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The Jews in America Trilogy

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by Birmingham, Stephen;


  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.

  All rights reserved, including without limitation the right to reproduce this ebook or any portion thereof in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of the publisher.

  “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

  The author is grateful to the following for permission to quote from copyrighted material:

  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.

  Cover designs by Angela Goddard

  ISBN: 978-1-5040-3895-9

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