burial customs, 108
and Byzantine persecution, 153–5, 159, 161, 165
conversion of, 330–5
and Cossack massacres, 301–2
and Crusaders, 212–13, 240, 257, 270
Diaspora, 293–4, 302
divisions among, 190–1, 195
dyers, 240, 278
and Fatimids, 194–5, 198, 202
German, 439, 441
Greek, 454n
Hasidic, 22, 64, 100n, 359, 375n, 364, 375n, 399, 473, 486, 487n
and immigration, 374–5, 383, 431, 437–40, 442, 445, 453, 457, 463–4, 511
and Islamic sultanate 255, 264, 268
Italian, 454
and land purchases, 385, 394, 437, 453
Lost Tribes, 34n, 297n, 322, 337–8
and Mamluk sultanate, 276, 286–7
and messianism, 301–3
and Napoleon’s proclamation, 316–17
and Ottoman sultanate, 293, 297–8, 307, 309
and Persian alliance, 162–3
Polish, 307–8, 357, 359, 375n, 441, 457
and Roman suppression, 129–39, 148–50
Russian, 330, 334–5, 345, 350, 367–70, 374–5, 382–3, 412–13, 415, 423–4, 430, 508–9
Sephardic, 20, 24, 191n, 293–4, 298, 300, 308, 324, 330, 345–6, 359–60, 384, 510
Spanish, 293–4, 296
ultra-Orthodox, 486, 505–7, 510
Jezebel, Queen, 31–2
jihad, 171, 184, 208, 215, 256, 259, 447, 468
anti-British, 395, 402
Al-Jihad al-Muqadas, 508
Joab, 23–4
Joanna, Queen, 257, 259
Joanna, 108
St John, 102n, 109
John, King, 235n, 245n, 262
John, Patriarch, 192
John Hyrcanus, 25n, 68–9, 71n
John of Brienne, King of Jerusalem, 265–6
John of Gischala, 8, 124–5
John of Ibelin, 225
John of Leiden, 297n
John the Baptist, 79n, 90, 94–6, 98, 99n, 100n, 105, 152n, 365, 449
John Tzimiskes, Emperor, 194
Johnson, Lyndon B., President, 493
Jonathan, Prince, 77
Jonathan the Maccabee, see Maccabees
Jonathan, son of Saul, 20–1, 79–80
Joppa, 67, 79n, 84n
see also Jaffa
Jordan, 22–3, 28, 61n, 82, 180n, 218, 251, 433, 468, 471, 505
and Israeli war, 477, 481, 512
and Six Day War, 494–5
and UAR, 490–1
Jordan, river, 13, 65, 95, 379n, 430, 493
Jorsalaborg, 217
Joseph, King, 158n
Joseph, Dov/Bernard, 471, 478
Joseph of Arimathea, 104, 107–8, 321n
Joseph the Tobiad, 56–7
Josephus, xxv, 53, 58, 61, 66, 68, 74–5, 82, 85, 115, 119–20, 354n
and Jewish revolt, 3–9, 120–1, 123–6, 129, 131–2
and life of Jesus, 96n, 99n, 100n, 101, 105–6
writing of Jewish War, 131
Josiah, King, 39–40
Joshua, 17–18, 210
Joshua the priest, 49
Jotapata, 124
Juba II, King of Mauretania, 82n, 93n al-Jubeh, Nazmi, xxii, 508
Judah haNasi, 138–9
Judah
and Assyrian conquest, 31–9
and Babylonian conquest, 41–6
currency, 55
and Israel, 21–2, 25, 30–1
Judah the Maccabee, see Maccabees
Judah the Pious, 307
Judaism, 10, 34, 40, 45, 48n, 50, 53, 110, 132, 483, 499
and early Christianity, 110, 118, 140
Judas Isacriot, 39n, 91n, 103, 109
Judeh family, 518
Aded al-Judeh, 517–18
Julia, 88
Julia Sabina, 58n
Julian the Apostate, Emperor, 149–50, 160n, 163
Julien (valet), 321
Juniper, Brother, 299n
Justin, Emperor, 158
Justin, 136, 138
Justinian, Emperor, 130n, 158–61, 163, 182, 184
Justinian II, Emperor, 182
Juvelius, Dr Valter, 388–90, 393n
Juvenal, Bishop, 156–7
Kaab al-Ahbar, 175–6
Kaaba, xix, 169–70, 182, 185
Kabbala, 298, 301–2
Kaddish, 494
Kafur, Abul-Misk, 191–3
Kahn, Rabbi Zadok, 380
Kalandia airport, 474
Kaleb, King of Axum, 158n
Kalischer, Rabbi Zvi Hirsch, 374
Kamil, Sultan, 260, 265–8, 270
Kaminitz Hotel, 343
