INDEX

Page numbers referring to subjects of photographs are indicated in italics.

Acapulco, 169, 171, 180, 217

Acre prison, 84, 99, 111, 120

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

of Arabs, 244, 245

in Armageddon, 138

in Battle Cry, 62, 79

in Exodus, 119

in Jerusalem: Song of Songs, 236–237

in the Koran, 240

in the marines, 44, 275

in Mitla Pass, 262

in Poland, 12

in QB VII, 197, 200

Arabs, 12–13, 232

in Exodus, 88, 97, 111, 114, 117, 118, 119, 121, 206

in The Haj, 231, 240–252, 301

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

Asch, Sholem, 12, 102

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

Balfour Declaration, 110, 238

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

Belfast, 207, 209

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

Berlin airlift, 136–140, 301

Bertelsmann, 252, 284, 286

Big Country, The (film), 106, 107, 319n65

Birkenau, 279

Blake, William, 32

The Copperheads, 32, 33

Blech, William James, 32, 33

Blitzer, Wolf, 235

Bloody Sunday, 209, 213

Blumberg, Anna, 16–17

Blumberg, Herschel, x, 303

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

Budapest, 273, 279

Burroughs, William S., 4

Burrows, Anne, 190

Cady, Howard S., 19, 57, 58, 85, 105

Caen, Herb, 51

Cagney, James, 73

Canada, 205

Casement, Roger, 286, 289

Cerf, Bennett, 65, 70

Chekhov, Anton, 36

China, 205

Churchill, Winston, 193, 286, 288, 289, 290, 320n82

CIA, 180, 181, 182, 186

City College (Baltimore), 20, 72

Clancy, Tom, 3, 292

Clay, Lucius, 137, 138

Cleveland, 16, 17

Clinton, Bill, 283, 294

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

de Bernières, Louis, 3, 301

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

Diffley, Kevin, 207, 290

Diffley, Ray, 207, 290

Dos Passos, John, 6, 198, 301

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

and Mitla Pass, 255, 261, 269

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

Dreiser, Theodore, 6, 301

Dublin, 207, 224, 286

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

Eilat, 100, 101

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

Finland, 274, 280, 301

Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 81, 105

Ford, John, 90

Forverts, 14, 19

France, 8

Franklin Library, 234, 247, 256

Freeman, Mona, 72, 154

Freiheit (Freedom), 14–15, 16, 19, 40, 49

Furst, Alan, 3, 301

Dark Star, 3

Gallipoli, 286, 288, 289, 301

Gann, Ernest, 196

Garvis, Red, 37, 38, 50

Gaza Strip, 103

Germany, 3, 8, 102, 103, 110, 216, 289, 300, 301

Ghetto Fighters Kibbutz, 130

Gold, Michael, 22, 24, 265

Jews without Money, 22, 265

Goldberg, Charles, 176, 197, 207, 221, 297

Golden, Harry, 7

Gone with the Wind, 1, 21

Gorky, Maxim, 36

Greece, 3, 68, 69, 300

Griffith, D. W., 92

Guadalcanal, 119, 293:

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

Harper and Row, 140, 183

HarperCollins, 286, 296, 297

Hartuv, Ilan, x, xii, 98–99, 101, 107, 121, 317n22, 317n24, 321n93

Haughey, Charles J., 2, 224

Hawks, Howard, 65–66

Hearst, William Randolph, 47

Heatherbed Lodge, 174

Hebrew, 11, 12, 14, 95, 107, 108, 170, 212

Hebrew University, 239

Heflin, Van, 7, 72

Heller, Joseph, 7, 22, 136, 325n36;

Catch-22, 3, 136

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

High Noon, 82, 87

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

Hitler, Adolf, 93, 95, 134

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

in Exodus, 93, 114, 115, 116

in QB VII, 81, 194, 197, 199

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

Hutton, Barbara, 2, 74

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

Iwo Jima, 47–48, 63

Jackson, Henry “Scoop,” 24, 227

Jaffa, 125, 242

James, Henry, 8

Jefferson Memorial, 283

Jerusalem, 13, 98, 100, 110, 113, 116, 170, 196, 227, 231, 232, 235–240

Jewish Youth at War, 49, 50

John Bartram High School, 26, 123

Johnson, Lyndon, 118, 188

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

Jordan, 13, 238, 265

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

Kelly, Geraldine, 207, 210

Kennedy, John F., 130, 177, 182, 183

Kerr, Deborah, 67, 74

Kimber, William, 170, 196, 197, 204, 266

King David Hotel, 110, 235

Koestler, Arthur, 97

Thieves in the Night, 97

Kofsky, Essie, x

Kofsky, Harry, 31, 296

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

le Carré, John, 140, 242, 243

Little Drummer Girl, 242

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, 140

Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher, 200–201

LeMay, Curtis, 137, 138

Lenin, V. I., 15

Leningrad, 274, 275, 277, 278

Levin, Meyer, 7, 25, 97, 100, 317n30;

