by James Srodes
Hibbat Zion, 4
Hogarth, D. G., 26, 27, 77, 86, 122, 123, 143, 184
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 50, 51
homing pigeons, 136, 163–164
Hoover, Herbert, 51
Howeitat, 123, 153
Hussein, Sharif, 77–78, 123, 126, 144, 158, 162, 181
I
Ibn Saud, 158, 162
industrialization, 4, 5–7, 9, 18, 97
Iraq, 124
Israel, xiii–xiv, 23, 42, 96, 133, 145, 179
Athlit, xvi, xvii, 24, 25, 28–29, 36, 39, 47, 53, 68, 85–86, 87, 93, 94, 96, 102, 106, 108, 116–117, 118, 119, 124, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 135–136, 147, 148, 151, 152, 156, 163, 167–168, 169, 170
Haifa, xiv, xvii, xviii, xx, 9, 10, 13, 19, 29, 31, 42, 43, 55, 75, 83, 126, 129–130, 144, 149, 152, 164, 168, 171, 186
Jaffa, xv, 42, 101, 144, 145, 151–152, 161, 165, 173, 176, 177
Jerusalem, xiv, xviii, xxii, 5, 10, 70, 72, 111, 114, 124, 137–138, 140, 144, 154, 156, 157, 158, 176, 177, 179–180, 188
Tel Aviv, xiii, xv, 101, 144, 145, 161, 165
Italy, 35, 67
J
Jewish state, 52, 72, 81, 111, 115, 122, 127
Jews
Ashkenazi, 4, 5
conscription, 67–68, 71
diaspora, 3–5, 10, 12
Eretz Israel, 2, 4, 10, 11, 23, 27, 73, 93, 102, 177, 186
finance, 23–24, 27–28, 52, 69–70
migration, 3, 9–11, 22–23, 33, 38–39
philanthropy, 23–24
pogroms, 3
Sephardic, 5
Yishuv, 5, 11, 13, 22–23, 38, 146, 148, 152, 153, 162, 165, 180, See also Zionists
K
Kaimakan of Haifa, xvii, xviii, xx, 171, 173
Karmala (ship), 117
Kerr, Philip, 50, 52, 112
Kipling, Rudyard, 113
Knights of the Garter, 6–7
Kressenstein, Kress von, 66, 165
Kutal Amara, 95, 113
L
Lansing, Robert, 50
Lawrence, Thomas Edward (T. E.), 24–27, 28, 52, 77, 86, 122, 123, 126–127, 142, 142–144, 150, 153, 155, 158–159, 181, 182–186, 187, 187–190
Seven Pillars of Wisdom, 183, 184, 187–188
Lawrence of Arabia, See Lawrence, Thomas Edward (T. E.)
Libya, 35, 36, 64, 67
Lippmann, Walter, 50, 51, 52
Lishansky, Josef, 90–91, 93, 102, 105, 107, 119, 125, 128, 131–133, 135, 136, 137, 138, 144, 146, 147–151, 153, 156, 160, 161–162, 167–168, 169–173, 176–177
Lloyd George, David, 52, 95–96, 110–112, 124, 145, 153, 154, 158, 179, 180
M
Managem (ship), 89, 93, 94, 128, 131, 132, 135, 136, 146, 148, 150, 159, 162, 169
Marxism, 23, 38
Mehmed V, Sultan of Turkey, 35, 37
Meinertzhagen, Richard, 143, 184
Morgenthau, Henry, 27–28, 52, 69–70
Mother of Iraq, See Bell, Gertrude Murray, Archibald, 76, 77, 79, 95–96, 112, 113–114, 115, 117, 122, 124, 128, 138, 140–142, 144, 148–149, 153
Muslims, 3, 22, 33, 34, 41, 182
N
Neiman, Dr. Moshe, 106–107
Newcombe, Stewart, 77, 78, 122, 143
New Republic, 51
New York City, 81–82, 106, 108, 132, 165
New York Evening Post, 109
New York Times, 21
Nicholas I, Tsar of Russia, 6, 7
Nicholas II, Tsar of Russia, 36, 64
NILI, xix, xx, xxii, 88, 131, 138, 139–140, 144, 145–146, 147, 148, 150, 151, 152–153, 155, 156–157, 159–161, 162, 164, 165, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 173, 174, 176, 177, 180, 181, 185
Nitzach Isreal lo Ishkari, See NILI
Northcliffe, Lord, 82
O
Oliphant, Laurence, 8–10
Orient Express, 7–8, 60
Ormsby-Gore, William, 124, 128, 144, 148, 180
Oskar II (ship), 99, 109
Osman I, Sultan of Turkey, 32
Ottomans / Ottoman Empire, See Turkey
Oxford University, 25–26, 77, 122
P
Paget, Robert, 98
Palestine, xvi, xx, xxii, 4, 8, 9–11, 17, 19–22, 21, 28, 32, 38, 48, 49, 51, 54, 61–62, 65, 73, 78, 87, 95, 102, 108, 112, 116, 117, 122, 127, 142, 146, 148, 159, 162, 167, 180
Gaza, xxii, 15, 112, 114, 122, 131, 138, 144, 145, 148, 149, 150–151, 153, 155, 157, 158, 165
Paris Peace Conference (1919), 180, 181
Percy, Eustace, 50, 52, 112
Poalei Zion, See Polish Jewish Socialist Workers Party
Polish Jewish Socialist Workers Party, 52–54
Princeton University, 28 Purim, 40
R
Rishon-le-Zion, 91, 106, 138, 161, 168
Romanovs, 3
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 50, 51, 69
Roosevelt, Theodore, 24, 50, 51
Rosh Hashanah, xiv
Rothschild, Edmond de, xvi, 12–14, 15, 18, 20, 22, 24, 41, 52, 91
Russia, 3, 4, 6, 7, 36, 60, 64, 67, 78, 79, 110
S
Schiff, Jacob, 27
Schneersohn, Liova, 129–130, 131, 146, 147, 148, 150, 151, 153
Schwartz, Reuven, 131
Scotland Yard, 109–110
Second Aliyah, 22, 23, 38, 52, 67, 146
Second Battle of Gaza, 141
Seven Pillars of Wisdom (Lawrence), 183, 184, 187–188
Shaw, T. E., See Lawrence, Thomas Edward (T. E.)
