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44.
Emile Marmorstein,
Heaven at Bay: The Jewish Kulturkampf in the Holy Land
(Oxford 1969), 142-3.
45.
For Ben Gurion’s struggles see Perlmutter,
op. cit
., 15-17, 131-5.
46.
Quoted in
ibid
., 145.
47.
Speech in the Knesset, 20 June 1977.
48.
‘With Gershom Scholem: An Interview’, in W. J. Dannhauser (ed.),
Gershom Scholem: Jews and Judaism in Crisis
(New York 1976).
49.
Marmorstein,
op. cit
., 80-9.
50.
Ibid
., 108ff.
51.
I. Domb,
Transformations
(London 1958).
52.
Solomon Granzfried,
Kissor Shulan ’Arukh
, ch. 72, paras 1-2.
53.
Leslie,
op. cit
., 52ff.
54.
Z. E. Kurzweil,
Modern Trends in Jewish Education
(London 1964), 257ff.
55.
Quoted in Marmorstein,
op. cit
., 144.
56.
Case quoted in Chaim Bermant,
On the Other Hand
(London 1982), 55.
57.
Quoted in
ibid
., 56.
58.
Quoted in Leslie,
op. cit
., 62.
59.
Numbers 5:2-3.
60.
Numbers 19:17-18.
61.
N. H. Snaith,
Leviticus and Numbers
(London 1967), 270-4.
62.
Immanuel Jacobovits,
The Timely and the Timeless
(London 1977), 291.
63.
I
Chronicles 28:19.
64.
For the arguments, see Jacobovits,
op. cit
., 292-4.
65.
Encyclopaedia Judaica
,
XV
994.
66.
Such as Richard Harwood,
Did Six Million Really Die?
(New York 1974) and Arthur Butz,
The Hoax of the Twentieth Century
(New York 1977).
67.
For the charges see Moshe Pearlman,
The Capture and Trial of Adolf Eichmann
(London 1963), appendix 633-43.
68.
Ibid
., 85.
69.
Ibid
., 627.
70.
Hanoch Smith, ‘Israeli Reflections on the Holocaust’,
Public Opinion
(December-January 1984).
71.
Quoted in John C. Merkle,
The Genesis of Faith: The Depth Theology of Abraham Joshua Herschel
(New York 1985), 11.
72.
Cohen,
op. cit
., 6-7.
73.
See the useful map, ‘World Jewish Population 1984’, in Howard Sachar,
Diaspora
(New York 1985), 485-6.
74.
H. S. Kehimkan,
History of the Bene Israel of India
(Tel Aviv 1937).
75.
For Indian Jews see Schifra Strizower,
The Children of Israel: The Bene Israel of Bombay
(Oxford 1971) and
Exotic Jewish Communities
(London 1962).
76.
Quoted in
Encyclopaedia Judaica
, ix 1138-9.
77.
P. Lévy,
Les Noms des Israélites en France
(Paris 1960), 75-6.
78.
Quoted in P. Girard,
Les Juifs de France de 1789 à 1860
(Paris 1976), 172.
79.
Domenique Schnapper,
Jewish Institutions in France
(trans., Chicago 1982), 167, note 22.
80.
Irving Kristol, ‘The Political Dilemma of America Jews’,
Commentary
(July 1984); Milton Himmelfarb, ‘Another Look at the Jewish Vote’,
Commentary
(December 1985).
81.
Quoted in Bernard D. Weinryb, ‘Anti-Semitism in Soviet Russia’, in Lionel Kochan (ed.),
The Jews in Soviet Russia
(Oxford 1972), 308; for Stalin’s anti-Semitism, see Svetlana Alliluyeva,
Twenty Letters to a Friend
(trans., London 1967), 76, 82, 171, 193, 206, 217.
82.
Quoted in Weinryb,
op. cit
., 307.
83.
See Peter Brod, ‘Soviet-Israeli Relations 1948-56’, and Arnold Krammer, ‘Prisoners in Prague: Israelis in the Slansky Trial’, in Robert Wistrich (ed.),
The Left Against Zion: Communism, Israel and the Middle East
(London 1979), 57ff., 72ff.
84.
