Abcarius Bey, Nasib, 125–126
Abcarius House, 125–127
Abraham, 173–176
Absalom’s Pillar, 17
admission committees for Jewish rural communities, 249
Agnon, S. Y., 95
Ahasuerus (King), 13
AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome), 152
Akiva, Rabbi, 172
Algeria, 255
Alignment Party, 83–84
Alterman, Nathan, 53
Altneuland (Herzl), 255
analogy, role of, 255
anti-Semitism, as justification for isolationism, 39–40
Appalachian Trail, 119
Aschheim, Steven, 306–307
Ashkenazic Jews, 110, 156, 178, 184, 214
assimilation, 241
atomic bombs, 115
Austria, 216
Avrushmi, Yona, 90
Azoulay, André, 247
Bach, Johann Sebastian, 306
back problems, author’s, 20, 74–75
Bakshi, Meir, 133
Bar-Lev, Haim, 84
bar mitzvah, 210
author’s children’s, 161
Avraham Burg’s, 24–28, 67, 144
preparatory lessons in Hebron yeshiva, 45–46
watches received at, 28
Battista, Gian, 221
Bauman, Zygmunt, 218–219
Bayit Vegan neighborhood, 30
Begin, Menachem, 53
Avraham’s 1982 meeting with, 78–80
at Avraham’s bar mitzvah, 26
peace process with Egypt, 67–71
thirst for popularity, 88
Beilin, Yossi, 101
Beit Hillel synagogue, 142
Beit She’an valley, 59–60
Bellgardt, Otto, 284
Ben-Gurion, David, 181–182, 236
Ben Ner, Avner, 48
Ben Tzruya, Yoav, 48
Ben-Zvi, Rachel Yanait, 53
Berlin, 306
author’s meeting with Helmut, 268, 278–279
author’s visits with son Noam, 253–254, 284–285
Berlin Marathon, 259–260
book burning in, 41
connection to its past, 234
Joseph Burg and, 145, 168, 190
Red Army and, 273–274
Zionist, 145
Berlin Wall, 50, 137, 221–222, 234, 238
Berlin Zoo, 253–254
betwixt and between, 288–289, 291, 299
“big ship” political strategy, 108
Bitton, Charlie, 214
Black Panthers, 214
blog, running, 129
Bnei Akiva youth movement, 37, 47, 49, 172
books
author’s library, 123–124
burning of, 41–42
Boutros-Ghali, Boutros, 69
branch, 47
Breaking the Silence, 200, 202
Bronfman, Edgar, 216
Bruno Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue, 200, 219, 241, 305
Buber, Martin, 95
Buddhism, 40–42
Burg, Avital (daughter of Avraham), 206
Burg, Itay (son of Avraham), 75, 82, 215
Burg, Joseph (father of Avraham)
Akiva Ernst Simon and, 143
on Arab-Israeli peace, 215
Avraham’s bar mitzvah and, 24–28
Avraham’s departure for military service, 60
Avraham’s joining of Labor Party, 88
Avraham’s politics and, 82, 85–88, 102
Avraham’s wedding day, 85–86
books of, 124
cousin Velvey and, 190–191
death and funeral of, 164, 166–170
diplomatic efforts of, 67–70
division of labor with spouse, 162–164, 297
God and, 169–170
hospital visit to Avraham (1983), 91
at international youth Bible quiz welcome, 164–165
lack of writing by, 128
language fluency, 182
Leibowitz and, 145–147
personal attributes of, 50–52, 82–83, 85, 128
prayers at Kotel, 20–21
religious faith of, 19–21
synagogue attendance, 142–143
travels of, 136–138
Zionist movement and, 22–23
Burg, Noam (son of Avraham), 253–254, 281, 283–284, 306
Burg, Rivka (mother of Avraham)
Avraham’s bar mitzvah and, 24–25
Avraham’s political views and, 81
Avraham’s return from war, 76
Avraham’s school play and, 10–11
books in the home, 124
cooking for the Sabbath, 44
