Cultivators Ordinance (1929), 175
Queen Mary (ship), 279
Quesenberry, Joseph, 96, 102–3, 107, 110
Rabin, Yitzhak, 324
Radzekowski, Stosia, 57
Ra’hel (poet), 127, 320
Rakov, Poland, 20–21, 119, 189, 190, 209, 210, 328
German occupation of, 240, 250–52, 272–74, 276, 280
Jewish institutions of, 229
Soviet occupation of, 228–29, 232–34
Yom Kippur massacre in, 264–67
Zelig Kost on, 315–16
Raskin, Anna, see Cohen, Anna Raskin
Raskin, Harry, 149–50
Rath, Ernst Vom, 196
Revolution of 1905, 40–41, 44
Revolution of 1917, 25, 41, 85–86, 87, 91, 92, 146
Ribbentrop, Joachim von, 210
Riis, Jacob, 71
Rishon LeZion, 23
Riverside Memorial Chapel, 148, 225
Rogovin, Reuven, 238–39, 240
Rommel, Erwin, 236, 269, 289
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 153, 173, 220, 282, 283
Roosevelt, Teddy, 72
Rosenthal, Beatrice (Bea), 114, 138, 259
Rosenthal, Ida (Itel Cohen/Kaganovich), 23–25, 48, 49, 74–75, 87, 112–13, 129, 139, 145, 151, 264, 271, 283, 325
Bund membership of, 33–35
and business partner Enid Bissett, 114–15, 116, 117, 118, 131–34
as dressmaker and entrepreneur, 28–29, 56–57, 70–72, 113–15, 148
Maidenform Bra Company and, 1, 2, 5, 116–17, 133–34, 137–38, 147, 150, 153, 187, 259, 263, 280–81, 302–3, 314, 320–21
revolutionary background of, 28–43
success and wealth achieved by, 130, 146, 187, 203–4, 223, 259–61, 315, 318
Rosenthal, Lewis, 57, 72, 113, 138, 147–48, 225, 261
Rosenthal, Moses (Moe), 37, 117, 138, 150, 153, 262
Rosenthal, William, 35–36, 37–39, 41, 42, 48, 74, 87, 113, 129, 148, 151, 187, 204, 223, 264, 276, 283, 315, 318
as Itel’s business partner, 70–72, 75, 115, 116, 132, 133, 137–38, 145, 153, 259–60, 261, 263, 281, 303
marriage to Itel of, 56–57
Rakov revisited by, 188
Rosenthal, Wolf, see Rosenthal, William
Rosh HaNikra, 158
Roskolenko, Harry, 60
Rothschild, Walter, 111
Rubenstein, Betty, 283
Rubenstein, Louis, 283
Rubenstein, Rose, 283–4
Rubenstein, Sol, 283, 317
Rubenstein, Shmuel, 283
Rudashevski, Yitzhak, 253, 257, 287, 289, 290–91
Ruppin, Arthur, 184
Russia (ship), 51, 52
Russian Revolution, see Revolution of 1917
Russo-Japanese War, 36–37
Ruth (Sonia’s cousin), 159, 161
Sachsenhausen camp, 273
Salvator (ship), 268, 269
Salvatore (gardener), 260
Scandals (revue), 117
Schneiderman, Rose, 73
Second Aliyah, 32
Senitski, Doba, see Kaganovich, Doba
Senitski, Shabtai (Shepseleh), 137, 157–58, 165–66, 168, 169, 190, 192–93, 194, 197, 198, 201, 209, 210, 213–14, 220, 231, 232, 234, 235, 270, 328
under German occupation, 240–41, 242, 243–44, 246–47, 273, 286
Senitski, Shimon (Shimonkeh), 137, 165–66, 167, 168, 169, 193–94, 208, 209, 212, 235–36, 244, 253–54, 257–58, 286–89, 294
at Klooga death camp, 297–302, 304–8
Senitski, Wolf (Velveleh, Volinkeh), 166, 168, 193, 208, 209, 212, 216, 235, 244, 253, 257–58, 286–87, 294–95
Senitski, Yitzchak (Shabtai’s brother, Doba’s brother-in-law), 258, 286, 293, 294, 297