See Benjamin Pinkus, ‘Soviet Campaigns against Jewish Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism’,
Soviet Jewish Affairs
iv 2 (1974); Leonard Schapiro, ‘The Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee and Phases of Soviet Anti-Semitic Policy during and after World War
II
’, in B. Gao and G. L. Mosse (eds),
Jews and Non-Jews in Eastern Europe
(New York 1974), 291ff.; Wistrich,
Hitler’s Apocalypse
, ch. 10, ‘The Soviet Protocols’, 194ff.
85.
Joseph B. Schechtman,
Star in Eclipse: Russian Jewry Revisited
(New York 1961), 80.
86.
W. D. Rubinstein,
The Left, the Right and the Jews
(London 1982), ‘The Soviet Union’, 180-99, gives numerous statistics.
87.
Philippa Lewis, ‘The Jewish Question in the Open, 1968-71’, in Kochan,
op. cit
., 337-53; Ilya Zilberberg, ‘From Russia to Israel: A Personal Case-History’,
Soviet Jewish Affairs
(May 1972).
88.
‘A Short Guide to the Exit Visa’, issued by the National Council for Soviet Jewry, London, 1986.
89.
D. M. Schreuder,
The Scramble for Southern Africa, 1877-1895
(Oxford 1980), 181ff.; Freda Troup,
South Africa: An Historical Introduction
(London 1972), 153ff.
90.
For the Jewish pioneers see Geoffrey Wheatcroft,
The Randlords: The Men Who Made South Africa
(London 1985), 51ff., 202ff. For the second generation see Theodore Gregory,
Ernest Oppenheimer and the Economic Development of Southern Africa
(New York 1977).
91.
Quoted in Wheatcroft,
op. cit
., 205 footnote.
92.
J. A. Hobson,
The War in South Africa: Its Cause and Effects
(London 1900), esp. part
II
, ch. 1, ‘For Whom Are We Fighting?’
93.
J. A. Hobson,
Imperialism: A Study
(London 1902), 64.
94.
V. I. Lenin, preface to
Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
(rev. trans., London 1934), 7. See also R. Koebner and H. D. Schmidt,
Imperialism: The Story and Significance of a Political Word, 1840-1960
(Cambridge 1965), 262.
95.
Artur London,
L’Aveu
(Paris 1968), quoted in W. Oschlies, ‘Neo-Stalinist Anti-Semitism in Czechoslovakia’, in Wistrich,
The Left Against Zion
, 156-7.
96.
Quoted in J. B. Schechtman, ‘The USSR, Zionism and Israel’, in Weinryb,
op. cit
., 119.
97.
Ibid
., 124.
98.
Quoted in Wistrich,
Hitler’s Apocalypse
, 207.
99.
Ibid
., 207-8; Emmanuel Litvinov,
Soviet Anti-Semitism: The Paris Trial
(London 1984).
100.
Howard Spier, ‘Zionists and Freemasons in Soviet Propaganda’,
Patterns of Prejudice
(January-February 1979).
101.
Quoted in Wistrich,
Hitler’s Apocalypse
, 219. See his entire chapter, ‘Inversions of History’, 216-35.
102.
R. K. Karanjia,
Arab Dawn
(Bombay 1958); quoted in Wistrich,
Hitler’s Apocalypse
, 177. See Y. Harkabi’s important compilation,
Arab Attitudes to Israel
(Jerusalem 1976).
103.
For instance
The Palestine Problem
(1964) published by the Jordanian Ministry of Education, and a handbook under a similar title put out by the Indoctrination Directorate of the United Arab Republic Armed Forces.
104.
Encyclopaedia Judaica
, iii 138, 147.
105.
D. F. Green (ed.),
Arab Thelogians on Jews and Israel
(3rd edn, Geneva 1976), 92-3.
106.
Wistrich,
Hitler’s Apocalypse
, 181.
107.
For Hitler’s relations with the Grand Mufti, see Joseph Schechtman,
The Mufti and the Führer: The Rise and Fall of Haj Amin el Huseini
(New York 1965).
108.
Quoted in Harkabi,
op. cit
., 279.
109.
For the events leading up to the resolution, see Daniel Patrick Moynihan,
A Dangerous Place
(Boston 1978), ch. 9, 169-99.
110.
Jillian Becker,
Hitler’s Children: The Story of the Baader-Meinhof Gang
(London 1977), 17-18.
111.
Silver,
op. cit
., 236.
112.
Final Report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Events at the Refugee Camps in Beirut
(Jerusalem 8 February 1983, English/Hebrew).
113.
Leon Roth,
Judaism: A Portrait
(London 1960).
114.
