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4. Philip Hider and Ross Harvey, Organising Knowledge in a Global Society: Principles and Practices in Libraries and Information Centres (San Diego, CA: Elsevier, 2008), p. 140.
5. Melissa Adler, “For SEXUAL PERVERSION See PARAPHILIAS: Disciplining Sexual Deviance at the Library of Congress” (PhD diss., University of Wisconsin, 2012), p. 178.
6. Memorandum from Ruth Rappaport to Regene Ross, August 29, 1985, retrieved by the LC Subject Policy Committee. This heading was later split into two separate terms, “Crime” and “Criminology.”
7. “About the LC Online Catalog,” Library of Congress (website), https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/ui/en_US/htdocs/help/.
8. Sanford Berman, Prejudices and Antipathies: A Tract on the LC Subject Headings Concerning People (Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1971), pp. ix–x.
9. Berman, Prejudices and Antipathies, p. xi.
10. Stephen A. Knowlton, “Three Decades Since Prejudices and Antipathies: A Study of Changes in the Library of Congress Subject Headings,” Cataloging and Classification Quarterly 40, no. 2 (2005): pp. 123–45.
11. Thompson Yee, in discussion with the author, May 8, 2013.
12. These letters are available in Sandy Berman’s collection of papers at the American Library Association archives.
13. “Report of the Racism and Sexism in Subject Analysis Subcommittee to the RTSD/CCS Subject Analysis Committee,” midwinter 1980, ALA Archives, Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS) collection.
14. Ruth Rappaport, “SAC Subcommittee on Racism and Subject Analysis,” in “Appendix II: Continuing Reports on the Annual Conference of the American Library Association, Chicago, IL., June 24–30, 1978,” Library of Congress Information Bulletin, August 18, 1978, pp. 501–502.
15. Letter from Sandy Berman to James Billington, December 13, 1989, Sandy Berman Collection, ALA Archives.
16. “Librarian of Congress Testifies before House Committee on 1991 Budget,” Library of Congress Information Bulletin, February 26, 1990, p. 92.
17. “Congress Comes through on LC Appropriations,” Library of Congress Information Bulletin, November 19, 1990, p. 387.
18. Ana L. Cristán, “SACO and Subject Gateways,” Authority Control in Organizing and Accessing information, edited by Arlene G. Taylor, Barbara B. Tillett (New York City: Routledge, 2005), p. 315.
19. “Cataloging in the 1990s: Sanford Berman’s Challenge to LC,” Library of Congress Information Bulletin, February 22, 1993, p. 86.
20. Knowlton, “Three Decades Since Prejudices and Antipathies,” pp. 127–28.
21. Kay Elsasser, Kersti Blumenthal, Thompson Yee, Peter Bartis, and Catherine Hiebert Kerst, all in discussion with the author.
22. Letter from Ruth Rappaport to Mr. and Mrs. Rudman, October 17, 1992, Peter Bartis personal collection. Joseph David Rudman worked at LC two separate times, with a break to earn a PhD in Scandinavian studies. He later went to law school and worked as a law cataloger at the University of Washington Library. He died of AIDS in 1992 and has a panel on the memorial AIDS quilt.
23. Rappaport to Mr. and Mrs. Rudman, October 17, 1992.
24. Letter from Ruth Rappaport to Catherine Hiebert Kerst, September 9, 1999, Catherine Hiebert Kerst personal collection.
25. Kersti Blumenthal, in discussion with the author, May 2, 2013.
26. Ruth Rappaport’s Official Personnel Folders, NARA.
27. Peggy McGlone, “America’s ‘National Library’ Is Lacking in Leadership, Yet Another Report Finds,” Washington Post, March 31, 2015; Michael D. Shear, “Library of Congress Chief Retires Under Fire,” New York Times, June 10, 2015.
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1. RR oral history, USHMM.
2. Peter Bartis, in discussion with the author, undated.
3. Raymond Gamble, in discussion with the author, November 22, 2016.
4. Sue Anne Pressley Montes and Yolanda Woodlee, “D.C. Cabs Told to Switch from Zone Fares to Meters,” Washington Post, October 18, 2007.
