Chmielnicki massacres (1648) 3, 124–7,
133
Chorin, Aron 159
Christian Kabbalists 107–8
Christiani, Pablo 98
Christianity/Christians: accusations against
Jews of ritual murder and poisoning of
wells 91–2; attacks on the Talmud 88–9;
conflict with Judaism 43, 44–8;
depiction of Jews 90–1; factors helping
spread of 45; and Islam 62, 63–4, 68;
papal attempts to revivify 88; relations
with Jews during thirteenth century
88–94; relations with Jews in Spain 68
circumcision 46
Claudius, Emperor 38–9, 42
Clement, Pope 92
Cohen, Hermann 212
Cohen of Vilna, Ephraim 122
commerce 77–8, 112, 116, 180
Communist revolutions (1917–19) 206–14
Congress of Berlin (1878) 173
Conservative Judaism 201–2, 237
conspiracy theory 182, 211, 221
Constantine, Emperor 47
conversions 99–100, 104, 106, 155
conversos100, 103, 104, 112, 138
convivencia67–8
Córdoba 69, 70, 72
Costa, Uriel da 140
Council of Four Lands 122–3, 126
Council of Lithuania 122
Counter-Reformation 103, 112, 117
court Jews 114–15, 145
Cromwell, Oliver 142–3
Crusades 3, 82–4, 85, 91, 95
crypto-Judaism 100–1, 104, 106, 138,
140–1
Cultural Zionism 193
Cyrus, King of Persia 23
Czartoryski family 134
Da Costa 140, 141
Damascus 15, 18, 64; blood libel
investigation (1840) 171–2
Darius I, King of Persia 24
David, King 9, 11–13, 239
Davidowicz, Lucy 220
De Prado 140, 141
Dead Sea Scrolls 37
death camps 223–4
Deir Yassin 234
Dembowski, Bishop 132
Deuteronomic Code 8
Deuteronomy, book of 5, 11, 21, 51, 71, 109
dhimmistatus 63, 69
diaspora 2–3, 241–2
diaspora nationalism 196-9 see also
Autonomism; Bund
Dinur, Ben-Zion 134
displaced persons 231
Disputation of Barcelona (1263) 98
Divided Monarchy 15–22
Dmowski, Roman 213–14
Documentary Hypothesis 5
Dohm, Christian 147
Dominicans 88
Don Culema ibn Zadok 98
Don Isaac Abravanel 103, 109
Don Isaac ibn Zadok 98
Donin, Nicholas 89
Donmeh 130–2
Dov Ber, ‘Maggid of Mezerich’ 134, 135
Dreyfus Affair 182–3, 190
‘dry baptisms’ 155
Dubnow, Simon 196–7
Dutch West India Company 144Edict of Milan (313) 47
edict of toleration (1782) 150
Edomites 9
education 162; establishment of
Normalschulen150–1; reform in Hungary
162
Edward I, King 93
Egypt, ancient 5, 6, 7, 17
Ehud 8
Eichmann, Adolf 224; trial of (1962) 184,
238–9
Einsatzgruppen 223
Eisenmenger, Johann 115
Elders of Zion 182
Eleazar ben Yair 40
Elijah (prophet) 18
Elijah of Vilna, Rabbi 135–6
Elisha 18
emancipation edicts: and revolutions (1848)
159
Emden, Jacob 129–30, 132, 133, 148
England 87; expulsion edict (1290) 93;
impoverishment of Jews after 1190
92–3; readmittance of Jews and factors
leading to 141–3; status of Jews by 1750
144; York Massacre 92–3; see also Britain250 Index