Kaplony, Andreas, 183n
Karbala, 180
Karkar, Battle of, 31
Karnak, 31
Kashgar, 202
Kastel, 471–2
Katamon, 443, 469, 481
Keith, Alexander, 332n
Keith-Roach, Edward, 437, 450, 456–7
Kennedy, John F., President, 454
Kenya, 381
Kerak, 245, 361
Kerem Avraham, 444
Kerensky, Alexander, 423n, 429n
KGB, 486
Khadija, 169–70
Khadir, Sheikh, 276–7n
Khalid bin Walid, 172–4, 177
Khalidi family, 271n, 308n, 329, 360–2, 439, 466
Hussein al-Khalidi, 470
Rashid al-Khalidi, 518n
Ruhi al-Khalidi, 385, 394
Yasin al-Khalidi, 378
Yusuf al-Diya al-Khalidi, 360–2, 370, 380
Khalidiyyah Library, 271n, 361n, 509n
Khartoum, 365n
Khazaria, 191n
Khazneh shrine, 98
al-Khazrajy, Sheikh Ghanim, 263
Khidr the Green Man, 197
al-Khidri, 188n
Khmelmytsky, Hetman Bogdan, 301
Khorasan, 187
Khusrau II, Shah-in-Shah, 161, 163–4
Kiamil Pasha, 349
Kidron Valley, 24n, 40, 85, 87, 103, 132, 139, 218, 226, 479, 493
Kiev, 489
King–Crane Commission, 428
King David Hotel, 441–2, 457–8, 462, 464, 470, 473, 492
Zionist bombing, 465–6
King’s Gardens, 511n
King’s Road, 50n
Kinglake, Alexander, 345n
Kirkbridge, Sir Alec, 475
Kishniev, 380
Kitchener of Khartoum, Hebert, 1st Earl, 355n, 402–3
Klausner, Joseph, 438
Kléber, General Jean-Baptiste, 317
Knesset, 478, 484, 492, 502–3
Knights Hospitaller, 219, 226, 243, 246, 249, 259
Knights Templar, 219, 226, 229–30, 243, 246, 249, 268–70, 344n
Koestler, Arthur, 191n, 437–8, 461n
Kollek, Teddy, 501, 504–5
Konstantin Nikolaievich, Grand Duke, 353
Koran, 165, 170–1, 173–4, 183–4, 197n, 251, 264, 284, 304, 384, 425, 477
Kosygin, Alexei, 490
Kress von Kressenstein, Baron Friedrich, 395, 416
Kurdistan, 405n
Kut, 403
Kuwait, 488
la saison, 461
Lachish, 38, 42n
Ladino language, 295, 335, 360
Lagerlöf, Selma, 366
Laodicea, 80
Last Emperor legend, 189, 256, 269, 340
Last Supper, 25n, 103n, 254
Latrun fortress, 260, 480
Lawrence, Sarah, 404
Lawrence, T. E., xxv 403–7, 408, 410, 418–22, 425–7, 431–3, 477, 488, 510
and Orde Wingate, 450–1
Lawrence, Thomas, 322
Le Moniteur, 317
Le Thoron des Chevaliers (Latrun), 260
League of Nations, 428
Lebanon, 22, 79, 82, 116, 131n, 180n, 203n, 243, 355, 405, 428, 442, 449, 455n, 456, 469, 477
Lebanese war, 502–3, 511
Lehi (Stern Gang), 460–62, 464–6, 471, 481
Leicester, 363
Lenin, V. I., 410, 415, 434
Leo, Pope, 229n
Leontopolis, 66n
Leopold II, King of the Belgians, 348
leprosy, 242n
Levine, Alter, 407–8, 417n
Levites, 59
Libya, 54, 101, 382n, 394
Licinius, Emperor, 144
Lifta, 418
Ligne, Prince de, 311
Lincoln, Abraham, President, 347n
Lincoln, Mary Todd, 347n
Lions’ Gate, 162n, 276, 292n, 496
Litani, river, 244
Literary Society, 422
Lithuania, 191n, 293–4, 298, 350n
Livermore, Harriet, 338–9
Livia, Empress, 90, 92, 95
Living Imams, 193–4, 197
Livonia, 285
Livorno, 302, 350
Lloyd George, David, 1st Earl of Dwyfor, xxv, 381, 409, 411, 413, 415, 418, 424, 426–8, 431
locusts, 398
London, 207n, 219n, 352, 370, 421, 441, 446, 453
London Jews Society, 332, 335, 365
London Stock Exchange, 350
Lott, Clyde, 86n
Loughborough, 363
Louis VII, King, 234–5, 244
Louis IX, King, 271–2
Louis Philippe, King, 330
Lovers of Zion, 382
Lucera, 267
Lueger, Karl, 373
Luke, Sir Harry, 442, 444