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

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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

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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

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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