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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

Dominican order

Donin, Nicholas

Dov Baer

Dreyfus affair

Drumont, Edouard

Dühring, Eugen

Dura Europus

 

Eban, Abba

Ebionites

Ebla (Tell Mardikh)

Eblon, King

Ecclesiastes

Ecclesiasticus (Wisdom of Ben Sira)

Eddison, Thomas

Eden, Anthony

Edom

education: in antiquity; in Israel

Edward I, King

Egypt (ancient); Exodus from, see under Israel; defeated by Babylon

Egypt (in Graeco-Roman period); Alexandria

Egypt (in Middle Ages); see also Cairo

Egypt (modern state): relations with Israel; Palestinian Arab immigration to; immigration to Israel from

Ehrenburg, Ilya

Enrich, Paul

Ehud

Eichmann, Adolf

Einhorn, David

Einsatzgruppen

Einstein, Albert

Eisenbeth, Maurice

Eisner, Kurt

Ekron (Philistine city)

Ekron (Zionist colony)

Elam

Elath, Eliahu

Elazar, David

Eliezer ben Yehuda

Eliezer ben Yose

Elijah

Elijah ben Solomon Zalman

Eliot, George

Elisha

Elisha ben Avuyah

Encyclopaedia Britannica

Engels, Friedrich

England, see Britain

enlightenment, the

Enoch

Ephraim Solomon ben Aaron

Ephron the Hittite

Erasmus

Esau and Jacob

Esdras

Eshkol, Levi

Essenes

Esther

Estonia

Ethiopia, Jews in

Etting, Solomon

eucharist

Eusebius

excommunication

exilarchs

Exodus (biblical book; see also Exodus under Israel)

Ezekiel

Ezra

 

Facchinetti, Giovanni Antonio

Falasha Jews

Falcon, Fernan

Falk, Samuel Jacob Hayyim

Farben (IG)

Farissol, Abraham

fasting

Fatah, Al-

Feisal, Emir

Ferdinand II, Emperor

Ferdinand I, King, of Aragon

Ferdinand II, King, of Aragon

Ferrer, Vicente

Feuchtwanger, Leon

film industry, cinema

Final Solution, see Holocaust

finance, see money

Finland, Jews in

First World War

Fisch, Harold

Flick, Friedrich

Flood, Deluge

Florus, Gessius

Forrestal, James

Fourier, François

Fox, William

France: Jews in, before the Revolution; Revolution, enlightenment, Napoleon; Jews granted equal rights with Christians; Jews in, in late nineteenth century; anti-Semitism and Dreyfus case, see Dreyfus; Second World War; immigration to Israel from; Jews in, post-war

Franciscan order

Frank, Jacob

Frankfurt

Frankfurt Institution for Social Research

Frankfurter, Felix

Franzos, Karl Emil

Frederick the Great

Freemasonry

French Revolution

Freud, Sigmund

Fustat (Cairo)

 

Gallus, Cestius

Gamal

Gamaliel the Elder

Gamaliel II, Rabbi

Gans, Eduard

gaons (geonim)

Gath

Gaza; Gaza Strip

Gederah

Geiger, Rabbi Abraham

Genesis

genizah

Genoa

George III, King

Georgia, Jews in

Gerald of Wales

Gerizim, Mount

Germany: Jews in, before nineteenth century; Jews in; First World War; in Nazi period, see Holocaust, Nazis; immigration to Israel from; Jews in West Germany

Gerónimo de Santa Fé

Gershwin, George

Gezer

ghettos; in Venice; in papal states; folklore of destroyed after French Revolution; in Poland during Second World War

Gibeon

Gide, André

Gideon

Gideon, Samson

Gilgamesh

Glueck, Nelson

gnosticism

Gobineau, Comte Joseph de

God, Jewish; relationship of man to

Goebbels, Josef

Goitein, S. D.

Golan Heights

Goldwyn, Sam

golem

Gordon, Lord George

Göring, Hermann

gospels

Graetz, Heinrich

Granada

Grant, Madison

Grant, General Ulysses S.

