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INDEX COMPILED BY THE AUTHOR
'a simple Jew' (Abraham): 14
Aaron (Moses' brother): 22-3, 26, 27, 28;
appointed High Priest, 29; dies, 30; an
echo of the rebellion of, 49; a special
guest, 286
Aaron ha-Kohen, Rabbi: finds refuge, 125
Aaron's rod: 22-3
Abel: and his brother Cain, 6-7
Aberdam, Mateusz: murdered, 215
Abiathar (High Priest): 42
Abihu (Aaron's son): 29
Abijah: becomes king, 48-9
Abolition of Death Penalty Bill (1960):
and a former conscientious objector,
264
Abrabanel, Isaac: flees from Spain, 132
Abraham: xvii, 8, <)-12; and Isaac, 13; and
Jacob, 16; and Hebron, 30; and the
Promised Land, 32; and King David,
40; and Islam, 114; and the Jews of
China, 138; George Washington offers
'goodwill'to descendants of, 174; and
the Jewish New Year liturgy, 274-5; a
special guest, 286; and Haman's 'ears',
313; and his servant Eliezer, 323; and
circumcision, 331
Abraham, Esther: transported to
Australia, 158
Abraham Ibn Ezra: warns against
gematria, 324
'Abraham's doors': 14
Abram:Abraham's original name, 9, II
Abram, Morris: fights for human rights,
267
Abramofsky, Bernard: entertains troops,
209 Absalom: raises standard of revolt, 41
Abu Rudeis (Sinai): 25
Abu Zaid (a Muslim writer): reports on
Jews of China, 136
Abulafia, Rabbi Abraham: 'false
permutations' of, 324-5
Acre (Ptolomais): 86; Maimonides in,
127; Napoleon defeated at, 163; battle
for, 248
Aczel, Tamas: flees Hungary (1956),233
Adam: xvii, 4-6, 7, 8,14; Martin Luther
refers to, 153; and the 'tree of
knowledge', 341; and a Sabbath
superstition, 357
'Adam's Channukah Ale': a Website for,
300
393
394 Index
Aden: anti-Jewish violence in, 247,255
Adler, Elkan N.: reports on the Jews of
India, 141-2
Adonijah (David's son): challenged, 42;
killed, 42; and the Jews of China, 139
Adoram: a tax gatherer, 47
Adrianople (Turkey):Joseph Caro
teaches in, 319
Aelia Capitolina:Jerusalem renamed, IOO
Afghanistan: xiv, xvi, 237; and Palestine,
246
Africa: 44, 48
African National Congress:Jewish
participation in, 259
Agag, King: captured, 37
Aggadah ('narration'): a part of
rabbinical literature, 317
Agnon, S.].: wins Nobel Prize, 260
Agranovsky, Luba: visits Alaska, 362
Agrippa, Marcus Vipsanius: Herod
supports, 87
Agrippa I, King (Herod's grandson):
rules Judaea, 95-6
agunah (forsaken): and divorce, 334
Ahab: his dynastic marriage, 52; his rule,
52-6; his death, 56
Ahad Ha-am (Asher Ginsberg): 191-2;
wants a 'spiritual centre', at the first
Zionist Congress, 197; and the
Sabbath,358
Ahasuerus, King (of Persia): and Purim,
3II
Ahaz, King: allies with Assyria, 58
Ahaziah, King of Judah: the fate of his
family, 57
Ahmed Pasha: and a special Purim, 314
Ahmedabad (India): 145; Gandhi's
Ashram at, and a 'favourite wooden
pillow' , 240
Akaba, Gulf of 44
Akiva, Rabbi: I00-I;and a Passover
prayer, 295; and circumcision, 331
Al-Hakim, Caliph: anti-Jewish measures
of, II7
Alaska:Jews of, 358-63, 375;Auntie
Fori's visit to, 375-6
Albania: a false Messiah banished to, 156;
immigrants to Israel from, 268
Albright, Madeleine: becomes Secretary
of State, 266
Aleppo:Jewish emissaries in, II7;Jews
from, in Jerusalem, 132;Jews attacked
in, 247
Alexander: a name favoured by Jews, 75
AlexanderI,Tsar: gives rights to Jews,
166
Alexander II, Tsar: and the Jews, 167;
aftermath of the assassination of,
170
Alexander III, Tsar: and the Jews, 167
Alexander, M.: supports Gandhi,239
Alexander Severus, Emperor: and a
'golden age', I07-8
Alexander the Great: and Jerusalem, 75;
and Greek culture, 75; a fortress of,
identified,237
AlexanderYannai: his rule, 83-4; a novel
based on the life of, 85
Alexandria (Egypt): a Jewish thinker in,
15;Jews settle in, 7I;Jews from, in
Majorca, I25;Jews welcomed in, 132;
recruits from, 203;Jews attacked in,
247, 254;Jews of (since 1979),256
Algiers:Jews of, I26;Jews welcomed in,
132;Jews emigrated to Palestine from,
181
aliyah ('going up'): and Hillel, 90; and
the Reading of the Law, 306
Alkalai, Rabbi Judah: and Jewish
'national' unity, 185
Index 395
All-India Handicrafts Board: Auntie Fori
a founder of, 370
All-India Women's Conference: a Jewish
President of, 143
Allenby, General: attacks Turks in
Palestine, 198
Alliance Israelite Universelle: founded,
181; a founder of, promotes early
Zionism, 184
Almohades: massacre Jews, 120
Alsace-Lorraine: and the Jewish
Enlightenment, 162
aluf (prince): a modern general, II6
Alzheimer's disease: and a Nobel Prize,
266; research on, 362
Am Yisrael (the People ofIsrael, the
Jews): 289
Amalekites: attack Israelites, 26; attacked,
37; Haman a descendent of, 313
American Civil War: Jews in, 177
AmericanJewess: its editor in Basle, 197
American Labour Zionist Organisation:
helps found a kibbutz, 225
American War ofIndependence:Jews
fight in, 174
American Zionist Emergency Council:
and the Jewish 'international spirit',
245 Amidah prayer: and the synagogue
service, 98; Rabh's prayer a part of,
274; the blessings and prayers of,
305-6; 'keep my tongue from evil',
328
Ammonites: seek to bar the way, 33;
David fights, 41; their gods
worshipped, 45; an Israelite King's
mother from, 46; win independence,
48; overrun, 68
Amnesty International: inspired by a
Jew, 257, 258
Amon, King: and idol-worship, 66
Amorites: seek to bar the way, 33
Amos, the Prophet: 'Shall a trumpet be
blown ... ?', 275
Amram Gaon: and the liturgy, 338
Amram, Rav: produces prayer book, II5
Amsterdam: and the Jewish
Enlightenment, 164; a Jew from, in
Brazil, 173; a Hagaddah from, 296
Anatolia: xiii
Anchorage (Alaska):Jews of, 358--9, 360,
375; a Jewish communal service in,
361;Jewish life in, 362; declines to take
in Jewish refugees, 363
Anchorage Daily Times: aJewish President
of,358
Angel of Death: and Passover, 23, 295
Angel of the Lord: and Ishmael, I I
'Anglo-Baltic' kibbutz: in Palestine, 225
Anielewicz, Mordechai: a kibbutz
named after, 226
Anne (a HungarianJewish girl): marries
an Indian, 370
Anti-Defamation League (New York):
challenges Holocaust denial, 268--9
Anti-Semitism: a nineteenth-century
phenomenon, 170, 177, 193,231; in
the twentieth century, 219-20, 233;
and Islam, 254; combatted, 268--9
Antigonus Mattathias: raises flag of
revolt, 85
Antiochus III, King: conquers Judaea, 75;
his benign rule, 75
Antiochus IV, King: challenges Rome,
79; seeks to suppress Judaism, 79-80,
81;and the Jews ofIndia, 142
Antipater (Herod's father): abolishes Has
monean monarchy, 84; rewarded, 86
Antipater (Herod's son): plots against his
father, 89
Index
Antipater family: convert to Judaism, 82
Antiquities Museum (Delhi): an
explorer's discoveries in, 237
Antonia Fortress (Jerusalem): built by
Herod, 88
Antwerp: a Jewish defender of (1914),
200
apartheid: South African Jews active in
opposition to, 259, 260; a British
opponent of, 268
apes and peacocks: brought from afar, 44
Appelbaum, Samuel: in Alaska, 360
apple and honey: on the Jewish New
Year, 276
Arab Higher Committee: rejects a 'mini'
Jewish State, 245
Arab-Israel conflict: II, 14, 193-4
Arab-Israel Conflict, The: Its History in
Maps (Martin Gilbert), 251
Arab League: and Palestine, 243
Arab Legion: and Jerusalem, 134
Arab State: proposed by the United
Nations, in Palestine (1947), 245
Arabia: and Ishmael, II; and Abraham,
14; Solomon trades with, 44, 48; an
attack from, 51
Arabic language: 113; and the Bible, 116;
and Jewish poetry, 118; and
Maimonides, 128;Jewish traders
speak, 135; and a Jewish prayer book,
338
Arabs: and God's present to Adam, 7; and
Ishmael, I I, 14; and Mohammed, 112;
and the Jews of Jerusalem, 157; on
Jerba Island, 180; protest at continued
Jewish immigration to Palestine, 190;
and Gandhi, 240, 241; and the
emergence of the State ofIsrael,
241-9,250,251,254
Arad,Yael: wins an Olympic silver
medal, for Israel, 263
Arafat,Yasser: wins Nobel Prize, 261
Aragon (Spain):Jews invited to settle in,
119
Aragon, Kings of and the Jews of
Majorca, 124-5, 126
Aram, Kingdom of independent, 48;
seizes territory, 57
Aramaic (language): 29,65,104,122; and
the memorial prayer for the dead, 307;
and the Talmud, 3 I 8
Aras River: and the Garden of Eden, xiii
Arch of Titus (Rome): 96, 341
Archipova Street Synagogue (Moscow):
Jews gather outside, 289
Areka, Rabbi Abba (The Rabh): prayers
and sayings of, 274, 278
Argentina: and the Jews of Russia, 168
'Arise, walk through the land ... ': 10
Aristobulus (Hasmonean heir): drowned,
86
Aristobulus (Hyrcanus II's brother):
driven out, 84
Aristobulus (John Hyrcanus' son):
declares himself King, 83
Aristobulus II: invades Galilee, 86
Arizona (USA):Jews in, 179
Ark, the: the Ten Commandments kept
in, 27, 29
Ark of the Covenant: travels with the
Israelites, 29, 30, 33; kept by the
Philistines, 36; brought to Jerusalem,
40; in Solomon's Temple, 44
Armageddon: see index entry Megiddo
Armenian Massacres: and a Jewish
novelist, 237; and a Jewish law student,
257 Artaxerxes I, King of Persia: rules Judaea,
73 'Aryan race': a biological fiction, 207
'As for man, his days are as grass ... ': 334
Asa: his rule, 49-50
Index 397
Ashdod: captured, 36;Jews forced to live
in,97
Ashenheim, Sir Neville: a distinguished
Jamaican, 265
Asher: one of Jacob's son, 17
Asherah (a pagan goddess): worshipped
by Jezebel, 52; challenged by Elijah, 54
Ashkelon: 35; 'Tell it not in .. .', 38;joins
revolt against Assyria, 64; a synagogue
in, III
AshkenaziJews: 115, 122-3, 157; and the
Kol Nidrei prayer, 278; and the Neilah
service, 281; and the fast of the Ninth
of Av, 291; and a Chief Rabbi, in
Israel, 309; and a late medieval code of
practice, 319; and gematria, 324; and
the Sabbath, 349; and a printed prayer
book,338
Ashtoreth (a pagan goddess): worshipped
by Solomon's wives, 45
Ashtory Ha-Pari: a Jewish geographer,
133 Asia Minor: and the Diaspora, 88, 93;
Jews in, converted to Christianity, 93,
94; Paul preaches in synagogues in,
30 4 Asmal, Professor Kadar: praises 'battling
rabbis', 259
Assad, President (of Syria): and the Sea
of Galilee, 50
Assam: xv
Asshurbanipal, King of Assyria: Hezekiah
joins, 65; his death, 67
assimilation: and the Sabbath, 354; and
Jewish demography, 363
Associated Press: Simone Weil's
statement to ('As aJew'), 263-4
Assyria: xiii, a chronicle of, 52; attacks
Jewish kingdoms, 55-8,60; rules, 61;
rebellion against, 63-4; attacks Egypt,
65; declines, 67; gematria in, 324
Athaliah: her dynastic marriage, 50
Athens: xiv; the Chief Rabbi of,joins
partisans, 221; the first modern
Olympics, held in, 233,261
Atlantic Ocean: Islam reaches, 114;Jews
cross, from Spain to the Americas, 132,
172;Jews cross, from Russia to
America, 170; German rule extends
to, 213;Jews fight on, 222
atom bomb: the Jewish contribution
towards, 223, 258
Attlee, Clement: and Palestine, 242
Augsburg (Bavaria): a Hagaddah from,
296
Augustus, Emperor: see index entry
Octavian
Auschwitz:Jews murdered at, 145,207,
214,217,229,232,235,263; revolt at,
218-9; a survivor of, wins Nobel
Prize, 260-1; a survivor of, becomes
President of European Parliament,
263; remembrance of, and the future,
267; a survivor of, seeks inter-faith
reconciliation, 269; fasting in, on the
Day of Atonement, 277
Australia: and the Jews of India, 143; the
first Jewish settlers in, 157-8; troops
of, in Palestine, 198; a Jewish general
from, 200; First World War dead of,
201-2; a Victoria Cross winner from,
202; recruits from, 203; and the
Second World War, 224; and the
emergence ofIsrael, 246; and a Jewish
Governor-General, 264;Auntie Fori's
Aunt Carlotta emigrates to, 368;Aunti
Fori's brother Joseph emigrates to, 369
Austria: annexed by Germany (1938),
208;Jews from, fight in Spain, 210;
refugees from, in Finland, 220;
devastation in, 222; Hungarian
revolution against, 230
Index
Austro-Hungarian Empire: xvi;Jews of,
in the FirstWorldWar, 199,200,201,
231; a historian from, 227; an
American Congressman from, 358;
Auntie Fori's uncle Armin fights for,
368
Avignon:Jews in, 120
Azulai, Rabbi: lists women teachers, 308
Azzam Pasha: opposes partition of
Palestine, 243
Baal: a temple to, 52-3; and Ahab, 54; a
temple to, destroyed, 57; renewed
worship of, 66
Ba'al Shem Tov (the Besht): and
Hasidim, 158; an opponent of, 160; his
town, 314
Baasha: seizes the throne, 49; his rule, 51
Babi Yar (Kiev): massacre at,
commemorated, 253-4
Babylon:Jewish exiles in, 67;Jewish
prisoners in, 68;Jerusalemites taken
captive to, 69-70; captives 'by the
rivers of', 70-I; conquered, 73; exiles
in, return to Judaea, 73; Hillel born in,
90;Jews in, 97; a sage from, and the
Amidah prayer, 305
Babylonia: 63, 64; rises to prominence,
67-8;Jewish religious flourishing in,
109-10; under Muslim rule, 115; the
first synagogues created in, 304
Babylonian academies: flourish, 109-10,
115; decline, 117-8; a teacher from, and
the Festival prayers, 274
Babylonian Talmud: 109-10, 121, 122,318
Babylonians: 9, 42, 63; and the fast of the
Ninth ofAv, 290; and gematria, 324
Bacall, Lauren (Betty Joan Perske): stars,
224-5
Bacher,Aron: opposes apartheid, 259
Bad Nauheim spa: and the Jews, 363
Baghdad: a sage from, 5;Jewish religious
academies near, II5; Sassoon in, 204;
an accusation in, 255; a Jewish
general's family from, 372
Baghdadi Jews: in India, 143, 145
Baha'is: and the Inter-Faith Network (in
Britain), 269
Bahrain: and Palestine, 244
Bakshi Doron, Chief Rabbi Eliyahu:
receives Pope John Paul II, 309; seeks
Papal intercession, 339
Bakst, Leon (Lev Rosenberg): his
theatrical designs, 199
Balaam (a heathen prophet): a 'a Star out
of Jacob' ,29
Balaban, Meir: his historical writings,
and fate, 227
Baladan, King of Babylonia: sends gifts,
63
Balaton, Lake (Hungary): a house on,
368
Balearic Islands:Jews of, 124-6
Balfour,A.J.: and the Jewish National
Home, 204; a forest in honour of, 293
Balfour Declaration (1917): 189, 198,
203-4,254
Balkans: xiii, Christian pilgrims from,
IIo;Jews persecuted in, 146;Jews find
refuge in, 154
Ballets Russes: a theatrical designer of,
199 Balogh, Thomas: an economic adviser,
264 Baltimore (Maryland): an anti-slavery
rabbi in, 177
Bambi: his creator, 236
Bangladesh: a Jewish general takes a
surrender in, 372
Bangladesh-Magalaya border: Auntie
Fori helps refugees on, 371
Banias: Herod rules, 87
Index 399
Banshu (a Chinese rebel): massacres
Jews, 136
Bar Ban University (Israel): and
Responsa literature, 319
Bar Kochba, Simon: leads revolt against
Rome, 99; hailed as the Messiah, 101;
aftermath of the revolt of, 101, 103;
and an eighteenth-century Jewish
military force, 166; and the emergence
ofIsrael, 248; and the fast of the Ninth
ofAv,290
Bar Mitzvah: and a table tennis
champion, 235; and a future Secretary
of State, 266; and the festival of
SimhatTorah, 288; and the mitzvot,
327; and a 'minyan man', 330; the
ceremony of, 331-2
Bar Sauma: destroys synagogues, I II
Barak: an Israelite general, 34
Barak,Aharon: Chief Justice, 34
Barak, Ehud: Prime Minister, 34;
peacemaker, 251-2
Baram: a synagogue at, 107
Barcelona:Jews of, 116; a disputation in,
131; a Haggadah from, 296
Barna,Victor: a table tennis champion,
235
Barnett, Zerah: and Jewish settlement in
Palestine, 188
Baron, Salo Wittmayer: his achievements
as a historian, 227-8
Barsky, Dr Edward: volunteers for Spain,
211
Baruch the Scribe: 68; in exile, 71
Barzilai, Chief Rabbi Elias:joins
partisans, 22 I
Basch,Victor: and human rights, 257, 258
Basevi, Maria: Disraeli's mother, 169
Basle (Switzerland): first Zionist
Congress in, 194, 197-8
Basra (Iraq): aJew hanged in, 255
Bat Mitzvah: and the mitzvot, 327; a
recent custom, 332
Bathsheba: David falls in love with, 41; a
second child of, 42
Battle of Britain (1940): and a Palestinian
Jewish pilot, 221
Battle of Crysler's Farm (1813): a Jewish
officer in, 174
Battle of Guadalajara (1937):Jewish
volunteers at, 210
Battle of Jar am a (1937):Jews fight in, 210
Battle ofWaterloo (18IS): a veteran of,
urges Jewish colonies in Palestine, 182
Bavaria: a Jew from, in New Orleans, 176
Bayazid II, Ottoman Sultan: welcomes
Jews, 132
Bayles, Isadore: in Alaska, 358-9; his
father's death, 360
Bayless, Rabbi Afroim Hessel: in
Jerusalem, 360
BBC: a broadcaster with, 236
'Be fruitful and multiply': 3, 327
'Be strong and of good courage ... ': 228
Beastie Boys: and human rights, 268
Begin, Menachem: wins Nobel Prize,
261
Beirut: Crusaders massacre Jews in, 129;
attacks onJews in (1947), 247
BeitJalla (Palestine): a United Nations
plan for (1947), 245
Belarus: see index entry Byelorussia
Belgium: Jews of, in the First World War,
199,200,201; German Jews find
refuge in, 207;Jewish volunteers from,
fight in Spain, 21O;Jews of, and the
Second World War, 212, 220;
'Righteous Gentiles' in, 219
Belgrade: a pioneer Zionist born near,
185
Belzec: a site of mass murder, 214; a
deportation to, 215-6
40 0 Index
Ben-Gurion, David: leaves Russian
Poland, 171; recruits, 203; and the
emergence ofIsrael, 248, 249-50
Ben-Hadad, King of Damascus: 49-50,56
Ben-Yehuda, Ehud: continues his father's
work, 191
Ben Yehuda, Eliezer (Eliezer Yitzhak
Perlman): and the Hebrew language,
190-1
Benallell, Solomon: on Majorca, 126
Benares (India): xv
Bender, Edward: volunteers for Spain,
209 Bene Israel: Indian Jews, 141, 142-3, 145
Benedicks (Wallenberg's ancestor):
converts to Christianity, 205, 232
Benjamin (Jacob's son): 16, 17, 19; the
tribe of, 24, 36, 37; Saul Oater Paul) a
member of, 93; Esther a member of,
311
Benjamin,Joshua M.: a prominent
IndianJewish architect, 143-4
Benjamin,Judah B.: accused of treason,
177 Benjamin of Tiberi as: welcomes
Byzantine Emperor, 112
Berbers: conquer southern Spain, 119
Beregszasz: a deportation to Auschwitz
from, 145
Bergen-Belsen: concentration camp,
222; aJew liberated in, settles in
Alaska, 361
Bering,Vitus:Jews accompany, 359
Berle, Milton:' Mr. Television', 266
Berlin: a premiere in, 84;Jews expelled
from, 152; a Gestapo visitor from, 213;
Simon Dubnow in, 226; a Jewish
cemetery in, 227; a refugee from, in
India, 240; 'Jewish Science' in, 345-6
Berlin Olympics (1936): a Canadian
boxer agrees not to go to, 262
Bernard von Briedenbach: a Christian
pilgrim, 134
Bernheim, Louis: commands Belgian
troops, 200
Bernstein, Leonard: his conducting
debut, 224
Bertinoro (Italy): aJew from, settles in
Jerusalem, 134
Bessarabia: within 'The Pale', 166
Bet Alfa, Kibbutz: a mosaic at, 105-6
Bet Din (House of Law): 103,309
Bet Guvrin:Jews live in, 107
Bet Midrash (House of Learning): 309
Bet Shearim: a religious Academy at,
103;Judah ha-Nasi buried at, 104
Betar: Bar Kochba defends, 99-100; and
the fast of the Ninth of Av, 290
Beth Israel Hospital (New York): a
volunteer from, in Spain, 211
Beth Saida (Galilee):Jews of, 134
Beth-shan: a gruesome scene at, 38
Bethel: 10, 49
Bethlehem: and Rachel's Tomb, 16; and
King David, 38; and Jesus, 91; and the
United Nations, 245
Bettelheim family: ennobled, 367
Bevin, Ernest: and Palestine, 242, 243,
244 Bevis Marks Synagogue (London): and
Disraeli, 169
Bezalel Academy (Jerusalem): artistic
creativity at, 340
Bible, the: quoted, xiii; and Cain and
Abel, 6, 7; and Noah's descendents, 8;
and Abraham, 10; and Isaac, 13; and
Joseph, 17, 18; and the Exodus, 24, 28;
and the death of Sis era, 34; and the
Israelites, 35; and King David, 41; and
Solomon, 42-3, 46, 62; and
Rehoboam, 47; and the Hebrew
kings, 50, 52; and Elijah, 53; and Isaiah,
Index 401
62-3; and Menasseh, 65; and Ezra, 66,
73; and the Biblical exiles, 70; and
'strange wives', 73; translated into
Greek, 75; and the Book of Daniel,
92; and the Diaspora, 102; and the
Babylonian academies, II6; and Rashi,
122; and the Jewish Enlightenment,
161; and Zionism, 250; and medical
ethics, 265; and the festival ofShavuot,
283; a festival not mentioned in, 292;
and ecology, 293; a story in, emulated,
299; and the synagogue, 304; compares
the celebration of the New Moon
with the Sabbath, 310; explanations of,
317; and forbidden foods, 321-2; and
mourning, 335; and the menorah
(candelabrum), 340; and the mikveh
(ritual bath), 343; and the Sabbath,
348,352,353 Biblical criticism: 73, 316
Biblical Hebrew: in the Diaspora, 102; in
Palestine, 104; and Arabic, II3; in
Germany, 121; a revival of, 163
Bielski brothers: lead a partisan group, 218
Bihar (India): a Jewish official in, 145
Bijju, Uncle: see index entry Nehru, Braj
Kumar
Bilhah (Isaac's concubine): 16, 17
Bilu (pioneers): emigrate to Palestine,
187, 188
Binding ofIsaac, the: 13
Birkenau: see index entry Auschwitz
Bismarck, Prince: and Disraeli, 169
Black Death: anti-Jewish riots follow,
124;Jews protected during, 125-6; and
the Jews of Poland, 150
'black holes': a pioneer of, 200
'Black Jews' (ofIndia): 141-2, 143
Black Sea: Herod's naval expedition into,
87;Jews live on shore of, 108, 109, 146;
Jews sail through, to Palestine, 186-7
'Black Years': for Jews in Soviet Union,
252
Blair, Tony: and the 'precious boon' of
rest, 355
Blank,Asher: converts, 168
Blomberg, Ron: the baseball 'Messiah',
262
Blood Libel: on Majorca, 125, 126; in
Russia, 166; in Damascus, 180; in
Hungary, 230; at Easter, 297
Bloom, Robert: in Alaska, 360
Blum, Leon: a kibbutz named after, 225
B'nai B'rith (USA): founded, 176;
charitable, 178
Bnei Brak: religious academy at, 100
Boaz: marries Ruth, 284
Bohemia: a Christian pilgrim from, 133;
expulsion of Jews from, praised, 153;
Jews find refuge in, 154, 156
