Jews and Judaism in World History

Union of American Hebrew Congregations
(UAHC) 168
United Monarchy 6, 11–15
United Nations 233
United States 165–9; curtailment of Jewish
immigration 217–18; and First World
War 206; migration of Jews to and
settlement in 165–6, 167, 199;
migration of Russian Jews to 186;
restrictions on Jewish immigrants 203;
see also American Jews
UNSCOP 233
Urban II, Pope 82
urbanization: of Jews 165
Usque, Samuel 104
usury 109, 110, 111

Vespasian 39, 41
Vienna Jewry 113, 115, 158, 180
Vilna Judenrat225–6
Vilna (Vilnius) 126
Visigoths 68
Voltaire 146; Letters on England 142
voluntary societies 80

Wagner, Richard 181
Wallenberg, Raoul 228–9
War of the Austrian Succession 119
War of Independence 233–4
War of the Spanish Succession 114
Wars of Religion 111, 112
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (1943) 226
Warsaw Jewry 164
Weisl, Naftali Herz 150–1
Weizmann, Chaim 216, 222, 231
Wellhausen, Julius 5
wells: Jews accused of poisoning 92
Wertheimer, Samson 114, 115
westernization of Jews 172
Westphalia, Treaty of (1648) 113–14
Wise, Isaac Meyer 167–8
Wise, Stephen 201, 219
Wissenschaft des Judenthums155–6, 158
women 8, 81, 164; Ashkenazic 81; contacts
between Jewish and Christian 87;
literature written for Polish Jewish
123–4; and synagogue 33; in Talmudic
discourse 58–9; and Temple of Jerusalem
33; Therapeutic 43; and Zionism 196

World Jewish Congress 227

World Zionist Organization 206

Wyman, David 228

xenophobia 203

Yahweh 6–7, 8–9, 14, 19

Yerushalmi, Yosef 104

Yeshiva College 219

Yiddish 122, 152, 154, 177, 197, 198–9,

202, 218, 238

Yishuv 216

Yom Kippur War 239

York Massacre 92–3

Yosef, Ya’akov 134

zaddik135, 137

Zadokites 12

Zalman of Lyady, Shneur 136, 137

Zangwill, Israel 215–16

Zealots 37–41; Bar Kockba revolt against

Hadrian 41, 54; Great Revolt against

Romans 38–40; revolt against Romans

in Masada and defeat 40–1

Zedekiah 22

Zeitgeist 157, 158

Zionism/Zionists 73, 172, 184, 187–97, 231,

242; and American Jewry 200–1, 220;

Basle Program and criticism of 192; and

Bundists 198; campaign against British

restrictions on immigration to Palestine

232; conflict with Arabs in Palestine

215–17; Cultural 193; embracing of by

German Jews 222; forms of 193, 193–4;

and Herzl 183, 190–2, 215; Marxist 194;

militancy of after war 231; origins 188–9;

Prague 190; Religious 195; settlement of

in Land of Israel 188–90; Spiritual

193–4; and transforming of Jews notion

192–3; and women 196

Zionist Congress (First) (Basle) (1897) 191,

192

Zola, Emile 183

zuggot52–3

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