Page numbers referring to subjects of photographs are indicated in italics.
Afghanistan, 205, 206, 207, 208
Aleichem, Shalom, 12
Algonquin Hotel, xi, 4, 181, 194
Allon, Yigdal, 246
Alter, Robert, 114
Amussen, Bob, 68
anti-Semitism, 95, 105, 259, 277, 293
in Armageddon, 138
in Exodus, 119
in Jerusalem: Song of Songs, 236–237
in the Koran, 240
in Mitla Pass, 262
in Poland, 12
in Exodus, 88, 97, 111, 114, 117, 118, 119, 121, 206
in Jerusalem: Song of Songs, 235–239
versus the Jews, 8, 87, 96, 115, 116, 232
Uris’s encounters with, in Israel, 98, 100
Arlington National Cemetery, 1, 303
Aspen (Colorado): skiing in, 140, 162, 174, 207
Uris’s house in, 2, 5, 90, 96, 164, 165, 169, 170, 174–177, 178
Uris’s lifestyle in, 163, 166, 172–173, 227, 252, 253, 270, 271, 283
Auschwitz, 23, 84, 87, 104, 110, 115, 121, 170, 269, 279
Australia, 206
Baltimore: Jewish life in, 17, 20
as setting for Battle Cry, and site of the movie premiere, 28, 72, 74–76, 154;
Uris’s birth and early life in, 4, 16–17, 18, 20, 21, 26, 265, 275
Bantam Books, 70, 74, 106, 112, 181, 183, 184, 226, 241, 340n34
Barthelme, Donald, 223
Bass, Saul, 96
Battle Cry (magazine), 74–75
Begin, Menachem, 99, 113, 128, 234, 238
Bellow, Saul, 2, 7, 11, 25, 64, 116, 140, 225, 301
The Adventures of Augie March, 64
Herzog, 140
Benedict, Fritz, 175
Ben-Gurion, David, 2, 101, 116, 125, 126, 133, 193, 228, 238, 246, 247, 280, 301, 320n82
Benjamin, Walter, 81
Berlin, 8, 87, 90, 136–140, 301
Big Country, The (film), 106, 107, 319n65
Birkenau, 279
Blake, William, 32
Blitzer, Wolf, 235
Blumberg, Anna, 16–17
B’nai B’rith International, 273, 277, 283
Boer War, 83
Bogart, Humphrey, 73
Braman, Marjorie, 296
Breen Office, 73
Brogger, Frederick, 229–230, 231, 333n78
Burroughs, William S., 4
Burrows, Anne, 190
Cady, Howard S., 19, 57, 58, 85, 105
Caen, Herb, 51
Cagney, James, 73
Canada, 205
Chekhov, Anton, 36
China, 205
Churchill, Winston, 193, 286, 288, 289, 290, 320n82
City College (Baltimore), 20, 72
Clinton, Hillary, 299
Cogswell, Betty, 35, 39, 42, 61
Columbia Pictures, 91, 124, 139, 184
Communist Party, 10, 14, 15, 18, 19, 22, 25, 274
Copenhagen, 9
Covici, Pascal, 23
Cozzens, James Gould, 52
Guard of Honor, 52
Cuba, 86, 87, 88, 181, 182, 183, 185, 186, 187, 301
Cuban missile crisis, 7
Cussler, Clive, 254
Cyprus, 8, 83, 86, 99, 107, 110, 119, 202
Dachau, 138
Dayan, Moshe, 98–99, 101, 103, 105, 120, 238
Dean, James, 73
Corelli’s Mandolin, 3
de Gaulle, Charles, 180, 183, 193
Denver, 176, 181, 197, 207, 221, 228, 249, 251, 267, 271, 291, 297
Dering, Wladislaw, 169–170, 193, 194, 198, 200
Derry, 209–210
de Valera, Eamon, 228
de Vosjoli, Philippe, 180–185, 327n50;
Le Réseau Topaz, 181
Dickens, Charles, 290
Dieppe, 84
USA, 198
Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 12, 201, 274
Doubleday, 57, 107, 108, 109, 124, 140, 194, 204, 221, 233, 250
