home briefly to tell his parents, his mother collapsed at the news that her son had married a shiksa. He told Elizebeth about it in a wire to Riverbank.She read it and felt sick. “I am cast into a whirl of remorse, pain, and sorrow for you,” Elizebeth wrote to him. “Oh, Billy, Billy, what have we done?” She told her family in later years that when she visited her in-laws in Pittsburgh, William’s mother would sit and weep. “You would have thought that Bill had committed murder,” Max Friedman,
