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.
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“Our Crowd” copyright © 1967 by Stephen Birmingham
The Macmillan Company for the letters of Otto Kahn which appeared in The Many Lives of Otto Kahn by Mary Jane Mate, copyright © 1963 by Margaret D. Ryan.
The Grandees copyright © 1971 by Stephen Birmingham
“The Rest of Us” copyright © 1984 by Stephen Birmingham
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From “The East European Immigrant Jew in America (1881–1981): Isaac Don Levine, Letters of an Immigrant,” American Jewish Archives, April 1981, Volume XXXIII, Number 1. By permission of American Jewish Archives.
From The New York Times, September 1, 1967. Copyright © 1967 by The New York Times Company. Reprinted by permission.
From BRONFMAN DYNASTY by Peter C. Newman. Copyright © 1978 by Peter C. Newman. Reprinted by permission of the author and the Canadian publishers, McClelland and Stewart Limited, Toronto.
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