advances from, 203, 252, 261, 269
editing of Uris’s books by, 105, 196
financial difficulties of, 284
and The Haj, 240–241, 243, 244, 248, 249, 251
promotion of Uris’s books by, 139, 226, 234
questions authenticity of Topaz and pulls out of contract, 183, 184
Uris’s contracts with, 104, 230, 231
Uris’s unhappiness with, 284, 286
Douglas, Kirk, 86
Dystel, Oscar, x, 70, 106, 183, 194, 207, 208
Eagle, Diane, xi, 208, 216–217, 218
Earp, Wyatt, 85
East Germany, 136
Eastwood, Clint, 89
Edwards, Margery, 163, 179, 188–192, 193, 194, 196, 208
Egypt, 101, 103, 111, 238, 250, 265, 292
Eichmann, Adolf, 107, 121, 123, 134, 135, 170
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 295
Encino (CA), 64, 104, 172, 175
Eshkol, Levi, 123
Esquire, 55
Exodus (ship), 12
Exodus 1947, 124
“Exodus Tour,” 321n95
Faulkner, William, 2, 65–66, 76, 91, 261, 262, 264, 312n43;
Battle Cry (film), 65
FBI, 182
Feldman, Leonid, 93–94
Ferguson, Barbara, 35
Ford, John, 90
France, 8
Franklin Library, 234, 247, 256
Freiheit (Freedom), 14–15, 16, 19, 40, 49
Dark Star, 3
Gann, Ernest, 196
Gaza Strip, 103
Germany, 3, 8, 102, 103, 110, 216, 289, 300, 301
Ghetto Fighters Kibbutz, 130
Goldberg, Charles, 176, 197, 207, 221, 297
Golden, Harry, 7
Gorky, Maxim, 36
Griffith, D. W., 92
as described in Battle Cry (book and film), 37, 60, 61, 62, 73, 78, 88
memorial show about, 51
Uris’s experiences at, 29, 35, 36–38, 39, 40, 41, 44, 49, 50
Haganah, 98, 99, 107, 108, 110, 111, 119, 121
Haifa, 120
Haley, Alex, 174
Hamill, Pete, 223
Hargrove, Marion, 35
See Here, Private Hargrove, 35
Harissiadis, Dimitrios, 123, 125
Harlem, 13
Hartuv, Ilan, x, xii, 98–99, 101, 107, 121, 317n22, 317n24, 321n93
Hawks, Howard, 65–66
Hearst, William Randolph, 47
Heatherbed Lodge, 174
Hebrew, 11, 12, 14, 95, 107, 108, 170, 212
Hebrew University, 239
Heller, Joseph, 7, 22, 136, 325n36;
Hemingway, Ernest, 6, 7, 8, 76, 105, 193, 197, 263–264, 267, 280
Farewell to Arms, A, 8
Hersey, John, 2, 105, 131, 135, 140, 233, 301
A Bell for Adano, 140
The Wall, 5, 105, 131, 135, 324n26
Herzlia, 100
Higham, Priscilla, 266–267, 269, 271, 273, 274, 276, 277, 278, 279, 281, 284
High and the Mighty, The, 77, 78
Histadrut, 12
history: Arab, Uris’s interpretation of, 241, 242, 244, 245–248, 250
essentialist presentation of, by Uris, 8
Irish, Uris’s interpretation of, 207, 210, 212–213, 218–219, 222, 223, 225
Jewish, Uris’s interpretation of, 6, 94, 96, 97, 107, 113, 115, 116, 132, 133, 236–239
of the marines, 297–298
Uris’s discussions of, with his father, 10
Uris’s rewriting of, 8, 59, 81, 99, 109–110, 112, 241
as Uris’s subject matter, 3, 4, 5, 7, 10, 26, 78, 80, 81, 86–87, 88, 89, 90, 138, 184–185, 197, 214, 215, 216, 262, 290, 300, 301
Hitchcock, Alfred, 3, 7, 10, 23, 90, 91, 184, 185–187, 226
Hollywood, 64, 126–127, 139, 188
and the Battle Cry film, 72–76, 78–79
