A Fiddler's Tale: How Hollywood and Vivaldi Discovered Me

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments I am deeply grateful to the many people of who have helped me in the production ofLouis's memoirs. I especially wish to thank our mutual friends Lance Bowling and Steven Smith for their infinite help and constant interest in helping me prepare A Fiddler's Tale for publication. I am grateful to Carol Solomon who transformed the text to computerese. I greatly appreciate the valuable advice and supervision of my friends Robert Mandel and Steve Salemson at the University ofWisconsin Press during the preparation ofthe manuscript. I would also like to thank Susan Brodie for her fine editing of A Fiddler's Tale. My thanks to Professor Lawrence Leviton and Margery Morgan-Lowens, who read and approved the manuscript. I particularly wish express my appreciation to Susan Goldberg Kent and her husband, Rolly Kent, for their constant encouragement ofmy efforts to tell Louis's story. Annette Kaufman Los Angeles, April 2003 xv A Fiddler's Tale ...