division of labor with spouse, 162–164, 297
encouragement of Avraham to write, 190
friendship with Yael Burg, 81
generosity of, 129
HaOlam HaZeh and, 134
Hebron and, 182–189, 193, 200–201, 251
introduction to husband’s friends, 137
language fluency, 182
personal attributes of, 189, 191
preparation for respected guests, 125
religious identity and, 205
Tomb of the Patriarchs and, 200–201
Umm Shaker and, 193–194
Uzi cartridges, 9
on witches, 38
Burg, Roni (daughter of Avraham), 75, 82, 161–162, 258–259
Burg, Yael (wife of Avraham)
on Avraham’s Haaretz interview, 257
as childhood girlfriend of Avraham, 32, 35–36, 39, 49, 54
friendship with Rivka Burg, 81
immigration from France, 35, 223
burning books, 41–42
Bush, George W., 132
Camp 80, 60–61
The Capuchin Tomb (Roth), 304
Carter, Jimmy, 68
cedar of Lebanon, 266–268
Chabad movement, 154
Chanukah, 210
author’s love of holiday, 10
songs, 11–13
transformation of holiday, 11–13
Christian Phalangists, 82
circumcisions, 96–97
citizenship, French, 224–225
Cohen, Haim, 44
Cohn-Bendit, Danny, 222
collective, 23, 39, 66, 128, 155, 283, 286, 291
College for Jewish Heritage, 144
confederation of Israel and Palestine, 245–246
conscious pariahs, 286
corruption, political, 100, 112
crashing airliner analogy, 294–295
Davar (newspaper), 88
David (King), 17
Dayan, Moshe, 68, 127, 235–236, 238
Days of Awe, 82
deception, by government offices, 80
delicacy, 86
Demnig, Gunter, 238
democracy
future of liberal democracy, 231
in Israel, 53, 167, 177–178, 228, 256, 293
disagreement, 254
Döblin, Alfred, 259
Document of Ten, 100–102
d’Olmo, Gertraud Auer Borea, 200–202, 219, 221, 241, 305
Dome of the Rock, 17
dreidels, 10
Dresden, 3, 137, 151, 171, 190–191, 215, 251
Dubois, Marcel, 95
Dung Gate, 18
education, author’s
musical, 25
Eichmann, Adolf, 127, 253, 277
Einstein, Albert, 234
Eisner, Isi, 77
Eldad, Israel, 95
Eliav, Arie Lova, 287
Elon Moreh, 64
Enlightenment, 150
environmental damage, 267
ephod, 182
Epstein, Baruch Halevi, 19–20
leftist worldview, 176–177
ethnic separation, 95
ability for renewal and reinvention, 220
as body of ideas, 223
as continent of peace, 216, 220
militaries of, 216
as society of differences, 218–219
Swiss banks, 216–217
Zweig on destruction of, 301–308
See also specific locations
European Jewry, 52, 211–212, 216, 223, 287
family, 155–156
Farage, Nigel, 302
Festival of Lights, 11
Flusser, David, 95
fog of war, 76
four-hundred-thousand-people protest, 86
Gadamer, Hans-Georg, 219
Gamasi, Muhammad Abdel Al Ghani, 69
Gebirtig, Mordechai, 27
gentiles
author’s earliest experiences with, 39
gentleness, 85–86
Germany, 259–261
chosen race, 293
defeat in World War II, 228
Dresden, 3, 137, 151, 171, 190–191, 215, 251
Israel compared to, 255–256
Joseph Burg and, 3, 22, 28, 137, 140, 145, 190–191, 215
Nazi, 155, 250–251, 259–260, 269–271, 274, 277, 279, 284
protests against in Jerusalem, 253
See also Berlin
girlfriends, 39
Go Forth doctrine, 173
God Is Back (Burg), 132
Goldstein, Baruch, 193
good and bad, separation of people into, 150, 155
Gordon, Judah Leib, 150
Gouri, Haim, 53