Greece (ancient); Alexander’s conquests; Hellenization of western Asia, see also under Palestine; relations with Jews

Greece (modern), Jews in

Gregory the Great, Pope

Gregory IX, Pope

Grey, Sir Edward

Guardians of the City

Gudemann, Moritz

Guide of the Perplexed, see under Maimonides

 

Ha’Am, Ahad, see Ahad Ha’Am

Habakkuk

Habiru

Hadera

Hadrian, Emperor

Haganah

Haggai

Hagiogrpha (Ketuvim)

Haifa

Hakamim

halakhah

Halévy, Jacques

Hammerstein, Oscar, I and II

Hammurabi

Hanukkah, Feast of

Harden, Maximilian

Harding, G. L.

Harnack, Adolf von

hasidim, Hasidism

haskalah, Jewish enlightenment

Hasmonean family (Maccabees)

Hazor

Hebrew (language)

Hebrew Union College

‘Hebrews’

Hebron

Hecataeus of Abdera

Hegel, G. W. F.

He-Halutz bureau

Heine, Heinrich

Hellman, Lillian

Henry, Jacob

Heraclitus

Heraclius, Emperor

heresies, Christian

Herod Agrippa

Herod Antipas

Herod the Great

Herodium

Herschel, Abraham Joshua

Herzl, Theodor

Hess, Moses

heter iskah

Heydrich, Reinhard

Hiddushim

Hijaz

Hilberg, Raul

Hilferding, Rudolf

Hillel the Elder (Hillel the Babylonian)

Hillesum, Ettie

Himmler, Heinrich

Hiram, King, of Tyre

Hirsch, Baron Maurice de

Hirsch, Rabbi Samson Raphael

Hirsch, Rabbi Samuel

Hirschel, Hans

Hisdai ibn Shaprut

Histadrut

Hitler, Adolf; orders destruction of Heine’s grave; Lippmann’s view of; his anti-Semitism passim; becomes Chancellor; war a product of his anti-Semitism; and Mussolini; see also Holocaust; Nazis

Hittites

Hiya Rabbah, Rabbi

Hobson, J. A.

Hochberg, Karl

Hoddis, Jacob von

Holdheim, Rabbi Samuel

Holocaust, Final Solution; planned by Hitler; German people’s knowledge of, acquiescence in; Jews worked to death; German industrialists and; Jews systematically killed; first gas chamber; mobile killing groups; death camps; Christian churches and; numbers of those killed; Austrians and; Rumanians and; French and; Italian resistance to; unsuccessful in parts of occupied Europe; Allied governments and; lack of resistance from Jews; Jews of all ages and conditions killed; final stage of; anti-Semitic reactions to; punishment and restitution; state of Israel and; Soviet-Arab attitude to

Homberg, Napthali Herz

Hong Kong

Horowitz, Isaiah ben Abraham ha-Levi

Hosea

Höss, Rudolf

Hungary, Jews in; in Budapest; immigration to Israel from

Hurrians (Horites)

Husaini, Haji Amin al- (Grand Mufti of Jerusalem)

Hyrcanus, John

Hyrcanus II

 

Ibn Ezra, Abraham

Ibn Shaprut, Hisdai, see Hisdai ibn Shaprut

Ibn Verga, Solomon

Ibn Yahya, Rabbi Joseph

Idumaea

imprisonment

India: immigration to Israel from; Jews in

Innocent III, Pope

Inquisition, Spanish

Iran/Persia (ancient state), see Persia

Iran/Persia (modern state); immigration to Israel from; Jews in

Iraq; immigration to Israel from

Irgun

Isaac (son of Abraham)

Isaac ben Samuel

Isaac the Blind

Isaacs, Sir Rufus

Isabella, Queen, of Castile

Isaiah

Ishmael

Islam, Moslems

Isocrates

Israel, Israelites (ancient people); religion, see Judaism; twelve tribes of; not all Israelites went to Egypt; Exodus from Egypt; Mosaic legal material; both spiritually advanced and primitive; new kind of society: theocracy; conquest of Canaan completed; and kingship; two kingdoms, northern and southern; lost tribes of; see also Jews

Israel (modern state): creation of (see also Zionism); War of Independence; and Arab refugees; frontiers; Jewish immigration to; religious/secular conflict in; origins of; Nasser and Sinai War; Six Day War; Sadat and Yom Kippur War; American support for; political divisions; peace with Egypt; and Hebrew language; education in; marriage in; pursuit of war criminals; population in 1980s; French Jews and; as armed refuge

Israel, Jonathan

Italy: Jews in; Second World War; post-war Jewish population; see also Venice

Ivan IV, Tsar, ‘the Terrible’

 

Jabneh (Jamnia)