5. Paul Schwartzman, “Buses Cause Rumble of Unrest,” Washington Post, September 16, 2004.
6. Unidentified neighbor who spoke at Ruth’s memorial service.
7. Sig Cohen and Laurie Solnik, in discussion with the author, April 16, 2013.
8. Email from Ruth Rappaport to Sig Cohen, February 7, 2008, Sig Cohen personal collection.
9. Letter from Ruth Rappaport to “all my dears,” December 1984, Peter Bartis personal collection.
10. RR oral history, USHMM.
11. RR oral history, USHMM.
12. RR oral history, USHMM.
13. Letter from Ruth Rappaport regarding Mirjam Schneider’s will, undated, Peter Bartis personal collection.
14. RR oral history, USHMM.
15. Letter from Ruth Rappaport regarding Mirjam Schneider’s will.
16. Letter from Ruth Rappaport to Rosel Rubinstein, April 1, 1997, Peter Bartis personal collection.
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1. Letter from James H. Billington to Ruth Rappaport, October 11, 1988, Ruth Rappaport’s Official Personnel Folders, NARA.
2. “Capitol Hill Village: How We Got Started,” History, Capitol Hill Village (website), accessed October 25, 2018, http://www.capitolhillvillage.org/?pg=40.
3. “Holocaust Survivor Who Hates Cats Ends Up Living With One,” http://nocatsallowed.blogspot.com/2009/01/holocaust-survivor-who-hates-cats-winds.html, January 16, 2009.
4. Email by unknown author quoted by Petula Dvorak at Ruth’s memorial service.
5. Peter Bartis speaking at Ruth’s memorial service.
6. Dvorak, “Proof of Gifts That Come When Generations Mingle.”
7. Letter from Ruth Rappaport to Rosel, April 1, 1997, Peter Bartis personal collection.
8. Dvorak, “Proof of Gifts That Come When Generations Mingle.”
9. Dvorak, “Proof of Gifts That Come When Generations Mingle.”
10. Peter Bartis, in discussion with the author, undated.
11. Ben Zuras, in discussion with the author, May 28, 2018.
12. Unidentified friend speaking at Ruth’s memorial service.
13. Gail Schwartz, in discussion with the author, November 5, 2016.
14. Laurie Solnik speaking at Ruth’s memorial service, December 12, 2010.
15. Dvorak, “Proof of Gifts That Come When Generations Mingle.”
EPILOGUE
1. RR oral history, USHMM.
2. RR oral history, USHMM.
Index
A
Acme United Press, 135, 138
Adams, Syble, 232
Adenauer, Konrad, 196
African American literature, history, and culture, 244
African Americans and the Library of Congress, 272–275
Ale and Quail Society, 104
All Quiet on the Western Front (Remarque), 15, 245
Allison, A. A., 216, 217, 218, 219, 220, 222, 250–251
American Council for Judaism (ACJ), 115
American Folklife Center, 165, 292
American Forces Vietnam Network (AFVN), 239
American Library Association conference, 1965, 223
American Zionist Council, 182–183
Americans: The Democratic Experience, The (Boorstin), 271–272
Andrews, David, 273
Armed with Abundance: Consumerism & Soldiering in the Vietnam War (Lair), 235
Army Library Operational Guide, 214–215
Atterman, Lynn, 179
Austen, Jane, 244
autobiographical essay, 184–186
Autobiography of Malcolm X, The, 244
B
Balfour Declaration, 120, 121
Barsky, Dr. Edward, 98
Bartis, Peter, xi, xiii, 17, 304, 305–306, 308, 311
Bartlett, Ella Dora, 232
Battle of Dau Tiang, The (Marshall), 245–246
Bauman, William, 178
Beach, Captain Edward L., 236
Beagle, Peter S., 244
Beauvoir, Sim
one de, 191, 244
Beech, Keyes, 242
Behind the Silken Curtain (Crum), 116
Berliner, Shirley, 80, 84, 87
Berliner, Zeanna, 85–86, 88, 90
Berman, Sanford “Sandy,” 282–284, 285–286, 287
bibliographies, 199–200
Billington, Dr. James, 273–274, 285, 286, 293, 304
Black Employees of the Library of Congress (BELC), 273
