After reading about her in the Summer 2011 Ballet Review. After that you probably knew her better than she did herself.
She was “Sal” to my grandfather, which made sense, and she told us that as a girl she’d been “Zoli” in good Hungarian fashion.
But my cousin Lewis White recalls her telling him that she’d been “Sarah” as well when she was growing up, and census records show that she was perhaps considered “Sadie” as well.
No wonder the poor woman had some issues! For me, she personifies the immigrants’ search for identity amid assimilation. And extraordinary how much she did in life, with so little encouragement or nurturing!