A Well-Read Woman

2. Letter from Jüdische Gemeinde zu Leipzig to Ruth Rappaport, August 27, 1946, RRC, USHMM.

3. Guy Rosner, in discussion with the author, July 28, 2014.

4. Michael Rubinstein, in discussion with the author, April 27, 2017.

5. Ellen Bertram, Menschen ohne Grabstein [People with no gravestone], p. 288.

6. Document 91706849 (60000/60300/0060399/2 Inbound/), International Tracing Service Archives, USHMM.

7. Document 33461659 (/Image vorhanden/_R/R0095/), International Tracing Service Archives, USHMM.

8. Document 91706835 (/60000/60300/0060398/3 Outbound/) International Tracing Service Archives, USHMM.

9. “Buchenwald Concentration Camp, 1937–1945,” Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation, https://www.buchenwald.de/en/72/.

10. “Emil Carlebach—Lebenslauf,” politische Häftlinge im Gefängnis Hameln [Political prisoners in Hameln prison], Hamelns Geschichte—abseits vom Rattenfänger [Hameln’s story: away from the pied piper], http://www.gelderblom-hameln.de/zuchthaus/nszeit/gefaengnis/carlebach.html.

11. Anders Rydell, The Book Thieves: The Nazi Looting of Europe’s Libraries and the Race to Return a Literary Inheritance (New York City: Viking, 2015), pp. 35–58.

12. Restitution documentation records, RRC, USHMM.

13. RR oral history, USHMM.

CHAPTER 15

1. RR diary, June 13, 1948.

2. RR diary, December 26, 1948. Aziz Sedky, the future prime minister of Egypt, was probably Jim’s friend.

3. January to September 1947 issues of The Transcript did not survive.

4. “Carl Rubinstein,” Seattle Times, March 26, 1947, p. 20.

5. “Carl Rubinstein Estate $540,000,” Seattle Times, March 31, 1947, p. 2.

6. RR diary, May 28, 1928.

7. “Bronner Speaks on Palestine,” Mill Valley Record, April 16, 1948, p. 10.

8. Shilchim are emissaries from Israel.

9. Email from Ruth Rappaport to Sig Cohen, February 7, 2008, Sig Cohen personal collection.

10. Fred Rosenbaum, Cosmopolitans: A Social and Cultural History of the Jews in the San Francisco Bay Area (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009), pp. 314–17.

11. Benny Morris, 1948: The First Arab-Israeli War (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008), pp. 40–59.

12. Patricia Bosworth, Anything Your Little Heart Desires: An American Family Story (New York City: Touchstone, 1997), pp. 173–206.

13. Ruth Rappaport résumé, July 1948, personal documents, RRC, U

SHMM.

14. Doreen Bierbrier, “The American Zionist Emergency Council: An Analysis of a Pressure Group,” American Jewish Historical Quarterly 60, no. 1 (September 1970): p. 88.

15. RR diary, June 13, 1948.

16. Letter from Esther Elbaum to Ruth Rappaport, July 18, 1947, RRC, USHMM.