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LI (3 December 1939 Brooklyn – 24 December 2014 Manhattan)

Reviews

Kilgallen by Lee Israel. New York: Delacorte, 1979. Illustrated 485 pp. Hardcover, $12.95.

Toward the end of this well-written but otherwise conventional celebrity biography, the author makes a stab at linking Dorothy Kilgallen with the Kennedy assassination cover-up. The vehicle for this is an interview Kilgallen conducted with Jack Ruby shortly before her death. The suggestion of foul play is far-fetched and only the most crazed assassination buffs will give it any credence. Definitely not a reason to buy the book. More interesting is the account of how a newsman's daughter climbs her way through the newspaper world, occasionally doing some hard reporting, but mainly reveling in gossip and glamor, and ending in a tortured marriage and overuse of drugs and booze. - D.G.

Miscellany

“ She was brilliant ” — Carl Burrell (2015)
Retired FBI agent
who had been lead
investigator on her case

Noting that the judge at her sentencing had said that he never wanted to see her again "in this context," she deadpans that at least it was "not a total rejection."

Selected works

• Miss Tallulah Bankhead, G. K. Hall & Co. (1972; 1980);
• Kilgallen, Delacorte Press (1979); OCLC 5310315, 246249004, 1071621999
• Estě Lauder: Beyond the Magic: An Unauthorized Biography, Macmillan Publishers (1985; 1988) OCLC 780950209, 233869182

Research notes

• Research notes, 1970–1979; OCLC 122580601

The Lee Israel Research Notes were compiled for a book that was never written about Judy Holliday (1921–1965) and contain information about Holliday's family, career, politics and the illness which led to her death.

• Lee Israel research files on Vanessa Redgrave (1982–1987); OCLC 912976920

Addresses

Leonore Carol Israel

1940: 152-32 12th Rd., Queens (Whitestone neighborhood) (source: US Census)

As early as 1976 per newspaper ad

1990s: 98 Riverside Dr., 2G, Manhattan on the Upper West Side

Time not known

202 8th Ave Apt 4a, New York, NY

(212) 769-9472

1951

2720 Avenue U, Brooklyn

1959

1902 Avenue L, Brooklyn

Joe Israelsky (Hyman's brother)

1905: Joe Israelsky arrived in the Port of New York June 23, 1905, from Hamburg, Germany, aboard the Palanza

1910: 316 East 118th Street, Manhattan (worked as a bookbinder)

1918: 345 East 56th Street, Manhattan (worked as a bookbinder for Weiner Bookbinding Company at 243 West 17th Street) (source: World War I Draft Registration)

1943: 836 Faile Street, Bronx (worked as a bookbinder for F.M. Charlton Company, Inc., in Manhattan) (source: World War II Draft Registration)

Hyman and Rose Isrealsky

1907: Chaim Israilsky arrived in the Port of New York June 6, 1907, from Hamburg, Germany, aboard the S.S Swakopmund (de)

1908: Hyman Israelsky: 259 Henry Street (Naturalization Declaration, December 24, 1908, New York City)

1910: 316 East 118th Street, Manhattan

1913: 259 Henry Street (Naturalization papers)

1918: 343 Crimmins Avenue, The Bronx, in the Mott Haven neighborhood (bookbinder for the American Bookbinding Company)

1924: 68 Wilbur Avenue, Long Island City (Voter Registration)

1943: 805 St. Marks Avenue, Brooklyn (Hyman and Rose on the military draft registration)

Hyman was a bookbinder for the American Bookbinding Company, which in 1918, was located at 31st Street and 9th Avenue, Manhattan. The American Bookbinding Company was owned by Louis Satenstein (1882–1948), in immigrant from Russia.

Jack Hock

1996: 118 W. 72nd St., Apt 204, New York (Manhattan)

212-873-1501

Now: William Collins 118 W 72nd St, Apt 204 646-882-4387

manager at USA 3000 Airlines

USA 3000 Airlines

manager

Education: University of Bahrain 2001 - 2004

Look into

• OCLC 775663297
• "Life Writing at Cross Purposes: Documentary Forgery and the Reconstruction of Identity," by Ron Fortune & Amy E. Robillard, Life Writing (Taylor & Francis, publishier), Vol. 10, No. 3 (2013): pps. 277–293; OCLC 5528254399; ISSN 1448-4528

• Israel's analogy of puffing up resumes

• The Unruly Life of Woody Allen: A Biography, by Marion Meade, Charles Scribner's Sons (2000), p. 203

• Fanny Brice

Education

• 1957: Graduated from Midwood High School, Brooklyn, in the Midwood neighborhood
• 1961: Bachelor's degree in speech from Brooklyn College, also in the Midwood neighborhood.

Lee's research

CIA letter 1976

CIA letter 1976

Lee's letters

Newspaper ad by Israel

blog re: Lee's research in the Kennedy assignation

Selected articles

• "Growing Up Redgrave" (re: Lynn Redgrave), City Lights (Sunday magazine of the New York Daily News), January 4, 1987, p. 3 (accessible via Newspapers.com at www.newspapers.com/image/492728319)

Sentence

Judge Robert W. Sweet of the U.S. District for the Southern District of New York in Manhattan sentenced Israel to five years probation and six months house arrest.

Family

Lee Israel had a brother, Edward Martin Israel (born 1936), who, on August 2, 1959, married Linda Ruth Bayron (maiden; 1939–2001) in Brooklyn.

Paternal grandparents

Lee Israel's paternal grandparents were Hyman Israelsky and Rose Chertoff, who married in Manhattan on January 4, 1910. Traveling from Russia, Hyman arrived in New York City June 7, 1907, on a ship from Hamburg. He became a United States naturalized citizen in New York City November 26, 1913. Hyman was a bookbinder.