Greater Israel, 49, 54, 64, 71, 78, 198
Grunzweig, Emil, 90
Gur, Mordechai, 70
Gush Emunim, 110
Haaretz (newspaper), 257
halachic argument, 26–27
Haman, 13
hamantaschen pastries, 13
Hanita, 64
HaOlam HaZeh (news magazine), 134
Har-El synagogue, 7
Har-Zion, Meir, 48
harvest, celebration of, 14
Hashomer Hatzair youth movement, 47
Hatzofeh (newspaper), 36
health service organizations, 100
Hebrew language, 181–182, 207, 209–211
Hebrew University, 306
Hebron
author’s visits to, 195–197, 200–203
Dan Pell and, 198–200
massacre in 1929, 3, 50, 185–189
Rivka Burg and, 182–189, 183, 200–202, 251
Tomb of the Patriarchs massacre (1994), 193
ultra-Orthodox yeshiva, 25
heder, 25
Heine, Heinrich, 41
Helmut, life story of, 269–279
heroes, 13
Herzliya Gymnasium, 139–140, 168
Herzog, Avigdor, 25
Herzog, Chaim, 127
Hesse, Hermann, 35
Hillel, school of, 297–298
Histadrut labor federation, 83
Hitler, Adolf, 255, 270–274, 301–302
Hitler Youth, 270–271
holidays, 13–14
Holocaust, 215–218, 233, 260–261, 281–283, 287
Israel founding and, 52
legacy of, 249–255
March of the Living, 283–284
Swiss banks and, 216
Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial, 167–168
The Holocaust Is Over; We Must Rise from Its Ashes (Burg), 285, 305
Holocaust Memorial Day, 283–284
hot plate, electric, 43–44
hot water dispenser, 43–44
house, Avraham Burg’s childhood, 125–127
Hula Lake, 266–267
human sacrifice, culture of, 173
identity, 23, 42–43, 71, 108, 149
complex European, 222
Jewish, 205, 210, 212, 218, 292
from local to global, 205–231
names and, 172–173
view through national prism, 174
Independence Day, Israel’s, 13
Isaac, 173–175
Ishmael, Rabbi, 172
Israel Defense Forces (IDF), 56, 61, 77, 199
Israel Institute for Sacred Music, 25
Israeli-Egypt peace process, 67–71
Israeli-Jordanian peace agreement (1994), 242
Issa (Palestinian activist), 202
Italy, 228–229
Jacob-Israel, 174
Jacoby, Jonathan, 151
Japan, author’s visit to, 40–42
Jerusalem
dividing wall, 221
Jewish Agency
Burg as chairman of, 14–15, 165, 216, 252
children’s march to headquarters of, 14
packages from, 4
The Jewish Century (Slezkine), 293–294
Jewish culture, 149, 158, 175, 250, 254, 288, 293, 296–299
Jewish law, 39, 43, 45, 96, 286, 297
Judaism
contemporary, 18, 172, 223, 292
as a cultural civilization, 149
genetic, 250
humane, 153
of pacifism, 9
redemption in, 107
Kahane Chai movement, 154
Kaplan, Eliezer, 127
Karlinsky, Nahum, 77–78
Katznelson, Berl, 287
Kidron, Avraham, 127
King, Martin Luther, 291
Kipnis, Levin, 14
author’s, 133, 135–138, 148–151
Joseph Burg’s wearing of, 139, 148, 150
pictures of Joseph Burg without, 138–139
Knesset
body composition of members, 130
Burg as speaker, 109, 117, 119, 225, 259, 264
Burg’s first term (1988–1992), 93–105
Burg’s leaving of, 120
nature of, 94–95
Kotel
cults attached to, 18
prayers of author’s father at, 20–21
visit by author’s parents (1967), 8–9
Krastev, Ivan, 221–222
Labor Party
Burg’s discontent with, 109
conservative nature of, 111
convention (1991), 100–102
corrupt linkage to organizations, 100
Davar newspaper, 88
Document of Ten, 100–102
history of, 108