BoleslawV; King (of Kalisz): protects
Jews, 150; his charter renewed, 150-1
Bolsheviks: in Russia, 165,203,204,210,
226
Bolshoi Ballet: its prima ballerina, 253,
371
Bombay: xiv; a Chinese Jew reaches, 140;
Jews living south of, I4I;Jews of, 143,
145,204; and the 'heavenly Jerusalem',
357 Bonaparte,Jerome: grants Jews
emancipation, 163
Bonaparte, Napoleon: see index entry
Napoleon
Book of Life, the: and the Jewish New
Year, 273, 276
Bordeaux:Jews in, 109
Boris, King (of Bulgaria): rejects
German demands, 220
Bosnia: help for, 268
Brandeis,Judge Louis: settles a strike, 178
Bratislava: and Rabbi Moses Sofer, 316
402 Index
Brazil:jews of, I72-3; a Jewish Foreign Sabbath meal, 350; a Jewish refugee in,
Minister of, 265 makes his way to Alaska, 36I
Breger, Marshall: a human rights activist,
267
Bremen:Jews of, emancipated, I63
Breslau (Si1esia): the German Reform
movement in, 346
'Bridegroom of Genesis': 288-9
'Bridegroom of the Torah': 288
Britain: xiv, xvi, xvii, 37; and St George,
82; and the Jews ofIndia, I43 ;Jews
reach, from the Russian Empire, I46,
I7I;and the Jewish National Home,
I46;Jews from, transported to Austra
lia, I57-8; a Jewish Cabinet Minister
in, I68; a Jewish-born Prime Minister
of, I68-9; the first Jewish Lord in, I69;
and the Jews of New York, I74;'secret'
Jews make their way to, I80; Lovers of
Zion from, I88;'will have mercy upon
us', I89; and 'the Jewish cause', I92;
and the first Zionist Congress, I97;
and Palestine, I98-9, 203-4, 375;Jews
of, in the FirstWorldWar, I99,200,
20I, 203;Jewish converts to
Christianity in, 205; takes in Jewish
children, 208-9; the fate of its Jews,
discussed in Berlin, 2I3; teenage
Holocaust survivors reach, 2I9;Jews
from, in the Second World War, 222;
two HungarianJews in, 236; and the
emergence of the State ofIsrael,
24I-9; a refugee in, wins Nobel Prize,
260; a refugee in, becomes Chief
Rabbi, 265; the daughter of refugees
to, becomes America's Secretary of
State, 266; an Inter-Faith Network in,
269; and a medieval massacre, 277; and
the expulsion of the Jews (I290),290;
a Holocaust Day in (since 2000),303;
ReformJudaism in, 346; and the
British Commonwealth:Jews fight in
forces of, I99, 202; prominent Jews in,
264 British Empire: and the Jewish Diaspora,
I35; and the Jews ofIndia, I4I; and
Disraeli, I69
BritishJewry Book of Honour (I922): lists
First World War dead, 203
British Labour Party: and Palestine,
24I- 2
British Library (London): the Barcelona
Hagaddah in, 296
British Museum (London): and the
capture of Lachish, 64
British West Indies:Jews from, in First
World War, 202
Bromberg, Ben: in Alaska, 360
Brown, Herbert: his Nobel Prize, 260
Brown, Michael: his Nobel Prize, 260
Buber, Martin: challenges Gandhi, 24I
Bucharest: Soviet troops reach, 242
Buchenwald concentration camp: a
future Chief Rabbi liberated in,
309 Buczacz (Eastern Galicia): a Nobel Prize
winner born in, 260
Budapest: xvi, 30, I05; and the Jewish
Enlightenment, I64; the numerus
clausus in, I70; aJew from, pioneers
helicopter flights, 200; Wallenberg in,
205, 235;Arthur Koestler born in, 209;
a Jewish heroine born in, 223; in the
Second World War, 229, 369; known as
']udapest', 23I ; Jews in, today, 232-3;
Swiss-protected houses in (I944-5),
234; and a table tennis champion, 235;
and a human rights advocate, 257;
'Righteous Gentiles' of, 303;
synagogues in, 304; a mikveh in, 344;
Index 403
and the Sabbath, 357;Auntie Fori
returns to, 370-1
Budapest Parliament: 230
Buddhists: and the Inter-Faith Network
(in Britain), 269; Auntie Fori
establishes schools for (in India), 371
Buenos Aires (Argentina): recruits from,
203
Bukhara (Central Asia):Jews from, in
Jerusalem, 181
Bulgaria: 94;Jews of, in First World War,
199,201; rejects German demands,
220; and Jewish migrations, 242
Burial rites: 334-7
Burma: 145
burning bush: and Moses, 22
Busch, Dr Irving: his work in Spain, 211
Byculla suburb (Bombay): a rabbi in, 143
Byelorussia (White Russia, Belarus): 160;
expulsion of Jews from villages in,
166; the fate of a Jewish doctor in,
216;Jewish partisans in, 218
Byzantine Empire: 16; persecution in,
110, 146; and the struggle for
Palestine, 111-2; and the Jews of
Majorca, 124; Muslims liberate Jews
of, 132
Cadiz:Jews in, 108
Caesarea: built by Herod, 88; a Roman
soldier in, 94; Roman Legions in, 103;
Jews welcome Muslims in, 117
Caiaphas, High Priest: and Jesus, 92
Cain: and Abel, 6-7
Cairo: aJewish religious academy in,
118; Maimonides in, 127; a recruit
from, 203;Jews attacked in, 247, 254,
255;Jews of (since 1979); a special
Purim in, 314
Cairo Genizah: documents in, 148
Calcutta:Jews of, 144, 372
Caligula, Emperor: Jews riot against, 95;
orders punishment, 96
Callan, Hugh: and the future of
Jerusalem, 190
Camp David (Maryland): Middle East
peacemaking efforts at, 251
Canaan: in the Fertile Crescent, 9;
Abraham reaches, IO;Jacob lives in,
16, 19; famine in, 19; and God's
promise, 3 I; conquered, 33; and
Jerusalem, 40; and the tribe of Dan, 49
Canaanites: bar the way, 33
Canada: and the Jews ofIndia, 143; and
the Jews of Russia, 168;Jews from, in
the First World War, 202;Jews from, in
the Second World War, 22 I; and the
emergence ofIsrael, 246; a Jewish box
ing champion in, 262; prominent Jews
in, 264; and Bar Mitzvah journeys, 332
Canadian Jewish News: and a 'voice of
pain' , 293; and Purim, 314
Canberra (Australia): and David's
Jerusalem, 40
Canton: and the Jews of China, 140
Cantonist System: and Jewish conscript
soldiers, 166, 167
Canute, King: and distant fanatics, 120
Capa, Robert (Andrasz Friedmann): his
career as a photographer, 235-6
Capernaum: a synagogue at, 107; and
Christianity, 110
Carchemish: battle at,68
Caribbean:Jews reach, from Spain, 132;
Jewish traders in, 174
Caro,Joseph: his 'set table' code of
practice, 319; his life and work, 320-1
Carr,Judy Feld: and the Jews of Syria,
254
Carter, President Jimmy: and the Israeli
Egyptian peace treaty, 251; and a
White House hanukiyah, 298-9
Index
Casablanca (Morocco): and a Muslim
Jewish vision, 256
Casimir IV, King (of Poland): protects
Jews, 151
Casimir Jagello, King: grants a Jew a salt
mine, 150
Caspian Sea: 74;Jews live near, 146, 147,
148; German army almost reaches, 214
Cassin, Rene: fights in First World War,
199; wins Nobel Prize, 260
Castile (Spain):Jews protected in, II9;
the Zohar written in, 319
Castro, Isaac de: burnt at the stake, 173
Cathedral ofSt Pierre (Geneva): and the
'Maccabean Martyrs', 80
Catherine the Great:Jews fight for, 165-6
Caucasus mountains:Jews in, ro8, ro9; a
Jewish governor of, II9
Cavalry:Jews serve in (1914-18),202
Cave of Machpelah (Hebron): Abraham
buried at, 14
Central Asia:Jews reach China through,
135; an intrepid explorer in, 237
Central Conference of American
Rabbis: and the Torah, 316; its Ethics
and Appeals Committee, 362
Central Powers:Jews fight for (1914-18),
199 Chai Adam ('The Life of Man'): and
Purim, 315
Chain, Ernst: wins Nobel Prize, 260
charity: a mitzvah (good deeds), 327
Charlemagne:Jewish doctors at the
court of, 123; his successors facilitate
Jewish trade, 135; tolerance of,
followed by intolerance, 149
Chatteljee, Margaret: writes about
Gandhi's Jewish friends, 238
Chechnya (Russia):Jews leave,for Israel,
268
Chelm: a rabbi in, 153-4
Chelmno: a site of mass murder, 213, 214
Chemosh (a pagan god): 45
Chicago (Illinois): a Jew farms near, 175;
a strike leader in, 199; an anti
segregationist rabbi from, 259; a
Congressman from, 358
Chicago Cardinals: a star of, 262
Chicago Tribune: and Luis Kutner, 258
Chief Rabbi: the office of, 308-<)
child sacrifce: condemned, 13
Children ofIsrael:' choose life', xvii;
'fruitful', 20; led out of Egypt, 23-5;
'chosen', 26; reach the Jordan, 29; fight
the Midianites, 3 I; Moses's last words
to, 31-2; and the First Temple, 44; and
Sukkot, 285, 286; and Passover, 295;
and the Five Books of Moses, 315; and
the Sabbath, 349, 352
Chill, Rabbi Abraham: his reflections on
the mitzvot, 327-8
China:Jews of, 135-40; a Jewish
photographer in, 235; a Jewish
explorer in, 237; and Tibet, 268;
photographs of, 361
Chinese restaurants: kosher, in Israel, 322
Chmielnicki, Bogdan: attacks Jews,
154-5,156; his victims remembered,
281; an escape from, celebrated, 314
Choate, Nurse, xiv, xv
cholent: a Sabbath dish, 355-6
cholera: an accusation concerning, 255
cholesterol: and aJewish Nobel Prize
winner, 260
'choose life ... ': xvii, 219
'chosen people': 26-7, 67, ro3; and
Passover, 296; God's promises to, 365
Christ: see index entry Jesus
'Christ killers':Jews accused of being,
94, 117, 121, 141
Index 405
Christian anti-Semitism: opposed, 94-5 of China, 138, 139; and the Jews of
Christian Era: and the Biblical
chronology, 9
Christian Social Party, 193
Christiani, Pablo: a zealous convert, 130-1
Christianity: and Rachel, 16; and the
Maccabean Martyrs, 80; and the
Jewish Diaspora, 102, IIO, II9; and the
Roman Empire, 108, IIO; and
Byzantine Empire, II2; in Spain, II9;
in Germany, 121; in France, 123; and
the Crusaders, 129; and Martin
Luther, 152-3; and the Chmielnicki
massacres, 156;Jewish converts to, 164,
168,169,179, 204-6,231,232
Christmas Tree: and hanukiyah, 298-9
Chronicles, Book of: records past history,
72 Chumash (,Five'): the Five Books of
Moses, 315-'7
Chung-te: a Chinese Jewish name, 139
Church Militant: and the 'Maccabean
Martyrs', 80
Church of the Seven Holy Maccabees:
consecrated, 80
Churchill, Colonel Charles: urges Jewish
'sovereignty' in Palestine, 182, 183
Churchill,Winston: his kinsman urges
Jewish 'sovereignty' in Palestine, 182,
183; intercedes, 209; and a Hungarian
Jewish knight, 231; and the Book of
Ruth, 284; a forest in honour of, in
Israel, 293
Cincinnati (Ohio): a Jewish college
founded in, 179; and non-kosher
food, 346
Circle ofYoung Historians: in Warsaw,
226
circumcision: forbidden, 79; and Jesus,
91; and Christianity, 94; and the Jews
India, 142; the 'covenant' of, 331
City of David (Jerusalem): and a Second
Temple ritual bath, 344
Clark, General Wesley: a 'half-Jew', 206
Cleopatra, Queen: given Jericho, 87
Clinton, President Bill: and Middle East
peacemaking, 252; his Jewish-born
Secretary of State, 266
Cochin (India):Jews of, 141-2, 145,372
Coele Syria: Herod governs, 86
Cohen, Maxwell: at the United Nations,
264
Cohen, Rabbi Seymour J.: opposes
segregation, 259
Cohens (Cohanim):Aaron's descendants,
30; different surnames of, 30; and the
Reading of the Law, 306
Cologne:Jews in, I2o;Jews murdered in,
129; ruins of, 222; a ritual bath in, 344
Columbus (Ohio): and a Reform
platform, 347
Comay,Joan: and the Hebrew kings, 49
Common Era: and the Biblical
chronology, 9
Commonwealth Jewish Council: and an
IndianJewish general, 373
Commonwealth War Graves: and the
Star of David, 201, 203
Communism: 209-10, 229, 231; and the
Hungarian uprising (1956),233
Confederate Army (USA): Jews fight in,
177 Congregation Beth Sholom
(Anchorage, Alaska): some members
of, 361
Congress of Berlin (1878): and Disraeli,
169 Congress of the United States: a Jew
campaigns for, 177
406 Index
Conservative Judaism: synagogues of,
307-8; women on their judicial
courts, 309; and a minyan (quorum),
330; and prayer shawls, 338; and a
prayer vigil, 339; styles of worship in,
345 Constantine, Emperor: and new
shadows, 108
Constantinople: Jews welcomed in,
132; a false Messiah arrested in, ISS;
an American protest to, 176; a
Muslim protest to, from Jerusalem,
182, 190; a scheme for Palestine
approved in, 184;Joseph Caro
teaches in, 320
Convention Centre Gerusalem): and a
Roman camp, 106; a memorial service
in,337
conversos (secret Jews): live on as
Christians, 126
converts (to Judaism): and Ruth, 284;
and circumcision, 331
Cook Inlet (Alaska): and the 'Frozen
Chosen', 359
Cordoba: a Jewish religious academy in,
u8; Maimonides flees from, I27
Cordovero, Rabbi Moses: inaugurates a
new fast day, 310
Corinth:Jews in, converted to
Christianity, 94
Cornelius: baptized, 94
Coruh River: and the Garden of Eden,
X1l1
Cossacks: and Jews, 154, 165
Council of the Lands (Poland): and
Jewish communal activity, 151
Court Above, the: and the Day of
Atonement, 279
'Court Jews': 161-2, 165
Covenant, the: between Jew and Jew, 73
Covenant of Abraham: II, 89
Cowen, Zelman: becomes Governor
General, 264
Cracow:Jews of, 149, ISO; anti-Jewish
riots in, ISO; a Jewish scholar in, 151; a
synagogue in, 151; a ghetto revolt in,
218; a history of the Jews of, 227; a
code of practice compiled in, 319; a
book on gematria published in, 325; a
family from, in Alaska, 359; a survivor
from, in Alaska, 361
Cranganore (India): Muslims and
Christians kill Jews in, 141
Creation: the six days of, 3
Cresques, Abraham: a pioneer
map maker, I25, I26
Cresques,Judah: I25, I26
Crete:Jews of, in Roman times, 94, 96
Crimea:Jews in, 106; Polish Jews trade
with, ISO
Crimean War (1854-6): and the Jews, 167
Cromwell, Oliver: invites Jews back, 172
crucifixion: ofJesus, 93, 94
Crusaders, the: and St George, 82; and
the Jews, 121, 129-30, 133; their
victims remembered in the Yizkor
(memorial) service, 281
Cuba: and Palestine, 246
Currie, Edwina: born Jewish, 205
'Cursed be he .. .': 31
Cypros Gericho): built by Herod, 88
Cyprus: Herod rents copper mines of,
88;Jews in, converted to Christianity,
93, 94;Jews in, 96;Jewish revolt on,
99; Paul preaches in synagogues in,
30 4
Cyrenaica:Jewish revolt in, 99
Czechoslovakia: and a film about the
golem, 154; refugees from, in
Palestine, 225; the daughter of
refugees from, becomes Secretary of
State, 266
Index
Damascus: King David rules, 40, 41;
Solomon loses, 48; help from, 49;
attacked, 50; rule from, 57;Assyria
reconquers, 57; a vision of the road to,
93;Jews from, in Jerusalem, 131;Jews
welcomed in, 132; persecution and
torture in (1840), 176, 180;Jews
attacked in (1938), 255;Jewish
community council in, dissolved, 255;
Paul preaches in synagogues in, 304
Dambusters Raid (1943): and a Jewish
wireless operator, 221
Dan Oacob's son): 17; the tribe of, 49
Dan: a sanctuary at, 49; priests at, 49
Daniel, Book of: 92; and the Jews of
China, 139; and 'they that shall be
wise', 345
Danube plain: under Roman rule, 97,
109
Danube River: and Communism, 30
Danzig, Rabbi Avraham: and a 'family'
Purim, 314-5
Dark Ages, the:Jews survive, 149
Darkness at Noon (Arthur Koestler): 209
Darwin, Charles: and an argument for
Zionism, 192
David ben-Zakkai: criticized, 116
David EI-Roi: a false Messiah, 148
David, King: 7, 38-43; and the Messiah,
42; and his successors, 47; and Jesus,
91; and the Babylonian Exilarchs, 115;
a descendant of Ruth, 284; a special
guest, 286; mourns for Saul, 335
David's City Oerusalem): an independent
capital, 40
Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur):
introduced, 72; and Mohammed, 113,
114; in India, 142; and a false Messiah,
155; and the October War (1973),251;
and the Jewish New Year, 273, 274; its
prayers and customs, 277-83, 295; a fast
on the eve of, by a Babylonian sage,
305;andYizkor (the Memorial Serv
ice), 281, 306; preparations for, 344; in
Alaska, 362; and Auntie Fori, 367
Day of Atonement, Small (Yom Kippur
Katan): 310-1
Day ofIndependence (Yom Ha
Atzmaut): celebrated in Israel, 301-2
Day of Revelation: a joyous festival, 283
Dayan, Moshe: loses an eye, 22 I; and 'the
victory of Judaism' (November 1947),
246-7; visits Alaska, 361
Dayan, Zorik: killed in action, 246-7
Days of Awe (Ten Days of Penitence):
273,274,307,364 De Gaulle, Charles, 263
De Pass, Frank Alexander: awarded
Victoria Cross, 201
Dead Sea: 12,30,61,88,90,97; a kibbutz
on the northern shore of, 225
death and burial: 334-7
Deborah: ajudge and a prophet, 34; and
a song of triumph, 34
DeirYassin:Arabs massacred in, 247
Delhi: xiv, 96,165, 367;Jews of, 144, 145;
an explorer's discoveries displayed in,
237; Holocaust Memorial Day in,
371-2
Delhi Symphony Society: established by
an IndianJew, 144
Delilah: and Samson, 35
Demnat (Morocco):Jews murdered in,
181; a renewed pogrom in, 188--9
Denia (Spain): a Jewish court physician
in, 118
Denmark: a Jewish Cabinet Minister in,
168; occupied by Germany, 212;Jews
of, saved, 220
depression: and music, 38
Derishat Ziyon ('Zion's Greetings'): a
pioneer Zionist appeal, 184
408 Index
Deuteronomy, Book of: xvii, 28, 67, 287,
288, 327; and the protection of trees,
293;'This is the Torah ... ', 315; and the
dietary laws, 321; and gematria, 325;
and divorce, 333; and the mezuzah,
342; and the yad, 342; and the
Sabbath, 348, 353
Deutsches Theatre (Munich): Passover
celebrated in, 297
dhimmi ('protected'): and the Jews
under Islam, II5, II 9-20 , 134
Diaspora, the: the first Jews of, 19; and
the Assyrian conquest, 59; and the
Babylonian conquest, 70-I; persists,
72; and the Land oflsrael, 74, 106-7;
and Herod, 88; and Saul (later Paul),
93; a Jewish sage seeks money from,
98; extent of, in Roman times, 108-9;
and the Talmud, IIO; religious
academies in, II7-8; the continual
emigration to Palestine from, 134; and
a comparison with the British
Empire, 135; and the Jews of Palestine,
185; and the first Zionist Congress,
198; and Hungarian-born Jews, 233;
and an Indian parallel, 238; and the
emergence of the State oflsrael, 246,
250; creativity in, 252; and the
campaign for Soviet Jewish
emigration, 253, 289; and Jewish
traditions, 273; and the New Year for
the Trees, 292, 293; Passover in, 294,
296; and the Aggadah, 317; and the
Sabbath, 354, 358; and 'our' Indians,
376 Dickens, Charles: and Fagin, 169
Dictionary of Jewish Biography (edited by
Geoffrey Wigoder): 205, 206
Die Makkabaeer (opera): 84
dietary laws: see index entry kosher
(kashrut)
Diocletian, Emperor: and the' Great
Persecution', 108
Displaced Persons Camps: and a special
Hagaddah,296
Disreali, Benjamin: a successful convert,
205
D'lsraeli, Isaac: in Britain, 169; a convert,
205
Distinguished Conduct Medal: a Jewish
winner of, 202
Distinguished Flying Cross: won by a
Jewish pilot, 221
Divekar, Samuel Ezekiel: builds a
synagogue, 142-3
'Divide the living child ... ': 43
Divine Commandments: see index entry
mitzvot (good deeds)
Divine Law: and the Five Books of
Moses, 316
Divine Presence, the: in the wilderness,
29; and God's authority, 310
Divine Right (of kings): and the Prophet
Samuel,37
divorce: 333-4; and rabbinical courts,
309;'1 hate divorce', 333
Djavid Bey: a 'secret' Jew, 156
DNA: and the Cohens (Cohanim), 30
Doctor Zhivago (Boris Pasternak), 205
Dodgers: a star of, 262
Dohany Street Synagogue (Budapest):
xvi, 344, 367
Dome of the Rock (Jerusalem): newly
built, II7
Dominicans: accuse Nahmanides, 131
'Donmeh' (secret Jews): in Turkey,
156
Doris: Herod marries, 87; her son plots
against his father, 89
doughnuts: at Hanukah, 299, 300
Dreyfus, Captain Alfred: falsely accused,
193
Index
Drohobycz (Poland): a Jew granted a salt
mine in, ISO
Dubianskaya, Elena: challenges Soviet
authorities, 253-4
Dublin (Ireland): a journey through, 360
Dubnow, Simon: his life and fate, 226
Dubnow, Zeev: 'We want to conquer
Palestine .. .', 187-8
Dulcigno (Adriatic): a false Messiah
banished to, 156
Dunash ben Labrat: a pioneer poet, II8
'Dundi': a 'lovely little fat girl', 368
Dutch: see index entry Holland
Dutch language: a Jewish newspaper in,
162
Dutch West India Company:Jews seek
support of, 173
Duveck-Cohen, Elias Moses: in
Calcutta, 144
Dymshyts,Veniamin: his Soviet Jewish
success story, 253
Dzialoszyce (Poland): and a mezuzah, 342
East India Company: and the Jews, 142
East Prussia: a Hebrew-language
monthly in, 163
Easter: and Passover, 297
Eastern Europe: and 'Abraham's doors',
14; and the Maccabees, 84;Jews from,
settle in Palestine, 134; and the first
Zionist Congress, 198
Ebro River (Spain):Jews on, 148
Ecclesiastes, Book of 287-8
ecology: and the Jews, 293
Edom: to be 'a possesion', 29; becomes
an ally, 69; attacks Judah, 69; overrun
by Hasmoneans, 82; ruled by Herod,
87
Edomites: their gods worshipped, 45;
win independence, 48,51; Herod
descended from, 86
Edward I, King (of England): banishes
the Jews, 290
Egypt: and the Sabbath, 4; Abraham
journeys to, IO;Joseph in, I 7--9; Jews
in, 20; Israelites recall, 26, 28; recalled,
38; horses and linen from, 45; and the
war of 1948--9, 46; troops of, approach
Jerusalem (circa 930 BC), 48; tries to
halt Assyrians, 63; attacked, 65 ;Judah
becomes a vassal of, 67; defeated, 68;
becomes an ally, 69;jews flee to, 71;
and Judaea, 75; and Rome, 79, 83;
Herod travels to, 86-7;jewish revolt
in, 99; conquered by Islam, II4; a
Jewish sage from, II6;Jewish officials
in, II9; Napoleon reaches Palestine
from, I63;Jews in, volunteer for
Gallipoli, 202; anti-Jewish riots in,
255; and the emergence of the State
ofIsrael, 242, 248, 249; and the Six
DayWar (1967),253; and the October
War (1973), 251, 277; makes peace
with Israel (1979),246, 25I;Jews
expelled from (1956--9), 256;Jews of
(since 1979),256; and the festival of
Passover, 294, 295; and the mitzvot,
327; and an Arabic language prayer
book, 338
Ehrenburg, Ilya: wins Stalin Prize, 224;
visits India, 371
Eichmann, Adolf and the Holocaust,
2I3;his trial, 228
Eilat (Gulf ofAkaba): and King
Solomon, 44
Einhorn, Rabbi: preaches against slavery,
177 Einsatzgruppen: killing squads, 212-3
Eire (Republic ofIreland): the fate of its
Jews discussed in Berlin, 213
Eisenhower, General Dwight D.:
'replaces' Moses, 297
410 Index
Eisenstein, Sergei: and the Holocaust,