Joshua 1:9.
Aaron (brother of Moses)
Aaron of York
Abbasid dynasty
Abd al-Rahman
III
Abimelech (king)
Abimelech (son of Gideon)
Abrabanel, Isaac
abracadabra
Abraham; his date; as founder of Hebrew religion
Abraham ben David
Absalom
Aden, immigration to Israel from
Adler, Alfred
Adler, Hermann
Adler, Samuel
Adler, Victor
advertising, Jews and
Aelia Capitolina (Jerusalem,
q.v
.)
aggadah
Agudah
Agudath Yisra’el
Ahab
Ahad Ha’Am
aharonim
Ahimeir, Abba
Akiva ben Joseph, Rabbi
Albo, Joseph
Albright, W. F.
Alexander
II
, Tsar
Alexander the Great
Alexander Jannaeus
Alexandria
Alfasi, Isaac
Alfonso de Espina, Fra
Algeria, immigration to Israel from
Aliyah, First and Second
Alkalai, Rabbi Judah
Alliance Israélite Universelle
Allon, Yigal
Almohad dynasty
Almoravid dynasty
Alt, A.
Amarna Letters
Amaziah
Ambrose, Bishop, of Milan
American Jewish Committee
Americas, Jews in;
see also
United States
Amin, Idi
amoraim
Amos
Amsterdam
Anabaptism
Ancona
Ani Ma’amin
Anielewicz, Mordecai
Anti-Semitic League
anti-Semitism, persecution of Jews: in antiquity; Christian; in medieval Spain
passim
; Philo’s view of; Islamic; in medieval Europe (
see also
Spain
above
),
passim
; well-poisoning accusations; segregation of Jews,
see
ghettos; in early modern Europe; secular-intellectual; in nineteenth-century Europe; in USA; not a function of capitalism; in Europe in early twentieth century; in Nazi Germany,
see
Holocaust
and under
Hitler; in Soviet Union; in post-war France; in Arab world
Antioch
Antigonus (nephew of Hyrcanus
II
)
Antiochus
IV
Epiphanes
Antiochus
V
Eupator
Antiochus
VII
Sidetes
Antipater
Antwerp
apocalyptic texts
Apocrypha
Apollonius Molon
Aqaba, Gulf of
Arabia; Jews in;
see also
Yemen
Arabs: in First World War; attitude to Jews during British mandate; nationalism; Peel’s partition plan rejected by;
UN
partition plan rejected by; war with Israel after Independence; Palestinian refugees; continuing war against Israel; Camp David proposals rejected by; oil prices; growing influence at
UN
; continued refusal to negotiate with Israel; terrorism by; anti-Semitism
Arafat, Yasser
archaeology
Archelaus
Arenda system
Argentina, Jews in
Aristeas, Letter of
Aristotle
Ark (of the convenant)
Arlosoroff, Chaim
Armenia, Jews in
Artaxerxes
artists, Jewish
arts, Jews and the
Ascalon
asceticism
Ashdod
Asquith, H. H.
Assumptionists
Assyria
Astruk ha-Levi, Rabbi
Atonement, Day of
Attalus
Augsburg, Peace of
Augustine, St
Augustus, Emperor
Auschwitz
Australia and New Zealand, Jews in
Austria, Jews in
Averroes
Avicenna
Baader-Meinhof gang
Baal
ba’al shem
Ba’al Shem Tov (Israel ben Eliezer)
Babel, Isaac
Babylon, Babylonia; Jews exiled to; return from Babylon; Jewish community in
Baeck, Leo
Baer, Dov,
see
Dov Baer
Baghdad
Bakst, Leon
Balfour, A. J.