Compulsion, 100, 317n30;

The Old Bunch, 100, 317n30

Lewis, Bernard 235, 245

Lithuania, 93, 127, 301

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

MacArthur, Douglas, 47, 48

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

Malamud, Bernard, 7, 116, 301

Malone, Dorothy, 6–7, 72, 74, 75, 154

Maltz, Albert, 118

Mann, Delbert, 230, 231

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

Masada, 125, 196, 204

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, 239240, 241, 242, 243, 244, 249

and the writing of QB VII, 196, 197, 204

McGraw-Hill, 183, 184

McMurtry, Larry, 201

Meir, Golda, 98, 99, 123, 238

Melville, Herman, 243

Moby Dick, 243, 245

MGM, 71, 90, 95, 117, 140, 171, 178, 261

Michener, James, 4, 233, 262, 271, 283, 300

Miller, Arthur, 24, 105

Miller, Merle, 63

Milton, John, 135

Paradise Lost, 135

Mineo, Sal, 121, 122

Mirisch Productions, 91, 124

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

Navy, U.S., 27, 28

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

Newman, Paul, 119, 120, 121

New York, 13, 14, 15, 271–273, 280

New Zealand, 3, 26, 35, 38–42, 45, 55, 60, 61, 206, 267, 286, 290, 300

Nixon, Richard, 201, 204

Nobel Prize, 24, 228, 233

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

Palestinian Brigade, 69, 95

Palmach, 98, 107, 108, 111, 119

Paramount Pictures, 91, 169, 171, 253, 276

Pasternak, Boris, 324n23;

Dr. Zhivago, 7, 112

Patai, Alan, 245, 246

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

Production Code, 73, 78

Puerto Rico, 73

Pulitzer Prize, 24, 297

Purdy, Ted, 57, 67, 105

Putnam, 6, 57–59, 67, 70, 105

Pynchon, Thomas, 223

Pysher, Marilynn, xi, 284, 285, 299

Quantico, 86

Quantico National Cemetery, 1, 303

Queen’s Bench VII, 170

Rabinovitz, Anna, 18

Random House, 95, 104

Ray, Aldo, 7, 72

Ray, Nicholas, 79–80

Reagan, Ronald, 78

Red Mountain (Aspen), 172, 174–177, 188, 190, 191, 216, 218, 236, 242, 270, 271

Remer, Michael, xi, 284, 285

Riga, 274, 275–276, 277, 278

Ringelblum, Emanuel, 130–132

Notes from the Warsaw Ghetto, 130–132

Roark, Robert, 169

Robbins, Harold, 300

Robeson, Paul, 48

Robinson, Edward G., 125

Rocky Mountain News, 189, 191

Rogers, Roy, 88

Rome, 9, 103, 104, 120

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

Samizdat, 93–94, 275, 315n1

San Diego, 28, 29, 30, 31, 33, 40, 60, 218

Sands, Bobby, 2, 228

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

Sargent, John, 206, 208, 233

Scali, John, 184

Schary, Dore, 95, 101, 124

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

On the Waterfront, 76, 82

Scott, Walter, 242

Sforim, Mendele Mocher, 12

Shakespeare, William, 83, 287, 305n8;

Merchant of Venice, 305n8;

Othello, 83, 110

Romeo and Juliet, 21

Sharett, Moshe, 275

Sharon, Ariel, 133

Shaw, George Bernard, 109

Shaw, Irwin, 197, 300

Shelter Island (NY), x, xi, 180, 270, 271

272, 280, 290, 303

Shepherd, Lemuel, 75

Shylock, 5

Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 127, 133

The Family Moskat, 127

The Slave, 133

Six-Day War, 183, 200, 238

Smith, Walt, 173, 189, 190, 191, 194, 202

Smithsonian Institute, 22

socialism, 14

Sousa, John Philip, 29

South Africa, 233, 234

Soviet Union, 8, 25, 93–95, 101, 127, 136, 180, 267, 273–279, 280, 284. See also Russia

