Perfect Heroes: The World War II Parachutists and the Making of Israeli Collective Memory

Index

Af Al Pi, 112 Afikim (kibbutz), 39, 130 “A Force,”9 –11, 13, 14, 222n3 Agudath Israel (political party), 124, 131, 146, 152, 158, 160 Ahdut Ha’avoda (political movement), 114 –15, 152 Ahia, Binyamin, 164 Ahisar, Yehoshua, 11, 63 Ahisar, Yehuda (Liova Gukowsky), 11, 12, 28, 129, 132 Aliyah Bet. See Mossad Le’Aliyah Bet Allon, Yigal, 62, 114 Alonei Abba (settlement), 139, 232n47 Alterman, Nathan, 137 Amir, Rehavam (Rehavam Zablodovsky), 10, 18, 184, 222n3 Am Oved (publisher), 55, 59 Arab League, 87 Arab Revolt (1936 –39), 5 Arani, Aryeh (Aryeh Fichman), 11, 12, 20, 25, 63, 129, 132223n15 Aridor, Yoram, 204 Armia Krajowa, 212 Arrows in the Dark (Friling), 13, 104, 194 Artzi, Yitzhak, 42, 199 Ashdot Ya’akov (kibbutz), 112 Asheri, David (Bonaventura), 113 “Ashrei ha-Gafrur”(“Blessed is the Match”) (poem by Szenes), 20, 38, 59, 143, 153, 164 Asscher, Abraham, 124 Assistance and Rescue Commission, 21, 23 Austria, 4, 16, 31–32, 41, 76, 88, 132, 171 Averbuch, Moshe (Agami), 119, 236 Avigur, Shaul (Shaul Meirov), 77 273 Index Avivi, Baruch, 164 –65 Avneri, Uri, 123, 144 Avriel, Ehud, 222n11 Avuka (kibbutz), 16 Ayin Be’ayin (journal), 143 Azaryahu, Maoz, 72, 176 Azriel Shohat (ship), 64 Bahistadrut (journal), 53 Balkans, ix, 6, 8, 10, 36, 189, 222n11 Baltic Sea, 14 Bama’aleh (newsletter), 154 Banai, Yossi, 197 Banki (youth movement), 152–53, 155 –56 Banska Bystrica (city), 3, 26 –30, 62, 125 Barak, Aharon, 203, 214 Barak, Ehud, 183 Barda, Samuel. See Sereni, Enzo Bari (city), 3, 10, 16, 23 –24, 27, 34, 38, 43, 197 Bar Kokhba, Shimon, xi, 220n1 Bar-On, Modi, 206, 211 Bartana, Avraham, 162 Bartov, Omer, 106 Bauer, Yehuda, 37–38, 185 –89, 199 Becker, Yisrael, 142 Beersheva (city), 80 Begin, Menachem, 183 Beit Enzo, 57, 93 Beit Eshel (settlement), 55 Beit Hannah Szenes, 79, 93, 158 –59, 184, 206 Beit Hatzanchan, 184 Beit Haviva Reik, 56, 140 Beit Keshet (kibbutz), 79 Beit Oren (kibbutz), 11, 13, 129, 132–33, 135 Beit Palmach, 79 Beit She’arim (kibbutz), 10 Beit Zvi, 140 Beit-Zvi, Shabbetai B., 187–90, 192–93, 195, 199 Belgium, 7, 30, 34, 124 Ben-Amotz, Dan, 201, 204 Ben-Asher, Haim, 135, 137 Ben-Efraim, Yitzhak (Meno), 13, 16, 21, 185 Ben-Gurion, David, 7, 8, 20, 80–81, 108, 130, 136, 147, 160, 171, 174, 178, 180, 188 –90, 192–94, 231n40 Ben-Nahum, Daniel, 170, 173 –74 Benshalom, Rafi (Rafi Friedl), 31, 42 Ben-Ya’akov, Michal, 4, 62 Ben-Ya’akov, Zvi, 4, 16, 25, 29 –31, 33, 35, 40, 43 –44, 50, 54, 58 –9, 62–63, 71, 91, 95, 99, 140, 167 Ben Ya’ir, Eleazar, 104 Ben-Yosef, Aaron, 14, 21, 25 Berdiczew, Abba, 4, 13, 15, 18, 23, 23 –24, 26 – 29, 31–32, 34 –35, 37, 42, 44, 50, 52–53, 58, 62, 99, 167, 170, 178, 232n47 Berger, Dov (Dov Harari) 13 –14, 24, 32, 35, 43, 49 –50, 129 –30, 132, 140 Berlin, 15, 25, 111, 124, 175 Betar (youth movement), 105, 118, 152–53, 155, 157 Beth Jacob (school), 158, 167, 228n93 Betzer, Oded, 170, 173 –74 Biemler, Hans, 157 Bilu (group of settlers, 104 “Blessed Is the Match”(“Ashrei ha-Gafrur”) (poem by Szenes), 20, 38, 59, 143, 153, 164 Blessed Is the Match (film by Katahdin Productions ), xiii, 215 “Blessed Is the Match”(script by Hameiri), 144 “blood for goods”(secret negotiations with the Nazis), 21, 117 Bloom, Benjamin, 165 Bnei Akiva (youth movement), 152–53, 156 Bnei Brak (city), 83 Bnos Agudath Israel (youth movement), 158 Bodnar, John, 106, 134 Bondy, Ruth, 11, 40–41, 70, 170, 174 The Book of the Palmach (Gilad), 170, 171, 172 Borochov, Dov Ber, 83, 233 Brand, Hansi, 42, 118 –19, 123 274 Index Brand, Joel, 21, 24, 117, 124, 126, 203 Bratislava (city), 32, 33 Brauner, Arthur, 175 Braverman, Sarah (Surika), 16, 17, 24, 226, 34, 37, 40, 182 British Foreign Office, 9 British Mandate, xiv, 47, 68, 158, 160, 220n1 British War Office, 50 Brot, Eliezer, 142, 144 Bucharest, 11, 28, 32, 35, 50, 199 Bukovac (village), 29, 30, 42 Bulgaria, 4, 8, 13, 16, 21, 23 –25, 29, 38, 41, 111, 132, 171, 186, 223n14, 233n25 Burke, Peter, 214 Caesarea (city), 59, 73, 77, 79, 92, 100, 140, 142–43, 153, 214 Cairo, 8, 10, 11, 14 –16, 18, 22, 35, 87 Cambridge, 36 Carlyle, Thomas, xiv Carmel...