Balfour Declaration
ballet
Bamberger, Ludwig
Baniyas
Bank of America
Bank of England
banks,
see
money
Bar Kokhba, Simon
Bar-Lev, Haim
Barbados, Jews in
Baron, Salo
Barruel, Abbé
Barsauma
Baruch
Baruch, Bernard
Bassevi von Treuenberg, Jacob
Bauer, Bruno
Bauer, Otto
Bea, Augustin
Bebel, August
Be’er Toviyyah
Begin, Menachem
Begin, Ze’ev Dov
Beinart, Heim
Belgium, Jews in, Antwerp
Belloc, Hilaire
Belson
Belzec
Ben Gurion, David; his three principles; and Second World War; resistance to Britain; and establishment of state of Israel; opposition to Begin; and post-war reparations; Prime Minister of Israel; mentioned
Ben Sira,
see
Ecclesiasticus
Benaiah
Benda, Julien
Bene Israel
Benedict
XIII
, Pope
Benjamin, Walter
Benjamin of Tudela
Bentinck, Lord George
Berbers
Berenson, Bernard
Bergson, Henri
Berlin; Congress of
Berlin, Irving
Bernal, Ralph
Bernardino de Fletre
Bernardino of Siena
Bernstein, Eduard
Bertinoro, Obadiah ben Abraham Yare of
Bet She’arim
Betar (Jewish youth movement)
Betar (town in Judaean hills)
Beth-Shemesh
Bethel
Bevin, Ernest
Bialystok
Bible: as historical record; dating of events in; women in; depiction of individuals in; as statement of theology, God-man relationship; achievement as sign of virtue in; vivid detail in; canon, established version; critical of Jews; devils in; early modern criticism of;
see also individual books
Birnbaum, Nathan
Black Death
Blum, Léon
Boas, Franz
Bohemia, Jews in
Bolshevism, Jews identified with
Bomberg, David
books
Börne, Ludwig
Boston
Brandeis, Louis
Braun, Adolf
Brazil, Jews in
Breuer, Issac
Brit Habirionim
Britain, England: Jews in, to eighteenth century; Jews in, in nineteenth century; and Zionism,
see under
Zionism; Palestine mandate,
see under
Palestine; Second World War; immigration to Israel from; Jews in, post-war
broadcasting
Budapest
Bulgaria, immigration to Israel from
Bund, the
Byblos
Byzantine empire
Caesarea
Cairo; Fustat
calendar, Jewish
California
Caligula, Emperor
Calvin, Jean
Camp David
Canaan
Canada, Jews in, Montreal and Toronto
Canticles (Megillot)
Cantonist Decrees
Capernaum
capitalism
Carlyle, Thomas
Caro, Joseph
Carolingians
Carter, Jimmy
cathedocracy
Caucasùs, Jews in
Cecil, Lord Robert
celibacy
Céline
Central Conference of American Rabbis
Chagall, Marc
Chaldeans
Chamberlain, Joseph
Charles iv, Emperor
Charles
V
, Emperor
Charles
VI
, Emperor
Charles
II
, King
Chateaubriand, Vicomte de
Chelmno
Chesterton, G. K.
Chicago
Child, Sir Josiah
China, Jews in
Chmielnicki, Bogdan
Christiani, Pablo
Christians, Christianity: early; and Judaism,
see under
Judaism; Jews disliked, persecuted by; dogmatic theology; established in late Roman Empire; and Turks; Jewish conversion to, in nineteenth century; Jewish adoptions from Christian worship;
see also
Jesus Christ; Protestantism; Roman Catholic Church
Chronicles
Chrysostom, St John
Churchill, Lord Randolph
Churchill, Winston
cinema,
see
film industry
circumcision
Cistercian order
Ciudad Real
Claudius, Emperor
Clemenceau, Georges
Clement
VI
, Pope
Cochin Jews
Codex Alexandrinus
Codex Sinaiticus
Codex Vaticanus
Cohen, Rabbi Abraham
Cohen, Arthur
Cohen, Hermann
Cohen, Mordecai Zemah
Cohn, Ferdinand Julius
Cohn, Harry
Colon, Rabbi Joseph
Colorni, Abraham
Columbus, Christopher
concentration camps, death camps
Constantine, Emperor
Constantinople
conversos, see marranos
Córdoba
Corinthians, First Epistle to
Counter-Reformation
courts, Jewish
Cracow
Crémieux, Adolphe
crime, in USA
Cromwell, Oliver
Crusades
Cypros
Cyrus the Great
Czechoslovakia
Dachau
Damascus
Daniel
Daniel Deronda
(Eliot)
Darius
David, King
Dayan, Moshe
d’Holbach, Baron
Dead Sea Scrolls
Deborah, Song of Deborah
Decalogue, Ten Commandments
Decapolis
Defoe, Daniel
Deganya
Deir Yassin
Denmark, Jews in
Depression, Great
Deutero-Isaiah
Deuteronomy
Deutsch, Emmanuel
dhimmis
Dickens, Charles
Diderot, Denis
Dio Cassius
Disraeli, Benjamin
divorce
Dohm, Christian Wilhelm von