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.