and the Exodus film, 119–122
life-style, Uris’s love of, 77–78
screenwriting, by Uris, 1, 64–65, 66, 76–77, 79–92, 95, 96, 106, 117–119, 256, 264, 275
Uris’s four-picture deal with, 124
Holocaust, 124, 136–137, 228, 275, 281, 303
survivors of, at Uris’s libel trial, 170, 194
Uris’s father survives, 12
and Uris’s view of how it transformed Jews, 133, 300–301
Hotel Bristol, 127
Hume, John, 224
Hungary, 280
Hunter, Tab, 7, 72, 74, 76, 154, 314n19
India, 206
Iran, 99
Ireland, 3, 4, 6, 8, 87, 206, 207–208, 236, 263, 300
in A God in Ruins, 291–292
in Redemption, 286, 288, 289, 290
in Trinity, 209–225
Irgun, 97, 99, 110, 111, 113, 121, 238, 241, 319n82
Israel, 3, 4, 24, 87, 90, 94, 123, 232, 244, 265
and The Haj, 249
as the subject of Exodus (book and film), 95–97, 104–122
as the subject of Jerusalem: Songs of Songs, 235–240
Uris’s travel in, 8, 9, 97–104, 125–126, 196, 227, 235, 257
Uris’s view of, and modern Jewish history, 6, 292, 300–301
Italy, 23
Jackson, Henry “Scoop,” 24, 227
James, Henry, 8
Jefferson Memorial, 283
Jerusalem, 13, 98, 100, 110, 113, 116, 170, 196, 227, 231, 232, 235–240
John Bartram High School, 26, 123
Jones, James, 2, 3, 37, 59, 105, 106
From Here to Eternity, 3, 52, 58, 59, 76
From Here to Eternity (film), 64, 67, 74, 106
The Thin Red Line, 37
Joyce, James, 207
Judaism, 44, 53–54, 61, 107, 291, 294
and Uris’s “tough Jews,” 5, 69–70, 96, 108, 115, 123, 133, 259, 262, 320n88, 325n32
Kabul, 206
Kafka, Franz, 201
Kelly, Gene, 230
Kennedy, John F., 130, 177, 182, 183
Kimber, William, 170, 196, 197, 204, 266
Koestler, Arthur, 97
Thieves in the Night, 97
Kofsky, Essie, x
Kollek, Teddy, 98, 235, 238, 239
Krim, Arthur, 117
Kuprin, Aleksandr, 36
Yama (The Pit), 36
L’Amour, Louis, 253
Lancaster, Burt, 67, 74, 86, 155
Larkspur, xii, 51, 52–53, 172, 175, 311n4
Laster, Owen, 296
Lebanon, 13
Little Drummer Girl, 242
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, 140
Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher, 200–201
Lenin, V. I., 15
Levin, Meyer, 7, 25, 97, 100, 317n30;
Littell, Jonathan, 301
The Kindly Ones, 301
Little, Brown, 183
London, Jack, 263
Look (magazine), 184
Lorch, Netanel, 95
Lubetkin, Zivia, 124, 126, 130
Lublin, 127
Maidanek, 127
Mailer, Norman, 2, 4, 7, 57, 100, 105, 225, 233, 300
Armies of the Night, 225
Deer Park, 105
The Naked and the Dead, 52, 57
Malone, Dorothy, 6–7, 72, 74, 75, 154
Maltz, Albert, 118
Marines, U.S., 98, 119, 241, 247, 259, 263
in Battle Cry (book and film), 8, 35, 37, 52, 57, 58, 59, 62, 63–64, 65, 67, 73, 74, 75, 79
in A God in Ruins, 292, 293, 295
in O’Hara’s Choice, 8, 292, 294, 297–299
Uris’s career in, 1, 5, 6, 12, 21, 23–24, 24–25, 26, 27, 28, 29–48, 96, 123, 202, 204, 265, 267, 275, 300, 303
Marx, Karl, 15
Massey, Raymond, 72
McCarthy hearings, 24
McCormick, Ken, 85, 208, 233, 250, 251, 259
