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social life in Louisiana, 85–86
store reopened, 86
travels in Europe during Civil War, 63, 68–70, 72–73, 120
trip to Europe in 1894, 114–15
on violence in Reconstruction period, 92–94
visits to Germany, 70, 72, 118, 129
writing in English for Jacob, 63, 66, 68–70, 86, 93
Lemann, Bubs (cousin), 10, 11, 142, 212–13, 356
Lemann, Camille (Bubs’s wife), 10
Lemann, Carrie Abraham (Myer’s wife), 109
Lemann, Coralie (Bernard’s sister), 73, 89, 109, 112, 113, 151, 171
Lemann, Ferdinand (Bernard’s son), 111, 138–39, 141–42, 152
Lemann, Hanan (John, Israeli), 12–13, 355
Lemann, Harriet Friedheim (great-grandmother) children, 7–8, 90, 111, 119–20, 142
death and funeral, 90, 112, 116
early life, 89
German ties growing weaker over time, 115
house in New Orleans, 111, 237
marriage, 89, 109
move back to New Orleans, 111
photograph, 89–90, 90
Purim ball in New Orleans and, 89, 120, 131
trip to Europe in 1894, 114–15
Lemann, Isaac (infant), 49
Lemann, Jacob (Bernard’s son), 119
Lemann, Jacob (great-great-grandfather) arrival in New Orleans, 6, 7, 29
attitudes about Civil War, 68, 75
birth and childhood in Essenheim, 6, 22, 24, 25–26
in census records, 49, 51
children, 49, 73
choice between Jewish life and wider world, 40, 59, 112, 117, 125–26, 143
Coralie’s dowry, 109
death and funeral, 111, 116, 119, 132, 140
as a defaulted-on lender, 81, 84–85
departure from Germany, 22, 28–29, 39–40, 72
descendants living now, 40
family store, 22, 50, 52, 55, 86, 107–9
grave in Cincinnati, 110, 111, 116, 132, 354
handwritten will, 113
headstone for father’s grave, 57–58, 59, 354
house in Newport, Rhode Island, 22, 53, 59, 66
house in New York City, 55, 63
illiteracy in English, 7, 22, 49, 61
importuning letters from people in Mainz, 27, 114
loss of Cohen status, 355
marriage, 7, 49, 143
moneylending in Louisiana, 65, 66–67, 86
move to New York City, 22, 52–53, 55, 59, 66, 86
naturalized citizen, 52
network of business connections, 52, 110
old age, 22, 27
photographs, 22, 23
plantations acquired after Civil War, 7, 81, 85, 120
possible Lech Lecha study, 37, 39
property transactions, 49–50
Reform Judaism, 130
religious remarriage, 53, 54, 59, 320, 330
relocation to Europe during Civil War, 7, 68–69, 73, 120
return to Donaldsonville in 1863, 74, 80–81, 107, 120
return to New York in 1863, 73–74
R. G. Dun reports on, 21–22, 88
slavery and, 39, 50–52, 120
synagogue built in Essenheim, 55–56, 57, 58, 350
on violence in Reconstruction period, 93
visits to Germany, 112, 113–14
writing in Hebrew characters, 22, 51, 70, 113, 113
Lemann, John, 238
Lemann, Josephine (daughter), 330, 340, 347, 354
Lemann, Mary Lee Landry (Arthur’s wife), 142–43
Lemann, Mildred Lyons (step-grandmother), 217, 233, 238, 261 Christmas celebrations, 261
Lemann, Miriam (Minnie, Bernard’s daughter), 119, 237
Lemann, Miriam (Marie) Estelle Berthelot (great-great-grandmother) birth and baptism, 49
children, 73
conversion to Judaism, 7, 53, 320, 350
death and funeral, 49, 110–11, 113, 116, 354
descendants living now, 40
English illiteracy, 7, 49–50, 61
house in Newport, Rhode Island, 53, 59
house in New York City, 55, 63
marriage, 7, 49
move to New York City, 52–53, 59, 63
property transactions, 49–50
religious remarriage, 53, 54, 59, 320, 330.