Jabotinsky, Vladimir

Jacob (patriarch)

Jacob ben Asher

Jael

Jaffa

Jamaica, Jews in

James (brother of Jesus)

James I, King, of Aragon

Janua, Peter de

Jason (high-priest)

Jaspers, Karl

Jebusites

Jefferson, Thomas

Jehiel, Rabbi

Jehoiada

Jehoiakim

Jehu, son of Nimshi

Jephthah

Jeremiah

Jericho

Jeroboam

Jerome, St

Jerusalem: captured from Jebusites by David; Temple, see Temple; Solomon’s building works; northerners resettled in, after Assyrian conquest; refortified by Hezekiah; captured by Babylonians; rebuilt after Babylonian exile; population, in third century BC; Hellenization; religious mob; Herod and; revolt of 66 AD; revolt of 132 AD; Hadrian’s rebuilding; Babylonian Jews and; occupied by Persians, then Moslems; population growth in nineteenth century; captured by Allenby in 1918; UN partition plan of 1947; captured by Arab Legion in 1948; Old City captured by Israel in 1967; Camp David proposals; population (late twentieth century)

Jerusalem, Grand Mufti of, see Husaini

Jesus Christ

Jethro

Jewish Agency

Jewish Brigade

Jewish Colonization Association

Jewish Historical Documentation Centre

Jewish Resistance Movement

Jewish Theological Seminary

Jews; Ashkenazi; as businessmen, see money and trade; city dwellers; education, scholarship, see education and scholarship; elect nation; history written by; identity preserved by writings; literature; as migrants, settlers; name for ancestors of; origin of; persecution of, see anti-Semitism; population figures: Herodian period, tenth century, nineteenth century, 1980s; and radical politics; Sephardi; tenacity; three centres; Zionist definition of a Jew; see also Israel; Judaism

Jezebel

jihad

Job

Joel

Johanan ben Torta, Rabbi

Johanan ben Zakkai, Rabbi

John

John the Baptist

John of Capistrano

John Paul II, Pope

Jonah

Jonathan (high-priest)

Jordan; see also Transjordan

Joseph (son of Jacob)

Joseph (tax-farmer)

Joseph II, Emperor

Joseph ben Issac Sambari, see Sambari

Joseph ibn Awkal

Josephus; on Herod’s Temple; supposed deletions from MSS; mentioned

Joshua

Josiah, King, of Judah

Jost, Issac Marcus

Judah (southern kingdom)

Judah, the Galilean

Judah ha-Kohen ben Joseph

Judah Halevi

Judah Ha-Nasi, Rabbi

Judah of Regensburg

Judaism, Jewish religion (for convenience, the religion of the Jews and that of the ancient Israelites are treated here as one); Abraham as founder of; monotheistic, see also God; two salient characteristics of; sanctity of human life; rationalism in; conservative/ revolutionary; rejection of images, idols; and the state; martyrdom, martyrologies; individual accountability; feasts; inaugurated by Ezra; holy writings; homogeneous and rigorous, after establishment of canon; sectarianism in; reform party in, defeated by Maccabees; death, judgement afterlife; and Christianity; ceases to be national religion, becomes inward-looking cathedocracy; central ethical precept; rejects asceticism; dissentient opinion majorities; man’s physical and moral freedom; communal obligations; repentance and atonement; peace, non-violence; dogmatic theology eschewed; creeds; emphasis on work; irrationalist tradition; see also kabbalah magic and mysticism; medieval; angels and devils; and gentile culture; Reform Judaism; ritual in; perfectionist; see also Bible; Law; Mishnah; rabbis; Talmud; Torah; synagogue

Judas of Gamala

Judas the Maccabee

Judensau

Judges

Judith

Julian, Emperor

Julius III, Pope

Jung, C. G.

Justin, St (Justin Martyr)

Justinian, Emperor

 

kabbalah, passim

Kadesh

Kafka, Franz

Kairouan

Kalischer, Rabbi Zevi Hirsch

Kalm, Peter

Kaltenbrunner, Ernst

Kappler, Herbert

Karaites

Katz, Sam

Kaufmann, Yechezkel

Kefar Tavor

Kenyon, Kathleen

Kerchemish, battle of

Kerensky, A. F.

