Index
Abbas I 106
Abbas II 106
Abbasids 64, 67, 69
Abd-ar-Rachman I 69
Abd-ar-Rachman II 69
Abd-ar-Rachman III 69, 70
Abraham 7, 50–1, 53–4, 62
Abramowitsch, Shalom Jacob 177
absolutism 115–17
Abu Ma’shar 71
Adam and Eve 51
Agag, King 10
Agobard, Archbishop 76
Agrippa I 38
Agrippa II 38, 39
Agudat Israel (Party of Israel) 195, 214
Ahad Ha’am see Ginsberg, Asher
Akiva 53, 54
Al-Tariq 68
Alexander the Great 25, 26, 27
Alexander I, Tsar 173, 174
Alexander II, Tsar 175–6, 185
Alexander III, Tsar 185
Alexander Jannai 31, 32, 33, 35
Alexandria: Jewish settlement in 41–2
Alfonso X, King 98
Algeria 171
‘Ali, Muhammad 171–2
Aliyah Bet 231
aljama 96
Alliance Israélite Universelle 172–3, 184
Almohads 72
Am Olam Movement 200
American Civil War 169
American Communist Party 237
American Jews 165–9; (1881–1914)
199–202; acculturation of 217–18;
Americanization of 200, 219–20; and
Bnai Brith 166, 167; building of
synagogues in cities 237; Conservative
Movement 201, 237; impact of influx
of eastern European Jews 201; impact of
Six Day War 240; interwar years
217–20; labour movement 20; and
Pittsburgh Platform 168–9; post war
237–8; response to Holocaust 227;
spread of Reform Judaism and tensions
within 166–9; upward mobility of 237;
and Zionism 200–1, 220; see also
United States
Amoraic scholars 56–7, 64
Amos 19
Amsterdam 139–41
Amulo 76
Anan ben David 67
Anti-Defamation League (ADL) 184,
218–19
anti-Semitism 179–202, 205; and
anticommunism 209; as critique for
changes in nineteenth century 179–80;
decline of in western and central Europe
before First World War 184; and
Dreyfus Affair 182–3; Jewish responses
prior to First World War 184–5; and
myth of Jewish power and world Jewish
conspiracy 182; and Nazi Germany
220–5; periods in history of 179;
political and racial dimensions 181–2;
rise of during inter-war years 209;
Russian pogroms and May Laws
(1881–2) 185–7; term of 181; Zionism
as response to 187–97
Antigonus 34–5
Antioch 47
Antiochus III, King 27
Antiochus IV, King 28, 29