internal elections of 1992, 103
leadership race (2002), 112–113
partnership with Likud, 99
Yom Kippur War and, 76
Land of the Hart (Eliav), 287
Lapid, Tommy, 101
law
Jewish, 39, 43, 45, 96, 286, 297
pork, 96
Lazare, Bernard, 286
Le Pen, Marine, 302
left wing, Israel
absence of, 111
conservative nature of, 110–111
leftist
author’s self-identification as, 176
worldview, 176–177
Leibowitz, Yeshayahu, 18, 87, 95–96, 114, 144–147, 285–286
Leipzig, 306
LGBT rights, 159
liberal democracy, future of, 231
library, author’s, 123–124
Likud
partnership with Labor Party, 99
revolutionary conservatism, 53
Lindbergh, Charles, 230
living room, of Burg family home, 125
Maalouf, Amin, 42–43
Maariv (newspaper), 98
Maccabee, 11–12
Malchei Yisrael Square demonstration (1982), 83–85, 87
March of the Living, 283–284
marriage, mixed, 241
Masorti community, 211
matzah, 13
Mediterranean confederation, 247
meetings, 263
Mein Kampf (Hitler), 255
Mendelssohn, Moses, 306
menorah, author’s construction of, 9–10, 13
mentality of weakness, 17
Merkel, Angela, 303
Michaelis, Eugen, 77
military service, 60–66
minyan, 141
Mishkovsky, Zelda Schneurson, 172
modesty, 38
money, Jews and, 217
moon, new, 227
moon landing, 227
Mount Gerizim, 51
Mount Herzl, 13
Mount Moriah, 173
Mount Sinai, 19
Mount Zion, 17
Muggeridge, Malcolm, 118
music, author’s education in, 25
Nahal infantry brigade, 59, 61
names, 171–176
nationalism
American, 218
Palestinian, 17
Nazis, 155, 250–251, 259–260, 284
Helmut, life story of, 269–279
Hitler Youth, 270–271
Negev desert, 266–267
Netiv Meir yeshiva, 29
Neturei Karta sect, 47
Neue Synagoge, 284–285
New Israel Fund, 151
Nimrod, 171–173
Nissan, Reb, 46
Noam youth movement, 211
noncommissioned officers training, 61–62
North America, Jewish community in, 206–208, 210
Nuremberg, 271
occupied territories, 67–68, 233, 240
Olympic games (Munich 1972), 39, 259
orthodoxy
author’s repulsion from, 296
Doxa watch and, 28
paganism, Jewish, 132
Paideia, 211–212
Palestinians, 233–246
in Lebanon, 74
refugee camps, 82–83, 89, 233, 235, 238
Sabra and Shatila massacre, 82–83, 89
Palmach militia, 48
parachute jumps, 74
Pardes Hanna, 60
parental authority, 7
partition, 243–245
passport, European, 225
peace efforts
assumption of separation, 241
international, 240
Israeli-Egypt peace process, 67–71
Israeli-Jordanian peace agreement (1994), 242
three-story house analogy, 244–246
Peace for Galilee war, 79
peace industry, 240
peacekeeping forces, 216
Pell, Dan (son of Avraham), 198–200
Pell, Natan (son of Avraham), 289–290
Peres, Shimon, 64
after Labor Party internal elections of 1992, 103–104
Avraham’s joining of Labor Party, 87
on compromise, 111
at Malchei Yisrael Square demonstration (1982), 84, 87
Nobel Peace Prize, 111
opportunism and hypocrisy of, 104
promises from, 88
thirst for popularity, 88–89
Phalangists, 82
Pinchas, Phil, 211
PLO, in Lebanon, 75
politics
Avraham’s entry into, 80–81
basic strategies in, 108
Malchei Yisrael Square demonstration, 83–85
Pollard, Jonathan, 225–226
pollution, 107
pork law, 96
Prague, 305
prayer ritual, 141
prisoner of war camps, 273, 275–277