Kern, Jerome

Ketuvim (Hagiographa)

Khazars

Khomeini, Ayatollah

Khrushchev, Nikita

kibbutzim

Kierkegaard, Sören

Kiev

King David Hotel

Kings

Kinneret

Kish

Kisling, Moise

Kitchener, Lord

Knights of St John

Knights Templar

Koestler, Arthur

Kohler, Rabbi Kaufmann

Kook, Rabbi Abraham Isaac

Koran

Kovno

Kraus, Karl

Kristallnacht

Krochmal, Nachman

Krupp, Alfred

Ku-Klux Klan

Kun, Bela

kuppah

 

La Motta, Jacob de, see Motta

La Peyrère, Isaac

Laban

Labour Party, Zionist/Israeli (Mapai)

Lachish

Ladino

Laemmle, Carl

Lagarde, Paul de

Lamentations

Land of Israel movement

Lansdowne, Marquess of

Lasker, Eduard

Lasky, Jesse

Lassalle, Ferdinand

Latvia

Lavater, Johan Caspar

Law, the; legal systems before Moses; dietary; reform movement and; Oral, see also Mishnah; Jesus and; Luke and; Maimonides and; Moses Mendelssohn and; see also Torah

Lawrence, T. E.

Lazare, Bernard

Lazarus, Emma

League of the French Fatherland

Leah (wife of Jacob)

Lebanon

Leeser, Rabbi Isaac

Leghorn (Livorno)

Lehmann, John

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm von

Lenin

Leningrad

Lessing, Gotthold

Levi ben Gershom

Leviticus

Libya, immigration to Israel from

Liebermann, Max

Likud

Lilienthal, Max

Lincoln

Lipchitz, Jacques

Lipman, V. D.

Lippmann, Walter

Lithuania, Jews in; see also Vilna

Lloyd George, David passim

Lodz

Loew, Rabbi Judah, Maharal of Prague

Loew, Marcus

London, Jews in

Lopez, Manasseh

Los Angeles

Louis IX, King, of France

Louis XIV, King of France

Louis XVI, King of France

Lublin, Sigmund

Lucena

Lueger, Karl

Luke

Luria, Isaac ben Solomon

Luther, Martin

Luxemburg, Rosa

Luzzatto, Moses Hayyim

Luzzatto, Simhah

Lydda

 

Maccabaeus, Simon

Maccabees (apocryphal book)

Maccabees (Jewish family), see Hasmonean family

Maccoby, Hyam

MacDonald, James Ramsay

Machado, Antonio Alvarez

Machaerus

Machpelah, Cave of

magic

Mahler, Gustav

Maimonides (Moses ben Maimon); his thirteen articles; Commentary on the Mishnah; Guide of the Perplexed; other writings; mentioned

Maimonides, Abraham

Maimonides, David

Majdanek

Malachi

Mallowan, Sir Max

Malta

mamram

Manasseh ben Israel

Manetho

Mapai, see Labour Party

Marconi case

Margherians

Mari (Tell Harari)

Maria Theresa, Empress

Mariamne

Marissa

Mark

Marr, Wilhelm

marranos (conversos)

marriage

Marx, Karl

Marx Brothers

Masada

maskilim

masoretes, Masoretic text

Matthew

Matthias, Emperor

Maurras, Charles

Maximilian II, Emperor

Mayer, Louis B.

Medina

Megiddo

Megillot (Canticles)

Meighen, Arthur

Meir, Rabbi

Meir, Golda

Meisel, Marcus

Melanchthon, Philip

Méliès, Georges

Menahemya

Mendelssohn, Felix

Mendelssohn, Moses

Menelaus (high-priest)

Meneptah

Merchant of Venice, The (Shakespeare)

Meshuararim

Mesopotamia; see also Assyria; Babylon

Messiah, messianism: Jesus as Messiah; in Judaism; in kabbalah; in ghetto folklore; Shabbetean movement; Zionist ideal distinguished

Metullah

Mexico, Jews in

Meyerbeer, Giacomo

Miami

Micah

midrash

Milhaud, Darius

Mintz, Abraham

Mishnah

Mizpah

Mizrachi

Moab

modern movement

Modigliani, Amedeo

Mohammed

Molcho, Solomon

Mommsen, Theodor

monasticism

money, finance, banking; moneylending, usury

monotheism, see under Judaism

Montagu, Edwin

Montaigne, Michel de

Montefiore, Sir Moses

Montreal

Morning Post

Morocco, Jews of

Moscow

Moses; and the Exodus; as central figure in Jewish history; Greeks and; and early anti-Semitism; his law code; his covenant with God; and Joshua; Maimonides on