consoles and encourages Uris after Margery’s suicide, 192, 193
descriptions of Uris by, 104, 177, 205, 206, 255
Uris’s correspondence with, and comments on writing by, 217, 226–227, 228, 230–231, 234, 253, 257, 261, 268, 269
and the writing of Exodus, 104, 195
and the writing of The Haj, 239– 240, 241, 242, 243, 244, 249
and the writing of QB VII, 196, 197, 204
McMurtry, Larry, 201
Melville, Herman, 243
MGM, 71, 90, 95, 117, 140, 171, 178, 261
Michener, James, 4, 233, 262, 271, 283, 300
Miller, Merle, 63
Milton, John, 135
Paradise Lost, 135
Montefiore, Moses, 237
Morton, Henry, 7
The Cardinal, 7
Moscow, 94, 136, 276, 277, 278
Mossad, 316n6
Murray, Ray, 43
Mussolini, Benito, 95
Nabokov, Vladimir, 223
Lolita, 112
National Geographic, 8
Nazis, 18, 28, 119, 128–129, 131, 132–136, 181, 301
Negev, 8, 99, 101, 108, 125, 300
Neiditch, Michael, x–xi, 273, 274, 276–277, 278, 285, 303
New York, 13, 14, 15, 271–273, 280
New Zealand, 3, 26, 35, 38–42, 45, 55, 60, 61, 206, 267, 286, 290, 300
Nolte, Nick, 230
Norfolk (VA), x, 4, 19, 20, 21, 198, 265
Northern Ireland, 209–210, 225, 228
Oak Knoll Naval Hospital, 44–45, 50
Oneg Shabbat (Warsaw Ghetto), 130, 131, 132
O’Neill, Eugene, 16, 105, 216, 221, 263
The Hairy Ape, 16
A Moon for the Misbegotten, 216
opera, 21
Pakistan, 206
Palmach, 98, 107, 108, 111, 119
Paramount Pictures, 91, 169, 171, 253, 276
Pasternak, Boris, 324n23;
Pearl (Uris’s girlfriend), 33–35
Pearl Harbor, 27
Pearlman, Moshe, 98, 107, 244, 245
Peck, Gregory, 106
Peretz, Isaac, 12
Perlov, Yitzhak, 124
Philadelphia, 15, 17, 18, 20, 21, 26, 28, 29, 75, 188, 203, 251, 258, 259, 265
Philadelphia Inquirer, 40, 102
Pittsburgh, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17
Poale Zion, 11
Poland, 3, 8, 11–12, 13, 87, 124, 126–128, 278, 279, 280, 300
Pope, Alexander, 216
Potok, Chaim, 301
Preminger, Ingo, x, 10, 71, 95, 117, 124, 261
Preminger, Otto, x, 10, 71, 84, 90, 91, 95, 99, 108, 117–122, 158, 188, 231, 261
President Warfield (ship), 8
Puerto Rico, 73
Pynchon, Thomas, 223
Pysher, Marilynn, xi, 284, 285, 299
Quantico, 86
Quantico National Cemetery, 1, 303
Queen’s Bench VII, 170
Rabinovitz, Anna, 18
Ray, Nicholas, 79–80
Reagan, Ronald, 78
Red Mountain (Aspen), 172, 174–177, 188, 190, 191, 216, 218, 236, 242, 270, 271
Ringelblum, Emanuel, 130–132
Notes from the Warsaw Ghetto, 130–132
Roark, Robert, 169
Robbins, Harold, 300
Robeson, Paul, 48
Robinson, Edward G., 125
Rogers, Roy, 88
Rontch, Isaac E., 49
Rosenberg, Betsy, 235
Ross, Harold, 174
Roth, Philip, 2, 7, 25, 114, 116, 225, 253, 293, 301, 319n74, 340n37;
The Ghost Writer, 2
Goodbye, Columbus, 116
Plot Against America, 293
Portnoy’s Complaint, 340n37
Russia, 4, 10, 11, 110, 138, 301. See also Soviet Union
Russian Revolution, 16
Sachar, Abram, 305n8
Safdie, Moshe, 235
Sahl, Mort, 121
Sahwell, Aziz, 114
Said, Edward, 115