spies, xiv, xv–xix, 72, 73, 74, 75, 86, 87, 90, 92
Gideonites, 54–55, 72, 73, 74, 75, 86, 87–88, 90, 92, 106, 129, 131, 146, 147, 156
Ha-Shomer, 54, 74, 146, 147, 160–161, 162, 176, 180
NILI, xix, xx, xxii, 88
Straus, Oscar, 24, 27, 28
Sublime Porte, 6, 7, 35, 36, 37
Suez Canal, xiv, xv, xix, 32, 37, 64, 71, 72–73, 76, 77, 87, 95, 126, 140
Sukkot, xiv–xv, xvii–xviii, 170
Sweden, 97–98
Sykes, Mark, 114–115, 145, 148
Sykes-Picot agreement, 115, 165
Syria, 145
Syria-Palestine, xv, xxi, 2, 5, 13, 22, 26, 60, 63, 64, 66, 67, 69, 81, 95, 97, 113, 115, 123, 124, 135, 137, 144, 149, 163, 165 locust plague, 71–72
T
Taft, William Howard, 24
Talaat, Mehmed (Talaat Pasha), 37, 69, 182
Third Battle of Gaza, 162, 176–177
Thomas, Lowell, 183
Thompson, Basil, 110
Tolstoy, Leo, 38
torture, 170–173
Turkey, xiii, xiv, xv, xvii, xviii, xix, xx–xxii, 2, 6–8, 22, 31–39, 54, 55, 60, 64–69, 71, 72–81, 82, 83, 87–89, 90, 91, 92–93, 95, 96–97, 101, 106, 107, 111, 112–113, 114, 115, 122, 124, 126, 127, 128, 138, 139–141, 144–146, 148, 149, 152, 156–158, 160, 161, 164, 165, 167, 168–169, 170–173, 176–177, 179, 180, 182
Armenians, xxi, 8, 65, 73, 82, 83, 93, 161, 171, 173, 182
Fourth Army, xv, xix, 65, 66, 67, 72, 73–74, 112, 113, 137, 139–141, 165, 180
genocide, xx–xxi, 35, 82, 83, 171
Muslim Caliphate, 33
Sublime Porte, 6, 7, 35, 36, 37
torture, xxi–xxii, 170–173, See also Constantinople (Istanbul, Turkey)
U
United States, 47–52, 69, 81–82, 92, 98–99, 100, 146, 165
University of California, Berkeley, 27
US Department of Agriculture, 49, 100
V
Versailles Peace Conference (1919), 51–52
Victoria, Queen of England, 6–7
W
Wallace, Lew, 9
Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ, 9
Warburg, Otto, 27, 97
Warburg, Paul, 27, 68
Washington, DC, 49–52, 69
Watchmen, See Ha-Shomer
Weizmann, Chaim, 52, 82, 96, 111, 113, 116, 164–165, 166, 181
Wilhelm II, Kaiser of Germany, 38, 64, 165
Wilso
n, Woodrow, 28, 50, 52, 69–70, 81–82, 99, 111, 146, 180
With the Turks in Palestine (Aaronsohn), 82
Woolley, Leonard, 77, 86–87, 88, 89, 93, 94, 95, 102, 118, 122, 123, 128, 143, 184
World Zionist Organization (WZO), 116, 164, 165, 166
Y
Yaffe, Hillel, 48, 74, 175
Yishuv, 5, 11, 13, 22–23, 38, 146, 148, 152, 153, 162, 165, 180
Yom Kippur, xiv
Z
Zichron Ya’akov, xiv–xix, xx, 12, 13–15, 19–20, 24, 26–27, 28–29, 36, 38, 40, 42, 43, 47–48, 49, 52–55, 56, 57, 60, 61, 69, 72, 82–83, 85, 88, 89–90, 91, 92, 94, 96, 101, 106–107, 127, 129, 138, 145, 146, 147, 160–163, 167, 169–173, 176, 180, 181, 186
Zionist Mule Corps, 86
Zionist Organization, 52–53
Zionists, 4, 5, 8, 9, 11, 13, 23, 28, 39, 41, 42, 48, 49, 51, 52, 56, 58, 69, 70, 81, 82, 96, 111, 115, 116, 117, 122, 136, 142–143, 144, 146, 148, 153, 159, 164–165, 180, 181