224
Eizenstat, Stuart: and a White House
hanukiyah, 299
Ekaterinoslav (Ukraine):Jews in, 165
EIArish: ruled by Hasmoneans, 83
EI Male Rahamin: the memorial prayer,
281
Ela, King: killed, 51
Elbe River:Jews settle along, 148; a
killing school on, 212
Eleazar (Aaron's son): becomes High
Priest, 30
Eleazar (Maccabee): crushed by an
elephant, 82
Eleazar (sage): his courageous protest,
79-80;Judah ha-Nasi echoes, 104
Elephantine (Egypt): and divorce, 334
Eliezer:Abraham's servant, 323
Eliezer ofWorms, Rabbi: and gematria,
324
Elijah of Ferrara: heads Jerusalem Jews,
134 Elijah, Gaon ofVilna: tries to make a
golem, 154; opposes Hasidism, 160
Elijah, Rabbi (ofChelm): and the
'golem', 153-4
Elijah, the Prophet: 53-5; his death, 55;
and the fate ofJezebel, 56; and Rabbi
Nathan, 107; and a false Messiah, 148;
his cup of wine, at Passover, 294; a
'minyan man', 330
Elimelech: Ruth's father-in-law, 284
Elisha, the Prophet: Elijah's successor, 55
Elizabeth, Empress of Russia: bans Jews,
166
Emergency Committee (Delhi):Auntie
Fori a member of, 370
Encyclopaedia Judaica: and Boris
Pasternak, 205; and the town of
Miskolc, 229
Encyclopedia £?fJudaism, The: and Sura and
Pumbeditha, IIO
England: see index entry Britain
English language: a 'native' Jewish
tongue, 162; the Talmud translated
into, 318; and a prayer book, 338; used
in synagogue, 345
Enlightenment: see index entry Jewish
Enlightenment (Haskalah)
Enoch: and the first city, 7
Entente Powers:Jews of, fight in First
World War, 199; and the Balfour
Declaration, 203
Ephraim: one of Jacob's sons, 19
Ephraim ben-Azariah: a Jerusalemite, in
Khazaria, 148
Epstein, Isidor: translates the Talmud, 318
Eretz Yisrael: see index entry Land of
Israel
Esau:'a man of the field', 15; and Jacob's
deception, 15-6; and the Jews of
China, 138
Eshet Hayyil ('A Virtuous Woman')
praised,349-50
Eshkol, Levi: subjected to 'evil tongues',
329
Eskimos:Auntie Fori meets, 376
Esther, Queen: her courage, 72; and the
Jews of China, 138; and Purim, 3II-3
Estonia: and the Holocaust, 213, 217
Ethics of the Fathers: and 'heaven and
hell', 5
Ethiopia: Moses' wife from, 28; and King
Solomon, 44; and Jerusalem, 48; a
general from, 50; immigrants to Israel
from, 268; and Purim, 312
Etzion-Geber (Gulf ofAkaba):
Solomon's port, 44; destroyed, 48
Euphrates River: xiii; and the Fertile
Crescent, 9, 10; King David's rule
extends to, 40, 41; and Solomon, 43;
Index 4II
and Babylonia, 63,68; and the
Diaspora, 72, 109
European Council for Nuclear Research
(CERN): and a Jewish Nobel Prize
winner, 261
European Parliament: the first President
of, 263
European Powers, The (Martin Gilbert): a
photograph in, 373
Eurovision Song Contest: in Jerusalem,
106
Eve: in the Garden of Eden, 4-6; buried
in Hebron, 14; and wine, 357
Exilarchs: in Babylonia, under Islam, II5;
criticism of, II6
Exodus (from Egypt): 4, 23-5, 33; and
Passover, 54, 294-6, 326; and Sukkot,
285; and the Sabbath, 349
Exodus, Book of 28, 67; and Passover,
54,294,295; and Purim, 313; and the
Five Books of Moses, 315; and the
dietary laws, 321; and gematria, 323;
and the menorah, 340; and the
Sabbath, 348, 349, 353
Eybescheutz,Jonathan: and the Hebrew
language, 162-3
Ezekiel, Book of and 'a little sanctuary'
(the synagogue), 304
Ezra the Scribe: 67, 73; and cleanliness,
344 Ezra, Book of 74; and the Jews of China,
139 Ezra, Sir David: Sheriff of Calcutta, 144
Fagin: a caricature, 169
Fairbanks (Alaska): a synagogue in, 357; a
house of prayer in, 362; declines to
take Jewish refugees, 363
Faithful Rebels (Israel Levine): and Karl
Marx, 206
Fall of Paris, The (Ilya Ehrenburg): 224
False Messiahs: 148, 155-6
Fast, Howard: and the Maccabees, 85
Fatama (Egypt):Jewish traders at, 136
Felhendler, Leon: his courage, and his
fate, 218
Ferdinand and Isabella (King and Queen
of Spain): their Jewish financial
adviser, 132
Ferrara (Italy): aJew from, heads
Jerusalem community, 134
Fertile Crescent: and Abraham, 9, 10
Fettmilch,Vincent: and a special Purim,
314 Feynman, Richard: and the atom bomb,
223
Fez:Jews from, II7; massacre of Jews in,
120; Maimonides in, 127;Jews
murdered in, 180
Fichtencwajg (a surname): changed, 164
'Final Solution': discussed in Berlin,
213-4
Finland: refugees from Hitler in, 220
First, Ruth: an anti-apartheid activist,
259 'First Jewish Law': in Hungary, 232
FirstWorldWar:Jews serve in, 179,
199-204, 207, 231; a conscientious
objector in, fights death penalty, 264
Fischer, Louis: and Gandhi, 238
Five Books of Moses (the Pentateuch):
3,67,73,84; and Maimonides, 127;
and the festival of Simhat Torah, 289;
synagogues not mentioned in, 304;
and the Sabbath service in synagogue,
306; and the 'People of the Book',
315-7; and the Zohar, 319; and the
dietary laws, 321; and gematria, 322-5;
and the mitzvot, 325-8; and the
Sabbath, 348, 355
Flanders:Jews from, 130; a Jewish general
helps in liberation of (1918),200
412 Index
Florence (Italy): a Jew from, in Palestine,
133;]ews protected in, 314
Focsani (Roumania): and Jewish
'national honour', 186
Fonseca, Isaac Aboab de: the first
'American'rabbi, 173
Forbath: a less Jewish sounding surname,
368
Foreman, Carl: leaves the United States
for Britain, 267
Fori,Auntie: see index entry Nehru, Fori
Formentera:Jews of, 125
'Forsaken ... Desolate': no more, 60-62
Fortas, Abe: and a Supreme Court
victory, 266
'Fortress, Rock of My Salvation ... ': sung
at Hanukah, 299
Forty Days qf Musa Dagh, The (Franz
Werfel): and the fate of the
Armenians, 237
Forward (newspaper): moves from
Yiddish, 172
France: xiv, lI8; and the Divine Right of
Kings, 37; and the Maccabbean
Martyrs, 80;Jewish fortune and
misfortune in, 122-3 ;Jews reach, from
Spain, 132; expulsion of Jews from,
praised, 153; and a film about the
golem, 154; a Jewish Cabinet Minister
in, 168; North African Jews emigrate
to, 181; Lovers of Zion from, 189; and
the Dreyfus Affair, 193;]ews of,fight
in First World War, 199,201; German
Jews find refuge in, 207;]ews from,
fight in Spain, 210; and the Second
World War, 212; 'Righteous Gentiles'
in, 219;Jewish soldiers in, 220; a
Jewish Prime Minister of, 225; and the
emergence ofIsrael, 246; prominent
Jews in, 263; and a Sabbath dish, 356;
and the 'heavenly Jerusalem', 357
Franck,James: and the atom bomb, 223
Franco, General Francisco: in Spain, 209,
210
Frank, Anne: in Holland, 207
Frankel, Bela (General Lukacs): fights in
Spain, 210-1
Frankfurt-on-Main: restrictions onJews
ended in, 163; Rothschilds in, 169; 'is
my Jerusalem', 187; refugees from, in
Holland, 207; and a special Purim, 314
Frankfurt-on-Oder: and 'Zion's
Greetings', 184
Franks: and Jews, 149
Franks,Jacob: a pioneer American trader,
175 Freedom Charter (1955): drafted by a
Jew, 259 French language: 162
French Revolution (1789): and the Jews,
163; and the Jewish Enlightenment,
345 Friedlaender, David: opposes Yiddish,
162
Friedman, Milton: his Nobel Prize, 260
Friedman, Philip: a Jewish historian, and
a survivor, 226
Friedmann family (of Budapest): xvi,
164,367-8
Friedmann,Andrasz (Robert Capa): his
career as a photographer, 235-6
Friedmann, Armin: in Budapest, 370;
changes his surname, 368
Friedmann,Joseph: saved by his Captain,
369
Friedmann, Magdolna (Auntie Fori): see
index entry Nehru, Fori
Friedmann, Regina Hirshfeld: 367
'Friends of the Hebrew Language': a
publisher, 163
frogs, plague of 22
'Frozen Chosen': in Alaska, 359
Index 4 1 3
Funk, Casimir: discovers vitamins, 199
Fustat (Old Cairo): a religious centre in,
II 8; Maimonides dies in, 128
Gabor, Dennis: his invention, 236
Gad: one of Jacob's sons, 17
Galicia:Jews in, 150; the Jewish
Enlightenment in, 161, 164
Galilee: part of the Kingdom ofIsrael,
47; attacked, 57; occupied, 58; a Jewish
centre, 74; Herod governs, 85; Herod
prevents Hasmonean rule in, 86; and
Jesus, 91; Christianity in, 93; a
fisherman from, 94; a Jewish revolt in,
96; priestly families in, 103; a religious
academy in, 103;Jewish folk art in,
105; and Jerusalem, 107; and
Christianity, IIO; and Islam, 116, II7;
and the Crusades, 129;Jews reach,
from Spain, 132; desolation of,
reported, 134; and the Jews ofIndia,
141; Hasidic emigration to, 157;Jewish
land purchase in, 183; and the future
of Palestine, 245;Jesus preaches in
synagogues in, 304; a new fast day
inaugurated in, 310
Galilee, Sea of: 50, 107
Gallipoli Peninsula:Jews in action on
(1915),200,202-3
Gama, Gaspar de: a Jew from India, 173
Gamaliel II: teaches at Yavne, 98; his
grandson leads the Jewish community,
103-4; his son's reputation, 107
Gamaliel the Elder: teaches Saul (later
Paul),93
Gamla (Golan Heights): a Zealot
fortress, 96
Gandhi, M. K.: and the Jews, 238-41; his
death,370
Gandhi and his Jewish Friends (Margaret
Chatterjee): 238
Gaon oNilna: see index entry Elijah,
Gaon oNilna
Garay,Janos: a Hungarian Olympic gold
medalist, and his fate, 234
Garden of Eden: a visit to, xiii-xiv; Adam
and Eve in, 4-5, 6
Garibaldi:Jews on march of (1860),175
Garshowitz, Sergeant Albert: shot down,
221
Gath: and the Ark of the Covenant, 36;
'Tell it not in ... ', 39
Gaul: Herod takes mercenaries from, 87
Gaulanitis: see index entry Golan Heights
Gawler, George: urges Jewish colonies in
Palestine, 182-3
Gaza: and the Philistines, 35; captured by
Solomon, 42; Nebuchadnezzar
reaches, 68; a synagogue in, III;Jewish
guides in, 133; a Jewish mystic in, 155;
a kibbutz near, 226
Gaza Strip: Palestinian refugees in, 249
Gederah (Palestine): a pioneer
settlement, 188
Geiger, Abraham: and Reform Judaism,
345 gematria (the numerical value of
Hebrew letters): 276, 322-5
Genesis, Book of: and Creation, 3,4; and
Abraham, 9; and the 'people of the
book', 315; and forbidden foods, 321;
and gematria, 323, 324; and a mitzvah,
327; and circumcision, 331; and the
Sabbath,352
Geneva: and the 'Maccabean Martyrs',
80; and two American human rights
activists, 267;World Ort Union in,
268
Genocide Convention (1951): inspired
by a Jew, 257
Geonim (religious teachers): under
Muslim rule, II5
414 Index
George V, King: his Jewish soldier
subjects, 202
Georgia (United States):Jews in, 174, 176
Georgia Judiciary Committee: a Jewish
Chairman of, I77-S
Gerde, Oszkar: an Olympic gold
medalist, dies in a concentration
camp,234
German language: 161, 162; in a Jewish
school, 164; in Jewish schools in
Russia, 166; in Jewish schools in
Germany, 171; the Talmud translated
into, 3IS; and the German Reform
movement, 346
'German Socrates': and Moses
Mendelssohn, 161
Germany: a salt mine worked by Jews in,
IIS;Jews of, in early medieval times,
120-1; anti-Jewish violence in, 121;
and a film about the golem, I54;Jews
find refuge in, 154; and the Jewish
Enlightenment, 160, 161 ;Jewish
converts to Christianity in, 169-70;
'Hep! Hep!' riots in, I70;Jews from, in
America, 174, 175,266; Lovers of Zion
from, ISS; Zionism in, 19S;Jews of,
and the First World War, 199,200,201,
207; and the Second World War, 212;
'Righteous Gentiles' in, 219; refugees
from, in Finland, 220; and the
Dambusters Raid, 221; devastation in,
222; refugees from, donate
ambulances, 223; refugees from, in
Palestine, 225; Gandhi's advice to the
Jews of, 240; a refugee from, wins
Nobel Prize, 260; a refugee from,
becomes Britain's Chief Rabbi, 265; a
refugee from becomes America's
Secretary of State, 266; a fifteenth
century tune from, 299; the memorial
prayer in, in medieval times, 306-7;
the Reform movement in, and dietary
laws, 322; Jewish Science' in, 345
Gero, Erno (Erno Singer): a Communist
activist, 209-IO; a Communist leader,
232
Gerona (Spain): Nahmanides in, 131
Gerondi, Rabbi Vital Ephraim: refuses
baptism, 126
Gershom: Moses's son, 21
Gershom ben Judah: 'Our Master',
120-1
Gestapo: its power, 207; and Adolf
Eichmann, 213; and the Holocaust,
213,214,215,220
get (a bill of divorcement): 333-4
Gezer: a city given as a dowry, 43;
becomes a fortress, 45
ghettos: torn down, 163; re-establish ed,
212; a medieval expulsion from,
reversed,3I4
Gilbert, David: xvi, 96
Gilbert,Joshua: 330
Gilbert, Peter: 12S, 335, 33S, 343, 351
Gimbel,Adam: a successful peddler, 176
Gimbel, Charles and Ellis: open a
department store, 176
Giszkalay,Janos (David Widder): 233
Glik, Hirsh: his song of defiance, 217
Globe Theatre (London): restored, 267
Goa (India):Jews of, 141; a Jewish
governor of, 372
God: and Moses, xvii, 219; and Creation,
3-4; and Cain and Abel, 6; and Seth, 7;
and Abraham, IO, II, 12, 13, 14; and
Esau andJacob, I5;and Israel, 16, 19;
and Joseph, IS; and Moses, 22-32; and
the Israelites, 35; and Samson, 36; and
the House of David, 41; and Solomon,
43-4; and the Kingdom of Judah, 51;
and Isaiah, 60, 62; and Hezekiah, 61;
and Jerusalem, 67; and the
Index 4 1 5
Babylonians, 67; and exile, 72; primacy
of, 73; and the Land ofIsrael, 102; and
Islam, II3; and Maimonides'Thirteen
Principles of Faith, 128; and Shabbetai
Zvi, ISS; and Jewish 'national' unity,
185; and 'Money', 206; 'with thee
withersoever thou goest', 228; and
'Zion' , 241; and the Jewish New Year
liturgy, 273; and the Tashlikh
ceremony, 276; and Jonah, 280-1; and
'the Gates of Mercy', 28 I; and Ruth
(the Moabite), 284; and the kabbalistic
seven spheres, 286; and 'the whole
duty of man', 287; and Passover, 294,
295; and the Amidah prayer, 305; and
the memorial prayer for the dead, 307;
and the rabbinate, 310; and the Divine
Presence (Shekhinah), 29, 310; His
name not mentioned in Scroll of
Esther, 313; and 'the Torah of Moses',
316; and gematria, 325; and the
mitzvot, 325, 326, 327; and
circumcision, 331; and divorce, 333; the
'Master of the house', 335; and death,
335; and the phylacteries, 339; and the
menorah, 340; and the mezuzah, 342;
different styles of worship of, 345-7;
and the Sabbath, 348, 351, 355; and the
violation of the Sabbath, 353,354; and
His 'chosen people', 365
Golan Heights: a Biblical advance
through, 50; Herod rules, 87;Jews
seize a fortress on, 96;Jews live in, 103;
Jewish land in, 107; a synagogue
below, III
Goldberg (a surname): transmogrified,
164
Goldberg, Art: in Alaska, 361
Goldberg, Bill: a wrestling champion, 262
Goldberg, Burton: decides to stay in
Alaska, 361
Goldberg, Marshall: a football star, 262
Goldberg, Moniek: 'I am proud to be a
Jew .. .', 219
golden ages: under Emperor Septimus
Severus, 107; in Spain, under Islam,
117, II8; 'pushed aside' (in Muslim
lands), 256
golden calf: 27,36,48; and the ram's
horn, 275; the Israelite women refuse
to make, and are rewarded, 3 II
Goldene Medina (the 'Golden Realm'):
Jews reach, 171
Golders Green (London): and the festival
of Hanukah, 298
Goldschmidt, Lazarus: translates the
Talmud, 318
Goldstein,Joseph: his Nobel Prize, 260
Goldwater, Barry: the grandson of Jews,
205
Goldziher, Ignaz (Isaac Judah): an Islamic
scholar, 233
golem, the: and a rabbi from Chelm,
153-4; and a rabbi from Prague, 154
Goliath: killed, 38
gomel prayer: after peril, 330
Gomelsky,Alexander: a gold medalist for
the Soviet Union, 262-3
Gomorrah: destroyed, 12; recalled, 61
Gone With the Wind (film): a star of,
200
Good Friday: and the 'perfidious' Jews,
94-5 Goodman, George Ernest: his courage,
and his fate, 22 I
Gordimer, Nadine: her Nobel Prize, 260
Gort, Lord: and Palestine, 242
Goshen (Egypt): Israelites in, 20
Grace After Meals: II8, 122,350-1
Granada (Spain): a Jewish general in, Il7;
a 'jewish' city, Il8;Jews massacred in,
120
416 Index
Grant, General: expels Jewish traders, 177
'Great Persecution': under Roman rule,
I08
Greece: and Herod, 88; and Christianity,
94, IIO; a Jewish doctor from, on
Majorca, I25; a false Messiah travels
through, I55;Jews of, in First World
War, 199;Jews of, in Second World
War, 212, 220, 221; and the British
debate on Palestine, 244; and the
future of Palestine, 246; and gematria
(in ancient times), 324; Rabbi
Abraham Abulafia in, 325
Greek language: in Judaea, 75, 76; and
the Aggadah, 317
Green, Golda: born in Russia, 146
Greenberg, Rabbi Irving: reflects on the
Sabbath, 357
Greenfield, Hy: killed in action, in Spain,
2II
Greenfield,Jay: his pilgrimage, 2II
Grouchkowsky, Corporal: his bravery, at
Gallipoli,202
Gruening, Ernest: Governor of Alaska,
360; a Senator for Alaska, 360; offers to
take in GermanJewish refugees, 363
Gryn, Gabi: murdered at Auschwitz, 145
Gryn, Hugo: and a story about Abraham,
II; and God's 'wry humour', 28; in
India, 143, 145; a stalwart of inter-faith
reconciliation, 269
Guadalajara (Spain): 2IO, 2I1; a
Hagaddah from, 296
'Guardians of the Sabbath': observant,
355 Guards Regiments:Jews serve in, 202
Guidefor the Perplexed (Maimonides): I28
Gujarat: xv, 145
Gulf of Suez: and Jewish traders, 136
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (1959): a
Jewish Senator votes against, 360
Gutman, David Meir: fights for Hungary
(1848-9),233
Gyarmati, Dezso: his Olympic gold
medal, 234
Habad (a Hasidic group): its origins,
159-60; a leader of, reaches New York,
225
Haber, Fritz: and mustard gas, 201
Habiru (,Hebrews'): the origin of a
word, 20
Habonim:Jewish youth movement, 225
Hadassah: and Esther, 313
Hadassah Hospital Gerusalem):Jews
massacred on way to, 247
Hadrian, Emperor: suppresses Jewish
revolt, 99; imposes penalties, IOO; and
the fast of the Ninth of Av, 290
Hadrian's Wall (Britain): and the Roman
Empire, 97
haemorrhoids: and the Philistines, 36
Hagana Gewish defence force): 248
Hagar (a maidservant): II
Haggadah: and the Passover recitation,
295,296-7,326
Hagiographia: part of the Jewish Bible,
II3 Hagith (David's wife): supports her son's
claims, 42
Haidamak massacres (Ukraine): and
Jewish self-defence, 157
Haifa: 'all Israel' summoned near, 54; and
the Hasmoneans, 83;Jewsjoin
Muslims in defence of, I29;Jews buy
land south of, 187; a Jew from, in the
Battle of Britain, 221; battle for, 248
hail: aillicts Egyptians, 23
Haines (Alaska):Jews of, 360
Haj, the: and Abraham, 12-3
Hajos-Guttman,Alfred: an Olympic
gold medalist, 233-4
Index
Halakhah (religious law): II6, 317-8; and
the Sabbath, 352
Halban, Martine: a publisher, 256
Ham: Noah's son, 8
Haman: his foul deed prevented, 72; and
Purim,3II-4
Hamburg:Jews of, emancipated, 163; a
Reform synagogue in, 346
Hammath-Gader: a synagogue in, III
Hamra, Chief Rabbi Avraham: leaves
Syria for Israel, 254
Hangkow (China): aJew from, 140
Hannah: and her seven sons, 80, 84
Hanukah: festival of, 298-300; and the
Hanukiyah, 298-9, 340
Harman, Zena: and a Nobel Prize
ceremony, 261
Hasidism: its leaders and followers,
157-60; and a convert to Christianity,
204; a leader of, escapes from Europe,
225; in Hungary, 231; and slander, 329
Haskalah: see index entry Jewish
Enlightenment
Hasmoneans: transform Judaea, 76,80-5;
and cheese at Hanukah, 299
'Hatikvah ' (Hope): the Jewish anthem,
222,263; and a Holocaust Memorial
Day in Delhi, 371-2
havdalah ('separation'): and the Sabbath,
341,351,356-7 Hayyim, RabbiYosef and the Garden of
Eden, 5
Hazael, King of Aram: seizes territory, 57
Hazor: Solomon's fortress, 45,58
'Hear, 0 Israel' (Shema prayer): 31, 101,
142,334,339,342
Hebrew alphabet: and gematria, 323
Hebrew Benevolent Society: 176,359
Hebrew Bible: and Islam, II3; and the
name of God, 155
Hebrew Free School Association: 178
Hebrew kings: created, 37; and Saul,
38-9; and David, 39-42; and
Solomon, 42-46; the era of, 47-70
Hebrew language:Judah ha-Nasi and,
104; evolution of, II6; studies of, II8;
and Maimonides, 128; and the Jews of
China, 137, 139; and the Jews ofIndia,
142; and Polish coins, 149; and Jewish
learning, 151; and Hasidim, 159; a
'national treasure', 162; and Ben
Yehuda, 190-1; and the sho' ah
(Holocaust), 2II; and modern army
commands, 222; and a Hungarian
poet, 233; and Soviet Jews, 253; and
the spelling of'Hanukah', 300; and
'mishnaic' Hebrew, 318; and the
translation of the Talmud, 318; and the
German Reform movement, 346; in
Alaska, 362; and Sanskrit, 371
Hebrew Orphan Asylum: 176
Hebrew printed books: the first, 122;
burnt, in Paris, 123; also jacket
illustration
Hebrew Union College: 178,346
Hebrew University of Jerusalem: 251,
283,301
Hebrews: and 'hard bondage', 20, 21-2
Hebron: and Abraham, II, 14, 30; David
annointed king in, 39; David rules
from, 40; Maimonides in, 127;Jews in,
134; three strangers made welcome in,
286
Heine, Heinrich: converts to
Christianity, 170, 205
Hejaz (Arabia):Jews expelled from, II5
helicopters: and a Jewish inventor, 200
Hell (Gehinnom): 5,40
Hellenes: rule over Jews, 42
Hellenism: in Judaea, 75-6, 79, 80; and
the Hasmoneans, 84; and Herod, 88
Hellman, Lillian: her wartime play, 224
418 Index
Helsinki Olympics (1952): a husband
and wife double 'gold' at, 234; a Jewish
wrestler at, 262
Henry the Navigator: his mapmaker, 126
'Hep! Help!' riots: in Germany (1819),
170
Heraclitus, Emperor: reconquers
Palestine, 112; expels Jews from
Jerusalem, lI4
herem (a rabbinical ban): on a false
Messiah, 155; and Hasidism, 160; and
the Day of Atonement, 279
Hero of the Soviet Union: awarded to
Jews, 2IO, 222-3, 253
Herod: a Jewish ruler, 82, 85-90; rebuilds
the Temple, 89-90, 290; and the
Olympic Games, 88, 234
Herodium: built by Herod, 88
Heroes and Martyrs Memorial Day
(Israel): 217
Herr, Dr Moshe David: his reflections
on the Day of Atonement, 283
Hertz, ChiefRabbiJ. H.: and 'The duty
of cheerfulness', 351
Herzl, Theodor: seeks a Jewish State, 170,
192-4; at the first Zionist Congress,
197-8; his son converts, 205; born in