Black Power (Carmichael), 244
Bloom, Victor, 133–134
Blum, Leon, 110
Blume, Ed, 264, 269
Blumenthal, Kersti, 291
Blumer, Herbert, 175
Bluwstein, Ra’hel, 63–64
Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 110
book-burning in Leipzig, 13–14
Boorstin, Daniel J., 271, 272, 285
Boyer, Dave, 137
Brady, Professor, 184
Brith Habonim (Zionist youth organization), 8, 16, 17, 19, 20
Broadway High School, Seattle, 59, 68
Brockhaus family, 9, 14
Bronner, W. Zev, 114–115, 121, 126, 133
Brown, Dudley, 104
Buchanan, Avis, 273
Buchenwald concentration camp, 106, 107–111
Buchenwald Memorial, 108
Buck, Pearl S., 63
Buckland, Michael, 192
Buckley, Francis, 230–231
Bund, the, 8, 19, 20, 21, 43, 81
Bundesentschädigungsgesetz (BEG), 196
C
Cairo to Damascus (Carlson), 142
California Library Association (CLA), 200–201
Capa, Robert, 144, 157
Capitol Hill Restoration Society, 298
Capote, Truman, 245
Carlebach, Emil, 109–110
Carlebach, Rabbi Ephraim, 6, 11, 109
Carlebach School, 11, 12
Carlson, Roy C., 142
Carmichael, Stokely, 244
Carnegie, Andrew, 64
Carney, Janice, 240
Cary, George, 275
Cataloging-in-Publication (CIP), 267–268
Catch-22 (Heller), 245
Cather, Willa, 244
Cercle Sportif Country Club, Saigon, 215
Cerf, Alisa, 153, 169
Cerf, Bennet, 237
Chaluzisch movement, 18
Chertoff, Naomi, 83–84, 89–90
Civil Rights Act, 210
Cleaver, Eldridge, 244
Cohen, Sig, 299–301
Cohn, Aviva, 80
Cohn, Hillel, 80
Cohn, Rabbi Fritz “Franklin,” 77–80, 81, 84, 88, 119, 120, 121, 126, 150, 151
Communism, 59–60
Congressional Cemetery, Washington, DC, 312
Cook, Harry F., 205
Cook, Howard, 273
Cronauer, DJ Adrian, 239
Crum, Bartley, 115–116
Curie, Madam, 48
Cutter, Charles, 265
D
Danton, J. Periam “Perry,” 192–193, 194, 206, 208
Davidson, Carter, 142
Defense Army of Israel, 152, 159
Delta Collection, Library of Congress, 258–260
Dillon and Carney, Seattle, 68
DiMona, Joseph, 219–220
Dondero, Representative George, 171
Dosmar, Edith, 196–197
Drahn, Ernst, 15
Drugs for Young People: Their Use and Misuse (Leech), 235
Durbin, Ramona, 232
Dvorak, Petula, xi–xii, 308, 310
E
Eastern Market advisory commission, Washington, DC, 299
Eberhard, Wolfram, 183
Edelstein, George, 120, 125
Elbaum, Esther, 88, 89, 92, 98, 99, 117–118, 174
Elsasser, Kay, 258, 288
Elyn, Marian, 90, 91
Enoch Pratt Free Library of Baltimore, 294
Eshelman, William, 194
Exile, The (Buck), 63
F
Fealham, Larry, 74
Federal Bureau of Investigation, The (Lowenthal), 171, 172
Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), 196
Fee, Stephen, 245–246
Feiger, Frima, 4, 5
Female Eunuch, The (Greer), 244
Feminine Mystique, The (Friedan), 244
Fenske, Tom, 297
Ferguson, Hank, 224, 225, 226–228, 233
Fiddler on the Roof (film), 65
Fine and Private Place, A (Beagle), 244
Fink, Ida, 80, 87
Finley, Aileen Hicks, 100
Fiske, Marjorie, 201
Foote, Colonel, 209
Ford, President Gerald, 271
Frank, Dr., 222
Frankfurter, Felix, 170
Franzos, Carl Emil, 65
Friedan, Betty, 244
Friends of the Northeast Library, 297
G
Gamble, Raymond, 298–299
Garfunkel, Roger, 29–30, 44, 56, 74, 127
George Washington University Hospital, 222
Giap, North Vietnamese General Vo Nguyen, 246
Gibbs, George, 231
Godfather, The (Puzo), 244
Goebbels, Joseph, 14, 15
Goethe Oak, Buchenwald, 110
Goldsmith, May, 177
Graham, Jim, 301
Graves, Robert, 139
Great Court-Martial Cases (DiMona), 219
Greer, Germaine, 244
Gross, Jakob, 16
Gruenthal, Felix, 75, 81
Grunbaum’s Furniture Company, Seattle, 86–87, 90, 178
H
Hadassah (Women’s Zionist Organization of America), 77, 88, 98, 99
Haganah, the, 125, 131, 135