relocation to Europe during Civil War, 68–69, 73, 120
return to New York in 1863, 73
visits to Germany, 112
Lemann, Montefiore Mordecai (Pop, grandfather) Alan Steinert and, 212
in American German-Jewish elite, 8, 214–15
antisemitism and, 190, 215, 229
on bill to admit refugee children, 191–92, 350
birth and naming, 119–20
and Brown v. Board of Education, 222–25, 227, 230
choice between Jewish life and wider world, 136–37
Christmas celebrations, 261
on civil rights issues, 219–20, 222–26, 230–31
“country day” school started, 217
as court Jew, 181, 183–84, 187, 289
death, 225, 233, 267
and Dillard University, 155–56, 219–20, 221, 232, 265
and family plantation business, 140
in First World War, 143–44, 244
Frankfurter, friendship with and letters, 136, 143, 182, 190–91, 193, 214–16
Frankfurter, Jewish refugees and, 189–90
Frankfurter, political maneuvering, 182–86, 187–89, 216, 217, 218, 222
Franklin Roosevelt and, 185–86
Harvard education, 8, 135
Harvard Law Review, 135–36, 136, 283
honors, 216–18
Huey Long and, 185–86, 187
Jewish refugees and, 189–90, 191–92, 213
and Learned Hand lectures, 225–26
liberal establishment network of, 135–36, 138, 216
marriage, 157
Monroe & Lemann, 137–38, 152, 163, 232, 265
National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement, 183–84, 184
and New Orleans Country Club, 149–50, 152, 279
old age, 228–29, 231–33
photographs, 136, 157, 158, 176, 184, 231, 231
remarriage, 217, 228, 261
Temple Sinai membership, 214, 230, 322
on Thomas and Barbara’s marriage, 262
trip to Europe in 1936, 175, 176
Tulane University and, 135, 137
and University in Exile, 189–90
and Zionism, 213, 215
Lemann, Moses (son) bris, 330
at college, 352, 353
Jewish day school, 330
six-pointed star on a necklace, 347, 353
trips to New Orleans, 339, 340, 354
Lemann, Myer (Bernard’s brother) birth, 55
education in New York and Germany, 107, 113
in family business, 107–8, 108, 109, 139, 140–41
marriage, 109
mayor of Donaldsonville, 97
relocation to Europe during Civil War, 68–69, 73, 120
store renamed B. Lemann & Brother, 108–9, 108
visit to Germany in 1878, 113
Lemann, Nancy (sister) as aspiring writer, 13, 14
Christmas celebrations, 241
education, 217
Mother’s death, 319–20
in Perth Amboy in 1961, 268–69
photograph, 235–36
rendition of poem, 67–68
step-grandmother and, 217
writing assignment on Hanukkah, 33
Lemann, Nettie Elise Hyman (grandmother) in American German-Jewish elite, 8
childhood and education, 159–60
“country day” school started, 217
death, 216–17, 228, 258
letters to Thomas in army, 257–58, 263
marriage, 157
photographs, 157, 159, 176
trip to Europe in 1936, 175, 176
tuberculosis and illness, 160, 175, 189, 216
Lemann, Nicholas birth, 112, 231
childhood life, 237–43
childhood memories of Pop, 231
Christmas celebrations, 241
and civil rights movement, 8
Columbia University and, 333, 337, 348–49, 351, 352–53
comfort around Jews, 295, 359
courtship with Judith, 312–20
divorce, 312
drawn toward religious life, 316–17
education, 217, 239–40
Essenheim trip, 22–23, 55, 354
family as former Cohens, 355
family avoidance of Jewish topics, 14, 17, 20
family store (B. Lemann & Brother) and, 356
Father’s death, 341–42, 343–44, 353–54, 355
feelings about Jewish traditions, 310, 320–21, 329
first meeting with Judith, 313
at Harvard, 294–96
Hurricane Katrina and, 337–39
identification as Southerner, 6, 8, 14, 67, 120–21, 301
