ua'_, 244-245.

Baku, antiquity of, 20.

Barit, Jacob ("Yankele Kovner"), scholar, 200, 255, 259.

Bathory, Stephen, 59, 253.

Beer, Michel, champion of Jewish rights, 114.

Behalot, 63, 161.

Behr, Issachar Falkensohn, poet, 90-91, 108.

Belkind, Israel, Zionist, 286.

Belzyc, Jacob Nahman, author, 36.

Bene Mosheh Society, 286.

Bennett, Solomon, of Polotzk, engraver, champion of Jewish rights in
England, 95-96.

Bentwich, on Jewish colonists in Palestine, 289.

Ben Yehudah, Eliezer, Hebraist, 284-285.

Beobachter, Der, an der Weichsel, 124, 196.

Berdichev, 123, 175, 200, 206, 239.

Berek, Joselovich, colonel, 115.

Berlin, 37, 78, 80, 81, 84, 85, 90, 91, 93, 120, 126, 132, 192, 245,
251, 257, 291, 298.

Berlin, Moses, uchony Yevrey, 230.

Berlin, Naphtali Zebi Judah, dean of Yeshibah, 152, 254, 288.

Bernfeld, on Maimon, 86.

Besht, Israel Baal Shem [Tob], referred to, 65, 122, 123;
his life, 66-69;
opposition to rabbinism, 67, 70, 71, 75;
his influence, 76;
his biography, 134.

Bet ha-Midrash, description of the, 50-51.

Bet ha-Sefer, in Jaffa, 290-291.

_Bet Yehudah_, by Levinsohn, 209-210.

Bezalel, school of art, 291.

Bibikov, on Russian Jews, 162.

Bible, the, ancient Russo-Jewish commentaries on, 28;
customs of (according to Elijah Vilna), 74;
the _Biur_ on, 81, 82;
Mendelssohn's translation, 105, 131, 193, 203
translated into Russian, 239, 252.

Bibleitsy (Dukhovnoye Bibleyskoye Bratstvo), 247-248.

Bielski, on Jewish proselytes, 27.

Bilu Society, 286.

_Biur_, commentary, collaborators on, 81;
welcomed, 82;
banned, 132;
studied, 193;
referred to, 265.

Blood-accusation, 59, 115, 145, 155, 208, 213, 229, 253, 275-276.

Bogdanovich, Judah, merchant, 22.

Bokhara, 127, 271.

Bolingbroke, quoted, 215.

Bompi, Issachar, bibliophile, 166-167, 200.

Bone Zion Society, 286-287.

Book of Common Prayer, old translation of, 30;
suggested changes in, 175;
new Russian translation, 239, 252.

Brafmann, Jacob, delator, 254.

Bratzlav, 53-54.

Brest-Litovsk, Jewish community in, 20;
granted privileges, 21;
Talmudists of, 34;
persecution of Hasidim in, 76;
Haskalah in, 105, 166, 200.

Brody, 195.

Buchner's _Der Talmud in seiner Nichtigkeit_, 146.

Buckle, on Russian civilization, 190;
referred to, 245.

Buduchnost, 286.

Byelostok, 113, 199, 201, 294.

Calvinism, in Poland, 56.

Cantonists, 138-139, 142,