Moses ben Shem Tov

moshavot

Moslems, see Islam

Motta, Jacob de la

‘Mountain Jews’

Moyne, Lord

Münster, Sebastian

music, Jews and

Mussolini, Benito

mysticism

 

nabhi, meaning of; see also prophets

Nablus

Nahmanides

Nahrai ben Nissim

Nahum

Naples

Napoleon

Nasser, Gamal Abdul

Nathan of Gaza

Naumann, Dr Max

Nazarites

Nazis (National Socialist Workers Party); in Second World War; trials of; Arabs and; see also Hitler; Holocaust

Nebuchadnezzar

Negev, archaeology in

Nehemiah

Nero, Emperor

Netherlands, Jews in; Amsterdam

New Year

New York

Nice

Nicholas I, Tsar

Nieto, David

Nietzsche, F. W.

Nippur

Nixon, Richard M.

Noah

Noah, Mordecai

Nobel prizes

Nordau, Max

Norsa, Immanuel ben Noah Raphael da

North America, see United States

Norway, Jews in

Norwich

Noth, M.

Numbers

Numenius of Apamea

Nuremberg Decrees

Nuremberg trials

Nuzi

 

Obadiah

Odessa

Offenbach, Jacques

oil, Middle Eastern

Old Testament

Olympic Games (ancient)

Olympic Games (modern)

Omri, House of

Oppenheimer, David

Oppenheimer, Joseph

Oppenheimer, Samuel

Opper de Blowitz, Adolphe

Origen

Original Sin

Ottoman Empire, see Turkey

Oxford

 

Pale of Settlement

Palestine: archaeology of; homeland for Israelites in Egypt; geographical variety; origin of name in Philistine settlement; Hellenization; end of stable Jewish rule in; Jews’ claim on; Jewish academies in; Persian invasion; impoverished during Dark Ages; Jewish immigration to, colonies in; as Jewish national home; Jews in, at time of Balfour Declaration; British mandate; see also Canaan; Israel; Jerusalem; Jews; Zionism

Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)

Paley, William

Palmer, Mitchell

Palmerston, Lord

pantheism

Paris

Parrot, A.

Parthians

Pascin, Jules

Passfield, Lord

Passover

patriarchs

Paul, St

Paul III, Pope

Paul IV, Pope

Peel, Lord, Peel Commission

Pellepoix, Darquier de

Pentateuch

Pentecost

Peoples of the Sea

Pereira, Jacob

Peres, Shimon

Persia (ancient)

Persia (Sassanid)

Persia (modern), see Iran

Perushim

Petah Tikva

‘Peter, Gospel of’

Peter V, King, of Aragon

Peter de Janua, see Janua

Pharisees; Jesus and

Philadelphia (America)

Philadelphia (Amman)

Philip II, King, of Spain

Philistines

Philo Judaeus; mentioned

Phocas, Emperor

Pico della Mirandola, Count Giovanni

Pinsker, Leon

Pissarro, Camille and Lucien

Pittsburg Platform

Pius V, Pope

Pius VI, Pope

Pius IX, Pope

Pius XII, Pope

Plato

Plumer, Lord

Poland: Jews in, before partitions; partitions of; Jews in Warsaw in 1880; and Versailles treaty; failure of Bolshevik invasion; Second World War, Holocaust; post-war anti-Semitism; immigration to Israel from; Jewish population in 1980s

Portugal, Jews in

Prado, Juan de

Prague

Pritchard, James

Promised Land

prophets

Protestantism

Protocols of the Elders of Zion

Proudhon, Pierre-Joseph

Proust, Marcel

Proverbs

Prussia, Jews in

Psalms

pseudepigraphs

Ptolemy

Pulgar, Fernando del

Pumbedita

Purim of Vincent

Pythagoras

 

Qumran

 

rabbis, rabbinate

Rabin, Yitzhak

Radbaz (David ben Solomon ibn abi Zimra)

radio

Rameses II

Rathenau, Walther

Rauter, Hanns

Raymond de Penaforte

Rebecca (wife of Isaac)

Rechabites

Reformation

Rehoboam

Rehovot

Reinach, Joseph

Reinach family

relativity theory

Remark (Moses ben Jacob Cordovero)

Renan, Ernst

responsa

Reubeni, David

Reuchlin, Johannes

Reuchlin codex

Reuter, Paul Julius

Revisionists (Union of Zionist-Revisionists, later Likud, q.v.)