Budapest, 230; introduced to the
Sultan, 237; re-intered in Jerusalem,
250-1,301
Herzl, Trude: dies in Theresienstadt, 217
Hezekiah, King: his rule, 60-65
High Holy Days: and a baseball
champion, 262; and a prayer book, 338
High Priest, the: 29, 42, 75, 82, 83, 84, 85,
87,92,93, I04; and God's name, 155;
and the Day of Atonement, 278
Hillel, Rabbi: his wisdom, 90-1, 219, 327
Hillman, Sidney: leads a strike, 199
Himalayas: exploration north of, 237;
letters sent to, and Purim, 312; and
Responsa literature, 319; a journey to,
367; a Friday night in, 372
Hindus: 7, 240; and Jews, 141; and the
Inter-Faith Network (in Britain), 269
Hinnom Valley Gerusalem): and David's
city, 40; and child sacrifice, 40, 66
Hiram, King ofTyre: and King David,
40; and Solomon, 43,44
Hirsch, Baron Maurice de: a patron of
Jewish emigration from Russia, 168;
'The rich Jews will give you nothing',
193 Hirsch, Rabbi Samson Raphael: and
Neo-OrthodoXY,345
Hirsch-Rotkopf, Francizka: her fate, and
that of her husband, 215-6
Hirschberg brothers: in Alaska, 359-60
Hirshfeld,Armin: emigrates to Palestine,
368
Hirshfeld, Carlotta: emigrates to
Australia, 368
Hirshfeld, Elizabeth: her cruel fate, 371
Hirshfeld, Louis: a poet and philatelist,
368
Hirszfeld, Ludwik: his medical discovery,
199-200
Hisdai ibn Shaprut: a Jewish court
physician, lI8
History of Jerusalem (Hugh Callan): 190
History of the Jews, A (Paul Johnson): 228
History if the Jews in Russia and Poland
(Simon Dubnow): 226
History if the Yiddish Language (Max
Weinreich): 227
Hitler,Adolf forces Jews to flee, 165; his
definition of a Jew, 168; and
'degenerate Jewish music', 205; comes
to power, 207-9; signs Nuremberg
Laws, 208; and the Holocaust, 2lI,
220; declares war on the United
States, 221; and the survival of Jewish
Index
identity, 225; and a Jewish cartoonist,
236; and aJew's decision not to
convert to Christianity, 237; replaces
Pharaoh, 297
Hitler's Professors (Max Weinreich): 227
Hittites: 15,41,45
Holland (Dutch):Jews find refuge in,
132, 154,207; a Jewish newspaper in,
162; a Jewish Cabinet Minister in, 168;
and the Jews of the NewWorld, 172;
Jews of, in the SecondWorldWar, 212;
'Righteous Gentiles' in, 219;Jewish
soldiers in, 220; and the emergence of
Israel,246
Hollywood: and the Jews, 172,236
Holocaust, the: 94, 101; a survivor of,
145; and the destruction ofYiddish,
171; its fatal course, 211-20; and
German scholarship, 228; and the
Eichmann trial, 228; in Hungary,
231-2; a 'bitter. .. culmination', 242;
and the 'victory of Judaism', 246;
recalled, by Golda Meir, 249; and the
haven of a Jewish State, 250; a poet
of, wins Nobel Prize, 260; a witness
of, wins Nobel Prize, 260-1; a
survivor of, becomes President of
European Parliament, 263;
remembrance of, 267-8; denial of,
challenged, 268-9; fasting during, on
the Day of Atonement, 277; and
Yizkor (the memorial service), 281;
and the fast of the Ninth of Av, 290;
survivors of, and a special Passover
Hagaddah, 296-7; a memorial day
for, in Israel, 302; a survivor of,
becomes Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi, in
Israel, 309; survivors of, in Alaska,
361,363; and Jewish demography,
363;Auntie Fori's family survive,
369-70
Holocaust, The: The Jewish Tragedy (Martin
Gilbert),342
Holocaust Day: in Britain, a day of
memorial,303
Holocaust Memorial Day (Yom Ha
Shoah): a day of reflection, 302-3;
held by the Israeli Embassy in Delhi,
371-2
holography: its inventor, 236
Hopkins, Harry: 'whither thou goest ... ',
284
Horthy,Admiral: rejects Hitler's pressure,
220
Hoshana Rabba: the festival of, 286-7
Hoshea: becomes King, 58
Houdini, Harry (Ehrich Weiss): born in
Hungary, 230
House of Ahab: destruction of, 56
House of David: warned, 41; division of,
47-8; a King from, 57; Hillel a
member of, 90; and the Romans,
106
House ofIsrael: and the name Israel, 16
'How are the mighty fallen .. .': 39
How to Be an Alien (George Mikes): 236
Howard, Leslie: a future film star,
wounded, 200
Howard, Michael: a Jewish-born
Cabinet Minister, 264
Howe, Irving: and Max Weinreich, 227
Hsien-yi: a Chinese-Jewish name, 139
Hulda, a prophetess: her warning, 67
Huleh marsh (Upper Galilee): and a
Jewish settlement, 188; a kibbutz
founded near, 225
Human Rights Act (Britain): an
architect of, 267
Hungarian: a 'native' tongue, for Jews,
162, 171
Hungarian Research Academy: an
explorer's library at, 237
42 0 Index
Hungary: Communist revolution in, 30;
a Holocaust survivor from, 145;Jews
help Magyars conquer, 147;Jews fight
for independence of (1849),175,233; a
rabbi's son from, becomes film star,
200; a writer from, sentenced to
death, 209;Jews from, fight in Spain,
210; rejects German demands, 220;
refugees from, in Palestine, 225; a
town in (Miskolc), 228-<); the Jews of,
229-37; new Jewish educational
facilities for, 269; Reform Judaism in,
346; and the Sabbath meal, 350;Aunti
Fori's childhood and youth in,
367-70;Aunti Fori returns to, 370-1; a
British economist born in, 371
Hur (an Israelite): helps Moses, 26
Hussein, King (of Jordan): avoids war,
251
Hyde Park (London): a Holocaust
memorial in, 302
Hyrcanus II: a Hasmonean ruler, 84, 85;
put to death by Herod, 86
Ibiza:Jews of, 125
Ibn Al-Faqth (an Arab writer): reports
on Jewish trader, 136
Ibn Khurdadhbih (an Arab writer):
describes Jewish traders, 136
Ibrahim ibn Yaqub: a Jewish geographer,
lI8
idol worship: 9-10, 45-6, 62, 65-6
Idumaea: see index entry Edom
' ... if not now, when?': 91
India: the road to, xiv, 8;Auntie Fori in,
xiv-xv, 251; an Empress of, and King
David, 42;Jews of, 74; Maimonides'
brother drowned on way to, 127; and
Jewish traders, 44,135; the Jews of,
140-5; a Jew from, crosses the Atlantic,
173 ;Jewish traders in, 174; 'secret' Jews
make their way to, 180; troops of, in
Palestine, 198;Jewish troops from, in
the First World War, 201,202; and the
British debate on Palestine, 244;
independence of (1947),244,245; and
Palestine, 246; Soviet links with, and a
Jew, 253; and a Hungarian-born
economic adviser, 264; and Purim, 312
Indian Civil Service: xvi
Indian Legislative Assembly: a Jewish
member of, 144
Indian Ocean: Solomon's ships sail
through,44
Indian Opinion: a Jewish contributor to,
239; a Jewish patron of, 239
Indo-China: a war photographer killed
in,236
Indo-Soviet Cultural Society: entertains
Ehrenburg, 371
Indus River: a fortress on, 237
'Infamous Decree': issued by Napoleon,
164
Institute for Jewish Studies (Warsaw):
227
Institute of Jewish Studies (St
Petersburg): 226
Inter-Faith Network for the United
Kingdom: seeks to bridge religious
divides, 269
International Brigade (Spanish Civil
War): and the Jews, 209, 210
International Conference for the
Unification of Criminal Law (1933):
258
International Congress Against
Imperialism (1927): 241
'Internationalism': an accusation, 210
Internet: and the festival ofHanukah,
299-300
Investments Committee (United
Nations): xv
Index 421
Iran: xiv, 59; opposes Jewish statehood,
246;Jews of, 256; and a colourful
skullcap, 338; ten Jews in, imprisoned,
339 Iraq:Jews of, 58;Jews from, in India, 145;
and Palestine, 244, 248; and anti
Jewish law in, 254; anti-Jewish riots in,
255; Zionism declared a crime in, 255
Irgun: seeks to end British rule, 243; its
'spectacular acts' denounced, 247
Iron Curtain: and Soviet Jewry, 252-4;
and Syrian Jewry, 253
Isaac (Abraham's son): II, 13-4, 15, 16,
333; and the Promised Land, 32; and
the Jews of China, 139; and the Jewish
New Year liturgy, 274; a special guest,
286; and Haman's 'ears', 313
Isaac ibn Chayyat: his hymn, 351-2
Isaac ibn Sa'id: a Jewish astronomer, 119
Isaac ibn Yashush: a Jewish grammarian,
118
Isaacs, Gabriel: a friend of Gandhi,
239-40
Isaacs,Jeremy: heads Royal Opera
House, 264
Isaacs, Michael: his death in Jerusalem,
264
Isaiah, Book of: recited on Israel's Day of
Independence, 302
Isaiah, the Prophet: 60-1,62-3; and the
Sabbath, 354
Ishbaal: Saul's son, 45
Ishmael: Abraham's son, II, 17; and Islam,
114
Ishmaelites:Joseph sold to, 17
Islam (Muslims): and Adam's third son, 7;
and Ishmael, II, 14; and Rachel, 16;
and Babylonia, 110; and Palestine,
112-5,116,117,133; and Spain, 118;
tolerance and intolerance of, 119-20;
and the Balearic Islands, 124; and the
Crusades, 129; scattered Jewish
communities among, 134-5; and
Jewish traders, 135; and the Jews of
China, 138; and the Jews ofIndia, 141;
a false Messiah converts to, 155-6;
Jews under, in the nineteenth century,
179-82; and a Jewish scholar, 233; and
a Jewish adventurer, 237; and the
British debate on Palestine, 244; and
the emergence of the State ofIsrael,
254-7; and the Midrash, 318
Islamabad (Pakistan): and Jerusalem, 40
Isle of Man: internment on, 240
Ismailia (Egypt):Jews attacked in, 254
Israel:Jacob's new name, 16; no
'perverseness' in, 29
Israel (State of): its Law of Return, xvii;
the origin of its name, 16; a Prime
Minister and a Chief Justice of, 34;
and Soviet Jews, 40; and the war of
1948--9,45; and the Law of Return,
59-60; and the Maccabees, 81, 84, 85;
and the 'secret' Jews of Majorca, 126;
and the Jews ofIndia, 140, 143, 145;
and Russian-born Jews, 171; a former
'secret' Jew in, 180; two future Presi
dents of, 188--9; and the Hebrew lan
guage, 190; a future Prime Minister
of, 203; recognizes 'Righteous
Gentiles', 220; a future Chief of Staff
of, loses an eye, 22 I; Hungarian Jews
in, 232; and the Maccabiah Games,
235; and a Hungarian-born
humourist, 236; its path to
independence, 241--9; makes peace
with Egypt (1979),246; mass
immigration to (after 1948),25°,
255-6; its wars, 251, 277, 300-301;
peacemaking efforts of, 251; and
the Jews of the Soviet Union,
252-3; and the Jews of Syria, 253;
422 Index
Israel (State of) (continued): Issachar: one of Jacob's sons, 16; tribe of,
Jews reach, from Egypt, 255; a Nobel 49
Prize winner in, 259; and the 'Jewish Isserles, Rabbi Moses: in Cracow, lSI,
Olympics', 26I; and the Munich 319
Olympics, 262; its first Olympic Istanbul: xiii, 132; a lost opportunity in,
medal, 262; its Jewish population 343
remains smaller than that of United
States, 265; continued immigration to
(I990s), 267; and the Yizkor
(memorial) service, 28I; visitors from,
welcomed by Jews in Moscow, 289;
and the New Year for the Trees, 293;
tree-planting in, 293; Passover in, 294;
Hanukah in, 298; events in the
calendar of, 300-303; Memorial Day
(Yom Ha-Zikaron) in, 300; Day of
Independence (Yom Ha-Atzmaut) in,
301-2; its two Chief Rabbis, 309;
Pope John Paul II visits, 309; a kosher
McDonalds in, 322; Bar Mitzvah
journeys to, 332; and a colourful
skullcap, 338; Iranian Jews accused of
spying for, 339; and the symbol of the
menorah, 34I; archaeology in, and a
mikveh, 344; and ReformJudaism,
347; visitors to Alaska from, 362
Israel ben Eliezer: see index entry Ba'al
ShemTov
Israeli Embassy (Delhi): and a Holocaust
Memorial Day, 371-2
Israeli War ofIndependence (I948-9):
134, 235, 302; Memorial Day for the
fallen of, 30I
'It is not thy duty to complete the
work .. .': 335
Italian language: and a rabbinical
seminary, 164
Italy:Jews in, ro8, 148; Christianity in,
IIo;Jews reach, from Spain, 132; and
the Jewish Enlightenment, 16I, 164;
emancipation in, 162-3, 168;Jewish
traders in, 174;Jews active in struggle
for independence in, 175;Jews of,
fight in First World War, 199, 20I; an
airship pioneer from, 200; rejects
German demands, 220; a Jewish
partisan in, killed, 220;Jewish soldiers
fight in, 22I; a refugee from, wins
Nobel Prize, 265; and the Day of
Atonement, 279; Rabbi Abraham
Abulafia in, 324
Ithamar:Aaron's son, 30
Ituraeans: conquered, 83
Itzig, David: a 'Court Jew', 162
Izmailovsky Guards: a Jewish parallel to,
166
Izmir: ISS
Izraelovsky Regiment: a Jewish military
force, 166
Israelites: the descendants of Jacob, 16; in Jabin, King of Canaan: 34
the wilderness, 25, 26; reach Canaan, Jabotinsky,Vladimir: and the Zion Mule
32; ruled by Judges, 33-4; in their own Corps, 203
land, 34-5; and the Philistines, 35-6; Jacob: Isaac's son, 15-6, 17, 19, 20; no
ruled by kings, 36-70; and King 'iniquity' in, 29; and the Promised
David, 39, 4I; divisions among, Land, 32; 'mercy' on descendants of,
45 63; and the Jews of China, 138; and
Index 42 3
the Jewish New Year liturgy, 274; a
special guest, 286; and Haman's 'ears',
3 I 3; and gematria, 323, 324; and
mourning, 335
Jacob, Lieutenant-General J.ER.:
Governor of the Punjab, 372-3
Jacobs, Rabbi Louis: his comment on
the Book of Jonah, 281; his comment
on the Babylonian Talmud, 318; and
gematria, 325; and God's incomplete
world, 331
Jacques ofVerona: a Christian visitor to
the Holy Land, 133
Jael: a Kenite, 34, 299
Jaffa: captured by the Maccabees, 82;
land purchased at, for the Jews, 183;
school founded near, 184;Jewish
pioneers reach, 188; batde for, 248;
Jonah sails from, 280
Jagello, Casimir: 150
Jains: and the Inter-Faith Network (in
Britain), 269
Jair: rules Israelites, 34
Jakobovits, Chief Rabbi Immanuel: and
medical ethics, 265; a refugee from
Nazi Germany, 309
Jakobovits, Rabbi Shlomo: writes about
Purim, 314
Jamaica: Jews from, fight in First World
War, 202; a Jewish civil servant in,
265
James Gesus' brother): stoned to death, 93
James I, King of Aragon: and the Jews,
125
James III, King of Aragon: helps Jews,
125 Jammu and Kashmir: xv
Janner, Lord (Greville Janner): heads
Commonwealth Jewish Council,
373
Japan: and aJewish exile, 58; and a
Soviet-Jewish general, 209-10; in
Second World War, 22 I , 223
Japheth: Noah's son, 8
Jarama: 210
Jason: a High Priest, 76, 79
Jebus (a Jebusite city): captured, 40
Jebusites: in Canaan, 33; and Jerusalem,
40
Jedda (Red Sea): and Jewish traders, 135
Jedwabne (Poland): massacre in (1941),
149
Jehoahaz Gehu's successor): becomes
King, 57
Jehoahaz Gosiah's son): becomes King
(for three months), 67
Jehoash, King: his rule, 57
Jehoiachin: becomes King, 68; in
Babylonian captivity, 71
Jehoiakim: becomes King, 67; dies, 68
Jehoram Gehoshaphat's son): 50; his rule,
51; killed, 56
Jehoshaphat, King: his rule, 50-I; 56
Jehu: to become King, 55; his rule, 57
Jerash Gordan): an ancient synagogue in,
304 Jerba Island (Tunisia): anti-Jewish riots
in, 180
Jeremiah, Book of: and 'Israel's Hope',
184; and 'the beasts are fled', 323
Jeremiah, the Prophet: 16,68; in exile,
71-2,74; and the violation of the
Sabbath, 353-4
Jericho: Israelites reach, 32, 33; Zedekiah
captured in, 69; a drowning in 86;
Herod rules, 87, 88; a synagogue in,
III
Jeroboam: bcomes King, 47; extent of
rule of, 47,48-9; his male descendants
killed, 49
424 Index
Jerusalem: and Rachel's Tomb, 16; and girls' school in, 184; Rabbi Alkalai
the Song of Moses, 25; becomes
David's capital, 40; and Gezer, 43; and
the Queen of Sheba, 44; silver in, 45;
pagan gods worshipped near, 45-6;
and divisions among the Israelites, 46,
48-9; attacked, 47-8, 49,51; King
Jehoash in, 57; Passover in, 61; 'great
joy' in, 62; pagan worship in, 62;
fortified, 62-3; besieged, 64; idol
worship in, 65; Biblical texts brought
to, 66; to be destroyed, 67; pillaged, 68;
destroyed, 69;'IfI forget thee .. .', 70;'a
widow', 71; and the Pilgrim Festivals,
72,74; rebuilt, 72; conquerors of,74-5;
and Antiochus IV, 79; Hasmoneans
leave, 80; Hasmoneans capture, 82;
Herod escapes from, 85; Herod rules
from, 86; Herod's buildings in, 88;
Jesus in, 91,92; the early Christian
church in, 93; Peter in, 94; a Holy City
for Jews in the Diaspora, 95; a Jewish
revolt in, 96;Jews revolt in, again, 99;
Roman legions in, 103; farmers travel
to, 105; Roman troops at, 106; 'the
beauty of', 107; 'the holy community'
in, 107; and Christianity, IIO; and
Jewish autonomy, III; and Mecca, II3;
under Islam, II4, II6, II7; a rabbinical
academy in, II6; Maimonides in, 127;
and the Crusaders, 129; 'Joy of the
World', 129; devastated by the Tartars,
131;Jews in (in 1335),132-3;
synagogues in (from 1512), 133-4;jews
in (in 1486),134; and a false Messiah,
147, 155; anti-Jewish measures in
(1720,1775),157; Napoleon'S pledge
concerning (1799), 163; North African
Jews in (1843), 180; Muslims in, seek
to restrict Jewish entry, 181 ;Jewish
land purchase at, 183,232; a Jewish
settles in, 184; and Frankfurt, 187; new
quarters of (from 1871), 188;'shall the
Jews possess her?', 190; and the end of
Turkish rule, 198,204; Rabin born in,
203; Eichmann's trial in, 213; a Second
World War memorial in, 221; a
settlement south of, re-founded, 225; a
letter to Gandhi from, 240; a United
Nations plan for the future of, 244,
245; besieged, 246-7; Herzl re-intered
in, 250-1, 301; a journey from, for a
Nobel Prize ceremony, 260; a victim
of terror in, 263; 'Next Year in', 282;
and the festival of Passover, 294, 295;
and the festival of Hanukah, 298;
synagogues built on an axis facing,
304; a prayer for the rebuilding of,
305; Pope John Paul II visits, 309; the
Bet Din (House of Law) in, in Temple
times, 309; a scholar in, translates the
Talmud, 318; and 'the happy sound of
bridegrooms', 333; and the burial
service, 336; and a memorial service
for Yitzhak Rabin, 337; an artistic
academy in (since 1906),340; and the
'tree of knowledge', 341; a Second
Temple mikveh in, 344; and the
Sabbath, 348; and the violation of the
Sabbath, 354; its 'heavenly'
manifestation, 357; its 'earthly'
possibilities, 357; news of the death of
a rabbi in, reaches Alaska, 360
Jerusalem (Moses Mendelssohn): 161
Jerusalem Book Fair: 106
Jerusalem Day: celebrated in Israel (since
1967),303
Jerusalem Hills: a Jewish stronghold in,
99 'Jerusalem of Lithuania' (Vilna): 159
Jerusalem Talmud: 109, 120,315,329,351
Index
Jesuits: report on Jews of China, 136,
137-8,139
Jesus: and the Biblical chronology, 9; and
Elijah, 54;'the son of Man', 91-3; and
Mohammed, 113; and a medieval
disputation, 131; and a charge against
Nahmanides, 131; and Martin Luther's
hostility to Jews, 151-2; a descendant
of Ruth, 284; his Last Supper, and
Passover, 297; his preaching in
synagogues, 304; and the Monastery
of the Cross (Jerusalem), 341
Jethro (a priest of Midi an): 21
'Jew, go to Palestine!': a frequent cry, 194
Jewburg' (Johannesburg): 230
Jewish Academy (Cordoba): 118
Jewish Agency (for Palestine): accepts a
'mini' Jewish State, 245; denounces
Jewish reprisals, 247
Jewish Brigade Group: fights in Italy, 222
Jewish calendar: 3
Jewish Christians': 93
Jewish Chronicle: and the Jews ofIndia,
142; and 'a strong guard of Jews' in
Palestine, 183; an article by Gandhi in,
241
Jewish Colonization Society of New
York: activities of, 175
Jewish Council: in Lvov,215
Jewish Daily Forward: a Yiddish writer in,
wins Nobel Prize, 260; see also index
entry, Forward
Jewish demography: 363
Jewish Enlightenment (Haskalah): and
Hasidism, 158-9; and the Gaon of
Vilna, 160; its origins and growth,
160-3, 164; a reversal for, 170; and
Jewish education, 171; and Jewish
worship, 345
Jewish Fighting Organization (German
occupied Poland): 218
Jewish Free School (Berlin): and the
Jewish Enlightenment, 161
'Jewish Geography': and Alaska, 361
Jewish Matriarchs: 16
'Jewish mother': 'I cannot help it', 373
Jewish-Muslim dialogue: a rabbi
encourages, II
Jewish mysticism: flourishes, 133
Jewish National Council (Palestine): and
self-defence, 246
Jewish National Fund: plants trees, 292
Jewish National Home (in Palestine): an
early supporter of, 146, 188; in
prospect, 198-9; promised, 203-4, 242;
're-created', 248; its facilitators
honoured with forests, 290-1
Jewish New Year (Rosh Hashanah): 13,
74,273-6; and the Day of Atonement,
275; and the Yizkor (memorial) prayer,
306; and the mitzvot, 327; and a
walrus-tusk greeting card, 359; in
Alaska, 362
'Jewish Olympics' (Maccabiah Games):
held every four years, 261
Jewish People's University (St
Petersburg): 226
Jewish Quarter (of Jerusalem): and the
Crusaders, 129
Jewish Science': a nineteenth-century
movement, 345
Jewish State (Israel): 16,60; Lubavitcher
Rebbe and, 159; Herzl favours, 170;
and the Hebrew language, 190; 'we are
insane together', 193; 'founded' (1897),
198; in prospect (1917),204;
proclaimed (1948), 248;for subsequent
index entries see Israel, State of
Jewish State, The (Herzl): 193-4
Jewish Teachers' College (Vienna): a
historian at, 227
Jewish War, The (Josephus): 97
42 6 Index
Jewish VVily, The: Living with the Holidays
(Irving Greenberg): 357
Jewish weddings: 15, 333
Jewish Welfare Association (New Delhi):
144
Jewish Wisdom Goseph Telushkin): 328
Jews: their ancestor, 14
Jews of Gallipoli, The (Harvey Sarner): 202
Jews of Hope, The (Martin Gilbert): 289
'Jews on the move': 144
Jezebel: marries Ahab, 52; causes offence,
52-3; Elijah flees from, 55; her fate,
56-7
Jezreel Plain: and Armageddon, 44; and
the fate ofJezebel, 56; captured, 58; a
religious academy in, I03; a mosaic
discovered in, I05;Jewish land in, I07;
aJewish geographer in, 133
Jhirad, David: a friendship with, 144
Jhirad, Elijah Ephraim: a distinguished
Indian Jew, 144
Jhirad,Jean: and 'the intense discussions
of idealistic youth', 144
Joab: an Israelite commander, 4I, 42
Job: mourns for his children, 335
Jochebed: Moses' mother, 20
Johanan ben Zakkai: persuades the
Romans, 98; and 'deeds ofloving
kindness', 98; and the mitzvot, 326
Johannesburg: 'Jewburg', 23I; Gandhi's
Jewish friends in, 239
John XXII, Pope: overruled, 125
John XXIII, Pope: intercedes, 94
John Hyrcanus I: a Hasmonean ruler, 82;