Sforim, Mendele Mocher, 37
Shakespeare, William, 72
Shazor, Zalman, 320
Shin Bet, 142
Shishka, Benjamin, 240
shtetls, 11, 20–21, 98
Shtekel-Dreier, Der, 120
Shulberg family, 55
Siegel, Al, 133
Simernicki, Fayve Yosef, 238
Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 7
Slocki, Saul, 298
Snyder, Timothy, 317
Sobibor camp, 292, 295–96
Soissons, Battle of, 104–9
Soviet Union (the Big Ones), 236, 244
Rakov occupied by, 228–29
Vilna occupied by, 213, 216, 231–32
Speer, Albert, 299
Stacher, Kurt, 300
Stalag 342, 248–49
Stalin, Joseph, 210, 239
Stalingrad, 289
State Department, U.S., 220
“Story of My Dovecote, The” (Babel), 45
Sturma (ship), 268, 269
Summerall, Charles P., 107, 110
Taft, William Howard, 72
Taharat Hakodesh synagogue, 193
“Tale of the Scribe, The” (Agnon), 9
Tayan, Anton Bishara, 175–76, 177
Temple, Shirley, 190
Time magazine, 320
Tolstoy, Leo, 37, 156
Tot
zeret HaAretz tour company, 157
Treblinka camp, 273, 292
Triangle Waist Company fire, 73
Trotsky, Leon, 25, 91–92, 97
Trumpeldor, Joseph, 120–21, 141, 154
Turgenev, Ivan, 37, 156, 194
Turner, Michael, 298–99, 300
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Verne), 37
Twain, Mark, 72
Tyshkevitch, Count, 77
United Nations, 312, 313
United Wholesale and Warehouse Employees Union, 224
Urbach, Tola, 300, 306
Vallos (ship), 182
Vermeer, Jan, 203
Verne, Jules, 37
View from Castle Rock, The (Munro), 2
Vilna (Vilnius), 13, 50–51, 119, 192–93, 209, 210, 212, 213, 220, 234, 288, 328
German occupation of, 240–41, 242, 245, 247, 252–54, 255–58, 262
Soviet occupation of, 213, 216, 231–32
Vilna ghetto, 255–58, 285, 290–93, 296, 310
Vincent (chauffeur), 260
Vitkin, Josef, 170
Volozhin, 238–40, 270–71, 279–80, 310
Volozhin yeshiva, 13–14, 17–18, 19–20, 22–23, 29–30, 57, 119–20, 229, 328
Wadi al-Hawarith Bedouin tenant farm, 175–77, 313
Wagner, Robert (Senator), 220
War Department, U.S., 90, 92, 112, 280–81, 302
War Industries Board, 112
Weiser, Galit, 181
White, George, 117
Wilson, Woodrow, 72, 87, 88, 282
Wittenberg, Itzhak, 288, 291–92
Wolkowitch, Mendel, 279–80
Workmen’s Circle (Arbeter Ring), 74
World’s Fair of 1939, 202–3, 221
World War I, 76–110, 112, 141, 279, 282
Battle of Soissons, 104–9
Hyman Cohen’s service in, 94–96, 101–110
mustard gas used in, 107–8, 109
treatment of Jews during, 80, 81, 98–99
World War II, 9, 238–39, 278, 302–3
“the phony war,” 223, 225
Poland invaded by Germany, 206, 209–12
Yad Vashem memorial, 323
Yiddish Scientific Institute (YIVO), 192
Yitzhak, Chaim ben, 14, 17, 23, 30, 226
Yom Kippur:
Maidenform strike on, 263
Rakov massacre on, 264–67
Yom Kippur War, 321
Zalman, Elijah ben Solomon, 13
Ziegfeld, Florenz, 117
Ziegfeld Follies, 117
Zimmermann, Arthur, 87–88
Zimmerman, Celia, see Cohen, Celia Zimmerman
Zionism, 23, 111, 120, 121, 145, 155, 180, 181, 184
Zizmor, Jack, 118, 133
Zola, Emile, 37
Zyklon B gas, 272–73