Saipan, 43, 47, 57, 60, 62, 63, 73, 78, 79, 87, 267
San Diego, 28, 29, 30, 31, 33, 40, 60, 218
San Francisco, 44, 45, 46, 51, 53, 58, 67, 77, 222, 282
San Francisco Call-Bulletin, 51, 52, 55, 56, 58, 75, 79
San Francisco Chronicle, 51
San Francisco Examiner, 47–48, 59
San Quentin Prison, 53
Scali, John, 184
Schlosberg, Herbert, x, 106, 178, 179, 181, 189, 196, 230, 248
as Uris’s best man, 188
conducts memorial service for Margery Uris, 191
manages Uris’s money and negotiates his contracts, 183, 242, 243, 251, 252, 261, 269, 270
Uris replaces, 284
Schulberg, Budd, 169
Scott, Walter, 242
Sforim, Mendele Mocher, 12
Shakespeare, William, 83, 287, 305n8;
Merchant of Venice, 305n8;
Romeo and Juliet, 21
Sharett, Moshe, 275
Sharon, Ariel, 133
Shaw, George Bernard, 109
Shelter Island (NY), x, xi, 180, 270, 271–
Shepherd, Lemuel, 75
Shylock, 5
Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 127, 133
The Family Moskat, 127
The Slave, 133
Smith, Walt, 173, 189, 190, 191, 194, 202
Smithsonian Institute, 22
socialism, 14
Sousa, John Philip, 29
Soviet Union, 8, 25, 93–95, 101, 127, 136, 180, 267, 273–279, 280, 284. See also Russia
Sperling, Milton, 178
Stauffer, Nancy, xi, 283, 284, 296
Stead, Christina, 32
Steinbeck, John, 4, 6, 22, 23, 24, 81, 83, 105, 135, 177, 233, 263, 264, 293, 301
Bombs Away, 23
East of Eden, 4
In Dubious battle, 23, 83, 263,
The Moon is Down, 245
Sterling, Martie and Ken, 174
Stevenson, Adlai, 24
Stevenson, William, 183
Stross, Raymond, 106
Stuart, Malcolm, 95, 106, 124, 316n8
Styron, William, 3
Sophie’s Choice, 3
Suez Canal, 101, 111, 238, 265
Susann, Jacqueline, 4, 141, 300
Valley of the Dolls, 4
Tarawa, 29, 37, 40, 42–44, 46, 47, 49, 50, 51, 60, 61, 78, 88, 263, 267, 293
Taylor, Sam, 187
Tel Aviv, 100, 102, 111, 120, 124, 125, 196
Thailand, 226
Thieme, Channing, xi, 281, 283, 284, 285, 290
Thompson, Hunter S., 172, 173, 326n17
Tijou, Jean, 84, 218, 286, 287, 288
Treblinka, 11, 104, 129, 131, 132
Tynan, Kenneth, 174
Uris, Anna Blumberg (Uris’s mother), 257
autobiographical account of (“Won’t Somebody Please Hold Me!”), 258–259
letters from Uris to, 32, 44–45, 48, 96
personality and ideals of, 6, 7, 26
Uris’s relationship with, 24–25, 26, 27–28, 53, 226
Uris, Betty Beck, x, 105, 107, 147, 148, 161, 169, 208
difficulties of, with Uris, and divorce of, 170–171, 177–180, 183, 188, 203, 268
influence of, on Uris’s writing, 54–55, 56
during the Suez crisis, 101–104
Uris’s books dedicated to, 56, 109
Uris’s courtship of and early married life with, 46–47, 48, 49, 52–53
and Uris’s infidelities, 100–101, 257
Uris, Conor, x, 253, 269, 271, 281, 283, 285, 286, 297, 303
Uris, Essie, 16, 19, 20, 25, 29–42, 53, 257, 258, 259, 278
Uris, Jill Peabody, ix–x, 166, 167, 176, 216, 217, 221, 225, 231, 234, 256, 265, 275, 303
courtship and marriage of, to Uris, 194