Sperling, Milton, 178

Stalin, Joseph, 18, 25

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

Grapes of Wrath, 5, 23

In Dubious battle, 23, 83, 263,

Lifeboat, 23, 24

The Moon is Down, 245

Of Mice and Men, 22, 23, 293

Red Pony, 24, 83

Tortilla Flat, 23, 83, 263

Sterling, Martie and Ken, 174

Stern Gang, 238, 319n82

Stevenson, Adlai, 24

Stevenson, William, 183

Stone, Irving, 209, 230

Stross, Raymond, 106

Stuart, Malcolm, 95, 106, 124, 316n8

Sturges, John, 85, 90

Styron, William, 3

Sophie’s Choice, 3

Suez Canal, 101, 111, 238, 265

Suez crisis, 24, 115

Susann, Jacqueline, 4, 141, 300

Valley of the Dolls, 4

Sweden, 204–205, 206

Syria, 238, 265

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

Time (magazine), 47, 188, 229

Tolstoy, Leo, 12, 36

Treblinka, 11, 104, 129, 131, 132

Trumbo, Dalton, 118–119, 121

Tynan, Kenneth, 174

Ulster, 212, 215

United Artists, 117, 120

Universal Studios, 184, 186

Uris, Anna Blumberg (Uris’s mother), 257

autobiographical account of (“Won’t Somebody Please Hold Me!”), 258–259

divorce of, 6, 25

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

and Karen’s polio, 5657

at movie premieres, 75, 77

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

accident of, 202–203, 203

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

travels of, 196, 206–208

Uris, Karen, x, 52, 53, 100, 102, 155, 178, 179, 180, 191, 230

birth of, 54

education of, 169, 171

polio of, 56–57, 295

Uris, Leon, passim; anger of, 5, 10, 25

and boxing, 28, 30, 40, 61, 88, 104, 178

death of, 299, 303–304

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, 143151, 153167;

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

Angry Hills, (film), 91, 106

Ari, 194, 202–203, 250

Armageddon, 8, 89, 90, 91, 136–140, 169, 171, 182, 274

Armageddon (film), 171, 174

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 Beachhead, 37, 54

“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

Exodus Revisited, 81, 25, 126

“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:

“Lullaby,” 257–258, 261

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, 193202, 205, 208, 209, 221, 222, 244, 249, 252, 262, 275, 295, 305n2;

QBVII (TV), 3, 201–202, 232

Rebel Without a Cause, 79–80, 82, 260

Redemption, 2, 3, 193, 218, 261, 267, 273, 283, 284, 285–290, 295, 296, 297, 301

“Ringside,” 40, 82, 88

“Russian novel,” 204, 208

“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

Topaz (film), 91, 229

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

Trinity (play), 203, 284

“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, Pat, x, 291

Uris, Rachael, x, 180, 245, 252, 253, 269, 271, 281, 283, 285, 286, 291, 297, 303

Uris, William Wolf (father), 139, 142, 172

autobiography of, 75, 256

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

politics of, 7, 24

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

Vidal, Gore, 291, 296

Vogel, Joseph, 117

Vollmann, William T., 301, 302

Europe Central, 301, 302

Wallace, Irving, 3, 4, 185, 230, 300, 340n34

Wallis, Hal, 85, 106

Walsh, Raoul, 66, 72, 73, 75, 153, 154

Ward, Joan, 233, 234, 284

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

Wasserman, Lew, 186, 187, 230

Wayne, John, 78, 230

Weidman, Jerome, 7, 25

Wells, Orson, 37

West, Nathanael, 77

westerns, 3, 71, 86–90, 95, 116, 119, 264, 277

Whitaker, Francis, 217

Wiesel, Elie, 301, 319n74

Wilde, Oscar, 185

Williams, Tennessee, 169, 233

Wing, Willis, 68, 104, 257, 260

Workers Party, 14, 15, 16, 17

Wouk, Herman, 4, 7, 25, 105, 113, 240, 271, 300, 301

The Caine Mutiny, 52, 57, 58

The Caine Mutiny (film), 82

Marjorie Morningstar, 4, 7, 100

War and Remembrance, 240

Winds of War, 240

Wyler, Billy, 106

Yad Vashem, 130

Yeats, W. B., 211, 213, 221

“Easter, 1916,” 211

Yemen, 99, 111

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

Zuckerman, Yitzhak (Antek), 124, 126, 130