The Downfall of Abba Hillel Silver and the Foundation of Israel

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285 Index Adams, Sherman, 191, 206, 208–9, 218–19, 221, 224, 228 Ahad Ha’am (Asher Ginsberg), 14 American Civil Liberties Union, 63 American Council for Judaism, 82n4, 100, 191 American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), 159 American Jewish Committee (AJC), 66, 85, 97n18, 109n1, 125, 127, 140, 154, 158, 186, 216, 219 American Jewish Conference, 8, 84–85 American Jewish Congress, 180, 216 American Zionist Council (AZC), 122–24, 159, 265, 172, 180–81, 265 American Zionist Emergency Council (AZEC), 84, 86, 88–91, 93–94, 97, 100, 102, 107, 112, 116, 121, 154 Anderson, Robert, 202, 207, 209 Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry, 94–96, 98, 104, 206 Anti-Nazi League to Champion Human Rights, 66–68 Aran, Zalman, 141–42 Attlee, Clement, 93n12, 100 Baruch, Bernard, 173 Begin, Menachem, 108, 151 Ben-Gurion, David: American administration , 95, 102, 104, 158, 164, 177, 206, 213, 218–20, 226–28, 230; American Zionism, 9, 69, 102, 111, 124, 126–28, 132–34, 137–39; Israel Bonds and UJA, 113, 128–29, 137–38, 146, 152; IsraeliArab conflict, 205, 207, 214–15, 218–19, 224, 231; relations with Silver, 11, 84, 86, 102–4, 107, 110, 113, 125, 128–29, 132, 138, 141–42, 145–46, 165, 178, 185, 196, 218, 220, 237, 239, 264–65 Bennike, Vagne, 184 Ben-Zvi, Yitzhak, 152, 166, 265 Bergson, Peter (Hillel Kook), 8n2, 82 Berlin Wall (1961), 249, 253 Bermuda Conference (1943), 81–82 Bernstein, Peretz, 131, 151, 166, 169 Bevin, Ernest, 94–95, 96n16, 104, 106 Biltmore Program, 8–9, 102 Blaustein, Jacob, 127, 154, 158, 161n12, 168, 179, 181, 214 B’nai B’rith, 66, 70, 85, 216 Bnot Ya’akov Incident, 184–87, 190 Brandeis, Louis D., 52 Bridges, Styles, 173 Briscoe, Robert, 233, 235 Browdy, Benjamin, 132–33, 141, 161n12, 173 Byroade, Henry, 179, 184, 187–88, 191, 193 286 | Index Case, Clifford II, 224 Central Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR), 11, 107, 216, 238 Clifford, Clark, 1, 151, 155 Columbus, Christopher, 49, 197 Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations, 215 Cooper, John, 158 Coralnik, Abraham, 66 Council of Jewish Federations (CJF), 73, 125 Dayan, Moshe, 186 Dean, Arthur, 225 Dewey, Thomas, 88, 156–57, 170–74 Dinur (Dinburg), Ben-Zion, 27–28 Disraeli, Benjamin, 29 Douglas, Paul, 158 Dubkin, Eliyahu, 152 Dulles, Allen Welsh, 207 Dulles, John Foster: lobbyists for Israel, 158, 175, 177–80, 184, 186, 188, 189, 191–93, 209–11, 216, 219; Middle East policy, 169, 177, 181n9, 185, 190, 195, 200–201, 207, 208n10, 213, 217, 222–23, 225–27, 229–30; US local politics, 156–57, 170, 172–73, 187, 189–90 Durant, Will, 241 Eaton, Cyrus, 257–60 Eban, Abba: American administration, 158, 178–79, 184, 187–88, 190, 206, 213, 219–30; American Jews, 114, 123, 128–29, 132, 158–61, 163, 167, 178–79, 185–86, 210, 214–15 Eden, Anthony, 206–7 Eilat, Eliyahu, 112, 157, 161n12 Einstein, Albert, 33, 257 Eisenhower, Dwight D.: lobbyists for Israel, 153, 169, 174–75, 180, 181n9, 182, 186, 189–90, 193, 209–10, 216, 219–22, 227–28; McCarran-Walter Act, 171–73, 182n10; Middle East policy, 142, 170, 171n3, 172, 177, 182–83, 188, 193, 204, 206, 213, 218–19, 222, 226–27, 230; presidential elections, 167–73, 210–11, 217, 223; presidential inauguration, 11, 173; World War II, 93n12, 171, 223 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 40 Eshkol (Shkolnik), Levi, 147, 152 Feinberg, Abraham, 168 Fineberg, Solomon Andhil, 71 Foch, Ferdinand, 83 Frost, Robert, 7, 32 Fulbright, William, 209 General Zionists: Israeli Party, 130–36, 138–39, 165–66, 204, 214; Jewish British Party, 151 Goitein, David, 170, 181–82 Goldmann, Nahum, 90n11, 97n18, 102, 104, 113, 140–41, 158–59, 161, 163, 165–66, 214–16 Goldstein, Israel, 88, 173, 180 Goodman, Paul, 27 Green, William, 67 Gries, Moses, 60 Hadassah (Zionist women’s organization ), 73, 89, 101, 165 hafrada (separation) initiative (1948), 115 Halpern, Ben, 17–18 Halprin, Rose, 101, 141 Index | 287 Hebrew Union College (HUC), 11, 15n12, 37n9, 50, 61, 77 Heine, Heinrich, 48 Herlitz, Esther, 185–86 Herter, Christian, 251 Herzl, Theodor, 10, 13, 14n11, 50n9 Hess, Rudolph, 248 Hitler, Adolf, 64–65, 72, 76, 198, 212, 246, 262 Hoover, Herbert Jr., 208–9 Humphrey, Hubert, 209 Israel Bonds, 128, 135, 137–38, 146–51, 153, 206, 215, 226 Ives, Irving, 157 Jacobson, Eddie, 168 Javits, Jacob, 186–88, 190 Jewish Agency, 9...