difficulties of, with Uris, and eventual divorce, 226, 252–253, 267–272
and Ireland: A Terrible Beauty, 81, 208, 209–215, 226–227, 228
and Jerusalem: Song of Songs, 81, 126, 208, 235–240
pregnancies of, 241, 242, 244, 245, 249, 253, 268
Uris, Karen, x, 52, 53, 100, 102, 155, 178, 179, 180, 191, 230
birth of, 54
Uris, Leon, passim; anger of, 5, 10, 25
and boxing, 28, 30, 40, 61, 88, 104, 178
divorces of, 177–180, 183, 189, 266, 267–272
fears of, 264–265
health of, 241–242, 270, 271, 285, 295, 296, 297, 298, 299
and injustice, 1, 6, 7, 10, 33, 197, 233
loneliness of, 21, 22, 25, 265, 266
photographs of, 141, 143–151, 153–167;
and screenwriting, 5, 76–77, 78, 79–90, 91, 96, 106–107, 108, 117–118, 122, 314n30;
writing of, 195, 241, 253, 264, 287, 292–293, 298
Uris, Leon, works of: “All American Razz Matazz,” 55–56
The Angry Hills, 7, 24, 68–71, 81, 95, 96, 133, 136, 182, 260
Armageddon, 8, 89, 90, 91, 136–140, 169, 171, 182, 274
Battle Cry, 1, 2, 3, 6, 8, 24, 28, 30, 31, 32, 35, 37, 39, 40, 41, 48, 50, 52, 54, 57–64, 69, 70, 74, 77, 78, 87, 88, 89, 95, 98, 101, 106, 107, 108, 112, 124, 139, 198, 215, 222, 260, 296, 298, 300, 303
Battle Cry (film), 64, 66, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72–76, 78, 79, 82, 85, 178, 313n2, 314n12;
“The Big Dream,” 95
“The Billy Mitchell Story,” 82, 178
“Blood My Battle Cry,” 57
“Blood on the Beaches,” 48
Exodus, ix, x, 1–2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 20, 23, 24, 35, 62, 69, 70, 71, 78, 81, 82, 83, 86, 88, 89, 90, 91, 93–122, 123, 125, 126, 130, 132, 133, 135, 139, 140, 169, 170, 172, 176, 183, 194, 195, 196, 200, 202, 215, 218, 222, 226, 228, 233, 235, 238, 240, 241, 243, 247, 249, 250, 251, 257, 260, 261, 262, 265, 266, 273, 274, 275, 277, 287, 295, 300, 305n1;
Exodus (film), 3, 91, 99, 116–122, 229, 281, 322n113;
Exodus (geography), 322n118;
Exodus (musical), 179
Exodus (samizdat), 276
“Fair is my Gracia,” 21, 307n14;
“The Fighter,” 82
Fourragere Follies, 41, 45, 50, 309n52;
“Gideon’s Early Childhood Memories,” 259–260
A God in Ruins, 2, 185, 284, 291–296, 299
“The Gringo,” 90, 91, 169, 179, 260
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, 3, 70, 71, 82, 85–90, 91, 106, 260, 276
The Haj, 2, 3, 90, 225, 231, 232, 237, 239, 240–251, 252, 253, 256, 267–268, 281, 284, 287, 301
“Heath-erbedlam,” 174
“Helsinki-Leningrad Express,” 277
“Hellenic Interlude,” 68, 69, 70
Ireland: A Terrible Beauty (with Jill Uris), 81, 208, 209, 210, 211–215, 216, 223, 226, 227, 228, 230, 232, 234, 236, 239
Jerusalem: Song of Songs (with Jill Uris), x, 81, 126, 208, 232, 235–240:
Mila 18, 3, 8, 23, 24, 33, 62, 70, 78, 81, 83, 84, 86, 88, 90, 91, 104, 126, 129, 130, 131, 132–136, 139, 169, 202, 222, 231, 232, 239, 242, 250, 275, 278, 279, 287
Mila 18 (film), 171, 179, 250, 284