his son uses title of King, 83
John Paul II, Pope: his gesture of
reconciliation, 89; the fate of a Jew
from his home town, 215; in Israel,
309; his intercession sought, 339
John the Baptist: baptizes Jesus, 9I; and
the Jews of China, 138
Johnson, Paul: his reflections on the
Jews, 228
Johnson, President Lyndon B.: 360
Joint Israel Appeal (Britain): helps Jews
leave Chechenya for Israel, 267
Jonah, the Prophet: and the Day of
Atonement, 280-1
Jonathan: Saul's son, 38
Jonathan the Maccabee: his conquests,
82
Joppa: see index entry Jaffa
Jordan: under Islam, II7;for subsequent
index entries, see Transjordan
Jordan, Kingdom of (since 1948): 57, 250;
and the Six-Day War (I967), 252; an
ancient synagogue in, 304
Jordan River: 29, 3I, 32, 45,50,53, 9I,
129
JordanValley:Jews of, III, II6
Joselewicz, Berek: fights for Napoleon,
163
Joseph: one of Jacob's sons, 17; in Egypt,
I7--9;Jacob mourns for, 335
Joseph II, Emperor of Austria: restricts
Yiddish, 162
Josephus: and the rule of John Hyrcanus,
82; and the Zealots of Masada, 97; and
the festival of Passover, 294
Joshua, Book of 72, 228
Joshua, High Priest: 26, 33
Joshua: the Hebrew name for Jesus, 91
Josiah: becomes King (aged eight), 66;
warned, 67; killed, 67
Journey to Jerusalem (Martin Kabtanik):
133
Judaea: 47; ruled by Persia, 72; ruled by
Egypt, 74; and the Hasmoneans, 75,
79-85; and the Seleucids, 79; and
Herod, 85; and Jesus, 9I; and Peter, 94;
Jewish revolt in, 99; its name
expunged, IOo;Jews remain in, III;
Index 42 7
and the Crusades, 129; Ruth insists on
returning to, 282
Judaea capta ('Judaea enslaved'): an
exultant coin, 96
Judaean hills: 90; land purchased by Jews
in, 187
Judaean mountains: 29, 47
Judah: one of Jacob's sons, 16, 17, 19; and
N ahshon, 24; and David, 38; 'cheerful
feasts' for the House of, 291; and 'the
voice of gladness', 333
Judah: Jesus' brother, his grandsons in
Galilee, 93
Judah Bar Ilai, Rabbi: and gematria, 323
Judah ha-Nasi: his leadership, 103-4; his
work, 107; and the Mishnah, 317
Judah Halevi: his longing for Jerusalem,
130; and the mitzvot, 326; and the
Sabbath, 355
Judah the Maccabee: and the revolt of
the Maccabees, 80, 82
Judah the Pious: and the Kol Nidrei
prayer, 278
'Judah-ites': and the Jews, 48
Judapest': Budapest known as, 230
Judas: an apostle, 92
Judgement Day': the Jewish New Year,
13,273
Judges: rule over Israelites, 33-4, 37; in
the era of the Hebrew kings, 50
Judges, Book of 72
Judith: and the Jews of China, 138; her
skilful ruse, 296
Juneau (Alaska):Jews of, 360, 362;
declines to take Jewish refugees, 363; a
survivor of the Holocaust in, 363
justice: 9, 14, 50
Justin I, Emperor: and a Jewish mosaic,
105
Justinian, Emperor: and religious
persecution, II I
Ka'aba: in Mecca, 11-2
Kabbalah: and Cain and Abel, 6-7; and a
Hasidic sage, 156; and the Jewish
mystics, 286, 319; and an exponent of
gematria, 325
Kabtanik, Martin: a Christian pilgrim,
133
Kabul: an explorer reaches, 236
Kaddish (the memorial prayer for the
dead): 306-7, 336,337
Kaifeng (China):Jews of, 137-40, 142
Kairouan (Tunisia): a Jewish religious
academy in, 118
Kaldor, Nicholas: 'I had no idea he was
Jewish', 371
Kalischer, Rabbi Hirsch: seeks Jewish
return to Land ofIsrael, 183-4
Kalisz (Poland):Jews protected in, 150
Kallenbach, Hermann: his friendship
with Gandhi, 238, 240
Kamenets-Podolsk (Ukraine): killings in,
228-9,231
Kampleman, Max: a distinguished
negotiator, 266
Kantorovich, Lev: killed in action,
221
Karkar (Syria): battle at, 56
Karlsbad spa: and the Jews, 363
Karman, Theodore von: and the first
helicopter flight, 200; and jet
propulsion research, 223
Kashmir:Auntie Fori heads family
planning association in, 371
kashrut (dietary laws): see index entry
kosher, laws of
Kasyuk, Dmitri: visits Alaska, 362
Kattowitz (Upper Silesia): Lovers of
Zion meet in, 188
Katy (a HungarianJewish girl): survives,
and escapes, 369-70
Katz, Dovid: teaches Yiddish, 172
428 Index
Kaye, Danny (David Kaminsky): stars, King qf Flesh and Blood, The (Moshe
224; at a Nobel Prize ceremony, 26I
'keep my tongue from evil...': 328
Keleti,Agnes: her Olympic gold medals,
234-5
Kenai Peninsula (Alaska):Jews in, 360,
362,363 Kenite woman, a: and the death of
Sisera,34
Kerala (India): the Jews of, I4I
Keturah:Abraham's wife, I4
Keysor, Private Leonard: wins Victoria
Cross, 202
Kfar Blum (Palestine): founded, 225
Kfar Etzion (Palestine): abandoned, and
re-founded, 225-6; battle for, 248
Kfar Nahum: see index entry Capernaum
KGB: prevents a commemoration, 253;
keeps a careful watch, 289
Khanfu (China):Jews massacred in, I36
Kharkov (Ukraine): and Jews en route to
Palestine, I86
Khazar kingdom: and the Jews, I46, I47,
I48; and a false Messiah, I48
Kherson (Ukraine):Jews in, I65
Khyber Pass: xiv
kiddush (blessing): and the Sabbath, 349
Kidron Brook (Galilee): pagan priests
killed at, 55
Kidron Valley (Jerusalem): and David's
city, 40; and Hezekiah, 62; idols cast
into, 66
Kiev:Jews of, I46, I47;Jews expelled
from, I67; a commemoration at, 253-4
'Kill a Turk .. .': I65
Kindertransport:Jewish child refugees
of, in Britain, 208-<)
King, Martin Luther: a rabbi introduces,
259
KingJames Bible: 3, 30I-2, 3I5
King Lear (Shakespeare): in Yiddish, 224
Shamir): 85
'King of Kings': and a false Messiah, I55
Kingdom of Israel: created, 47; and the
Kingdom of Judah, 49,50, 5I; and the
Phoenicians, 52; and Elijah, 55; danger
to, 55-6; pays tribute, 56-7; attacked
and overrun, 58-9
Kingdom of Judah: created, 47-8; ruled,
47-8,49, 5I; danger to, 55-6;Jews
dispersed from, 59; and King Heze
kiah, 60-65; destruction of, 67-70; and
the second Diaspora, 70-I, 72
Kingdom of the Franks: and Jewish
traders, I35
Kings, Book of: 66, 72, I32
kippa (scullcap): worn at prayer, 338
Kishon River: a battle at, 34
Kissinger, Henry: becomes Secretary of
State, 266
kittel (a white robe): and the Day of
Atonement, 279
Klein, Emma: an Anglo-Jewish writer,
I44 Klug, Francesca: and the suffering of
minorities, 267-8
Knesset, the: Israel's parliament, 304
Koestler,Arthur: in Spain, sentenced to
death, 209; and a book by a fellow
Hungarian, 236
Kol Nidrei prayer, 278, 308
Kolet, Ezra: an Indian Jewish civil
servant, I44, 373
Kolzum (Egypt):Jewish traders at, I36
Konigsberg (East Prussia): a Hebrew
language monthly in, I63; a refugee
from, becomes Chief Rabbi, 309
Konkan coast (India):Jews of, I4I
Korah: his rebellion, 28
Koran, the: II2, II3, II4; and a plea to
Tipu Sultan, I42; and the Midrash, 3I8
Index 42 9
Korazim (Palestine):Jews of, 134
Korbel,Arnost: murdered, 266
Korda, Alexander: a filmmaker, 231
kosher, laws of (kashrut): and Islam, 113;
for Passover, 294-5; at Hanukah, 297;
and the rabbinical courts, 309; an
examination of, 321-2; and a banquet
in Cincinatti, 346
Kosovo: help for, 268
Koufax, Sandy: a baseball star, 262
Kovner,Aba: a partisan, 218
Kracower, Bella: a pharmacist, 359
Kracower,Yetta and Isaac: in Alaska,
359 Kraushaar, Rafal: fights for Poland
(1863),175
Kreiser, GeneralJacob: his successful
action, 221; his successful career, 253
Kremenchug (Ukraine): and Jews en
route to Palestine, 186
Kristallnacht ('Night of Broken Glass'):
destruction during, 208; and 'a
justifiable war', 240-1; and non
violence, 241
Krivoshein, General: fights in Spain, and
against Germany, 211
kugel: a Sabbath dish, 356
Kun, Bela: a revolutionary, 30, 209-10,
231,368
Kurdistan: a false Messiah in, 148
Kurds: xiii
Kutner, Luis: and Amnesty International,
258
Kuwait: and Palestine, 244
Laban Gacob's uncle): 16,324
Lachish: a fortified city, 64
Ladislaus II, King (of Poland): praises a
Jew, 150
Lady Hamilton (film): its Hungarian
born producer, 231
Lady in the Dark (film): Danny Kaye in,
224
ladybirds: and Moses, 21
Lafer, Horacio: Foreign Minister of
Brazil, 265
Lamentations, Book of: recited, 290, 291,
347 Land ofIsrael: the name given to
Canaan, 16; and the Hebrew kings, 37;
and Roman rule, 98; and the
Diaspora, 102-3, 106; and Galilee, 103;
and a mosaic, 105; and Christianity,
110-I; and the Crusades, 129-30;
Judah Halevi reaches, 130; and
Hasidism, 157; and nineteenth-century
precursors of Zionism, 182-3; and the
'victory of Judaism' (1947), 246; and
the New Year for the Trees, 290; the
first printed map of (1695), 294; and
the Sabbath, 354, 358
Land if Promise, The (Charles Warren):
185 Landau, Lev: wins Lenin, Stalin and
Nobel prizes, 260
Language Association Gerusalem): and
spoken Hebrew, 191
Laskin, Borah: Chief Justice of Canada,
264
Last Supper: and Passover, 297
Latin: Rashi translated into, 122;
Maimonides translated into, 127
latkes: fried potato cakes, 299, 300
Latvia: and the Holocaust, 213, 226
Lau, Chief Rabbi Israel: a survivor of the
Holocaust, 309; receives Pope John
Paul II, 309
Lau, Naphtali: protects his younger
brother, 309
Lauder, Ronald: his work in Eastern
Europe, 269
Law of Return (Israel): xvii, 59-60
43 0 Index
Lawson, Nigel: born Jewish, 205
Lazarus: and Jesus, 54
League of Nations: and the evolution of
the Genocide Convention, 258
League of the Rights of Man: founded
by a Jew, 257
Leah:Jacob's wife, 16
Lebanon: 40, 43, 64; and the emergence
ofIsrael, 248; its fruit praised, 336
Legion d'Honneur: a Jew wins, 163
Lemberg: see index entry Lvov
Lemkin, Raphael: and the Genocide
Convention, 257-8
Lend-Lease: a supporter of, 358
Lenin,V I.: his Jewish grandfather, 168;
withdraws Russia from the war, 204
Lenin Prize: a Jewish woman wins, 253;
and a Nobel prizewinner, 260
Leningrad: 'refuseniks' in, 289
Leon, Master: put to death, 150
Leon de Modena: criticizes gematria,
32 5 leprosy: and God's 'wry humour', 28-9
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim: and the
Jewish Enlightenment, 161
Levi: one of Jacob's sons, 16, 17; his
grandson (Moses), 20--1; the Tribe of,
and a revolt, 28
Levi, Benjamin: raises Stars and Stripes,
359 Levi-Montalcini, Rita: wins Nobel
Prize, 266
Levin, Sergeant Meyer: launches bombs,
221
Levine, Israel, 206
Levites: their 'stiff neck', 3 I; their services
dispensed with, 49; and Hezekiah's
Passover, 62; and Reading the Law,
306
Leviticus, Book of: 28, 67; and the Day
of Atonement, 277-8; and Sukkot,
285; and a fallow year, for fields, 293;
and the Five Books of Moses, 315; and
forbidden foods, 321; and cleanliness,
343; and the Sabbath, 348
Levontin, Zalman David: sets off for
Palestine, 186
Lewis, David: leads a Canadian political
Party, 264-5
Lewis, Stephen: a Canadian ambassador,
265
Liberal Synagogues: 308; styles of
worship in, 345
Libya: an army from, 50;Jewish revolt in,
99; punitive taxation in, 180;Jews
murdered in, 255
lice, plague of 22
Lichtenbaum, Naftali: does not survive,
215
Lieberman, Helise: teaches, in Warsaw,
269
Liebeskind, Rivka: fights, and survives,
218
Lincoln, President Abraham: revokes an
anti-Jewish measure, 177
Lindsay, Lord: wants the Jews in 'their
native land', 183
Lisbon: a Jew burnt at the stake in, 173
Lithuania:Jews of, 149, 150; and the
Chmielnicki massacres, 154-5; a
refugee from, 156; Hasidism in, 160; in
Tsarist Russia, 165, 166;Yiddish in,
171-2; Ben-Yehuda born in, 190; an
American union leader born in, 199;
and the Holocaust, 213; and South
African Jewry, 259; and cholent, 356;
Jews from, in Alaska, 358, 360
Littman, David: his researches, 181
Litwak, Lydia: a pilot, killed in action,
221
Liverpool (Britain): and Responsa
literature, 319
Index 431
Lockerbie air disaster: a Jewish victim of,
336 locusts, plague of: 22
Lodz (Poland): the fate of a surgeon
from,216
Lodz Ghetto: 212
Loew, Rabbi Judah (of Prague): and the
golem, 154
London (England): B. K. Nehru in, xv;
the Jews of, 60, 109;Auntie Fori in,
104; a synagogue in, 168;Yiddish in,
171; pro-Jewish protests in, 180;Ahad
Ha-Am in, 191; the discoverer of
vitamins researches in, 199; a Victoria
Cross winner born in, 201; a soldier
from, in Germany, 222; and a Jewish
heroine, 223; and a Hungarian-Jewish
gold medalist, 233; and aJewish
supporter of Gandhi, 238; a theatre in,
restored, 267; a worker for minorities
in, 267;World Ort Union in, 268; the
festival ofHanukah in, 298; a
Holocaust memorial in, 302;
synagogues in, 304; a wager in, about a
possible Messiah, 325
London Olympics (1908, 1948): gold
medals won by Hungarian Jews at,
234,235 Los Alamos (New Mexico): and the
atom bomb, 223
Los Angeles (California): Dodgers in,
262; and the Simon Wiesenthal
Centre, 269
Lot:Abraham's nephew, 12,323
Loussac, Zak: in Alaska, 360
Lovers of Zion: and Palestine, 171, 186,
187,188; a conference of, 187;
criticized, 191; their skepticism
overcome, 197
Lubavitch (White Russia): a Hasidic
court in, 160
Lubavitch Hassids: 159-60,224-5,296;
in Alaska, 362
Lubavitcher Rebbe: see index entry
Schneersohn, Menachem Mendel
Liibeck:Jews of, emancipated, 163
Lublin: a history of the Jews of, 227
Lubyanka Prison (Moscow): and Raoul
Wallenberg, 232
Lucena: a Jewish religious academy in,
1I8
Lueger, Karl: a public anti-Semite, 193
Luftspring, Sammy: a boxing champion,
262
Luria, Rabbi Isaac: introduces a new
custom, 286; and the New Year for the
Trees, 292
Lustiger, Cardinal Jean-Marie: a convert,
205
Luther, Martin: and the Jews, 152-3
Luzzato, Rabbi Samuel David (the
Shadal): supports Italian
Risorgimento, 175
Lvov: a Jewish customs-holder in, 150; a
synagogue in, 151; two murders in, 2 15;
Jews saved in, 219-20; a historian from,
survives in hiding, 226; a historian of,
perishes, 227; a law student in, defines
Genocide, 257-8; gematria in, 325
Lyady: a Hasidic leader born in, 159
Lydda: conquered, 82;Jews encouraged
to live in, 107
Lyon: and the Maccabean Martyrs, 80;
and the Jews of the Roman Empire,
109
'Maccabean Martyrs': 80, 84
Maccabeans: 'will rise again', 193; and
the festival of Hanukah, 298; and the
Sabbath,354
Maccabiah Games: special performances
at, 235; the 'Jewish Olympics', 261-2
432 Index
McCarthy, Senator Joe: his witch hunt,
267 MacDonald, Lyn: takes a photograph on
Gallipoli, 203
McDonalds: on the road to Jerusalem,
322
Machine Gun Corps:Jews in, 202
Macy's (New York): and the Straus
family, 175-6
Madonna and Child: and the Jews of
China, 138
Madrid: defence of (1936),210; fall of
(1939),240
Magalaya: xv
Magen David: see index entry Star of
David
Maggid, the: a wandering preacher, 308
Magids, Sam and Boris: in Alaska, 360
Magyars: and the Khazars, 147
Mahler, Gustav: converts, 205
Mahlon: marries Ruth, 284
Mahratti language: a Jewish prayer book
in, 142
Maimonides: and Saadiah Gaon, II6; his
life and work, 127-9; and Rabbi
Moses Isserles, 151; 'Look well to your
souls ... ', 275; and the plight of the
poor, 286; and the immutability of the
Torah, 316; and the mitzvot, 326; and
cleanliness, 343, 344; and the Sabbath,
355 Maimonides, David: drowns on way to
India, 127
Maimonides Foundation: seeks closer
Jewish-Muslim relations, 269
Mainz: a Talmudic academy in, 121; a
Christian from, visits the Holy Land,
134; restrictions on Jews ended in, 163
Majdanek concentration camp: 224
Major,John: and a Jewish Cabinet
Minister, 264
Majorca:Jews of, 124-7
makhzor: prayer book for the High
Holy Days, 338
Malachi, Prophet: and Mohammed, II3;
and divorce, 333
Malaysia: photographs of, 361
Malcolm, Neil: my friend, xiv, 236
Malta:Jews in, 96; a ship torpedoed on
the way to, 221
Manasseh: one of Jacob's sons, 19; and
the Jews of China, 138
Manasseh, King: his rule, 65-6
Manchester Guardian: a correspondent of,
165
Mandel, Izaak: murdered, 215
Mandela, Nelson: supported by'batding
rabbis', 259
Manipur:xv
mankind: the Jewish 'legacy' to, 362
manna: in the Wilderness, 26, 346, 352-3,
355
Mantua (Italy), a Hagaddah from, 296;
the Zohar printed in, 319
Manusiewicz, Chaja: killed while
fighting, 216
Mar Bar Ravina: and the Amidah
prayers, 305, 328
Mar Samuel: his words of atonement, 278
'March of the One Thousand'
(Garibaldi):Jews on, 174
Mariamne: marries Herod, 85; killed by
Herod, 86, 87
Marienbad spa: and the Jews, 363
Mark Antony: Herod befriends, 86
Markrom, Henry: visits Alaska, 362
Marrakech (Morocco):Jews murdered
in, 180
Marranos (,secret Jews'): 173
marriage: 332-4; between Jews and non
Jews, 73; and the wedding ceremony,
333; and modern life, 364
Index 433
Marseille:Jews in, 109; synagogues in,
I23 ; Jews from, in Majorca, I24
Martin, Ralph G.: a combat reporter,
224
Martin, Sylvia Wene: her world record at
bowling, 262
Martyrdom of Jewish Physicians in Poland,
The: a treasured possession, 2I5-6
Marx, Heinrich (Hirschel): becomes a
Lutheran, 206
Marx, Karl: converts to Christianity, 170;
denounces all religion, 206
Mary: the Greek name for Miriam, 9I
Masada: Herod's palace on, 88;Jewish
revolt on, 97; an ancient synagogue
on, 304; Bar Mitzvah journeys to, 332;
ruins at, 344
Mason,Jackie: rabbi, and humorist, 266
Massachusetts: 32; a rabbi from, conducts
services in Alaska, 362
Massacre of the Innocents: by Herod, 87
Mattathias: a priest, 76; and the
Hasmonean revolt, 80-I
Matteo, Father: and the Jews of China,
I38
matza (unleavened bread): in Egypt, 23;
at Passover, 294
Mauthausen concentration camp: 233
'May Laws' (I882): repressive, I67
Mayer, Rene: a French Prime Minister,
263
Mea Shearim (Hundred Gates): a Jewish
quarter of Jerusalem, I88
Mecca: II, II2, II3, II4;Jews expelled
from, II5;'secret'Jews on pilgrimage
to, 179-80
Mecklenburg:Jews of, emancipated, I63
Medaille Militaire: a Jewish winner of,
I99
Medea (Persia):Jews deported to, 59
medical ethics:Jewish aspects of,265
Medina (Yathrib): Mohammed flees to,
II2-3;Jews of, disappoint Moham
med, II4;Jews expelled from, II5,
I45; 'secret' Jews on pilgrimage to,
179-80
Mediterranean Sea: 9, 24, 32, 35, 44, 47,
52,54,56,59, II8; a small State on the
eastern shore of, 249
Medzibozh (Poland):Jews of, escape
destruction,3 I4
Megiddo (Armageddon): and Solomon,
44,45; destroyed, 58;Josiah killed at,
67 'Mehmet Effendi': a false Messiah, as a
Muslim, I55
Meir, Golda: and the emergence of
Israel,249
Meir, Rabbi: and the Emperor Nero, 100
Melbourne Olympics (I956): and a
triple gold medallist, 234
Melofsky, Harold: killed in action, in
Spain, 209
Memi,Albert: witnesses 'contempt and
cruelty', 256
Memorial Book (of the Jews of China):
I3 8--<)
Memorial Day (Yom Ha-Zikaron): in
Israel,300-30I
Menachem (an alchemist): in the
Balearics, 125
Menachem ben-Dugi: in Khazaria, I48
Menachem, King: pays tribute, 57-8
Menahem Mendel ofVitebsk: I57, I60
Mendele Mocher Sforim: and the' cow
of Moses', 2I
Mendelssohn, Moses: and the Jewish
Enlightenment, I6I; andYiddish, I62;
and Hebrew, I62; his daughters'
conversion, 204
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix: a
Christian, 204-5
434 Index
Mendes-France, Pierre: a French Prime
Minister, 263
Menelaus: becomes High Priest, 76
menorah (candelabrum): 298, 340-1
Menorah: an illustrated magazine, 341
MenorahJournal: and Jewish
humanitarianism, 341
mercy: one of Abraham's guests, IS;
shown to Joseph, 17
Merueptah, Pharaoh: 20, 21
Meshed (Persia): forcible conversion in,
179-80; and the attraction of
Palestine, 181
Mesopotamia: Abraham in, 9, IO;Jews
dispersed to, 72;Jews in, revolt, 99;
conquered by Islam, u4;Jews of,
under Muslim rule, US; and the early
liturgy, 338
Messiah, the: and Adam's son Seth, 7;'May
you live till ... ', 32; expected, 42; and
Elijah, 54, 55; and Jesus, 9I , 92, 93; and
Bar Kochba, IOo;'I believe in perfect
faith'in the coming of, I02; awaited,
Iu;claimed, 147, 160; to be descended
from a convert to Judaism, 282; and the
fast of the Ninth of Av, 29I; a prayer for
deliverance by, 305; and the Zohar, 3 19;
a wager concerning, 325; and gematria,
325;and 'the kingdom of truth', 347;
and the Sabbath, 355, 357
'Messiah', the: a baseball champion, 262
Methuselah: his longevity, 7-8
Metz:Jews murdered in, 129
Mexico: a music teacher in, 368
Meyer, Henry: farms near Chicago, 175
Mezoe, Ferenc: his Olympic gold medal,
234 mezuzah: at the entrance of each home,
29,72,342
Micah, Prophet: and the casting of sins
in the water, 276
Michal (Saul's daughter): David marries,
38
Michelangelo: and Moses's horns, 28
Midian: Moses flees to, 21
Midianites: and a final battle, 30
Midrash: 318
Mietkiewicz, Mark: and Hanukah Web
sites, 299-300
Mikes, George: a humorist, 236
Mikhoels, Solomon: and the Second
World War, 224; murdered, 253
mikveh (ritual bath): 343-4
Mikveh Israel (,Israel's Hope'): an
agricultural school, 184, 188
Milcom (a pagan god): 45
milk: and Abraham's visitors, 14; and
Hanukah, 299; not to be eaten with
meat, 321-2
'milk and honey': land of, and God's
promise, 2I; and a revolt, 28, and the
Torah,299
Milk and Honey (George Mikes): 236
Milwaukee (Wisconsin): Gimbel
brothers in, 176
Mimi (a housekeeper): saves Auntie
Fori's father, 369
'Minnie': a Jewish heroine, 222
Minorca (Balearic Islands):Jews of, 124,
125
Minsk (Byelorussia): 'refuseniks' in, 289
minyan (a quorum): 55, 329-30
miracles: and Psalms, 40; and Elijah,
53-5; and Jesus, 91
Mire, Gole: killed, 218
Miriam (Moses' sister): 2I, 28-g
Mishnah: the Oral Law, compiled, I04,
I07; transcribed, 12I; and
Maimonides, 127; sages cited in, 317-8
Mishne Torah (,Review of the Law'): a
comprehensive code, 128
Miskolc (Hungary): the Jews of,228-g
Index 435
Mississippi river:Jews settle along, 175
Missouri School of Journalism: a
graduate from, 223
Mitnagdim: opponents ofHasidism, 158
mitzvot (good deeds, Divine
Commandments): 98, 324, 325-8
Mizoram:xv