Ricardo, David

Richard the Lionheart

Richelieu, Cardinal

Richmond, Ernest T.

Riehl, Wilhelm Heinrich

Riesser, Gabriel

Rishon-le-Zion

Robles, Antonio Rodrigues

Rodgers, Richard

Roger of Wendover

Roman Catholic Church; see also Counter-Reformation

Romans, Roman empire

Rome (city), Jews in

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Rosenberg, Alfred

Rosenblatt, Zevi

Rosenstock-Huessy, Eugen

Rosenzweig, Franz

Rosh Pinha

Rossi, Azariah dei

Rossini, G. A.

Roth, Cecil

Roth, Leon

Rothschild (N. M.)

Rothschild, Edmund de

Rothschild, Lionel (father of Ist Lord Rothschild)

Rothschild, Baron Louis

Rothschild, Miriam

Rothschild, Nathan, 1st Lord Rothschild

Rothschild, Nathan Mayer

Rothschild, Walter, 2nd Lord Rothschild

Rothschild family

Rubinstein, Anton and Nikolay

Rudolph II, Emperor

Rumania, and the Jews; in Second World War; immigration to Israel from

Ruppin, Arthur

Russia: Jews excluded from; partitions of Poland, Pale of Settlement; Jews in before the Revolution; Revolution; Second World War; and creation of state of Israel; immigration to Israel from; Jewish population in 1980s, big cities; Jews under Soviet rule; anti-Zionism

Ruth

 

Saadiah Gaon (Saadiah ben Joseph)

Sabbath

sacrifice, human

Sadat, Anwar

Sadducees

Safed

St Thomas, Jews in

Saladin

Salanter, Israel

Salome (widow of Alexander Jannaeus)

Salonika

Samaria, Samaritans

Sambari, Joseph ben Isaac

Samson

Samuel, passim

Samuel, Herbert

Sanhedrin

Sarah (wife of Abraham)

Sargon I

Sargon II

Sarnoff, David

Sassanids

Saukel, Fritz

Saul, King

Schary, Dore

Schechter, Solomon

Schenck, Joseph

Schiff, Jacob Henry

Schnitzler, Arthur

scholarship: Babylonian academies; medieval

Scholem, Gershom

Schönberg, Arnold

Scott, C. P.

scribes

Scythopolis

Sebaste (Samaria, q.v.)

Second World War

Seleucus, Seleucids

Seligman, Joseph

Sennacherib

Septuagint

Seyss-Inquart, Arthur

Shabbetai Zevi

Shaftesbury, Lord

Shamir, Yizhak

Shammai the Elder

Sharett, Moshe

Sharon, Ariel

Sheba, Queen of

Shechem

shekhinah

Shenazar

Sherira, Rabbi

Shibboleth

Shomerin

Shuruppak

Sicarii

Sidon

Simeon ben Lakish

Simon bar Kokhba, see Bar Kokhba

Simon Maccabaeus

Sinai; monastery; Mount Sinai

Singapore

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

Singer, Paul

Sippar

Six Day War

Sixtus IV, Pope

Skippen, Philip

slavery: in biblical times; Malta slave-trade

Slouschz, Nahum

Sobibor

social Darwinism

Society for Jewish Culture and Sciences

Solomon, King

Solomon, Song of, see Song of Songs

Solomon, Wisdom of

Solomon ben Samson, Rabbi

Sombart, Werner

Song of Songs, Song of Solomon

Sonnenfeld, Rabbi Joseph Hayyim

South Africa

Soutine, Chaim

Spain, Jews in

Spalato (Split)

Spinoza, Baruch

Stalin

Stanley, Lord

Stavsky, Abraham

Stephen, St

Stern, Fritz

Stern Gang

stock exchanges

Stoeker, Adolf

Straton’s Tower

Strauss, Johann

Streicher, Julius

Stürmer, Der

Suez Canal

suicide

Sumer, Sumerians

Sura

Surinam

Switzerland, Jews in

Sykes-Picot agreement

synagogue

Syria; war against Israel; Jewish immigration to Israel from; see also Damascus

Syrkin, Nachman

 

Tabernacles, feast of

Tacitus

Talmud

tannaim

Tarragona

Tawney, R. H.