Mitla Pass, 2, 5, 6, 21, 22, 23, 25, 26, 56, 58, 62, 66, 70, 82, 87, 91, 100, 193, 195, 207, 231, 250, 253, 255–260, 261–268, 269, 270, 280, 284, 287, 294, 314n19;
O’Hara’s Choice, 1, 2, 8, 29, 86, 88, 252, 284, 292, 294, 296, 297–299, 303
“Old Letters, New Life,” 256
The Parent Spark, 45–46
QB VII, 2, 6, 8, 19, 32, 58, 81, 84, 86, 88, 188, 193– 202, 205, 208, 209, 221, 222, 244, 249, 252, 262, 275, 295, 305n2;
Rebel Without a Cause, 79–80, 82, 260
Redemption, 2, 3, 193, 218, 261, 267, 273, 283, 284, 285–290, 295, 296, 297, 301
“Secrets of Forever Island,” 281, 282–283
Situation Out of Hand, 41, 45, 49, 51, 145;
Strike Zion!, 183
“This Is My War—Personally,” 49–50
Topaz, 3, 7, 8, 24, 81, 82, 86, 87, 140, 178, 179, 180–185, 193, 194, 222, 226, 227
Trinity, ix, 2, 3, 6, 8, 10, 23, 35, 81, 82–83, 84, 86, 88, 89, 91, 173, 174, 207, 208, 209, 210, 211, 213, 214, 215–225, 226, 228, 229, 230, 231, 232, 233, 234, 243, 244, 245, 251, 252, 261, 267, 269, 270, 271, 273, 284, 285–286, 287, 288, 289, 290, 298, 301
Trinity (film), 229–232, 234, 250
“The Truth Will Rise,” 10
Uris, Mark, ix, 57, 100, 155, 182, 184, 273, 292, 293, 296, 298
comic account of at sixtieth birthday party, 253
assists Uris late in life, 285, 297
birth of, 54
difficulties of, with Uris, 178, 290–291, 299
The Haj dedicated to, 245
during the Suez crisis, 102–103
Uris, Michael Cady, 54, 58, 100, 102, 174, 180, 189, 191, 206–207, 308n33
Uris, Rachael, x, 180, 245, 252, 253, 269, 271, 281, 283, 285, 286, 291, 297, 303
Uris, William Wolf (father), 139, 142, 172
death of, 259
life story of, 11–22
meeting of, with Margery Edwards, 188
difficult relationship of Uris with, and criticism of Uris by, 5–6, 10–11, 25–26, 107, 226, 255, 259, 260, 291
Uris’s correspondence with, 35, 40, 49, 97, 105, 107, 171, 173, 178, 232
and Uris’s enlistment, 27
USSR. See Soviet Union; see also Russia
Vaughan, Sam, 205, 230, 231, 233, 253, 255, 268, 284, 336n2;
and The Haj, 239–240, 241, 242, 243–244, 250, 251
Vogel, Joseph, 117
Vollmann, William T., 301, 302
Wallace, Irving, 3, 4, 185, 230, 300, 340n34
Walsh, Raoul, 66, 72, 73, 75, 153, 154
Warner, Jack, 75
Warner Bros., 64–67, 73–76, 77, 82, 178, 264, 300
Warsaw, 12, 125, 127–128, 278, 279
Warsaw Ghetto, 23, 84, 87, 88, 90, 105, 110, 123, 124, 126–136, 279, 285, 292, 300, 323n13
Washington, D.C., 27, 28, 86, 180, 182, 184, 186, 203
Wells, Orson, 37
West, Nathanael, 77
westerns, 3, 71, 86–90, 95, 116, 119, 264, 277
Whitaker, Francis, 217
Wilde, Oscar, 185
Wing, Willis, 68, 104, 257, 260
Wouk, Herman, 4, 7, 25, 105, 113, 240, 271, 300, 301
The Caine Mutiny (film), 82
Marjorie Morningstar, 4, 7, 100
War and Remembrance, 240
Winds of War, 240
Wyler, Billy, 106
Yad Vashem, 130
“Easter, 1916,” 211
Yerusalimsky, Wolf. See Uris, William Wolf
Yerushalmi, Aaron, 67, 68, 142
Yiddish, 11, 12, 14, 16, 212, 278
Zionism, 11, 12, 97, 114–115, 116, 119, 122, 238, 300
Zuckerman, Mort, 176