814) Aron Vergelis

Aron Vergelis (1918 - 1999). Soviet poet and journalist of Jewish descent who wrote in Yiddish.
He took part in World War II, worked as an editor of Yiddish-language radio broadcasts and after the war as secretary of the Jewish department of the Soviet Writers' Union.
He was one of the few Jewish writers who managed to avoid the purges of 1948–1953. In 1955, he became a member of the CPSU. From 1961 on, he served as editor-in-chief of the Yiddish language journal Sovetish Heymland (Soviet Homeland), while participating in Soviet anti-Zionist campaigns.

- "... The New York Times introduced Vergelis as a man of pale complexion, red hair and medium height..."  https://books.google.it/books…

- "... described him as a young man with a blond-reddish head..."  https://books.google.it/books…

813) Yitzhak Rabin

Yitzhak Rabin (1922 – 1995). Israeli politician, statesman and general. He was the fifth Prime Minister of Israel, serving two terms in office, 1974–77 and 1992 until his assassination in 1995.
In 1994, Rabin won the Nobel Peace Prize together with long-time political rival Shimon Peres and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Rabin also signed a peace treaty with Jordan in 1994. In November 1995, he was assassinated by an extremist named Yigal Amir, who opposed the terms of the Oslo Accords. Amir was arrested and convicted of Rabin's murder; he was sentenced to life imprisonment. Rabin was the first native-born prime minister of Israel, the only prime minister to be assassinated and the second to die in office after Levi Eshkol. Rabin has become a symbol of the Israeli–Palestinian peace process.

- "... a handsome man with red hair and blue eyes named Yitzhak Rabin."  https://books.google.it/books…

- "Rabin was a strong, handsome forty-five-year-old, secular, red-headed in charge of the army."  https://books.google.it/books…

- "He was at the height of his vigor, young, with his red head of hair, carrying a camera on either side..."  http://www.israel.org/…/Acting%20PM%20Peres%20at%20Rabin%20…

- “Rabin was a “red head” when talking, more so than in action”   http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download…

- "She met the green-eyed, red-haired Yitzhak Rabin in in the summer of 1943..."  https://www.telegraph.co.uk/…/obitu…/1374181/Leah-Rabin.html

812) Polina Zhemchuzhina

Polina Semyonovna Zhemchuzhina (born Perl Semyonovna Karpovskaya; 1897 – 1970). Soviet politician and the wife of the Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov. Zhemchuzhina was the director of the Soviet national cosmetics trust from 1932 to 1936, Minister of Fisheries in 1939, and head of textiles production in the Ministry of Light Industry from 1939 to 1948.
In 1949, Zhemchuzhina was arrested by the Soviet secret police, charged with treason, and sent into internal exile. After the death of Stalin in March 1953, she was released from captivity by Lavrentiy Beria and reunited with her husband. Her first question upon her release was "How's Stalin?" Upon being told he had died only days before, she fainted.
Happily and lovingly reunited, Polina Zhemchuzhina and her husband lived in the Granovsky apartment block near the Kremlin. She died of natural causes in 1970.

- "She wore her red hair with a golden shine in a high knot."  https://books.google.it/books…

811) Leni Riefenstahl

Helene Bertha Amalie "Leni" Riefenstahl (1902 – 2003). German film director and actress.
In the 1930s, she directed the Nazi propaganda films Triumph des Willens ("Triumph of the Will") and Olympia, resulting in worldwide attention and acclaim. Her involvement in Triumph des Willens, however, significantly damaged her career and reputation after the war. The exact nature of her relationship with National-Socialist Party leader Adolf Hitler remains a matter of debate.
After the war, Riefenstahl was arrested, but classified as being a "fellow traveler" or "Nazi sympathizer" only and was not associated with war crimes. Besides directing, Riefenstahl released an autobiography and wrote several books on the Nuba people.