as investigator, 5, 9, 22, 48, 120–21, 349–50, 359
invitation to Squires Mardi Gras ball, 15–16, 19–20, 280
job at Vieux Carre Courier, 3, 292–93
job researching The Double Dealer, 3–4, 13, 293
and journalism, 3, 36, 291–94, 298–99, 313, 317, 328
kaddish prayers, 353–54
on keeping kosher, 331–32
and kosher laws, 315–16
life as replica of Father’s, 239–41
living a Jewish life, 330–35, 359–60
marriage with Dominique, 307–8
minyan and, 330, 345–48
Mother’s death, 319–20, 343, 353
no bar mitzvah, 34–38
on observing the Sabbath, 325, 332–33
in Perth Amboy in 1961, 268–69
photographs, 231, 231, 235–36
on religion as ordering principle for life, 327–29
Sabbath dinner and, 324, 325, 326, 330, 332
sons’ bar mitzvahs, 311–12, 321–22, 330
summer camp in North Carolina, 240
Sunday excursions and relative visits, 237–38, 274
Sunday school at Temple Sinai, 32–34, 130, 240, 243
synagogue membership, 308–9, 317–18, 324
tension between Jewish life and wider world, 304–5, 307, 316, 328, 333
thoughts on Jacob’s actions, 47, 51–52
trips downtown with Father, 239
trip to Israel, 333–35
visiting Moses at college, 352–53
visits to Mother, 318
at Washington Monthly, 298–99
at Washington Post, 299–300
wedding with Judith, 320–21, 330
Lemann, Peter (cousin), 10–11, 12
Lemann, Sheila Bosworth (Thomas’s wife), 322, 337–38, 339, 343, 344
Lemann, Shirley (Stephen’s wife), 238, 277
Lemann, Stella, 237–38
Lemann, Stephen (Thomas’s brother) complaining about high Temple Sinai dues, 277
education, 217, 228
house on Marquette Place, 238
inheritance from mother, 228
in Korean War, 244
Monroe & Lemann, 138, 228, 232, 240, 263
photographs, 176, 240
on race and racism, 265–66, 267
trip to Europe in 1936, 175, 176
visits to Frankfurter, 228–29
Xavier University trustee, 265
Lemann, Theo (son) bar mitzvah, 321–22
circumcision, 330
joint custody, 312, 315
and New Orleans, 318
synagogue attendance and, 308–9, 310
trips to New Orleans, 318, 344
umbrellas from grandparents’ house, 344
Lemann, Thomas Berthelot (Father) in army in Second World War, 244–47, 257–58, 269
at Atlanteans Mardi Gras ball, 280–81
attending Temple Sinai, 322
Barbara’s death, 319–20
bargains that underlay marriage, 270, 274
on book by Howard Simons, 300
in Charlevoix, Michigan, 214, 216
choice between Jewish life and wider world, 284, 304, 307
confirmation, 34, 130, 240, 311
copious reading by, 242, 245–46, 257
as court Jew, 289–90
courtship, 250, 258–60, 271
crisis in marriage, 267–70, 283
death, 341–42, 343–44, 353–54, 355
eccentric and scholarly interests, 264, 265, 271–72, 282, 303–4, 340
education in New Orleans, 217, 228, 239–40, 244, 264
fiftieth birthday party, 279–80
grave, 116
at Harvard, 244, 250–53, 255–56, 258–60, 263
heraldic shields designed for, 31, 275–76, 277
holiday celebrations, 241–42, 301, 302
house in Uptown New Orleans, 160–61
Hurricane Katrina, 337–39
inheritance from Nettie, 228, 264, 265, 283
on Jewish identity, 277–78, 282, 311
journals, 271, 272
letter about yahrzeit, 276–77, 278
levee garden party, 274–75, 276, 292
in local aristocracy, 267, 273
magical world in corner of library, 273–74, 303, 340
mainstream American status, 8, 31
marriage to Barbara, 31–32, 262
marriage to Sheila, 322
Monroe & Lemann, joined, 228, 232, 239
Monroe & Lemann, old-fashioned office, 137, 138, 240
network of economic connections, 135–36, 140, 216
and New Orleans Country Club, 149–50, 279
Nicholas’s religious school and, 32–34, 240