protests
four-hundred-thousand-people protest, 86
Malchei Yisrael Square demonstration (1982), 83–85, 87
street protest of February 1983, 89–91
public servant, 97–98
public speaking, 208–209
Purim, 13
purity of Jewish blood, 242
Putin, Vladimir, 229
rabbi yeshiva teachers, 45–46
after Labor Party internal elections of 1992, 103
author’s feelings toward, 15
at Malchei Yisrael Square demonstration (1982), 84
murder of, 178
Oslo accords, 177–178
“stinking maneuver,” 99
threats from, 103
Radetzky March (Roth), 304
Ramim, 45
Ramon, Haim, 100–101
Ratisbonne Monastery, 7
Red Army, 273–274
refugee camps, 82–83, 89, 233, 235, 238
refugees, 152, 219, 233, 236–240, 243, 303
religion and state, relationship of, 23–24, 87
Burg’s efforts toward separation of, 53, 95–96, 101–102, 146–147, 149
Burg’s writings on, 132
destructiveness of, 147
Labor Party and, 100–104
Peres’s position on, 103–104
religious extremism, 101
religious fundamentalism, 132
religious tolerance, lack of, 31
author’s leaving of political, 149
Avraham’s parents and, 22–23, 30, 55, 138, 145
children/youth of, 47–48
compromise as characteristic of, 47
Hanan Porat and associates, 64
Hatzofeh (newspaper), 36
joining with nationalist conservatives, 53
in Kfar Etzion, 49
Netiv Meir yeshiva, 29
secular Israeli community relationship with, 46
Simon’s critique of, 145
ultra-Orthodox community relationship with, 45–46
Yaakov Yosef Moshe Slonim and, 184
repentance, 278
reserve duty, 289
right of return, 239
right wing, Israel
extremist and innovative nature of, 110
Righteous Gentile, 179, 188, 252
ritual circumcisions, 96–97
Rosh Hashanah massacre (1982), 82–83
Rotberg, Ro’i, 235
Roth, Joseph, 304
running, by author, 107, 119, 129–132, 206–207, 259–260, 287–288
Russia, 272–276
Sabbath, observance of, 43–45, 124
Samaritan, 51
San Francisco area Jewish Community Federation, 151
Schmidt, Christoph, 234
Scholem, Gershom, 182, 282–283
Schulz, Martin, 222
Schweid, Eliezer, 230
Sebastia, 64
security, 246
Selassie, Haile, 126–127
separation, principle of, 241–243, 245
Sephardic Jews, 214
settlements, 37, 79, 110, 132, 140, 253
Begin’s meeting with women settlers (1982), 79
guarding by Israel Defense Forces, 199
Gush Emunim movement, 110
politics and, 231
in Samaria, 63
Shaker, Abu, 184–189, 191, 197, 202–203
shamash, 10–12
Shamir, Moshe, 53
Shamir, Yitzhak, 99
Shammai, school of, 297–298
Sharon, Ariel, 73–77, 89, 117–118
Shemi, Alon, 77–78
Shenhav, Yehouda, 247
Shimoni, David, 140
Shinui Party, 101
ships, allegory of, 108–109
shmichik, 117–118
Shohat, Nahshon, 129
shtetl, 111
Simon, Akiva Ernst, 142–143, 145
Sinai Campaign (1956), 66
Sinai Peninsula, 65–66, 68, 70–71
Burg family vacations to, 98–99
Singer, Israel, 216
Six-Day War (1967), 52, 75, 150
aftermath of, 15–17, 48, 50, 68, 110, 139, 147, 192, 195
author’s experiences during, 5–9, 15–17
World War II compared to, 228, 230–231
skepticism, 33–34
skullcap. See kippah
Slezkine, Yuri, 293–294
Slonim, Malka, 186–188, 193, 203
Slonim, Yaakov Yosef Moshe, 184–187
“small boat” political strategy, 108
Soldiers Against Silence, 78
songs
Chanukah, 11–13
