Bella Moses’s family judged her marriage to Emanuel as beneath her.

Evidence

In 1886, at the age of twenty-six, Bella married Emanuel Moses, a thirty-five-year-old department-store owner from New Haven. He was a dark, tall, shaggy man, with warm, kindly eyes, a soft mustache and a gentle, slow manner. Born in Cologne of a family in which was mingled blood of both German Jews and Sephardic Jews from Seville, he had started out in America as a lace merchant and then had opened a little department store in New Haven and built it into a successful business. But he was too slow and quiet for the Cohens; they felt that Bella had not made a very good marriage in comparison with her sisters; they felt, in fact, that Bella had married beneath her. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 123

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Bella’s husband Emanuel was reduced to an amiably patronized outsider in his own home — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 155

Broader Connections

• Bella’s husband Emanuel was reduced to an amiably patronized outsider in his own home #corroborates (0.92) — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 155