old age, 282–83, 337, 339–40, 341, 342–43
opposition to Israel, 32–33
photographs, 137, 235–36, 240, 248, 272, 273, 275, 276
project to bring down social barriers to Jews, 279, 301
Quercus, building of, 14–15, 270, 302, 338
on racism and antisemitism, 265–66
reaction to grandsons’ bar mitzvahs, 311–12, 322
resistance to Zionism, 251–53, 278–79
Rorschach test, 259, 260, 260, 271–72
scholarly undergraduate research, 250, 283
on Squires Mardi Gras ball invitation, 15–16, 19–20
summer camp in North Carolina, 240
Sunday excursions and relative visits, 237–39, 274
things that were not talked about, 17, 256, 268, 274, 300, 303, 304
trips downtown with Nicholas, 239
trips to Europe, 235–36, 264, 270–73, 272, 325, 354
visits to Frankfurter, 225, 228–29
wanting things done his way, 258, 263, 272
Yom Kippur not observed, 283–84
Lemann, Walter Herz Naphtali (Bernard’s son), 97, 119–20
Leopoldstadt (Stoppard), 241
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, 83, 128, 198–99
Leucht, Isaac, 89, 109, 111
Lewisohn, Ludwig, 168–69, 170–71
Liberal Judaism, 132
Lilienthal, Max, 53, 54, 59, 110, 111
Lincoln, Abraham, 22, 63, 76–77, 80, 82, 83
Lippmann, Walter, 167–68
Long, Huey, 4, 10, 185–87, 227, 291
Long, Russell, 227
Louisiana civil rights and, 218–19
Creoles in, 98–101, 104, 154, 165, 302, 321
economy based on slavery, 41, 42–43, 51
immigration of Jews to, 40–41
statehood, 42
sugar production before Civil War, 43, 78
sugar production during Civil War, 78, 79
violence in Reconstruction period, 90–96
and Willie Francis case, 218–19
see also Jews in New Orleans and Louisiana
Lowell, Abbott Lawrence, 166
Lowenthal, Max, 183
lynching, 101–2, 105, 147, 165
Magic Mountain, The (Mann), 301
Magnes, Judah, 155
Mainz, Germany, 23–24, 27, 55, 113–14
Major, Melvin, 273
Mann, Thomas, 147
Marcus, Jacob Rader, 173–74
Mardi Gras Jews as outsiders, 17–18, 19, 165, 280, 281
krewes, 17, 19, 149–50, 280–81, 291, 300, 343
as New Orleans’s central ritual, 13, 16–17, 343
Rex parade stop at the Kocks’ home, 279
Thomas and Barbara at Atlanteans ball, 280–81
Marr, Wilhelm, 119, 133
Marshall, Louis, 166, 167
Marshall, Thurgood, 166–67, 221, 222
Masada, Israel, 334
Mayer, Frederike, 114
Mayer family, 26, 27, 55, 56, 56, 114
McCall, Jonathan, 102, 141
McCall plantation, 102, 141
McCarthy, Joe, 218
McClellan, George, 82
McDermott, Alice, 331
Mein Kampf (Hitler), 182
Mendelssohn, Moses, 119, 128–30, 132, 199, 252
Metairie cemetery, 116, 344, 354
mezuzahs, 326, 347, 351
militia violence in the late nineteenth century, 117–18
Minor, William, 46
minyan, 328, 330, 345–48
miscegenation or interracial marriage, 100, 225, 253
Mississippi River flood of 1927, 337, 342
Mollere, Bienvenue, 22, 55, 86
Monroe, J. Blanc, 137, 152, 163
Monroe & Lemann law firm divorce or criminal cases not welcomed, 266, 303
J. Blanc Monroe, 137, 152, 163
Monte Lemann, 137–38, 152, 163, 232, 265
Nicholas and, 239, 241, 297
out of business, 283, 340
Stephen Lemann, 138, 228, 232, 240, 263
Thomas Lemann in old-fashioned office, 137, 138, 240
Thomas Lemann joined, 228, 263, 264, 266
Montefiore, Moses, 119, 120, 127, 334
Montgomery, Anne Kock, 275, 276, 280, 341
Montgomery, George, 275, 276, 279, 280, 341
Mordecai (Book of Esther), 120, 145–46, 148, 230
Morgan, Christiana, 259
Morgenthau, Henry, Sr., 192
Morial, Sybil Haydel, 100
Mortara, Edgardo, 64
Moses (Exodus), 36, 65, 107, 145, 285, 329, 334
Mossel, Stefan, 23, 25, 26, 55–56, 58