Hale, Nancy, 156
Hamlet, Kurt, 74
Hammett, Dashiell, 116
Hashomer Hatzair (Zionist youth group), 30, 37, 40, 43, 44, 45, 46, 60
Hayakawa, Dr., 223
Hayden, Dr. Carla, 293–294
Headquarters Support Activity Saigon (HSAS) of the navy, 211, 212
Hedlesky, Nick, 257, 279
Heller, Joseph, 245
Herrmann, Wolfgang, 13–14, 15
Herzl’s Congregation Synagogue, Seattle, 60, 76, 79, 94, 97
Herzog, Doris, 45
Herzog, Kurt and Doris, 37–39
Herzog, Ursi, 37
Hess, Bill, 182
Hill Havurah, the, 7, 300
Hindenburg, President Paul von, 15
Hirsch, Gershon, 138
Hiss, Alger, 171
Hitler, Adolf, 11, 14, 16, 164, 179
Holocaust, 97, 111, 115, 163, 178, 302–303, 314
Holocaust memorial, Leipzig, 25
Hoover, J. Edgar, 171, 176, 177, 312
Horchler, Gabe, 213, 231, 240, 256, 263–264, 265, 266, 268, 269, 278, 287
Hotel Otter, Zurich, 49
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), 171, 176
Hudson, Joe, 246–247
Hung family, 278
I
I, Claudius (Graves), 139
In Cold Blood (Capote), 245
Irwin (Irving), Spencer, 154, 179
Israel, creation of, 137–138
Israel Museum, 164
J
Jacobs, Julius “Jay,” 61, 114
Jacobs, Rose. See Rubinstein, Rose
Jacobson, Alice Bernstein, 90, 91, 98
Jaffa orange industry, 154
Jakobowitch, Gerda, 40
Jakobowitch family, 40
James, Dr., 77
Japan declares war, 71
Jewish National Fund, 115, 120
Jewish Tribune, 133, 134
Jewish Tribune’s article on Ruth Rappaport, 124–125
Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee (JAFRC), 98, 101, 176
Junior Hadassah (Zionist youth group), 77, 80, 81, 83, 85, 88, 91, 98
K
Kamil, Rachel, 4
Keller, Dr. Bertha, 33, 35–36, 39, 50
Kelley, Margot, 299
Kelsey, Ann, 233, 238, 242, 245, 248–249
Kerry, John, 248
Kerst, Catherine Hiebert, 290
Kielert, Alfred, 82
Kindertransport train, 32
King Jr., Dr. Martin Luther, 244, 258–259
Kingsberry, Clydel, 181
Knesset (Israel’s parliament), 163
Knowlton, Stephen, 287
Kohn, Gail, 306
Kolleck, Teddy, 115
Kristallnacht (“night of broken glass”), 23–24, 32, 97
Kuntze, Archie, 215, 216–220, 226
L
Lair, Meredith H., 235
Land of Promise, The (film), 66
Lang, Bert, 71
Langer, Rose, 40
Langer family, 40
Lee and Ruth (business), 161
Leech, Kenneth, 235
Leipzig, 4–5, 5–6, 302
bombing of during WWII, 97
publishers in, 10, 14
Leipzig City History Museum, 111
Lenin, Vladimir, 42
Levinthal, Judge Louis, 83
Levitan, Dan “the Man,” 239
Library of Congress, 231, 251, 255, 256, 257–258, 281–282, 291, 292, 298
Library of Congress Classification (LCC) schedule, 264–267
Library of Congress Professional Guild, 276, 277, 278
Library of Congress subject headings (LCSH), 280–281, 282–284
Lin, Mary Jane, 207, 210
Little Camp Memorial, Buchenwald, 110
Lowenthal, David, 171
Lowenthal, John, 171
Lowenthal, Max, 170–173, 176, 179, 206
Lowenthal, Morris, 115, 121
Lowinger, Esther, 76
Lowinger, Richard, 76
M
Mack, Judge Julian, 170
Madison, James, 258
Manual for Draft-Age Immigrants to Canada (Satin), 248
Marshall, Joan K., 284
Marshall, S. L. A., 245–246
Martin, Mr. William D., 100
McCarthyism, 200–201, 272
McNamara, Secretary of Defense Robert, 241
Medina Baby Home, Seattle, 86, 90
Meir (Meyerson), Golda, 121–122, 123, 125, 151, 152
Metropolitan Business College, Seattle, 68
Mikulski, Senator Barbara, 293, 294
Miller, Robert, 153
Moby Dick (Melville), 252
Moesker, Major Sara P. “Pat,” 211
Moesker, Pat and Bob, 256
Monastery of the Cross, 164
Moran, Caitlin Keefe, 156
Mosher, Fred, 193–194, 200, 201
Mostafa, M. Gamal “Jim,” 103–104, 112–114, 116, 117–118, 126–127, 142, 147, 149
Mumford, Librarian of Congress Quincy, 269
Myrer, Anton, 245
N
Naha Air Base, Okinawa, 206, 209