Tel Aviv

television

Templars, see Knights Templar

Temple: of Solomon; worship concentrated in; destroyed by Babylonians; rebuilt after Babylonian exile; Hellenization; Sadducees and; rebuilt by Herod; Jesus and; destroyed by Romans; Temple Mount

Ten Commandments, Decalogue

terrorism: Jewish, in post-war Palestine; against Jews

theatre

Theodore of Mopsuestia

Theodosius I, Emperor

Theodosius II, Emperor

Therapeuta

Theresienstadt

Theudas

Thirty Years War

Tiberias

Tiglath-pileser III

Times, The

Tirzah

Titus (son of Emperor Vespasian)

Tobit

Tolstoy, Count Leo

Torah; Agudath Yisra’el and

Toronto

Torquemada, Tomás de

Tosefta

Toussenel, Alphonse

trade, commerce

Transjordan; see also Jordan

Treblinka

Treitschke, Heinrich von

Trilling, Lionel

Tripoli

Trollope, Anthony

Trotsky, Leon

Truman, Harry S.

Trumpeldor, Joseph

Tucholsky, Kurt

Tunisia, immigration to Israel from

Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich

Turin

Turkey (Ottoman Empire); and Shabbetai Zevi; in nineteenth century; and Kaiser Wilhelm II; and Versailles treaty

Turkey (modern state)

Tyre

 

Uganda, as Jewish national home

Ugarit

Ukraine, Jews in

Ummayid dynasty

Union of American Hebrew Congregations

Union of Zionist-Revisionists, see Revisionists

United Nations Organization (UN): and Palestine problem; and Arab refugees; and Suez Canal; Sinai peacekeeping force; and Arafat; and Amin

United States of America (North America, to Independence): Jews in, before 1881; Ashkenazi immigration to; and Zionism; Bolshevik scare and Jewish immigration; Jewish community in; Second World War; and creation of state of Israel; support for Israel

universities, medieval

Ur

Ur-Nammu

Usha

Ussishkin, Menachem

usury, see moneylending under money

 

Vaux, Père Roland de

Vega, Joseph de la

vegetarianism

Venice, Jews in

Versailles peace treaty

Vespasian, Emperor

Victor Emmanuel III, King, of Italy

Victoria, Queen

Vienna

Vilna

Vital, Hayyim

Voltaire

 

Wagner, Richard

Wailing Wall

Wallenberg, Raoul

Wandering Jew

war-crime trials

Warner Brothers

Warren, Sir Charles

Warsaw

Washington DC

Wasserman, Jakob

Waugh, Evelyn

Webb, Beatrice

Weber, Max

Weizmann, Chaim: and Zionism passim; and post-war reparations; Israel’s first president

Wellhausen, Julius

Wertheimer, Samson

Wesley, John

Wessely, Hartwig

West Bank

Wiesenthal, Simon

Wilhelm II, Kaiser

William III, King (William of Orange)

Wilson, President Woodrow

wisdom texts

Wise, Isaac Mayer

Wise, Rabbi Stephen

Wistrich, Robert

Witte, Count Serge

Wolf, Abraham

Wolf, Immanuel

Wolf, Joseph

Wolf, Lucien

Wolffsohn, Daniel

women: in the Bible; and Jewish scholarship

Woolley, Sir Leonard

World Jewish Congress

writing, early

 

Yadin, Yigael

Yahweh

Yare, Obadiah ben Abraham, of Bertinoro

Yavne’el

Yellin-Mor, Nathan

Yemen

yeshivot

Yesud ha-Ma’ala

Yiddish

Yom Kippur War

Yugoslavia, Jews in

 

zaddik

Zadkine, Ossip

Zadok of Lublin

Zalman, Elijah ben Solomon, see Elijah ben Solomon

Zanuck, Darryl

Zealots

Zechariah

Zedekiah (governor of Judaea)

Zedekiah (prophet)

Zephaniah

Zeurubbabel

Zevi, Shabbetai, see Shabbetai Zevi

Zikhron Yacov

Zionism; Palestine as national home for Jews, see under Palestine; and Hebrew language; Tsarist Russia and; USA and; religious or secular plans for; Britain and; Jewish opposition to; Ashkenazi support for; First Zionist Congress; Soviet Union and; last phase of; ultimate aim of; condemned by UN; see also Israel

Ziusudra

Zohar (Sefer-ha-Zohar)

Zola, émile

Zukov, Adolphe

Zunz, Leopold