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  Jacob, John Raymond

  Jewish Criterion (Pittsburgh)

  Jews

  biblical commandments

  burial customs

  in Canton

  fear of deportation

  housing restrictions on

  Nazism

  in Pittsburgh

  Romanian, American prejudice toward

  Romanian persecution and exile of

  Jordan, Dan

  Jordan, Sandra (formerly Winters)

  Joseph Dick Manufacturing Company (later Blizzard)

  Joseph W. Farwick & Sons

  Jury, Charles

  Jury, Charles, Jr.

  Jury, Donald and Myrna

  Jury, Elizabeth

  Kelly, Dr.

  Kendzora, Paul

  Kimelman, Reuven

  King, Bessie

  Knight, Brigham “Brig,”

  Lanese, Herbert J. and Martha

  Lazarus, Emma

  Lazorshak, Steven

  Lean, Delbert G.

  Liermann, August

  Lindsay, James and Frances

  Long, David and Nellie

  Long, Jason

  Long, Melvin

  Lowell, James Russell

  Mansfield Reformatory

  Margo, Ann

  Margo, Frank Nicholas and Louise

  Margo, Mary

  Markey, Jennie

  Markey, Marjorie (formerly Gray)

  Markey, William

  Marsh, William

  Martin, Rachelle

  “Maud Muller” (Whittier)

  Maxwell, Guy B.

  May, Felice

  May, James and Edith

  McCort, Alwyn C.

  McCoy, Mrs. J. D.

  McLain, Lloyd B. and Florence

  merchant credit

  Meyers Lake Amusement Park

  Miami Herald

  Miller, Catherine

  Minor, Charles and Mary

  Moidell, Arnold “AJ,”

  Moidell, Joseph

  Moidell, Tina “Esther” (formerly Finkelstein; Stone)

  Monnot, Alice

  Monnot, Barbara

  Monnot, George E.

  Monnot, George W.

  acquaintance of Stone

  business

  death

  letter of request

  portrait of

  Monnot, Richard J.

  Monnot & Sacher Ford dealership

  Naef, Robert

  National Emergency Council

  Neiss, Ervin

  “New Colossus, The” (Lazarus)

  New Deal

  New York Times

  on Canton’s immigrant population

  on Canton’s underworld

  on Hay’s appeal on behalf of Romanian Jews

  on letters of request for gift distribution

  on Nazism

  Nickles, John

  nomadic existence

  Ohio State Reformatory

  orphans and foster children

  Palace Theater

  Palm, Helen

  Palmer, A. Mitchell

  Pittsburgh

  cigar factories

  Finkelstein family immigration to

  Romanian Jewish settlement in

  Plover, George

  poverty, embarrassment over

  prices of everyday goods

  pride and self-esteem

  Pryor, Georgianna

  recession of twenty-first century. See Great Recession

  Reconstruction Finance Corporation

  Republic Steel

  Rhoads, Kathleen

  Rhoads, Roy

  Richards, Beverly

  Richards, Donald Dale

  Richards, Erma June

  Richards, Joseph, Jr.

  Richards, Joseph “Joe” and Mattie

  Richards, Kenneth

  Richardson, Nettie

  Richman, Ernest W.

  Rogers, Joe

  Rogers, Joseph P.

  Romanian Jews

  American prejudice toward

  immigration quota on

  persecution and exile from Romania

  settlement in Pittsburgh

  Romesberg, Clyde

  Romesberg, Nora

  Roosevelt, Franklin D.

  Civil Works Administration

  National Emergency Council

  New Deal

  on stoicism

  Works Progress Administration

  Saal, George and Fern

  Sabelli, Antonio

  Sabelli, Susie

  Sandusky, Hannah

  Saunders, Edith Marie

  education and career

  hardships and loss of business

  letter of request

  wealth and status through marriage

  Saunders, Minna

  Saxton, W. G.

  Schaub, Edna

  shame

  of poverty

  of public assistance or charity

  Shapiro, Hana Sure “Sarah” (formerly Finkelstein, Stone, Berman)

  Shapiro, Hyman

  Sharpe, Donald

  Sharpe, Virginia (formerly Stone, Gup)

  Sheffler, Samuel

  Shingle, Dorothy, Bobby, and Martha

  Sinclair, George

  Smith Act (Alien Registration Act)

  Soehnlen, Dan

  Soehnlen, Joseph

  Sommers, Howard E.