marching, 12–13
patriotic, 37
sound archive, National Library, 25
Speer, Albert, 259
stumbling blocks, 238
Swaggart, Jimmy, 209
Swiss banks, 216–217
synagogue
author’s attendance of, 141–143
Talmud
burning of, 41
Joseph Burg’s teaching of, 140, 297
matriculation exam, 54–57
study of, 36–37
Tammuz, Benjamin, 294–295
Tapuah Junction, 289
Tchernichovsky, Shaul, 206
Tea Party, 231
tefillin, 24, 27, 63, 140, 167, 205
Tel Rumeida, 202
televangelist, 208–209
Temple, destruction of, 298
Temple Mount, 17
Temple movement, 54
Tennenbaum, Lea, 126
terrorist attacks in Jerusalem (1978), 33
Third Temple, 54
three-story house analogy, 244–246
Tibet, 264–266
Tisser, Velvey, 190–191
Tobianski trial, 127
Tomb of the Patriarchs, 193, 200–201
reading at bar mitzvah, 24
Shavuot celebration, 14
ultra-Orthodox, 25
in woman’s voice, 162
Torah Temimah (Epstein), 19–20
trade unions, 100
tragedy, constant wait for, 117
transitional word, 209
Tutu, Desmond, 292
Tzobel, Yaakov, 77
ultra-Orthodox
criticism of religious Zionism by, 46
hatred of, 101
Hebron yeshiva, 25
in Mea Shearim quarter, 47, 126
moralizers, 38
Neturei Karta sect, 47
politics/parties, 96–97, 101, 103
yeshiva teachers, 45
United Jewish Appeal, 4
United Nations Relief and Work Agency (UNRWA), 238
United States
assimilation, 218
author’s visits to, 151–153, 206–210, 213
individualism and competitiveness in, 229–230
Jewish community in, 151–153, 206–207
Uzi cartridges, use in menorah, 9, 13
Valley of Hinnom, 18
Vanunu, Mordechai, 115–116
Vessely, Baruch, 135
vest, army, 182
Vienna, 200, 219–222, 240–242, 301–308
Villa Lea, 125–127
walls and fences, 49–50
War of Independence (1948), 16, 31, 49, 239
wars, ending of, 15–16
Warsaw, 238
wedding, 157–160
of Roni and Ariel, 258–259
same-sex, 159–160
of Yael and Avraham, 67
Weizman, Ezer, 68
West Bank, 64, 73, 110, 200, 235, 239
Western Wall
cults attached to, 18
visit by author’s parents (1967), 8–9
Wilders, Geert, 302
witches, 38
women
equality, 165–166, 168–170, 176
exclusion and treatment of, 37–39, 141–142, 161
Jewish weddings and, 157–160
purity of Jewish blood, 242
reading and singing Torah, 162
World Jewish Congress, 216
The World of Yesterday (Zweig), 301, 304
World War I, 16, 228, 256, 307
World War II, 228, 247, 251, 272–276
World Zionist Organization, Burg as chairman of, 14–15, 216
writing, author’s, 128–129, 132
God Is Back, 132
The Holocaust Is Over; We Must Rise from Its Ashes, 285, 305
mother’s encouragement, 190
Xerxes I, 13
Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial, 167
Yarkon River, 107
Yellin-Steklis, Miriam, 95
Yemin Moshe neighborhood, 50
adult, 45
college-level, 55–56
matriculation exam in Talmud, 54–57
rabbi teachers, 45–46
ultra-Orthodox, 25
Yeshurun synagogue, 143
Yom Kippur War (1973), 59–61, 65, 76
youth movements
author’s, 35–37
Hashomer Hatzair, 47
Hitler Youth, 270–271
Noam, 211
Zionist movement
author’s parents and, 22–23
Chanukah songs and, 12
children’s Shavuot march and, 15
Hatzofeh newspaper, 36
Rabin and, 16
religious Zionism, 22–23, 36, 46–48, 53, 64, 70–71, 101, 138, 145, 149
Zygier, Ben, 225–226