Babylonians (586) 22; and failed
Assyrian siege on Jerusalem 19–20; flaws
of tribal confederation 9–10; and Persian
rule 23–4; and prophets 10; relations
with other tribes 9; resistance to
temporal kingship 9; restoration of
community in Land of Israel by Persians
23, 23–4; and Solomon’s rule 13–15;
tension between centralized and localized
worship of Yahweh 8–9; transformation
of religion whilst in exile 23; and United
Monarchy 11–15
Isserles, Moses (ReMA) 123
Istanbul 105
Istóczy, Viktor 186
Italian Jews 107–8, 158; confining of to
ghettos 108–9, 112; expulsion of 110;
legal emancipation of in states conquered
by French 153; and Nazi regime 225
Italian Renaissance 107, 107–8
Izmirim 131
Jabotinsky, Vladimir Z’ev 217
Jacob 8, 9, 54
Jacobson, Israel 153, 156
James 45, 46
Jason 28, 29
Jathwism 18
Jehosephat 17
Jehoyakim, King 22
Jehu 18
Jeremiah 20, 21–3, 41
Jericho 35
Jeroboam I 15, 16, 17
Jeroboam II 19
Jerusalem: capture of by David 12;
conquering of by Romans 34;
destruction of by Babylonians (586) 22;
failure of Assyrian siege 19–20;
liberating of from Greeks (164) 29–30;
Solomon’s construction projects 14;
Temple of 17, 21, 24, 32, 33, 35, 39;
transforming of in Greek polisby
Antiochus 29; Zealot revolt in and
crushing of by Titus (70) 39
Jerusalem Talmud 55
Jeshurun, Adath 161
Jesuits 112
Jesus 44–5, 46, 62
Jewish Agency 231, 232
Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee 236
Jewish Question 190–1
Jewish Telegraphic Agency 226
Jews, definition 1–2
Jezebel 18
João III, King 104
Job 22
John Chrysostum 47, 48
John Hyrcanus 31, 33
John, King 93
Jonathan Maccabee 30, 32
Josel of Rosheim 111
Joseph II 150, 158
Joseph (Jacob’s son) 17
Josephus Flavius 36, 39, 40, 43, 44
Josiah, King 5, 9, 21, 22
Judah 14, 15, 16, 17, 21, 30
Judah Maccabee 29–30
Judah the Patriarch 56
Judas Iscariot 44
Judea 31, 34, 38, 39, 41; rule of Herod
34–7
Judenverbesserung146–7
Judha (Yehuda) 1
Julian, Emperor 47
Julius Caesar 43, 46
Justinian, Emperor 48Kabbala/Kabbalists 96–7, 130, 132; and
Christian scholars 107–8; Lurianic
103–4, 127, 129, 132
Kafka, Franz 204
kal va-homer 53
Kalam 65
Kaplan, Mordechai 219–20
Karaites/Karaism 61, 66–7
Karo, Joseph 102, 130
Katz, Jacob 141
Khazars 70
kibbutz 194, 195
King David Hotel, bombing of (1946) 232
al-Kirkisani, Jacob 67
‘kitchen Judaism’ 168
Kley, Edward 156
Kohler, Kaufman 168
Kohut, Alexander 168
Konyosos sect 131
Kook, Abraham Isaac 196
Kozo Shel Yud 177
Kraków, Jews of 84, 121, 123, 126, 131
Kristallnacht 222
Kun, Béla 209, 210Index 253