  Stanley, Harry

  Stewart, Charles

  Stewart, Ruth (later Brown)

  Stone, David (formerly Finkelstein)

  Stone, Don

  Stone, Dorothy

  Stone, Edna

  Stone, Eleanor

  Stone, Ferne

  Stone, Gusta “Gussie” (formerly Finkelstein)

  Stone, Hana Sure “Sarah” (formerly Finkelstein; later Berman, Shapiro)

  Stone, Hinde “Hilda” (formerly Finkelstein)

  Stone, Isadore “Al” (formerly Finkelstein)

  Stone, Jack

  Stone, Minna Cecilia (formerly Adolph)

  administration of gift distribution

  British wartime relief

  children

  collection of letters

  complicity in Stone’s deception

  courtship and marriage

  death

  education

  family background

  feminism and social conscience

  financial support of parents

  grudge against brother-in-law

  as Jew

  social status

  Stone, Moses “Mack” (formerly Finkelstein)

  Stone, Sam

  alien status in America

  alien status in homeland

  anonymity as benefactor

  bankruptcy

  British wartime relief

  Canton, arrival in

  children

  cigar-rolling work

  clothing business

  compassion

  control of others through money

  courtship and marriage

  death

  education, lack of

  as employer

  father’s emotional coldness

  fear of persecution and deportation

  fictitious past

  hardships

  immigration to America

  as Jew

  as jokester

  as judge of character

  life timeline

  military service

  name change

  passport documentation

  personal qualities

  in Pittsburgh

  retirement years

  Romania, visits to

  Romanian childhood

  sculpture, The Jumper

  search for home

  on second chances

  secrecy concerning past

  siblings, alienation of

  Smith Act, failure to register under

  social status with marriage

  unlawfulness

  wea
lth

  wealth, insecurity concerning

  women’s plight, sensitivity to

  See also gift distribution

  Stone, Tina “Esther” (formerly Finkelstein; later Stone, Moidell)

  Stone, Virginia (later Gup, Sharpe)

  Stone Brothers clothing store

  Stone’s Clothes

  Stover, Lloyd

  Strasser, Charles

  Superior Dairy

  Talbott, Lheeta Carlin

  Taylor, Betty

  Teis, Roy and family

  Timken Roller Bearing Company

  Truman, Harry S

  Uebing, Mary

  Underwood, John H.

  unemployment

  Civil Works Administration

  desire for work

  disdain for unemployed

  during Great Recession

  hiring of neediest applicants

  labor strikes

  lack of opportunity for work

  New Deal

  rate of

  among women

  vegetable gardening

  Vignos, James

  Virdot, B.

  bank account

  offer of financial assistance

  origin of alias

  speculation on identity of

  See also gift distribution; Stone, Sam

  “Vision of Sir Launfal, The” (Lowell)

  Wagner Provision

  Waidman, Albert and Stella

  Walker, Frank

  Walters, Nola

  Watters, Joseph P.

  Werley, Lloyd H.

  White, J. L.

  Whittier, John Greenleaf

  Williams, Carol

  Winters, Arthur

  Winters, Carol

  Winters, Charles

  Winters, Charles, Jr.

  Winters, Florence (formerly Bair)

  Winters, Sandra (later Jordan)

  women

  economic inequities

  support of family

  unemployment

  Works Progress Administration (WPA)

  Wright, Miriam

  Wright, Noble and Alverna

  Young, Arnold

  Young, Charles

  Young, Chester A. and Nancy Ellen

  Young, Donald

  Young, Margaret

  Young, Orville

  Youngen, John

  Zerby, George and Catherine

  About the Author

  Ted Gup is the author of the best seller The Book of Honor, winner of the Investigative Reporters and Editors Book-of-the-Year Award, and Nation of Secrets, winner of the Shorenstein Book Prize. A Pulitzer finalist and recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, he is professor and chair of the Journalism Department at Emerson College. A former investigative reporter for The Washington Post and Time magazine, he has taught at Case Western Reserve University, Georgetown, Johns Hopkins, and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing as a Fulbright scholar. He has written for publications such as Smithsonian, National Geographic, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Village Voice, Sports Illustrated, Slate, GQ, Mother Jones, Audubon, Columbia Journalism Review, and Newsweek, and for NPR.