A Convenient Hatred: The History of Antisemitism (64 page)

Clermont-Tonnerre, count of,
171

Cohen, Meir,
59

Cold War,
311
,
314
,
325
,
329
,
335

Cologne, University of,
115
,
116

Columbus, Christopher,
108
,
110
–111,
113

communism,
242

Egypt, movement toward,
327

as a “Jewish plot,”
243
–244,
251
,
259

Communist Party, communists: Bolsheviks,
241
,
248

and Cold War,
318
–319;

and creation of Soviet Union,
241
–243;

Jews, attacks on,
243
–244;

participation of Jews in,
315
,
318
Poland, government of,
295

propaganda
318
–320;

as threat to Germany,
262
,
265
,
272
;

Community Security Trust,
346
–347

Comnenus, Alexius, Byzantine emperor,
55
,
63
–64

concentration camps
270
,
271

Eichmann, involvement in,
323

opening,
265

postwar uses,
291
,
292

and slave labor,
273

visits by Allies to,
287
,
289
.
See also
death camps; names of individual camps

Confessing Church,
268

Congress of Berlin,
200
–201,
203
,
219
,
246

Consistoire Central des Israelites (Central Consistory of French Jews),
175
,
191

Constantine, emperor,
31
–34,
39

Constantinople,
39
–40,
42
,
55
,
64
,
110
,
133
,
150

Constitution of Medina,
44
–45

conversions, forced: Christian Spain,
104
–105,
129
–131;

Crusades,
67
–70;

Mortara case,
197
–198;

and Muslim rule,
48
,
50
,
103

and ritual murder charge,
80
,
81

Russia,
216
–217

conversos
,
105
–107,
110
–111,
128
–133,
153

Coolidge, Calvin, U.S. president,
256

Copernicus,
128
–129

Copin,
82

Cordoba,
103
,
104

Cossacks,
148
,
236
–237

Coughlin, Father Charles,
253

Council for Internal Security,
301

Council in Nicaea,
33

court Jews,
163

Crémieux, Adolphe,
191
–195,
198
,
200
,
202
–203

Crimea,
316

Cromwell, Oliver,
166
–167

cross (as symbol of Christian faith),
31
–32,
52
,
55
,
197

Crossman, Richard,
306

crucifixion: of Jesus,
23
–24,
26
,
29
,
58
,
96
,
119
,
127

myth of Jewish responsibility for,
65
,
67
,
82
,
322

and ritual murder charges,
77
–78,
85

Roman Empire, as punishment in,
18
,
23
,
28

Crusades, crusaders,
55
,
64
–65,
119

battle cry,
176

call for,
63
–64;

Jewish communities, attacks on,
66
(map),
66
–70;

Jewish communities, effects on,
71
–72

Cuignet, Louis,
213
–214

Cyprus,
152

Cyrus, emperor of Persia,
9

Czechoslovakia,
248
,
270
,
290
,
297
,
302
,
318

D

Dachau camp,
265
,
291

Damascus,
41
,
95
,
184
–185,
190
,
199

Damascus affair,
191
,
194
,
196
–199

David,
8
,
58

David the
gabbai
,
69

Day of Judgment,
25
,
36
,
43
,
155

Dearborn Independent
,
251
,
252

death camps: concentration camps, use of as,
270
,
276
–277,
283
,
323

decision to build,
277

post-war accounts of,
286
–287,
291
.
See also
names of individual camps

decimal system,
57

Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen,
157
,
171

Ded, Aelward,
76
–77

defense, Jewish: Ancona, boycott of,
132
–133;

Black Death,
97

Crusades,
66
–69;

Damascus affair,
187
–195;

Holy Roman Empire,
81
,
85
,
91
,
115
,
122

kehillah, kehillot
,
145
–146,
165

Mortara affair,
197
–198;

Poland,
143
,
145
–146,
295
–296;

and ritual murder charges,
80
–81,
120
,
126

Russia,
222
,
225
–227,
230

Soviet Union,
315
,
320
–321,
324
–325;

United States,
251
–253;

World War I,
235
,
236
–237,
247
–248;

World War II,
283
–284,
291
.
See also
names of individual Jewish defense organizations

deicide charge: Christian efforts to refute,
119
,
125
–126,
127
,
322

early accusations,
31
,
36

as justification for persecution,
58

modern antisemitism, as component of,
341
,
346
–347;

role of the church,
65
,
67
,
127

Desbois, Patrick,
354
–355

desecration of the host, false charges of,
86
–87,
104
,
126
,
141
,
143

Dessau,
158

devil worship, false charges of,
36
,
58
–59,
78
,
106
,
125
–126

dhimmi
status,
49
,
50
,
52
–53,
102
–103,
151
,
154

Diaspora,
8
,
10
,
26
,
343

map, Jewish communities,
10

Diet of Augsburg,
122

Diet of Worms,
117
–118

Dionysios,
16
–17

displaced persons (DPs),
289
–291,
292
,
307

Disraeli, Benjamin,
203
,
219
–220

Dohm, Wilhelm von,
163
–165

Dominicans,
104
,
115
–116

Donin, Nicholas,
89
–90

Douglass, Frederick,
184

Draitser, Emil,
294

Dreyfus Affair,
209
–215

Dreyfus, Alfred,
209
–211

Drumont, Édouard,
208
–210

DuBois, Josiah,
283

duma
,
230

Durban, South Africa,
343
,
345
,
347

Dutch,
134

E

Easter,
33
,
58
,
89
,
228
–229

Eastern Orthodox Church,
55
,
64
,
150
,
215
,
251
,
279

Edict of Milan,
32

Edict of Tolerance,
165

education of Jews: Germany,
158
–160,
179
,
267

Russia
218
–219,
227
–228;

Universal Israelite Alliance schools,
198

Egypt, ancient,
9
,
11
–18

Egypt, modern: antisemitism,
325
–328;

anti-Zionism,
325
–326,
328

and Arab League,
308

and Britain,
240

Damascus affair,
190
,
195

and Israel,
310
,
327
,
330
,
334

Muslim Brotherhood in,
302
,
325
–326;

and Ottoman Empire,
185
,
194
–195;

Revolution,
327

Six-Day War and 1973 War,
329
–330;

and World War I,
103

and World War II,
302
;

Young Egypt movement,
302

Ehrenburg, Ilya,
315

Eichmann, Adolf,
323

Einsatzgruppen
,
274
–275

Einstein, Albert,
261
–262

Eisenhower, General Dwight D.,
286
,
287
,
292
,
328

Eleazar,
76
–77

Elephantine Island,
9
,
11
–14;

archives
10

Elijah,
58

Elizavetgrad,
220

Emicho, Count,
67
–69,
70

Enabling Act,
265

“end of days,”
24
,
29
,
37
,
125

England: debate over readmission of Jews,
166
–168;