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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

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