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17. Standard Form 57, 1960, Ruth Rappaport’s Official Personnel Folders, National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), Valmeyer, Illinois (additional sources from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), Valmeyer, Illinois, are hereafter cited as from NARA).
18. RR diary, May 28, 1948.
19. Letter from Rabbi Franklin Cohn to Ruth Rappaport, September 2, 1947, RRC, USHMM. Sam Tarshis was the president of Seattle Zionist District.
20. Letter from Ruth Rappaport to Rabbi Franklin Cohn, September 9, 1947, RRC, USHMM.
CHAPTER 16
1. “ZOA Reorganizes S.F. District,” Jewish Tribune, October 17, 1947, p. 2.
2. Letter from Rabbi Franklin Cohn to Ruth Rappaport, October 9, 1947, RRC, USHMM.
3. Letter from Ruth Rappaport to Rabbi Franklin Cohn, October 20, 1947, RRC, USHMM.
4. “Balfour Day Observance Features Jackman, Goldberg,” Jewish Tribune, November 7, 1947, p. 1.
5. “Zionist Leaders Signalize U.N. Decision,” Jewish Tribune, December 5, 1947, p. 2.
6. Email from Ruth Rappaport to Sig Cohen, February 7, 2008, Sig Cohen personal collection.
7. RR diary, August 10, 1948.
8. “Yehudith Simchonit—Palestine Women’s Leader—to Speak,” Jewish Tribune, November 21, 1947, p. 1.
9. Letter from Ruth Rappaport to Mrs. Allen, February 29, 1948, RRC, USHMM; letter from Ruth Rappaport to George Edelstein, December 26, 1948, RRC, USHMM.
10. RR oral history, USHMM.
11. Shulamit Reinharz and Mark A. Raider, American Jewish Women and the Zionist Enterprise (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, 2005), p. 185.
12. Reinharz and Raider, American Jewish Women and the Zionist Enterprise, pp. 185–86.
13. RR diary, January 3–6, 1948.
14. RR diary, January 3–6, 1948.
CHAPTER 17
1. Letter from Ruth Rappaport to “Whom It May Concern” regarding Mirjam Schneider’s will, undated, Peter Bartis personal collection.
2. Ruth Rappaport to “Whom It May Concern” regarding Mirjam Schneider’s will.
3. RR diary, April 23, 1948.
4. Letter from Ruth Rappaport to W. Zev Bronner, February 3, 1948, RRC, USHMM.
5. Letter from Ruth Rappaport to May [last name unknown], May 17, 1948, RRC, USHMM.
6. Rappaport to May [last name unknown], May 17, 1948.
7. Letter from Ruth Rappaport to W. Zev Bronner, February 3, 1948, RRC, USHMM.
8. Letter from Ruth Rappaport to Victor Bloom, February 23, 1948, RRC, USHMM; draft article “Many Victims in Jerusalem Outrage,” RRC, USHMM.
9. Ruth Rappaport, “Jerusalem, a Besieged City,” Jewish Tribune, March 19, 1948, p. 5.
10. Rappaport, “Jerusalem, a Besieged City.”