Max Ratner
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... Max Ratner — A Bialystoker with a Heart .. 173
Irving I. Stone ...... List of Contributors ........... 0000. c ee enee VII
Max Ratner ...... One such man is Max Ratner of Cleveland, a most
distinguished Bialystoker, a prosperous industrialist
and leading philanthropist on the American Jewish
scene. Living in America for six decades has not weak-
ened Mr. Ratner’s Jewish spirit, which was nurtured in
his youth in that magnificent Bialystok that exists no
more. ...... Max Ratner
Cleveland, Ohio... supporters, who responded generously to the
appeal of our Board of Governors for
financial assistance. We wish to credit the
following individuals, whose participation in
the project was indispensable: Max Ratner of
Cleveland, our distinguished Bialystoker
landsman and leading activist in the American
Jewish community, who was the driving force
behind this book; /zaak Rybal-RybalowskKi,
General Secretary of the Bialystoker Center,
Home and Infirmary for the Aged, who
invested much time and energy in _ the
preparation of the volume; J. Shmulewitz, the
well-known Yiddish journalist and specialist
on Holocaust themes, who edited the Yiddish
manuscript of the volume; Rabbi Lowell S.
Kronick, who rendered the English
translation, making the book accessible to the
children and grandchildren of survivors; Hirsh
Gansbourg of Empire Press, whose expertise as
a printer guaranteed the quality of the
production; Louis Evans, a master Yiddish
proofreader, whose attention to detail assured
the accuracy of the Yiddish manuscript; and ...His family lived at the corner of Polna and Czysta streets in Bialystok.
His parents, Mojsze and Pesze Ratowcer, owned weaving looms and were textile manufacturers.
His parents, Mojsze and Pesze Ratowcer, owned weaving looms and were textile manufacturers.
His oldest brother, Charles (Kalman), had come to America in 1905.
Max Ratner’s two brothers, Charles and Leonard (Lazar), went to work for their cousin.
the four Ratner brothers merged their businesses and_ established ‘‘Forest City Enterprises.’’
The passage says the brothers established the company, but does not explicitly state ownership.
Max Ratner was selected president of Forest City Enterprises in 1929
The Ratner family left Bialystok and moved to America in 1921.
The four Ratner brothers merged their businesses and established Forest City Enterprises in 1929.
The narrator and family arrived at Ellis Island on January 1, 1921.
A first school using Hebrew as its language of instruction opened in 1918.
The narrator recalls the first day of school at age three in 1910.