Mizpeh: Israelites at, 36
Moab: Israelite rule over, 51; overrun, 68;
becomes an ally, 69; Mahlon settles in,
284 Moab, King of: 29
Moab, plains of: 29, 32
Moabites: defeated, 40; their gods
worshipped, 45; independent, 48;
attacked, 50; and Ruth, 284
Modena (Italy): a critic of gematria in,
32 5 Modi'in: Maccabees in, 81
Mohammed: and the Jews, 112-4
Mohammed II, Sultan: liberates Jews, 132
Mohr, George: makes his way to Alaska,
361
Moise, Captain: in action, 175
Molnar, Ferenc: his war reporting, 231
Moloch (a pagan god): 5,45
Monash, General John: an outstanding
military commander, 200
Monastery of the Cross Oerusalem): and
a Temple mystery, 341
Mongols: and the Jews, 147, 148, 150
monotheism: 10
Montefiore Houses: in Jerusalem, 184-5
Montefiore, Bishop Hugh: born Jewish,
205
Montefiore, Sir Moses: helps persecuted
Jews, 182; and Palestine, 182-3, 184-5;
protests against a massacre in
Morocco, 188--9; his death, 189--90; a
kinsman of, converts to Christianity,
205
Montreal (Canada): recruits from, 203
Mordecai: and the Jews of China, 138;
and Purim, 312, 313, 314
Morocco:Jews of, under Islam, 115, 120;
Jews from, in Palestine, 117;Jews
reach, from Spain, 132;America
intervenes on behalf ofJews of, 177;
Jews murdered in, 180, 181, 188,255;
the 'Alliance' active in, 181;Jews flock
to Israel from, 250;Jews of, and
Passover, 297
Morrison, Herbert: and Palestine, 242
Mosconi,Judah: on Majorca, 125
Moscow: a Jewish doctor in, put to
death (1490), 150;Jews expelled from,
168; a war memorial and museum in,
222-3; a war correspondent in, 223-4;
a Communist revolutionary seeks
refuge in, 231;Wallenberg imprisoned
in, 232; a journey to Kiev from, to
protest, 253; a Jewish gathering in, 289
Moses: xvii; and the Sabbath, 4; and Abel,
7; in Egypt, 20-4; his' cow', 2 I; in the
Wilderness, 25-33; dies, 32; mourned,
32-3; laws of, 33; and the Israelites, 37,
43-4; and Ezra the Scribe, 73; and
Rabbi Akiva, 101; and Judah ha-Nasi,
104; and Maimonides, 128; and the
Jews of China, 138; and Rabbi Moses
Isserles (the Rema), 151;and God's
injunction 'Choose Life', 219; and the
'Day of Revelation' ,283; a special
guest, 286; his words recited, 285;his
name not mentioned in the Haggadah
(Passover recitation), 295; and Eisen
hower, 297; and the' eternal light' ,
304-5; 'our Teacher' (Rabbenu), 308;
and the Torah, 315--6; and gematria,
323; and the Divine Commandments,
326; and 'fringes' on prayer shawls,
338--9; and the menorah, 340;
Index
Moses (Continued):
and the Divine Law, 346; and the
Sabbath, 352-3; and the violation of
the Sabbath, 353, 354; God's promises
to,365
Moses ben Chanoch: heads a religious
academy, 1I8
Moses de Leon, Rabbi: and the Zohar,
3I 9
Moses Ha-Darshan, Rabbi: and
gematria, 324
Moses ibn Ezra: his Day of Atonement
hymn,282
Moses Isserles, Rabbi (the Rema):
praises Poland, I50; his code of
practice,3 I9
Moses Sofer, Rabbi of Bratislava: and the
immutability of the Torah, 3I6
Moses, Raphael J.: 'Would you honour
me? Call me aJew', I77-8
'mother of the sorrows': I6
Motol (Tsarist Russia):Weizmann born
in,17 I
Motza (outside Jerusalem): Romans
replace Jews at, ro6
Mount Ararat: xiii, xiv, 8
Mount Carmel: and Elijah, 54; and the
Assyrians, 57; and the Hasmoneans, 83
Mount Gilboa: deaths on, 38
Mount Herzl: a Second World War
memorial on, 222; Herzl re-interred
on, 250-I; the National Military
Cemetery on, 30I; a Holocaust
memorial and museum near, 302
Mount Horeb: Elijah flees to, 55
Mount Scopus: a massacre, on the way
to, 247;Yitzhak Rabin speaks on,
about the 'price of victory', 30I
Mount Sinai: Israelites reach, 26; and the
Ten Commandments, 27; an echo of,
36; and the Jewish New Year liturgy,
273; and a joyous festival, 283; and
Passover, 295; and the Divine
Commandments, 326; and the Divine
Law, 346
Mount Zion: a Jewish community at
foot of, I33
Munich (Bavaria): Passover celebrated
in,297
Munich Olympics (I972): triumph and
tragedy at, 263
music: and depression, 38
Muslim refugees: in Delhi (I947), I64
Muslims: see index entry Islam
Mussolini, Benito: a refugee from, wins
Nobel Prize, 266
mustard gas: and a Jewish pioneer, 20I
My Glorious Brothers (Howard Fast): 85
Myers, Sir Michael: a prominent New
Zealander, 264
Myers, Mordecai: leads a successful
charge, I74
Nadab (Aaron's son): incurs God's anger,
29
Nadab Geroboam's son): his short reign,
49 Nablus: see index entry Shechem
Naboth: his death, 55
Nagaland: xv
Nahmanides, Moses (the Ramban):
debates, I30-I; travels to Palestine,
I3I; and gematria, 324; and a death
bed prayer, 334
Nahshon: obeys Moses' command, 24
Najjar family: converts who return to
Judaism, I26
Naomi: Ruth's mother-in-law, 284
Naples: Abrabanel flees to, I32
Naphtali: one of Jacob's sons, I7
Napoleon: and the Jews, I63-4, I65, I69;
and Haman's 'ears', 3I3
Index 437
Narbonne: a Jewish religious academy
in, II8; Rabbi Moses Ha-Darshan at,
32 4 Nathan Nata Ben Solomon Spira,
Rabbi: an exponent of gematria, 325
Nathan of Gaza: and a false Messiah,
155 Nathan, Rabbi: leaves Babylonia for
Land ofIsrael, 107; his work and
sayings, 107; and gematria, 323
Nathan, the Prophet: his support
enlisted, 42
National and University Library
(Jerusalem): 233
National Conference on Religion and
Race (USA): a Jewish coordinator of,
259 National Economics Council (Soviet
Union): 252
National Herald: an obituary in, 241
Natko (a Polish Jew): granted salt mines,
150
Nazareth:Jesus from, 53,91; Christianity
in, IIO
Nazi Germany: refugees from, 145,207;
revives 'Blood Libel', 180; erases
Jewish names on First World War
memorials, 201; Hitler comes to
power, 207-9; see also index entry
Germany
Near East (The Levant):Jewish traders
in, 173
Nebuchadnezzar, King: his conquests,
68-'70; and Purim, 3II
N ebuzar-adan: burns down the Temple,
70
Negev Desert: to be part of Jewish State,
245
Nehemiah: governs Judaea, 73; and
Jewish tradition, 73-4; and the
Sabbath,354
Nehemiah ben Hushiel: rules in
Jerusalem, II2
Nehemiah, Book of: 72, 74, 285
Nehru, Aditya: xiv, xvi-xvii
Nehru, Akhil: benefits from a
correspondence, 376
Nehru,Anil: xiv, xvi-xvii
Nehru, Ashok: xiv, xvi-xvii; on his uncle
Joseph's survival, 369; and his mother's
return to Budapest, 370; attends a
Holocaust Memorial Day in Delhi,
371-2
Nehru, Braj Kumar (BK;"Uncle Biiiu"):
xiv-xv, 145; in Washington, 59, 172,
205,259; Ilya Ehrenburg a guest of,
224,371; meets Auntie Fori, 231,
368-9; his distinguished career, 370,
371,373; his Jewish civil servant, 373;
visits Alaska, 375-6
Nehru, Chand: 'Don't speak truth which
is hurtful', 371
Nehru, Fori (Mrs. B. K. Nehru; "Auntie
Fori"): her welcome, xiv-xv; reaches
ninety, xvi; her story, 367-'73
Nehru,Jawaharlal: xv, xvi, 241,370
Nehru, Rameshwari: a future mother
in-law, 368-9
Nehru family: 42, 368-9
Neilah service (at end of Day of
Atonement): 281-2
Neo-Orthodoxy: and religious practice,
345 Nero, Emperor: 94; and Rabbi Meir, 100
Netherlands: see index entry Holland
Netter, Charles: an early Zionist, 184;
welcomes pioneers, 188
Nevada (USA):Jews in, 179
New Amsterdam (later New York):
welcomes Jews, 172;Jewish problems
in, 173
New Deal: a supporter of, 358
Index
New Delhi: xv;Jews in, 60; and aJewish
architect, 143; a good deed in, 327
New Orleans (Louisiana): a peddler in,
176
New Testament: and King David, 42; and
King Herod, 87; and Jesus, 92; and
Saul (later Paul), 93; and synagogues,
30 4
New York: Jews in, 109, 177, 179; a
Hasidic Rebbe dies in, 160; a Yiddish
newspaper in, 171; a German-Jewish
congregation in, 175; Macy's in, 176;
Gimbel's in, 176; a Jewish hospital in,
176; a rabbi in, defends slavery, 177;
Jewish education in, 177; a pro-Jewish
protest in (1840), 180; and the first
Zionist Congress, 197; recruits from,
203; volunteers from, for Spain, 209,
2 I I; a remarkable book published in,
215; and the Second World War, 224;'a
nice Jewish girl' from, 224; a Hasidic
leader finds refuge in, 224; a Yiddish
expert reaches, 227; a Jewish historian
reaches, 227; a Canadian boxer's
accident in, 261; a Jewish wrestler
from, 261; a rabbi in, brings rabbis and
doctors together, 265; a foundation in,
active in Eastern Europe, 268;
synagogues in, 304; a prayer vigil in,
339; a Jew from, Governor of Alaska,
360
New York Philharmonic Orchestra: a
conducting debut with, 224
New York Times: and a Hungarian-Jewish
war reporter, 231
New Yorker: a cartoonist of, 225; a Jewish
Nobel Prizewinner writes for, 260
New Zealand: a Jew commands troops
from, 200;Jewish soldiers from, 202;
and the emergence ofIsrael, 246; and
aJewish Chief Justice, 264
Newport (Rhode Island): welcomes
Jews, 172; the Jews of, offered
'goodwill', 174
News Chronicle: 'Vicky's' cartoons in, 236
'Next Year in Jerusalem': 59, 102,282,
295; and the Sabbath, 357
Nicholas I, Tsar: and the Jews, 166-7
Nicholas II, Tsar: and the Jews, 168
Nile Delta: 20, 26, 71, 97
Nile River: 22
Niniveh: a capital, 56; and the first Jewish
Diaspora, 59; and the capture of
Lachish, 64;Jonah told to go to, 280;
spared, 281
Ninth of Av: see index entry Tisha b'Av
Noah: and God's first laws, 6, 8-9
Noahide Laws: seven in all, 8---<)
Noah's Ark: xiii, 8
Nobel Prize:Jewish winners of, 201, 205,
223,258,260,261,266
Nome (Alaska):Jews in, 359-60
Nordau,Max:'Count on me!', 193; at
the first Zionist Congress, 198
Norman Conquest (1066): 120, 146, 147
Normandy (France):Jewish soldiers'
graves at, 222; a Jewish war
photographer in, 235
North Africa: 84,94, 109; conquered by
Islam, I14;Jews from, in Majorca, 125;
MajorcanJews flee to, 126; and the
Jews ofKhazaria, 147; and the first
Zionist Congress, 198; German army
reaches, 214; a Jewish pilot shot down
over, 221; a combat reporter in, 224; a
war photographer in, 235; and a
colourful skullcap, 338
North America:Jews reach, from Spain,
132
North Caucasus (Russia):Jews from
Chechenya travel through, on way to
Israel, 267
Index 439
North East Frontier Agency (India): xv,
59 Norway: and the Second World War, 214
Numbers, Book of: and a 'star out of
Jacob', 101; and the Jewish New Year,
275; and the Festival of Solemn
Assembly, 287; and the synagogue, 3II;
and the Torah, 315; and the tsitsit
(fringes), 338-9; and the violation of
the Sabbath, 353
numerus clausus (numerical restrictions):
in Hungary, xvi, 231; in Russia, 170
Nuremberg Laws (1935): and the Jews of
Germany, 207-8
Obadiah of Bertin oro: settles in
Jerusalem, 134
Octavian: Herod's allegiance to, 86-7;
becomes Emperor, as Augustus, 86-7;
gives Banias to Herod, 87; Herod
honours, 88; supports Herod, 89
OctoberWar (1973): between Syria and
Egypt, and Israel, 251, 277, 300
Odessa: and Jewish secular studies, 164;
Jewish pioneers leave from, 188
OJ the Jews and Their Lies (Martin
Luther): 152-3
oil: a King anointed with, 37; and the
future of Palestine, 242-3
Old Delhi: xv
'Old Testament': and God's will, 314; and
the Jewish people, 361
Olympic Games: Herod helps finance,
88; and modern gold medals, 233-4;
and Jewish sportsmen and women,
261-3
Olympic Games in Antiquity, The (Ferenc
Mozoe): wins a Gold Medal, 234
Omar I, Caliph: and the Jews, 1I4-5
Omar II, Caliph: and the Jews, 1I5
Ornri: becomes King, 5 I; his rule, 5 1-2
Onias III, High Priest: removed, 75-6
Onkeles, the (the Bible in Aramaic): 29
Operation Shylock (Philip Roth): 328-9
Ophir, Land of: gold from, 44
Oppenheimer,]. Robert: and the atom
bomb, 223
Or Hatzafon (,Light of the North'):
synagogue, in Alaska, 362
Oral Law: evolves, 84; and the Mishnah,
104,107,317-8; and Rashi, 122
Orissa (India): a Jewish official in, 145
Orleans (France):Jews in, 109
Orontes River (Syria): battle at, 56
Orthodox Jews: and the date of
Creation, 3; and Bnei Brak, 100; and
Zionism, 191; re-found a township,
225; and the eve ofShavuot (the
Festival ofWeeks), 28 I; rabbinical
courts of, 309; and the Torah, 313-4;
and a sixteenth-century code of
practice, 317; and the dietary laws, 322;
and skullcaps, 338; and a prayer vigil,
339; and new utensils, 343-4; and the
Divine Law, 346
Ose, Emperor of Japan: and a Hebrew
king, 58
Otto I, German Emperor: a Jew reaches
the court of, 1I8
Ottoman Empire:Jews welcomed in,
132; its tolerant attitude, in Palestine,
133-4; and a false Messiah, 155-6; and
the Damascus Affair, 179-80; and
Jewish emigration to Palestine, 171,
189-90; its rule in Palestine ending,
198, 199;Jews of, in the First World
War, 199,201; and the First World War,
203 Ottoman Turks: and a railway line, 99;
rule Palestine, 170
'Our Mother Rachel': the 'mother of
sorrows', 16
440 Index
Outline of Jewish History,An (Dubnow): Palestine Authority: and Gaza, 43
226 Palestine White Paper: of 1939, 243; of
Oxford University: xiv, xv;Yiddish at, 1922,293
171; and an atlas of the Arab Israel Palestinian Arabs: reject a Jewish State
conflict, 250 alongside their own, 247; turn to
violence, 247; flee, 249
Pacific Islands:Jews fight on, 222 Palma (Majorca):Jews of, 125, 126
Padua (Italy): a rabbinical seminary in,
164
Pakistan: and Palestine, 246
'Palaestina': taxation in, 106
'Pale of Settlement' (,The Pale '): for Jews
inside Russia, 146, 166, 168, 171
Palestine: promised (as Canaan): lO;Jews
in, 74; dispersal of Jews within, 97; and
the JezreelValley, 105; Christianity in,
IIo-l; ruled by Persia, III; conquered
by Islam, II4; Maimonides in, 127;
Tartar invasion of, 131;Jews reach,
from Spain, 132-3; and the Jewish
National Home, 146, 198-9; a false
Messiah in, 155; Hasidic emigration
to, 157; Napoleon in, 163; and the Jews
of Russia, 168, 171;America
intervenes on behalf of Jews of, 177;
'secret' Jews make their way to, 180;
North African Jews emigrate to, 181,
182; and the nineteenth-century
precursors of Zionism, 182-4, 186,
187-8; growing number of Jews in,
190,232; and the Hebrew language,
190; and a 'spiritual centre', 191; a
'historic home', 193; and the first
Zionist Congress, 197;Jews expelled
from, by the Turks, 202, 203 ;Jews
from, and the Second World War,
221-2,223,225; and the emergence of
Israel, 241-9; and the 'Jewish
Olympics', 262;Jews in, 'of right', 293;
Rabbi Abraham Abulafia in, 324;
Auntie Fori's uncle emigrates to, 368
Paltrow, Gwyneth: her rabbinical
ancestors, 206
Panovs,Valeri and Galina: leave Soviet
Union, 264
Papacy: and Rome, 94
paratyphoid C: its discoverer, 200
Paris: Hebrew books burned in, 123;
material onJews of China in Jesuit
archives in, 137;Jews active in struggle
in (1848), 175; a pro-Jewish protest in,
180; the 'Alliance' founded in (1860),
181;'The Baron' born in, 190; an
article published in, about the
Hebrew language, 19O-1;Ahad Ha
Am in, 191; and the Dreyfus Affair,
193; Herzl's ally in, 193; a theatrical
designer in, 199; a Professor at,
discovers a vaccine, 200; the Cardinal
Archbishop of, born Jewish, 205;
Jewish resistance fighters shot in, 220;
aJewish photographer trains in, 235
Parkinson's disease: and a Nobel Prize,
266
Parthians:joinJews, 85
Passover: the first, 23; and Elijah, 54; and
'Next Year in Jerusalem', 59, 102,295;
and Hezekiah, 61-2; a Pilgrim
Festival, 72; and the 'Last Supper', 92;
and Gamaliel II, 98; links the
Diaspora, 108; and Blood Libel, 125,
179; and the Warsaw Ghetto revolt,
217; and a Second World War
encounter, 222; Gandhi participates
in, 239; and yizkor (tlre memorial
Index 441
service), 279, 304; and the New Year
for the Trees, 292; the celebration of,
294-8,326
Pasternak, Boris: a convert to
Christianity, 205
Pearl Harbour: and an early counter-
attack,221
Pechersky,Alexander: leads revolt, 218
Pedro IV, King of Aragon: 125-6
Pekah: becomes King, 58; assassinated, 58
Pekahia, King: overthrown, 58
Peking: a letter about the Jews of China
sent from, 137; and the Jews of China,
140
penicillin: and a Jewish Nobel Prize
winner,259
Pennsylvania (USA):Jews in, 174
Pentateuch (Five Books of Moses): 66,
73,84, II3, 315-7
People of the Book: and the Five Books
of Moses, 315-7
Peres, Shimon: his vision, 256-7; wins
Nobel Prize, 261
Persia: Esther's courage in, 72;Jewish
scribes in, 73; rules Judaea, 72; a Jewish
revolt in, 74; and the Story of Hannah,
84;Jews in, 97; rules Palestine, lII-2;
conquered by Islam, II4;Jews reach
China from, 137;Jews reach Khazaria
from, 146; forcible conversion in,
179-80; and Palestine, 184,244; and
Purim,3II-4
Persian Gulf 9, II5, II9, 135
Persian language: and the Aggadah, 317
Pescennius Niger: a Jew-hater, I07
Petah Tikvah: a Jewish village in
Palestine, 188,233
Petlura, Simon: a supporter of, saves
Jews, 219-20
Pharaoh: the captain of his guard, 17; his
butler and chief baker, 18; and Joseph,
18,19; and Jewish slave labour, 20-2;
and the Exodus, 23-4; Solomon's
marriage to a daughter of, 43, 45;
supports aJewish rebellion, 63;
recalled at Passover, 293; replaced by
Hitler, in the Passover Hagaddah, 297
Pharaoh's daughter: and Moses, 20-1
Pharisees: and the Hasmoneans, 83-4;
and Herod, 89; and Peter, 94
Philadelphia (Pennsylvania): a
department store in, 176; a Jew from,
befriends Gandhi, 237
Philistia: 57
Philistines: Israelite conflict with, 35-6,
37,38,40,48, 51;join revolt against
Assyria, 64
Philo of Alexandria: and Abraham's
guests, 15; and the sukkah, 286
Phineas (Pinhas):Aaron's grandson, 30-1
Phoenicia: Elijah flees to, 53;
Shalmanezer III overruns, 57
Phoenicians: good relations with, 52;
join revolt, 64
phylacteries (tefillin): 72, 339
'Pig-Jew': Herzl shocked by, 192-3
pigs: and an act of defiance, 79-80,81;
unclean, 321
Pilgrim Festivals: 72, 74, 90, I02, II6,
284-5
pillar of salt: and Sodom, 12
Pinkas Synagogue (Prague): a memorial
wall in, 266
Pithom (Egypt): slavery in, 20
Pittsburg Conference (1885): and the
dietary laws, 322; and Judaism as 'a
progressive religion', 346-7
plagues: in Egypt, 22-3, 295; in the
Wilderness, 28; in the Assyrian camp,
65; in Poland, 149
Plaut, Rabbi Gunther: 'when a tree is cut
down ... ',293
442 Index
Playboy: a Nobel Prize winner writes
for, 260
Pledge ofWar: offers amicable coexist
ence, II3 ;Jews fail to observe, II4
Plisetskaya, Maya: wins Lenin Prize, 253;
'I never knew she was Jewish', 371
Plonsk (Russian Poland): Ben Gurion
leaves, 171
Pobedonostsev, Konstantin: supports
emigration of Jews, 168
pogroms: in Tsarist Russia, 185
Polak, Henry: befriends Gandhi, 239; a
wedding gift from, 369
Polak,]. H.: helps Gandhi, 239
Poland: 94;1ewish pioneers from, ro6;
early Jewish settlement in, 149-52;
and the Chmielnicki massacres, 154-5,
156; and a false Messiah (Shabbetai
Zvi), 156; and the Jewish
Enlightenment, 16I; in Tsarist Russia,
165, 166; and the Polish Insurrection
(I863), 167, 175; partition of (1772),
174; immigrants from, to America
(after 1925), 179;Jews from, fight in
Spain, 2ro; and the Holocaust, 212,
213, 215;Jewish soldiers in, 220;Jewish
historians of, 226; and the emergence
ofIsrael, 246; no longer a Jewish
heartland, 266; and a mezuzah, 342;
and cholent, 356; and the Sabbath, 357
Poliak,A. N.: and the story of a false
Messiah, 148
Polish Insurrection (I863): and the Jews,
167, 175; and Jewish immigration to
America, 173
Polish language: in aJewish school, 164;
in Russian schools, 166, 171
Polish Legion: of Napoleon, 163
polygamy: no longer acceptable, 121
Pontius Pilate: and Jesus, 93
Poona (India):Jews in, 145
Popular Front (France): a Jewish leader
of, 225
Port Said (Egypt):Jews attacked in, 254
Portugal:Jews from, in Majorca, 126;
Jews expelled from, 132; and the Jews
of Brazil, 172-3; the fate of the Jews
of, discussed in Berlin, 213
Portuguese-Dutch War (I662): and the
Jews ofIndia, 141
Potemkin, Prince: encourages Jews,
165-6
Potiphar: and Joseph, 17-8
Potiphar's wife: 'lie with me', 18
'Pour out thy wrath ... ': 297
Pozsonyi Street (Budapest): a 'protected'
house in, 228
Prague:Jews in, 120;Jews murdered in,
129;Jews expelled from, 152; and the
golem, 154; an excommunication in,
162; a memorial wall in, 266; a
Hagaddah from, 296; a prayer book
printed in, 338
prayer book: see index entry siddur
Pretzsch (Germany): mass murderers
trained at, 212
'Prince of Peace': and a disputation,
130
Pripet Marshes (Russia):Jews reach, 12I;
and Yiddish, 146; Chaim Weizmann
from, 171
'Prisoners of Zion': in the Soviet Union,
253 Prokofiev, Sergey: his War and Peace, 267
Promised Land: 17, 26,30,32,33; and a
false Messiah, 155
Prophets (Biblical books): II3, 332
Protestantism: and the Jews, 151
'Protocal of Permanent Peace': settles a
strike, 178
Provence:Jews of, 122, 123-4;Jews
expelled from, 124;Jews from, in
Index 443
Palestine, 130; and the Day of
Atonement, 279
Proverbs, Book of: and the memorial
candle, 307; and a 'tree of life' ,316-7;
and 'A Virtuous Woman', 349-50
Providence (Rhode Island): a rabbi at,
and the mitzvot, 327-8
Prussia: assimilation in, 162
Przemysl (Poland): the fate of a Jewish
doctor from, 215
Przemyslyany (Poland): a doctor
murdered in, 215
Psalms: and King David, 41; and the
second Diaspora, 70-71; and Jesus, 93;
and Hasidism, 159; at Passover, 294; on
Jerusalem Day, 303; and 'the meeting
places of God', 304; and mourning,
334,336; and the yad, 340; and the
Sabbath, 348; and Grace after Meals,
350-1
Ptolemy: rules Egypt, 75; attacks Judaea,
83
Pugwash Conference: a Jewish co
founder of, 258
Pumbeditha: a religious academy at, 109,
IIO, II5, 338
Punjab (India): a Jewish Governor of,
372
Purana Qila refugee camp (Delhi):
Auntie Fori active in protection of,
370