- "Leni Riefenstahl, lovely red haired German actress and friend of Adolf Hitler, aknowledging the ovation of the crowd at the Cinema Pavillion at the paris Fair recently."  https://www.gettyimages.ca/…/paris-france-leni-ri…/515163192

- "Of course we'll never know for sure whether Hitler had a crush on the red-haired dancer-skier-actress..."  https://books.google.it/books…

810) Livia Veneziani Svevo

Livia Svevo (born Veneziani, 1874 - 1957). Wife of Italian writer and novelist Italo Svevo (born Aron Ettore Schmitz, 1861 – 1928), who is considered a pioneer of the psychological novel in Italy.
They married in 1896 and Italo Svevo became a partner in his wealthy father-in-law's paint business that specialised in manufacturing industrial paint that was used on naval warships.
Svevo left Trieste's Jewish community to marry Livia Veneziani in a civil ceremony. Soonly after, Livia convinced him to convert to Catholicism and take part in a religious wedding (probably after a troublesome pregnancy). Personally, however, Svevo was an atheist.
The character of Anna Livia Plurabelle in Joyce's Finnegans Wake is based on Livia Svevo.

- "... the complex image of the Liffey as Livia Svevo's beautiful red hair..."  https://books.google.it/books…

- "Joyce told an Italian journalist that Livia had given both her name and her long reddish-blonde hair to the heroine of Finnegans Wake..."  http://peterchrisp.blogspot.com/…/a-photo-of-anna-livias-ha…

- "Anna Livia is the River Liffey, and also a woman, partly modelled on Livia Svevo, the red-haired wife of the novelist Italo Svevo."  http://peterchrisp.blogspot.com/…/a-book-in-brown-paper.html

809) Mary Doyle Keefe

Mary Doyle Keefe (1923 - 2015). American telephone operator who, in 1942, modeled for the "Rosie the Riveter" photo by Norman Rockewell. The photo received mass distribution on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post on Memorial Day, May 29, 1943.

- "Mary (who was Mary Doyle at the time) was a nineteen-year-old, six-foot tall, red-haired telephone operator in Arlington, Vermont."  http://pennycolman.com/rosie-the-riveter-image/

- "The painting shows the red-haired Rosie in blue jean work overalls sitting down... "Other than the red hair and my face, Norman Rockwell embellished Rosie's body," Keefe said in a 2012 interview."  https://www.smh.com.au/…/mary-doyle-keefe-the-original-rosi…

- "She had hair as red as her nails and the Stars and Stripes unfurled behind her."  https://www.thetimes.co.uk/art…/mary-doyle-keefe-hvm8ptvfr5r

808) Charles Allston Collins

Charles Allston Collins (1828 – 1873). British painter, writer and illustrator associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
His father was the landscape and genre painter William Collins and his older brother was the novelist Wilkie Collins.
Collins met John Everett Millais and became influenced by the ideas of the Pre-Raphaelites. Millais proposed that he should become a member of the Brotherhood, but Thomas Woolner and William Michael Rossetti objected, so he never became an official member.
In the late 1850s he abandoned art to follow his brother into a writing career. His most successful literary works were humorous essays collected together under the title The Eye Witness (1860).
Collins married Charles Dickens's daughter Kate in 1860, and later was engaged to illustrate Dickens' unfinished novel The Mystery of Edwin Drood. He completed the cover but was too ill to do the rest. He died from cancer in 1873.

- "The characteristic that marked him out to casual observers was his brilliant bushy red hair, which was not of golden splendour, but yet had an attractive beauty in it. . ."  http://www.victorianweb.org/painting/whh/drawings/40.html

- "Tall and good-looking with red hair and blue eyes, Charles was unlike his brother in character as well as appearance, although they remained close throughout their lives."  https://www.wilkie-collins.info/family_charles.htm

- "... his younger brother Charlie was a little blue-eyed, red-haired bonny bairn."  https://books.google.it/books…

Charles Collins painted by Alexander Geddes