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History of the Jews

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by Paul Johnson


  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; ra
tionalism 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

  Nass
er, 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

 

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