Purim, Festival of: 72, 292, 3II-5
Quetta: a leading Indian Jew born in,
143
Quota Act (1925): restricts immigrtion
to the United States, 179
Rab-shakeh: demands surrender of
Jerusalem, 65
Rabban,Joseph: protected, in India, 141
Rabbinical Seminary (Budapest): 232
Rabbinical tradition: and Methuselah,
7-8; and Joseph, 17; and God's 'wry
humour', 28; and Rabbi Akiva, 100,
101; and the first synagogue, 301; and a
reward for women, 308; and Purim,
3II; and the Sabbath, 355
rabbis: 307-10
Rabh, The (Rabbi Abba Areka): prayers
and sayings of, 274, 278
Rabin,Yitzhak: and his father, 203; wins
Nobel Prize, 261; buried on Mount
Herzl, 301; and the 'price of victory',
299; and' evil tongues', 329; a
memorial gathering for, 337
Rachel:Jacob's wife, 15, 17
Radanites:Jewish merchants, 135
Rahabi, David: an Indian Jew, 142
rainbow: the first, 8
Raja Hathisingh, Governor of Gujarat:
145
Ramadan: andYom Kippur, II4
Ramah (Canaan): a voice 'heard in', 16
Ramat Rahel: a palace on, 46
Rambam, the: see index entry
Maimonides, Moses
Ramban, the: see index entry
Nahmanides, Moses
Rameses (Egypt): slave labour at, 20
Rameses II, Pharaoh: affiicts Israelites, 20
Ramla: a rabbinical academy in, II7;
Jewish guides in, 133; Napoleon's
announcement in, 163, 164
Raphall, Rabbi: defends slavery, 177
Rashi: his scholarship, 122-3; and the
mitzvot, 327
Rathenau,Walther: and Germany's
warmaking powers, 201
Rawicz, Wladislaw: commands Polish
insurgents (1863), 167
Reagan, President Ronald: 266
444 Index
Rebecca (Isaac's wife): 15, 16, 138,333
Recife (Brazil):Jews of, 173
Reconstruction Judaism: 338
Red Army: 2IO, 2II; and the liberation
otVilna, 218; a soldier of, leads revolt,
218; reaches Bucharest and Sofia, 241
Red Fort (Delhi): xv
Red Navy: 2IO
Red Sea:Jews reach, and cross, 24-5;
Solomon's ships sail through, 44; and
Passover, 295
'Red Terror': in Hungary, 231
Reform Judaism: in the United States,
178; and Rabbi Alkalai, 184; and the
Jewish New Year, 272; and women
rabbis, 307, 308; and women on
rabbinical courts, 309; and the Torah,
316; and the dietary laws, 322; and a
minyan (quorum), 330; and prayer
shawls, 338; and a prayer vigil, 339;
styles of worship in, 345-7
RiformJudaism:A Contemporary
Perspective (1976): 316
Reform New Synagogue (Berlin): 345
Reform synagogues: and women rabbis,
309
Regensburg:Jews murdered in, 129
Rehoboam: becomes King, 46; the
extent of his rule, 47-8; the fate of his
widow, 49
Rema, the: see index entry Moses Isserles,
Rabbi
'Remembrance Day': the Jewish New
Year, 273
Rene, King (of Provence): encourages
Jews, 124
responsa (rabbinical answers to
questions): 121, 122,318---9
Reuben: one of Jacob's sons, 16, 17
Revisionist Movement: its founder, 203
Revolutions of 1848: and the Jews, 174
Rhine River: 148
Rhineland:Jews of, 120--1, 122; anti
Jewish violence in, 12 I; and the
Crusades, 129; expulsions from, 148,
152; an exponent of gematria in, 324
Rhinoconara: 83
Rhodes: and the Diaspora in Roman
times, 94, 96
Rhone River:Jews settle along, 148
Riblah: captives taken to, 69-70
Ricci, Father: reports on Jews of China,
137,138
Rifkind, Malcolm: a Jewish Cabinet
Minister, 264
Rifle Brigade:Jews in, 202
Riga (Latvia): Simon Dubnow murderd
in, 226
'Righteous Gentiles': during the
Holocaust, 219-20, 228; to be
remembered, 303
Ringelblum, Emanuel: a Jewish
historian, murdered, 226
Rishon Ie-Zion (,the First in Zion'): a
pioneer village, 186
Ritch, Lewis W: helps Gandhi, 239
Rivers,Joan: a star, 266
Robota, Roza: her heroism, and her fate,
218-9
Roden, Claudia: her cookery books, 256
Roman Catholicism: and the
'Maccabean Martyrs', 80; and a
gesture of reconciliation, 89; and
Rome, 94; and Majorca, 126; and the
Jews ofIndia, 141
Roman Empire: andJudaea, 42, 79, 82, 85;
and Herod, 87;Jews ruled by, 95, I07;
Jews revolt against, 96-7,99; and Rabbi
Akiva, IOI;and the Diaspora, I03, I06,
148---9; and Palestine, I07-8; and the
fast of the Ninth ofAv,288;and the
New Year for the Trees, 290; and the
Index 445
Passover recitation, 295; synagogues in,
304; and the menorah, 341
Roman eagle: and the Second Temple,
89-90
Roman Senate: recognizes Jewish
independence, 83
Rome: and a 'horned' Moses, 28; Herod's
sons educated in, 88; Saul-Paul dies in,
94; a Christian martyr in, 94;Jewish
captives taken to, 96, 106; Rabbi Gamal
iel II travels to, 98; RabbiAkiva travels
to, 100;Jews in, 120; restrictions in,
ended, 163;a Chief Rabbi of,converts
to Christianity, 205; synagogues in, 304;
a sage from, and the 'evil tongue', 328;
the gossiperin Syria 'kills in', 329
Ronald S. Lauder Foundation: active in
Eastern Europe, 269
Roosevelt, Eleanor: and Rene Cassin,
199 Roosevelt, President Franklin D.: and the
Book of Ruth, 284; a supporter of, 358
Rosani, Rita: a partisan, 221
Rosanna (a convict's daughter): born in
Australia, 157
Rosenberg, Isaac: a poet, killed in action,
201
Rosenberg, Myron: a photographer, in
Alaska, 361
Rosh Hashanah: see index entry Jewish
New Year
Rosh Hodesh (New Moon): special
service on, 310-1
Rotblat,Joseph: and Pugwash, 258
Roth, Philip: and 'evil tongues', 328-9
Rothschild, Baron Edmond de: helps
Jews in Palestine, 190
Rothschild, Evelina de: founds a girls'
school,185
Rothschild, Mayer Amschel: founds a
dynasty, 169
Rothschild, Nathaniel: the first British
Jew to become a Lord, 169
Rothschilds: and wine-growing, 122; a
Russian equivalent, 165
Rotman,Jacob: his grave, 203
Roumania:Jews of, 177, 178, 179; and
Jewish 'national honour', 186; Lovers
of Zion from, 187, I 88;Jews of, fight
in FirstWorldWar, 199,201; and
Jewish migration, 241; photographs
of,361
Royal Air Force:Jews serve in, 202
Royal Field Artillery: Jews serve in, 202
Royal Fusiliers:Jewish battalions of,203
Royal Navy:Jews serve in, 202
Royal Opera House (London): a Jewish
director of, 263
Rozenbach, Major Julian: killed in
action (1863), 167
Rubichov, Nehemia: enlists, 203
Rubik, Erno: his invention, 236
Rubinstein, Anton: his opera, 84
Russia (after 1991, formerly part of the
Soviet Union):Jews leave, for Israel,
268; photographs of the Far East of,
361; two Jews from, visit Alaska, 362
Russian Empire (up to 1917): the Jews
of, 146--8; Hasidism in, 157, 160; and
the Jewish Enlightenment, 161; and
the growth of Jewish settlement,
165-8;Jewish emigration from, 170,
171,178-9, 199;America intervenes
on behalf of Jews of, 177; Muslims
protest at entry ofJews from, 181,
189-90; pogroms in, 170, 185-6;
Lovers of Zion from, 187, 188; and
Jerusalem, 190; and the first Zionist
Congress, 197;Jews of, fight in First
WorldWar, 199;Jewish war dead of
(1914-17),201; and the Jews of Alaska,
359
Index
Russian language: in Jewish schools, 166,
171; in a former Yiddish newspaper, 171
Ruth, Book of: read in synagogue, 283-4
Ruthenia:Jews of, 145,231
Saadiah Gaon: his intellectual
achievements, rr6; his distinguished
pupil, u8; and the mitzvot, 326; and
the liturgy, 338
Sabath,AdolfJoachim: a Congressman,
358 Sabbath: God's day of rest, 4; a father's
blessing on, 19; and the Ten Com
mandments, 27; a focal point, 33; the
Jews ordered to profane, 79; and Jesus,
92; and Simon-Peter, 94; and Moham
med, u3;prayers for, u6;no longer
kept by the Jews of China (1850),139;
and Hasidism, 159; and the Jewish New
Year, 275, 276; and the kiddush wine,
290; Israel's Day ofIndependence
never celebrated on, 301; in synagogue,
303; the Bible compares the
celebration of the New Moon with,
308; and the 'Shulhan Arukh', 317; and
gematria, 323; and the mitzvot (good
deeds), 327; and havdalah (the closing
ceremony), 341; the practice and joy
of, 347-58; punishment for the
violation of, 353,354; in Alaska, 362;
and Auntie Fori, 363, 372
Sachs, Nellie: her Nobel Prize, 260
Sacks,Jonathan: Chief Rabbi, 309; and
the Torah, 364
Sadat,Anwar: visits Israel, 251; wins
Nobel Prize, 261
Safed (Galilee):Jews from Spain find
refuge in, 133;Jews flourish in, 134;
Jewish land purchase in, 183; battle
for, 248; a new fast day inaugurated in,
3IO; and a code of Jewish practice, 319;
Joseph Caro teaches in, 320; and the
Sabbath, 348
Sahara: 'mountain' Jews of, 135
St Bartholomew's Hospital (London):
research at, 258
St George: and the dragon, 82
St Jerome: and Bar Kochba, 99
St Louis (Missouri): synagogue services
in, 175
St Luke: gospel of, 92
St Peter's (Rome): 94
St Petersburg: a Hasidic leader
imprisoned in, 159; a theatrical
designer from, 199; a Jewish historian
in, 226;Jor subsequent index entry see
Leningrad
Saint-Saens, Camille: and Samson and
Delilah, 35
Saladdin: drives out the Crusaders, 129
Salome Alexandra: comes to the throne,
84 Salomon, Haym: on Wall Street, 174;
arrested as a spy, 174
Salonika:Jews in, converted to
Christianity, 93;Jews welcomed in,
132; a false Messiah in, 155;Joseph
Caro teaches in, 320
Salten, Felix: and Bambi, 236
Samaria (mountain region of): and the
Israelites, 36, 47, 49; and the
Hasmoneans, 82; and Herod, 87;Jews
remain in, UI; and the Crusades, 129
Samaria (Shomron): becomes a capital,
52; a battle north of, 56; a royal visit
to, 56; pagan temples in, destroyed, 57;
survives, 58; captured, 59; Herod
governs, 86
Samarin (Palestine):Jews buy land at, 187
Samarkand:Jews reach China through,
135 Samson: and Delilah, 35; captured, 35-6
Index 447
Samuel ben Meir (the Rashbam):
completes Rashi's work, 123
Samuel, Book of: 72
Samuel, the Prophet: 36-8; and the Jews
of China, 138
San Francisco (California): a human
rights concert in, 267
San Pietro in Vincoli (Rome): and a
horned Moses, 28
Sanhedrin: Herod appears before, 85;
Herod executes members of, 86;
Hillel President of, 90; and Jesus,
92-3; and rabbis, 98
Sanskrit: and Hebrew, 371
Sarah (Abraham's wife): 11,14,16
Sarajevo Hagaddah: originally from
Barcelona, 296
Sardinia:Jews in, 96
Sargon II, King of Assyria: his conquests,
59 Sarner, Harvey: his researches about
Gallipoli, 202
Sassoon ben Salah: in Baghdad, 204
Sasso on, David: leaves India for Britain,
204
Sassoon, Siegfried: his origins, 204
Sassoon, Sir Victor: an IndianJew, 144
Satan: and the Sabbath, 92; the need to
'refute', 286
Saudi Arabia: and the Caliph Omar, 115;
and oil, 244
Saul: anointed King, 37; his rule, 37, 38;
David mourns for, 335
Saul (later Paul): preaches Christianity,
93,304
Sava ('Old Man'): and Jewish mysticism,
319 Savannah (Georgia):Jews in, 174
Savra, Rabbi Jacob: 'a great Scholar', 150
Schatz, Boris: founds an artistic academy,
340
Scheckter,Jody: his motor-car racing
success, 263
Schiff, Rabbi Nafta1i: and a 'legacy to
mankind', 365
Schindler, Oskar: saves Jews, 219
Schindler's List (film): 219
Schlesin, Sonia: Gandhi's secretary, 239
Schneersohn, Dov Ber: and a Hasidic
dynasty, 160
Schneersohn,Joseph Isaac: escapes from
Europe, 225
Schneersohn, Menahem Mendel: the
Lubavitcher Rebbe, 159, 160,225
Schneersohn, Moses: converts to
Christianity, 204
Schwarzchild, Karl: and 'black holes',
200
Scroll of Esther: and Purim, 312-3
Scrolls of the Law: rescured, 131; and the
Jews of China, 137, 138; and the Jews
of Jerusalem, 157; destroyed in
Meshed (Persia), 179; in synagogue,
305,316; returned to the ark, 306; and
the mitzvot, 327
Seattle (Washington): a graduate from,
359; a journey through, 360
Sebag-Montefiore family: a convert in,
205
Sebag-Montefiore, Simon: his
researches, 165
Sebaste (Samaria): founded by Herod, 88
Sebastopol:Jewish soldiers in defence of,
167
'Second Jewish Law' (Hungary): 232
Second Temple: built by Herod, 88--9;
destroyed by Titus, 96; and the Jews of
China, 135; and the Jews ofIndia, 140;
and a good deed, 327; and a prayer for
mourners, 335; its menorah never
found, 341; a ritual bath from the time
of, 344
Index
Second World War: and a Papal Nuncio,
94; and 'secret' Jews in Turkey, 156; and
the destruction ofYiddish, I71; and
the death of a film star, 200; and Jews
in Muslim lands, 254
'See, thy son liveth ... ': 53
'Seek ye the peace of the city ... ': 74
Seleucid dynasty: rules Judaea, 74, 75, 79;
and the Hasmonean revolt, 81-2; a
martyr of, 104; and the festival of
Hanukah, 298, 299
Seleucus: rules Syria: 75
Semah,Jacob: in India, 142
Sen, Hannah: a prominent IndianJewess,
I43 Sennacherib, King of Assyria: his
conquests, 64-5; and Rabbi Akiva, 100
Sephardi Jews: and Rav Amram's prayer
book, II5; their Diaspora, 132; and a
Victoria Cross winner, 201; and the
Jewish New Year, 276; and the closing
of the Day of Atonement, 28I-2; and
the fast of the Ninth of Av, 291; and
the New Year for the Trees, 292; and
the festival of Hanukah, 300; and the
annual memorial for one's parents,
307; their Hakham (rabbi), 307; their
Chief Rabbi (in Israel), 309; and the
New Moon, 310; and gematria, 324;
and the reading of the Torah, 342; and
the Sabbath, 349
Sepphoris: a religious academy at, 103
Septimus Severus:Judah ha-Nasi
supports, 107
Septuagint (the Bible in Greek): 75
Serbia:Jews in, 177;Jews of, fight in First
World War, I99, 201; a medical
discovery in, 200
Seth:Adam and Eve's third son, 7
Seven Benedictions: at a wedding, 333
'Seven Sisters' (India): xv
Seville:Jewish emissaries in, II7
Seward Chamber of Commerce
(Alaska): offers to take in Jewish
refugees, 362-3
Sforim, Mendele Mocher: 21
Shabbetai ben Meir Ha-Kohen: his
writings, 156
Shabbetai ofRaszkow: his writings, 156
Shabbetai Zvi: a false Messiah, 155-6; his
subsequent followers, 162-3; and
gematria, 325
'Shaddai': the Almighty, 342
Shakespeare: and Shylock, 169; and King
Lear, 223; and the Globe Theatre, 267
Shalmanezer III, King: makes war, 56;
receives homage, 57
Shamir, Moshe: his novel, 85
Shammai: his 'House', 90-1
Sharon plain: captured, 58
Shatzky,Jacob: a Polish Jewish historian,
emigrates to the United States, 226
Shavuot, Festival of 72, 281, 283-4, 306
Shcharansky,Anatoly (Natan Sharansky):
and the Psalms,4I
Sheba, Queen of and Solomon, 44-5
Shechem (Nablus): and divisions among
the Israelites, 46; a capital city near, 52;
Scrolls of the Law rescued in, 131
Shekhinah (the Divine Presence): 29, 310
Shem: Noah's son, 8
Shema prayer: see index entry 'Hear, 0
Israel'
Shemini Atzeret: Festival of, 281, 287, 306
Sheptitski,Archbishop: saves Jews,
219-20
Sherbourne, Michael: coins the word
'refusenik', 289
Sheth, the children of to be destroyed,
29
Shield of David (Magen David): see index
entry Star of David
Index 449
Shih-kuei: a Chinese-Jewish name, 139
Shinwell, Emanuel: and Palestine, 243
Shiraz (Iran): a trial in, 339
shiva (mourning): 336-7
shloshim (,thirty'): a day of solemn
remembrance, 337
Shneur Zalman of Lyady: and Hasidism,
159-60
shofar (ram's horn): and the Jewish New
Year, 275
shohet (ritual slaughterer): 321
Shomron: see index entry Samaria
Shtern, General Grigori: a Soviet hero,
210
Shtetl (a Jewish village): 145-6
Shulhan Arukh ('a set table'): and Jewish
practice, 319; various versions of,
31!{-20
Shylock: a caricature, 169
Siberia: forced labour in, 252
Sicily: Jews in, 96; Rabbi Abulafia in,
324 siddur (prayer book): II5-6, 334, 337-8
Sidon: 52; Elijah flees to, 53; two miracles
in, 53-4; becomes an ally, 69
Sidonians: and King Solomon, 45
Sighet: a future Nobel Prize winner
deported from, 260
Sikhs: and the Inter-Faith Network (in
Britain), 269
Silver, Abba Hillel: and 'the Jewish
contribution', 245
Silverman, Sydney: opposes death
penalty, 264
Simeon: one of Jacob's sons, 16, 19
Simeon (son of Rabbi Gamaliel II): his
reputation as a teacher, 107
Simeon (the Maccabee): his conquests,
82
Simeon ben Zemah Duran: flees from
Majorca, 126
Simeonovskaya Street (St Petersburg):
and a Jewish convert to Christianity,
167-8
SimhatTorah (Rejoicing of the Law):
and the Jews of China, I37; in
synagogue, 288--90
Simlai, Rabbi: and the Divine
Commandments, 326
Simon (Jesus' cousin): in Jerusalem, 93; in
Rome, 94
Simon Wiesenthal Centre (Los Angeles):
challenges Holocaust denial, 268--9
Sinai Peninsula: the Children of Israel in,
25,26,29,31; Elijah in, 54; and the
Hasmoneans, 83
Sind (India):Jewish traders at, 135
Singer, Isaac Bashevis: wins Nobel Prize,
260
Singer, I.J.: a gifted writer, 260
Sino-Japanese War: and a Jewish
photographer, 235
Siraf (Persian Gulf): administered by a
Jew, II9
Sisera: his defeat, 34; his defeat emulated,
299
Sitka (Alaska): and a Jewish soldier, 359;
Jews of, 360
Six-Day War (I967): 253, 288; and a
special Hagaddah, 294; and Memorial
Day, 298; and the 'price of victory',
299; and Jerusalem Day, 303; and 'evil
tongues', 329
Skagway (Alaska):Jews of, 360
Skopje (Macedonia): and Responsa
literature, 3 I9
skullcap: see index entry kippa
Slovo,Joe: an opponent of apartheid, 259
Small Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur
Katan): a 'minor' fast day, 308
Smith, Gerald: and the devastation in
Germany (1945),222
450 Index
Smushkevich, General Jacob: executed, South America:Jews reach, from Spain,
210 132
Smyrna:Jews welcomed in, 132; a false South Carolina (USA):Jewish soldiers
Messiah appears in, 155; a false in, 174
Messiah returns to, 155 'Sovereignty of States': and Genocide,
Sobibor: a site of mass murder, 214; 257
revolt at, 218
Social and Religious History if the Jews
(Salo Baron): 228
Sodom: 12; recalled, 61
Sofia (Bulgaria): Soviet troops reach, 242
Sokolow, Nahum: and the Jewish future
in Palestine, 188
Solomon (David's son): prevails, 42;
anointed King, 42; his rule, 42-7; his
wives and concubines, 45-6; taxation
by, 46; the kingdom of, divided by his
successors, 47; recalled, 62
Solomon ben-Dugi: in Khazaria, 148
Solomon ben-Judah: heads rabbinical
academies, II7
Solomon, Samuel: in India, 144-5
Solomon's Temple: 43-4, 45, 49, 66;
destroyed,68
Song of Moses: 24-5
Sonnenschein, Rosa: in Basle, 197
Sons of Benjamin (USA): charity of, 178
Sorbonne (Paris): a graduate of,
executed,257
Sosin, Gloria Dosin: lists different
spellings of'Hanukah', 300
Sosnowiec (Poland): a heroine from, 218
South Mrica:Jewish soldiers from,202,
222; and Jewish refugees from Ger
many, 223; and the Second World War,
224; Gandhi in, and his Jewish friends,
238-9;'silent and insidious' opposition
to Jews of, 238;Jewish opponents to
apartheid in, 259; and a motor-car
racing champion, 262; a Jew from,
researches into Alzheimer's disease, 362
Soviet Jewry: a prophesy concerning,
227; the campaign for, 252-3, 287
Soviet Union: a Jewish prisoner in, 41;
Jews from, in the Spanish Civil War,
209- IO;Jews of, in the Second World
War, 220, 224; and Palestine, 242; and
the emergence ofIsrael, 246, 25I;Jews
in, emigrate to Israel, 250;Jews in,
under Communism, 252-4, 287; a
pioneering visit to Jews of, 258; a
Jewish basketball champion in, 262;
human rights critics of, 266; help for
Jews in former regions of, 267; and
the festival ofSimhatTorah, 289; and
'who is aJew', 371
Spain:Jews in, I06, I09; conquered by
Islam, II4, II7;Jewish emissaries in,
117; a Jewish golden age in, II 8-9; anti
Jewish measures in, 120, 126;Judah
Halevi leaves, for the Land ofIsrael,
130; Nahmanides forced to leave, 131;
Jews expelled from, 132-3; and the
Jews ofKhazaria, 147; expulsion of
Jews from, praised, 153; and Disraeli's
ancestors, I68;and the Jews of the
NewWorld, 173; the fate of the Jews
of, discussed in Berlin, 213; and the Kol
Nidrei prayer, 278-9; Moses ibn Ezra
from, 282; the expulsion from, and the
fast of the Ninth of Av,290;Joseph
Caro among the expellees from, 320;
and an exponent of gematria, 324
Spanish Civil War (1936-9): and the
Jews, 209-II; and a Jewish
photographer, 235; and a suicide, 241
Index 45 1
Spanish Inquisition: and the Jews, 126;
and the Jews ofIndia, 140, 141; and
theJews of the NewWorld, 173;and
the 'victory of Judaism' ,246
Spanish Testament (Arthur Koestler): 209
Special Forces Club (London): and a
Jewish heroine, 223
Speyer (Rhineland):Jews murdered in,
12 9 Spiegel, Margarete: Gandhi's assistant,
240; Gandhi's advice to, on
'Hitlerism', 241
Spielberg, Steven: his powerful film, 219
Spinoza, Baruch: and Ezra the Scribe, 73
Spitz, Mark: wins seven gold medals, 263
SS ('Protection Squads'): its power, 207
Stalin,].V.: and General Shtern, 210; and
General Smushkevich, 210; and
General Krivoshein, 210-1; and the
'Black Years' for Soviet Jews, 252-3;
and Ilya Ehrenburg, 371
Stalin Prize:Jewish winners of, 224, 260
Star of David: on war graves (1914-18),
201,203; in Normandy (1944), on war
graves, 222; a persistent symbol, 340-1
Star of Jacob: and a prophesy, 29
Stars and Stripes (flag): a Jew raises, in
Alaska, 359
Stars and Stripes (newspaper): a Jewish
reporter on, 224
State Department,Washington: puts
pressure on Switzerland, 176
Stein, Aurel: his journeys of exploration,
237 Steinberg, Saul: and his cartoons, 225
Steinsalz,Adin: translates the Talmud,
318; and the religious perspective, 364
Stern, Colonel Alfred: a tank pioneer,
200
Stern, Lazar (Emile Kleber): fights in
Spain, 210
Stern, Rabbi Jack: conducts services in
Alaska, 362
Stockholm (Sweden): Nobel Prize
winners in, 260
Story of Hannah: recounted, in song,
84 Strasbourg: an early Zionist pioneer
from, 183-4
Straus, Lazarus: opens a general store,
175-6 Structure and Form in the Babylonian
Talmud (Louis Jacobs): 318
Stuyvesant, Peter: and a 'deceitful race',
173-4 Suez Canal: 24, 136,256
Sukenik, Professor: and an ancient
mosaic, 105
Sukkot, Festival of: 72,284-8, 327
Sunday Times: and a war reporter, 224
Sunset Mines (Alaska): two Jews
manage, 360
Sura: a religious academy at, 109, 110,
