Jerusalem: The Biography (137 page)

Philo Judaeus of Alexandria,
99n

Phoenicia,
81

Phoenician temples,
28

Phoenicians,
22
,
26
,
39n

photography,
363
,
378

Picot, Francois-Georges,
405
,
420
,
424

Pilgrim Strangers,
338

Pinsk,
409

Pinsker, Leo,
374

Pitt, William, the Elder, Earl of Chatham,
413

Pitt, William, the Younger,
322

plague,
256
,
258
,
332

Plato,
190n
,
446

Plehve, Vyecheslav von,
380

Pliny the Elder,
3

,
381
,
383

Plumer, Field Marshal Hebert, 1st Viscount,
436

Poland,
291
,
293–4
,
298
,
301
,
311n
,
461
,
486n

Polish Jews,
307–8
,
357
,
359
,
375n
,
441
,
457

polo,
237
,
251
,
442

Pompeii,
119n

Pompey the Great, Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus,
6
,
70–3

Pontius Pilate,
99n
,
100
,
102
,
104–5
,
107–8
,
110
,
115
,
119
,
122
,
135n

Pontus,
88n

Pools of Solomon,
329

popes,
151
,
159

Popillius Laenas,
62

Poppaea,
120–1

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine,
501

Port Said,
444n

Portugal,
294

Postal Café,
444

Potemkin, Prince Gregory,
311
,
374

Potter’s Field,
109

prisoners, ransoming of,
213

Pro-Jerusalem Society,
423

prophets,
19

prostitution,
144
,
226–7
,
258
,
398
,
421
,
424

Protestant Churches,
157
,
296–7
,
299

Protocols of the Elders of Zion
,
380n
,
383
,
423–4
,
433
,
456n

Prussia,
285
,
334
,
363

Ptolemais (Acre),
67
,
70n
,
78
,
124

Ptolemy I Soter, King,
54–5
,
57n
,
58n

Ptolemy II Philadelphos, King,
55
,
56n

Ptolemy III Eugertes, King,
56

Ptolemy IV, King,
57n

Ptolemy VI Philometer, King,
66n
,
67

Ptolemy VIII Euergetes, King,
67n

Ptolemy IX Soter, King,
70n

Ptolemy XIII, King,
73

Ptolemy, King of Mauretania,
82n

Ptolemy of Alexandria,
190n

Pulcheria, Empress,
153
,
155–7

Punch
,
379

Purim,
360
,
384

Puritans,
300–1
,
332
,
337

Pushkin, Alexander,
340

Putin, Vladimir,
369n
,
515n

pyramids,
85n

Qaitbay, Sultan,
279n
,
287–8
,
521

Qashashi,
305

al-Qassam, Sheikh Izzat al-Din,
447–8

Qazaz, Firaz,
521

Qazaz, Naji,
521

qiblas
,
171
,
175

Quadi,
138

al-Quds University,
518n

Quirinius,
91n

Qutuz, Sultan,
275

Rabin, Yitzhak,
429–30
,
469
,
473–6
,
479–70
,
485
,
506–7
,
514

and Six Day War,
492–3
,
496–7

Rabinowitz, Rabbi Shmuel,
517–18

Rachel’s Tomb,
323
,
351
,
357n

Rachkovsky, Piotr,
380n

railways,
348–9
,
363

Ramadan,
171
,
199
,
259
,
359
,
513

Ramallah,
216

Ramban, Rabbi,
see
Nachmanides

Ramban Synagogue,
279n
,
282
,
286–7
,
295
,
297

Ramla,
186
,
204
,
316
,
481
,
487

Ramle Vale Jackal Hounds Hunt,
442

Ramses II the Great, pharaoh,
17–18

Ramsgate,
351
,
357n

Raphia,
70

Raphia, Battle of,
57n

Rasputin, Grigory,
385–7

Rauff, Walter,
457

Raushen Pasha,
399