=Batory, Stephen=, king of Poland (1576-1586), forbids charge of ritual murder and desecration, I 89, 96 ratifies and amplifies Jewish privileges, I 89 defends Jews of Posen, I 90 patronizes Jesuites, I 90 f grants license to Jewish printer, I 131 attended by Jewish body-physician, I 132 recaptures city of Polotzk, I 243 =Bavaria=, Wagenseil, anti-Jewish writer, native of, I 138 Max Lilienthal, native of, II 52 =Beaconsfield, Earl of=, champions equal rights for Jews, II 202 hostile to Russia, II 288 =Beards=, shaving of (and of earlocks), recommended by Polish reformers, I 282, and by Kalmansohn, I 385 "bearded regiment" in Warsaw, II 106; see Earlocks =Beilis, Mendel=, accused of ritual murder, III 82, 164 ff nickname for Jews in Poland, III 167 =Bekri, Al-=, Arabic writer, quoted, I 21 =Belza=, Polish judge, arranges libel against Jews, I 101 =Belzhytz= (Province of Lublin), Jacob of, author of polemical treatise in Polish, I 136 =Bench=, the Russian, Jews excluded from, II 352 f, III 26 =Benckendorff=, chief of Russian gendarmerie, II 21 =Benedict XIV.=, appealed to by Jews of Poland, I 179 =Benjacob=, bibliographer in Vilna, II 136 =Benjamin=, king of Khazars, I 26 =Benjamin of Tudela=, Jewish traveller, I 32; II 233 =Benjamin II.= (Joseph Israel), Jewish traveller, II 233 =Benjamin III.=, name of fictitious traveller in Yiddish and Hebrew novel, II 233 =Berdychev= (government of Kiev), Levi Itzhok, hasidic leader, resident of, I 232 f, 382 Jews of, release fellow-Jews from prison, I 266 Jews of, support Polish cause, I 292 Tobias Feder, Hebrew writer, of, I 388 Max Lilienthal accorded friendly reception at, II 56 Halperin, resident of, member of Rabbinical Commission, II 57 Mendele Mokher Sforim, resident of, II 232 pogrom at, averted by Jewish self-defence, II 256 f visited by White, representative of Baron Hirsch, II 418 Jewish community of, signs petition for equal rights, III 108 =Berdychevsky, Micah Joseph=, Hebrew writer, III 60 =Berek=, Kahal elder, I 172 =Berek Yoselovich=, see Yoselovich =Bergson, Jacob=, prominent Jew of Warsaw, II 103 =Berkovich, Joseph=, son of Berek Yoselovich, calls for Jewish volunteers to Polish army, II 105