115; and the Jewish New Year liturgy,
272,338
Surat (India):Jews in, 141
Susitna (Alaska): a Jewish summer camp
in,362
Suwalki (Russian Poland): a Jew from, in
Alaska, 36o
Suzman, Helen: opposes apartheid,
258-9
Sweden: and Raoul Wallenburg, 205,
229,232,234; the fate of the Jews of,
discussed in Berlin, 213; Danish Jews
find refuge in, 220; and the emergence
of Israel, 246
Switzerland: Jews in, 176; the fate of the
Jews of, discussed in Berlin, 213;
protects Jews in Budapest, 234
Sydney Opera House: and War and
Peace, 267
452 Index
synagogues: services in, 13,24; a
medieval disputation in, 131; as a
thank-offering, 142; in Poland, 151; to
be 'set on fire', 151-2; in London,
168; in Recife (Brazil), 172-3; not
allowed, in New Amsterdam, 173; on
the Mississippi, 175; plundered, in
Morocco, 181; and Kristallnacht, 208;
and the Holocaust, 212; in Aden,
burnt to the ground, 254; and the
Day of Atonement, 274-81; and the
seventh day ofSukkot, 284-5; and
the festival of Simhat Torah, 286-7;
and the Ninth of Av fast day, 287-9;
and the Passover recitation, 292; its
place in Jewish life and worship,
303-6; and women rabbis, 308;
officials of, 308-IO; special acts of
worship in, 3IO-I; and Purim, 310;
and the Five Books of Moses, 316;
and a quorum (minyan), 329-30; and
circumcision, 331; and the Bar
Mitzvah, 331-2; in Wlodawa, 337;
and the Tallit (prayer shawl), 339; and
the menorah (candelabrum), 340-1;
and the Havdalah service, 351; in
Alaska, 360, 362; in Cochin, 372; in
Delhi,373
Syria: and King David, 40; and Solomon,
43,48; and the Sea of Galilee, 49;
attacked, 58; overrun, 68; Seleucids
forced back into, 82; ruled by Rome,
85; and Peter, 94; and Gamaliel II, 98;
and Pescennius Niger, I07; Christian
fanatics from, II I; conquered by
Islam, II4; and the 'Damascus Affair',
176; and France, 22 I; and Palestine,
242; troops from, in Palestine, 248; and
the Six-Day War (1967),253; and the
October War (1973),251,277; and
peace with Israel (yet to come), 251;
emigration of Jews from, 254; the
'gossiper stands in', 329
Syria-Palaestina:Judaea renamed, IOO; a
Jewish community leader in, I03;
taxation in, I06
Szekely, Eva: her Olympic gold medal,
234 Szenes, Hanna: her heroism and her fate,
223
Tabernacle, the: services at, 29; propriety
at, 30
Taffet,Jakub: his fate, 215
Taffet, Teofil: his fate, 215
Tager, Mark: his early death, 336
Tahpanhes (Nile Delta): exiles in, 71
tallit (prayer shawl): 338-9
Talmud: the centrepiece of Jewish
learning, I04, I09, 121; and Rashi, 122;
and Maimonides, 128; and a medieval
disputation, 131; and a scholar 'fluent
in', 149; 'blasphemy' in, 152; and the
Jewish Enlightenment, 161; and
respect for doctors, 265; translations
of, 318; and good deeds, 326
Tanakh (the Jewish Bible): II3
Tangier:Jews of, unscathed, 3I4;Auntie
Fori's uncle Louis emigrates to, 368
Tank Corps:Jews in, 202
tanks: and a Jewish colonel, 200
Tappuah: a town, destroyed, 57
Tarfon, Rabbi: and the Exodus, 24; and a
prayer for mourners, 335
Tarnopol (Galicia): and the Jewish
Enlightenment, 164
Tarragona (Spain): a Jewish' city, II8
Tarshish:Jonah sails to, 280
Tarsus: Saul Oater Paul) born in, 93
Tartars: devastate Jerusalem, 131
Tashlikh: the casting of sins in the water,
276
Index 453
Taza (Morocco):Jews murdered in, 181
Tefileen, Danny: imprisoned, 339
tefillin (phylacteries): 72, 339
Teheran: xiv
Tel Aviv: an ultra-Orthodox suburb of,
100; recruits from, 203; the State of
Israel proclaimed in, 249; the 'Jewish
Olympics' held near, 262
Tel Aviv-Jerusalem railway: 99-100
Tel Aviv University: 251, 269
Telushkin, Rabbi Joseph: reflects on the
'evil tongue', 328; recounts a Hasidic
story, 329; and the religious
perspective, 364
Temple, the: and Cain and Abel, 6; and
the Song of Moses, 25; and Jerusalem,
40,43-4; and the Queen of Sheba, 44;
and Solomon, 43-4, 46; its treasures,
48,49-50,57,65; restored, 61;
stripped, 65; pagan altars in, 66;
purified, 66-7; prophesies read out in
front of, 68; pillaged, 68; burnt down,
70,74; and the Pilgrim Festivals, 72,
74; and Nehemiah, 73; and High
Priest Menelaus, 75; and the
Hasmoneans, 82, 84; and Herod,
89-90; and Jesus, 91,92; and Agrippa
I, 95-6; and the priestly families, 103;
and the Jewish religion, 104;' My pity
collects .. .', 130;Jews mourn over
ruins of, 131; and the Day of
Atonement, 275; and Sukkot, 282,
285; and the fast of the Ninth of Av,
290,291; and the festival ofHanukah,
298; and the 'eternal light', 304-5; and
the Bet Din (rabbinical court), 309;
and the New Moon, 310; and the
dietary laws, 322; and a mitzvah, 327;
and the wedding ceremony, 333; and
ReformJudaism, 347; and the
Sabbath, 353, 354
Temple Mount (Jerusalem): 55, 89,290,
291,303,344 Ten Commandments: 27-8, 29-30, 31,
32; and a joyous festival, 283
Ten Days of Penitence: see index entry
Days of Awe
Ten Plagues: in Egypt, 22-3; recalled at
Passover, 295
Tenth Legion: stationed outside
Jerusalem, 106
Terah:Abraham's father, 8,9,10
Thatcher, Margaret: 205; her parents' act
of kindness, 208; and two Jewish
Cabinet Ministers, 264
'The Lord hath done great things .. .':
351
Theatre of the Revolution (Moscow): its
Jewish deputy director, 210
Theodosius I, Emperor: and Christianity,
110
Theodosius II, Emperor: persecution
under, 110
Theresienstadt Ghetto: teenagers and
children in, 216-7; a survivor of, living
in Alaska, 363
Thirteen Principles of Faith
(Maimonides): 128
This Is My God (Herman Wouk): 128
Thrace: Herod takes mercenaries from,
87 'Throw her down ... ': 56
Tiberias (Sea of Galilee): a religious
academy at, 103; and Christianity, 110; a
Jewish host in, 112; Maimonides buried
in, 128;Jews flourish in, 134;Jewish
land purchase at, 183; battle for, 248
Tibet: a protest against cultural
repression in, 268
Tibni: fails to become king, 51
Tiglath-pileser, King: Israel subservient
to, 58; attacks again, 59
454 Index
Tigris River: xiii, 59,63,72,109, 1I5
Tipu Sultan: and his Jewish captive,
142-3
Tirzah: a capital, besieged, 51
Tisha b'Av (Ninth ofAv): a day of
mourning, 99;' cancelled', by a false
Messiah, 155; in synagogue, 290-1; and
the Reform movement, 347
Tiszaeszlar (Hungary): a 'blood libel' in,
230
Titus: conquers Jerusalem, 96
To Have and Have Not (film): a star in,
224
Toledo (Spain):Jews of, welcome
Muslims, 1I7;Joseph Caro born in,
320
Toller, Ernest: his career and fate, 241;
Nehru's obituary of, 241
Tolstoy Farm (near Johannesburg):
loaned to Gandhi by a Jew, 238
Torah, the: in its entirety, 90-1; to be
studied at Yavne, 98; and Judah ha
Nasi, 104; and Rabbi Nathan, 107; and
Saadiah Gaon, 116; and Maimonides,
I28; and a false Messiah, 155; and
Hasidism, 159; and the Jewish
Enlightenment, 161; and the festival of
SimhatTorah, 288; 'milk and honey',
299;'a tree oflife', 306, 317;a prayer
for the well-being of students of, 306;
and Purim, 313;'ofMoses', 315-6;
immutability of, and 'changes' in, 316;
'a fence around' (and the dietary
laws), 321-2; and gematria, 324; and
good deeds, 325; and charity, 325; and
'the evil tongue', 328--9; and the Bar
Mitzvah, 332; and the mezuzah, 342;
and the yad (pointer), 342-3; and 'The
Immersion of Ezra' , 344; and the
Jewish people, 364; and the Jewish
'legacy to mankind', 365
Torah Min-Hashamayim (Teaching from
Heaven): 113,316,346
'Torah of Moses': 315-6
Torah if the Earth: 4, 000 Years of Ecology
in Jewish Thought (Arthur Waskow):
293 Toronto: and 'Mr. Khazar', 146; a true
heroine from, 253; a boxing champion
from, 261; a rabbi from, and a 'voice of
pain', 291; Hanukah Websites listed by
a producer from, 299-300
Toulon:Jews of, massacred, 124
Toulouse:Jews in, 109
Trachonitis: Herod establishes his
authority over, 88
Trajan, Emperor: and Jesus's great
nephews, 93
Transjordan: and Palestine, 242, 248, 249,
25 1
Transylvania: a deportee from, wins
Nobel Prize, 260
Treblinka: a site of mass murder, 214;
revolt at, 2 I 8
'tree oflife' (the Torah): 306, 317
'Trench Poems' (Isaac Rosenberg): 201
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire (New York): 178
Trier (Rhineland):Jews murdered in,
129
Trinity, the: and the 'divine right' of
kings, 37
Tripoli (North Africa): a wartime
Passover in, 222
Tripolitania: anti-Jewish measures in,
181;Jews attacked in, 247
Tripura:xv
Troyes (France): Rashi born in, 122
Tsarist Russia: see index entry Russian
Empire
tsitsit (fringes): 338--9, 353
Tu Bi'Shvat (the New Year for the
Trees): 291-3
Index 455
Tunis:Jews killed in, 180; and 'Arab
Jews', 256
Tunisia: a centre for Jewish religious
study in, II8;Jews attacked in, 254
Turkey: xiii, 8;Jewish exiles in, 72; a
successful intervention in, 94; a false
Messiah travels through, 155; Russian
wars with, 165; Balfour Declaration
and, 198; First World War and, 199,
201 ; former Armenian regions of, 237;
and Palestine, 246;Armenians
massacred by, 257; and colourful
skullcaps, 338; photographs of, 361
Twelve Apostles: and Simon-Peter, 94
Twelve Tribes ofIsrael: 16,30,40,45; and
the Jews of China, 137, 138
Typhoid: a vaccine for, 200
Tyre (Lebanon): gifts from, 40; peace
with, 43 ;joins revolt, 64; becomes an
ally, 69
Ukraine:Jews in, 151;and the
Chmielnicki massacres, 154-5; and the
Haidamak massacres, 157; and the
Holocaust, 213, 228, 231; the son of
immigrants from, makes his
conducting debut, 224; two Jews
from, in Alaska, 360
Ukrainian Encyclopaedia: and two Jewish
generals, 210
Uman (Ukraine):Jewish self-defence in,
157;Jews given land near, 165
Umayyad dynasty: in Spain, II8
Underground Jerusalem (Charles Warren):
185 Union Army (United States):Jews fight
in, 176
'Unitary' State: for Palestine, 243
United Nations: xv; and Palestine,
244-7,249,255; and the Genocide
Convention, 257, 258; and a
Hungarian-born economic adviser,
264; and a New Zealand Jew, 263; and
a Canadian Jew, 264; and a Canadian
ambassador, 264; a founder of, wins a
Supreme Court victory, 266; a prayer
vigil outside New York mission of,
339 United Nations Commission on Human
Rights: and Rene Cassin, 199
United Nations General Assembly: and
the emergence ofIsrael, 245
United Nations Human Rights
Commission: two American activists
on, 267
United Nations International Children's
Emergency Fund (UNICEF): and a
Nobel Prize, 261
United Nations Special Committee on
Palestine (UNSCOP): 244-5
United Partisan Organization (Vilna):
217-8
United States: and assimilation, 88;
Jewish immigration to, 169, 170,
177-8, 186, 199;Yiddish in, 171;Jews
of, 171-8; intervenes on behalf of Jews
outside America, 176;' enlightenment'
in, 188; and the Jewish 'economic
problem', 191 ; Jews of, fight in First
World War, 199,201; recruits from,
203; 'half-Jews' in, 206;Jewish
volunteers from, in Spain, 2II; a
Holocaust survivor in, reflects, 218-9;
Jews from, and the Second World War,
221; a Hasidic leader finds refuge in,
224-5; a cartoonist reaches, 225; a
historian finds refuge in, 226; and the
emergence ofIsrael, 246; Soviet Jews
emigrate to, 253 ;Jews reach, from
Egypt, 255;Jews in, in anti-segregation
struggle, 258; and a Yiddish writer's
Nobel Prize, 259;Jewish sporting
Index
United States (Continued):
prowess in, 261-2; prominent Jews of,
265-7; a headmistress from, in Warsaw,
268; its relations with Britain, and the
Book of Ruth, 284; troops of, enter
Buchenwald, 309; Bar Mitzvah
journeys from, 332; MenorahJournal
published in, 341; and the Jews of
Alaska, 359
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
(1948): a Jew drafts, 260
University College, London: and a
European journey, 337
University ofWashington (Seattle): a
graduate of, 359
unleavened bread: at Passover, 292
Upper Silesia: 188
Ur (Mesopotamia): Abraham born in, 9
Uriah the Hittite: and King David, 41
Ut-Napishtim: becomes a god, 9
Vajpayee, Atal: and the 'precious boon' of
rest, 355
Vambery,Arminius (Hermann
Vamberger): his adventurous life,
237
Vandals: no animus against Jews, 124
'Vanity of vanities ... ': 285
Vasco de Gama: 'The Jews killed our
Saviour. . .', 141
Venice: Polish Jews trade with, 150;
restrictions ended in, 163; a Hagaddah
from, 296; a pocket book published
in, 320
Verona (Italy): a Jewish partisan killed
near, 221
Vichy France: in Syria, 221; a Jewish
victim of, 256
'Vicky' (the cartoonist): 236
Victoria, Queen (of England): 42
Victoria Cross:Jewish winners of, 201,
202
Vidal Sassoon Centre for Anti-Semitism
(Tel Aviv): challenges Holocaust
denial,268-9
Vienna: Herzl in, 193, 198; Herzl's
remains taken to Jerusalem from,
250-1; the magazine Menorah
published in, 341; a Jew from, makes
his way to Alaska, 361;Auntie Fori's
brother escapes to, 369
Vietnam Folly (Ernest Gruening): 361
Vietnam War: a Jewish Senator opposes,
360-1
Vietnamese restaurants: kosher, in Israel,
322
Vilna:Jews of, 146; a religious
confrontation in, 160; the fate of a
university graduate from, 216; a song
of defiance in, 217; liberated, 218; and
the Yiddish Scientific Institute
(YIVO) , 227; and a 'family' Purim,
314-5 Vilna Gaon: see index entry Elijah, Gaon
ofVilna
Vilnius: 171-2
Vincennes (Indiana): a pioneering store
in, 176
Virgin Mary, the: and the 'Maccabean
Martyrs', 80
Visigoths: persecutions by, 278-9
Vitebsk (Tsarist Russia): a Hasidic
emigrant to Galilee from, 157
Vladimir: a Russian ruler, 147
Vogel, William M.: a friend of Gandhi,
239 Volchko (a Jewish customs-holder):
praised, 150
Volhynia: and the Holocaust, 213
Volterra,Vito: an airship pioneer, 200
Index 457
Vulgate (Latin Bible): and Moses's horns, German ambassador in, no handshake
28 for, 373
Wadowice (Poland): a doctor from, and
his fate, 2 15
Wailing Wall: see index entry Western
Wall
Wales: and Canaan, 32
Wall Street (New York): a Jewish pioneer
on, 174
Wallenberg, Raoul: his Jewish ancestor,
205,232; a 'Righteous Gentile', 229,
232,235
Wanamaker, Sam: leaves the United
States for Britain, 267
Wannsee (Berlin): mass murder discussed
at, 213
War of Attrition (1969-70): and Israel's
Memorial Day, 300
War OfI8I2: 174
Warren, Charles: and Jewish settlement
in Palestine, 185
Warsaw:Jews of, 146; and a Polish
language school for Jews, 164; the
discoverer of vitamins born in, 199;
the fate of a doctor from, 215; a
historian of, emigrates to the United
States, 226; a lecturer in, perishes, 227;
the Jewish cemetery in, 227; a new
Jewish school in, 268; a Jew from, in
Alaska, 360
Warsaw Ghetto: 212, 216; revolt in, 217,
225; the fate of a historian in, 227; the
day of the uprising in, becomes a day
of memorial, 302; a photograph from,
and a 'feeling of guilt', 373
Washington D.c.: and Jerusalem, 40; the
Jews of, 60; B. K. Nehru in, 59, 172,
205,259; and a proposal to take in
Jewish refugees to Alaska, 363; the
Washington, George: offers the Jews
'goodwill', 174, 177
Waskow, Arthur: and ecology in Jewish
thought, 293
Watch on the Rhine (Lillian Hellman): in
wartime New York, 224
'We survive!': 217
wedding ceremony: 303, 333
Weidenfeld, George: and 'Jewish
Geography', 361
Weil, Simone: a survivor, and her
distinguished career, 263-4
Weinreich, Max: in Vilna and New York,
227
Weiss family: emigrate to the United
States, 230
Weissensee Jewish Cemetery (Berlin):
Europe's largest, 227
Weisskopf,Victor: a Nobel Prize winer,
261
Weisz, Richard: a Hungarian gold
medallist, 234
Weisz,Victor: his cartoons, 236
Weizmann, Ezer: a future President, 189
Weizmann, Chaim: a 'Pripet Marsh' Jew,
146, 171; 'Let us carry our banner to
Zion ... ', 189; and the Balfour
Declaration, 189, 198,204; a forest in
honour of, 293
Weizmann Institute (Israel): research at,
362
Werfel, Franz: and the fate of the
Armenians, 237
Werth, Alexander: his war reporting,
224
Wessely, Naphtali Herz: and the Jewish
Enlightenment, 161; opposes Yiddish,
162; supports Hebrew, 163
458 Index
West Bank (of the Jordan): Palestinian Wilson, Harold: and Soviet Jewry, 264
refugees in, 249
West London Synagogue: Hugo Gryn
at, 145
West Point (Military Academy): a Jewish
chaplain at, 327
Western Front (I9I4-I8);Jewish war
graves on, 201
Western Wall ('Wailing Wall'): 89; and
the fast of the Ninth of Av, 291; and
Jerusalem Day, 303; Bar Mitzvah
journeys to, 332
Westphalia:Jews of, granted
emancipation, 163
White House (Washington): and Middle
East peacemaking, 251; and a festive
hanukiyah, 298-9
'White Jews' (ofIndia): 141, 142-3
White Russia: see index entry Byelorussia
White Sox (baseball team): and the
Jewish High Holy Days, 262
'White Terror': in Hungary, 231
Whitechapel (London): recruits from,
203 'whither thou goest, I will go ... ': 282
Widal, Fernand: discovers a vaccine,
200
Widder, David Ganos Giszkalay): poet
and editor, 233
Wieliczka (Poland): a deportation from,
215 Wiesel, Elie: a survivor, wins Nobel
Prize, 260; 'Let us reject ...
fanaticism ... and racial hate', 267
Wigoder, Geoffrey: his reflections on
Hasidism, 158; his dictionary, 205, 206;
and Karl Marx, 206
Wilde, Henry: a survivor, living in
Alaska, 363
Wilderness of Sinai: Children ofIsrael
in, 25-30
wine bottles: and two Israelite kings, 47
wine-growing: a Jewish activity, 122, 123,
124,146
Winston, Robert: a pioneer, 265
Wisconsin (USA): a trader in, 175
wisdom: and Solomon, 42-3; and
Solomon's successors, 49
Wissotsky, Klonymus Wolf: a salesman
for, and the Sabbath, 358
Wittenberg, Henry: an Olympic gold
medallist, 262
Wittgenstein, Ludwig: fights in First
World War, 199
Wlodawa (Poland):Jewish artifacts in,
337 World Jewish Relief: helps Jews in
former Soviet Union, 268
World Ort Union: gives technological
training, 268
World Union of Jewish Students:
provides leadership programmes, 268
Worms (Rhineland): Rashi studies in,
122;Jews murdered in, 129; an
exponent of gematria in, 324
Wormser, Olivier: his distinguished
career, 263
Wouk, Herman: and Maimonides, 128
Writers' Guild of Great Britain: a
President of, 267
Wsielub (Byelorussia): the fate of a
doctor in, 216
Xerxes, King (of Persia): 3II, 312
yad ('hand'): a pointer used in
synagogue, 342-3
Yad Mordechai: a kibbutz, 226
Yad Vashem (Holocaust memorial and
museum): an annual ceremony of
remembrance at, 302
Index 459
Yadin,Yigael: and Masada, 97,344; his
father's journey to Galilee, 105; in
Israel's War oflndependence, 248
Yarmuk river: and the Jews of Palestine,
III
Yathrib: see index entry Medina
Yauch, Adam: and Tibet, 268
Yavne:Jews forced to live in, 97;Jewish
teaching in, 98, 326; closed down, 100
Yehiel ben Binyamin: and the 'evil
tongue', 328
yellow star: compulsory, 212
yellow turban: compulsory, 116
Yemen: a Queen from, 44;Jews of, 116,
I28, 135, 181;Jews emigrate to
Palestine from, 181;Jews emigrate to
Israel from, 250; anti-Zionist feeling
in, 254; and the 'heavenly Jerusalem',
357 Yenuka ('Child'): and Jewish mysticism,
319 yeshiva (rabbinical college): in Cracow,
150
Yesud ha-Ma'alah: a Jewish village in
Palestine, 188
Yiddish: a Jewish language, 121, 146; and
Hasidism, 159; and the Jewish
Enlightenment, 162; opponents of,
162; phrases in, 165,312; and Jewish
schools, 166; and Russian Jewish life,
171; and Jews on the move, 171-2; in
America, 178; and the Spanish Civil
War, 209; and the churban (Holocaust),
211; King Lear in, 224; a historian of,
227; and a Nobel Prize, 259; and a
Passover Hagaddah, for survivors of
the Holocaust, 297; and Purim, 315;
and 'minyan men', 330; and a prayer
for the new week, 352
Yiddish Scientific Institute (YIVO): in
Vilna and New York, 227
Yi-Fan: a Chinese-Jewish name, 139
Yizkor (memorial service): 281, 306
Yolande, Queen (of Provence): protects
Jews, 124
Yom Kippur: see index entry Day of
Atonement
Yop! Kippur Katan (Small Day of
Atonement): 310-11
Yom Tov Lippman Heller: and additions
to the Torah, 316
Yomtob ofYork, Rabbi: and a Day of
Atonement hymn, 277
York (England):Jews massacred in,
275 YoungTurk Revolution (1908): and a
'secret' Jew, 156
Young Winston (film): 267
Yugoslavia:Jews of, and the Second
World War, 212, 220; refugees from, in
Palestine, 225
Yukon (Canada): two brothers go to
Alaska from, 359-60
Yung-kuang: a Chinese-Jewish name,
139
Zagreb (Croatia): and a 'minyan man',
330
Zamosc, Israel: and the Jewish
Enlightenment, 161, 162
Zar, Mordechai: a 'secret' Jew, 180
Zarephath: a widow from, 53, 54
Zealots: revolt against Rome, 96, 97
Zebulun: one of Jacob's sons, 16; and the
Jews of China, 138
Zechariah, Book of: and 'cheerful feasts',
291
Zedekiah: becomes King, 69; his rule, 69;
his fate, 69-70
Zeitlin, Joshua: an eastern 'Rothschild',
165
Zelk, Zoltan: a poet and Marxist, 233
Index
Zephaniah, the Prophet: and 'a day of
trumpets', 275
Zeus: a sacrifice to, 80; a refusal to
sacrifice to, 8 I
Zilpah: Isaac's concubine, I6, I7
Zimri: becomes king (for a week), 5I
Zinkin, Taya: her ancestors, I65
Zion: 'the daugther of', 60, 62;
'remembered', 70; 'mourners' of, 336
Zion Mule Corps: in action at Gallipoli,
202-3
'Zion, shall I not seek thee?': I30
Zionism: Hasidism and, I59; its origins,
I70,I82-3, I86, I87-9,I9I ,230;and
the Balfour Declaration, 203-4; and
Gandhi, 240-I; declared a crime in
Iraq, 255; and the Sabbath, 357
Zionist Congress (I897): I94, I97-8
Zionist Organisation: founded, I98
Zipporah: Moses' wife, 2I
Zohar, the: and Jewish mysticism, 3I9
Zolli, Chief Rabbi: converts to
Christianity, 205
Zoroastrians: and the Inter-Faith
Network (in Britain), 269
Zukor, Adolph: in Hollywood, 236
Zunz, Leopold: and 'Jewish Science',
345-6 Zyw, Izaak: his fate, and that of his
family,2I6