=Border Zone=, along Polish-Prussian and Polish-Austrian border (Twenty-one-Verst Zone), barred to Jews by Polish Government (1823), II 95 law excluding Jews from, repealed by Alexander II., II 95, 181 along Western Russian border (Fifty-Verst Zone), villages in, barred to new Jewish settlers (1835), II 40, 366 expulsion of Jews from entire B. Z. ordered, II 63; but not executed, II 64 new attempt to expel Jews from, II 385 =Borispol= (government of Poltava), pogrom at, II 267 =Borki= (government of Kherson), railroad accident to Alexander III., in neighborhood of, affects his policies, II 378 =Borukh Leibov=, Jewish tax-farmer, I 249 publicly executed, I 251 ff =Borukh Shklover=, translates Euclid into Hebrew, I 381 =Borukh of Tulchyn=, hasidic leader, I 232 succeeded by Joshua Heshel, II 121 =Bosporan Era, The=, I 15 =Bosporus=, the Cimmerian, or Taurian, also called Panticapaeum (now Kerch), ancient Jewish community in, I 14 f Greco-Jewish inscription found in, I 15 bishop of, instructed to convert Jews, I 18 =Boycott=, economic, against Jews in Poland, III 166 ff =Brafman, Jacob=, Jewish apostate, accuses Jews of forming illegal Kahal organization, II 187 ff author of "Book of the Kahal," I 189 accuses _Alliance Israélite_ of heading world Kahal, II 189 accuses Society for Diffusion of Enlightenment of forming part of Kahal, II 216 influences Russian authorities, II 190, 193 ff, 240 example of, followed by Lutestanski, II 202 =Bramson, L.=, member of Central Committee of League for Equal Rights, III 112 deputy to First Russian Duma, III 134 =Bratzlav= (Podolia), Polish deputy from, objects to extension of Jewish rights, I 288 Nahman of, leader of "Bratzlav Hasidim," I 382 f; II 121 f former name for government of Podolia, I 317 =Breslau=, Church Council of, adopts anti-Jewish restrictions, I 47 ff; ratified by Church Council of Kalish, I 57 visited by Solomon Maimon, I 239 =Brest-Kuyavsk=, name explained, I 75 anti-Jewish riot in, I 75 home of Jacob Koppelman, Hebrew author, I 133