Jerusalem: The Biography

Jewish Legion, 421, 430

Jewish observances, 45, 54, 59

Jesus and, 97–8

Jewish Quarter, 8, 35n, 36, 43, 159n, 191, 255, 286, 295, 298, 308, 335, 345, 511, 518

and Buraq Uprising, 438

and Israeli war, 468, 479–80

restoration of, 503–4

and Six Day War, 497

Jewish revolt, 1–10, 122–6

Jewish Settlement Police, 450–1

Jewish settlements, 506, 508, 515–16

Jewish Territorial Organization, 382

Jews

and Albanian conquest, 330

American, 428, 502

anti-Zionist, 410, 414, 421, 486

and Arab conquest, 176, 179, 183, 186

Ashkenazi, 20, 191n, 298, 308, 330, 443

and Babylonian exile, 45, 47–50

British, 257, 277n, 301, 350

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