The Best School in Jerusalem: Annie Landau’s School for Girls, 1900–1960

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289 index Aaronson, Aaron, 79, 141 Aaronson, Esme, 141, 254 Abdullah (king of Jordan), 222, 242 Abyssinian Palace, Jerusalem, 70–71, 80, 83–84, 91, 94–95, 109, 122, 144 Alexandria, Egypt, Landau’s school in, 80, 81 Allenby, Edmund, 81, 82, 83, 269n10 Alliance Israélite Universelle, 4, 7, 11, 29, 42, 44, 45, 96, 112, 116, 118, 125, 228, 241 Alliance Schools, Jerusalem, 96, 118 American Colony, Jerusalem, 35, 80, 87, 98, 202, 218 American Red Cross, 83, 87, 89 American students at Evelina School, 135, 139, 181–82 American universities, Evelina School girls attending, 231, 232 amulets, 10, 39, 59, 106 An Appeal to Jewish Women on Behalf of the Anglo-Jewish Association (1911), 2–3, 5, 7–8, 10–11, 72 Anglo-Jewish Association: Abrahams report for, 36; after Independence, 227, 228, 234, 235; Carpenter report for, 55– 58; Cohen report for, 29–32; d’AvigdorGoldsmid report for, 110–11; on death of Landau, 207; on education of women and girls, 29, 157–58; Evelina School taken over by, 7, 31–32; foundation, branches, and officers, 265n34; Frutiger House and, 33, 71, 84; Ladies Committee, xii, 24, 31–36, 41–46, 48–51, 72, 80; Landau’s addresses and reports to, 48–52, 58–59, 61, 64, 65, 66, 75, 76–77, 201; Levy’s reports to, 212–13, 215, 232; in Palestine, 4, 29; post-World War I support of, 90, 99, 102, 103, 106, 117.126; Rehavia, Evelina School’s move to, 219; World War I and, 78, 80, 83 Antonius, George and Katy, 93, 94 Arab boycott and Arab Revolt (1936-1939), 94, 137, 145–48, 154, 159, 180 Arab nationalism, 89, 91, 100, 117, 147 Arabs and Arab unrest in Palestine: associations between Arabs and Jews, xiv, 68, 78, 89, 90, 93–94, 100–101, 124, 147, 161, 202, 213–14; Deir Yassin (1948), 221; Diab (gardener at Evelina School), 130, 147, 153; in early 1920s, 99–100; riots of 1929 and aftermath, xiv, 117–23; in School magazine, 171, 173, 174, 175–80, 243; in World War II, 202. See also War of Independence arithmetic and mathematics, xiii, 6, 16, 18, 23, 25, 28, 29, 47, 54, 57, 101, 135, 142, 143, 190, 211, 227, 235 Ashkenazi community in Jerusalem, xi, 1, 3, 5, 6, 28, 46–47, 69 Astruc, Yvonne, 112–15, 128, 136, 147, 155–56 290 · Index attendance and punctuality, 39, 52, 75–76, 110, 130–31 Augusta Victoria (German Hospital, Jerusalem), 46, 85, 103, 105, 111 Awakening Palestine (1912), 72–73 Bagrut exam, 111, 225, 227, 228, 254 Balfour Declaration, 82, 100, 159, 163 Barkay, Adaya Hochberg, 142, 211, 220, 221, 227, 251–57, 258, 261 Behar, Fortunée, 7–8, 29, 31–33, 35–36, 39, 41–46 Ben-Gurion, David, 222, 225 Ben-Yehuda, Eliezer and Hemda, 74, 78, 93 Ben Yehuda Street bombing (1948), 221, 254–55 Bentwich, Helen, 88–89, 92–94, 96–97, 100–101, 103, 108–10, 112, 117–19, 136 Bentwich, Norman, 88, 94, 117, 205 Berger, Sophie, 88–89 Bezalel Academy for Art and Design, Jerusalem, 67, 72, 209 bilingual education at Evelina School, xiii, 1, 46, 74, 88, 90–91, 108, 121, 153, 162, 227–28. See also English instruction; Hebrew Bishopsgate Ward School, London, 23, 24, 31, 48 bombs and bombings, 146–47, 214–15, 218, 221, 222, 254–55 Bondi, Sophie, 57, 65 Bowman, Humphrey Ernest, 98–99, 112, 120 British authorities: anti-Jewish prejudice, 156–57, 248; Arab boycott (19361939 ) and, 146, 147–48, 154; Balfour Declaration, 82, 100, 159, 163; departure of, 216–17, 222; education standards set by, 98–99, 106; employment of Evelina School graduates by, 85–86, 111, 123, 124, 156–57, 248; establishment of Mandate, 82; infrastructure and services under, 89–90, 91; Landau’s and Evelina School’s relationship with, 83–86, 99; Landau’s loyalty to, 147–48, 158, 183–84; opposition to, 202; prostitution problem and, xiv, 81, 83, 86–89; refugees from Arab riots of 1929 and, 118; unrest of 1945-1947, 212–16; White Paper on Palestine, 159 British character of Evelina School, 7, 44, 46, 53, 84, 131, 147–48, 183–88 Bromberger, Batia (née Salasnik), 143, 235 Cailingold, Esther, 142, 222–23 Canaan, Tawfiq, 93–94 Carlsbad conference (1921), 100 Carpenter, Boyd, 55–58, 125 Caspi, Ziona, 144, 172–73, 186–87, 196–97, 273n37 Central Foundation School, London, 184 Chaikin, Bertha, 129, 238 chaluka, 3, 4, 61, 119, 228 Chanukah, 47...