=Language=, use of Polish L., abandonment of Yiddish, and restriction of Hebrew advocated by Poles (1788-1791), I 273, 281 use of Polish in business [and elimination of Hebrew and Yiddish] advocated by Friesel, governor of Vilna (1800), I 327 use of Russian, Polish, or German in legal documents and in business suggested by Dyerzhavin (1800), I 333 Russian, Polish, or German made obligatory for Jewish schools and for public documents and business [Statute of 1804], I 345 reading and writing knowledge of Russian, Polish, or German required for Jewish members of municipalities [Statute of 1804], I 345 Jewish deputies plead for use of Hebrew in business, I 349 f followers of David Friedländer call upon Polish Jews to abandon Yiddish and adopt L. of country, I 386 Statute of 1835 requires use of Russian, or other local dialect, for public and business documents, and forbids Hebrew categorically, II 40 Kahal elders required to read and write Russian [1835], II 41 Isaac Baer Levinsohn calls on Jews to study L. of country, II 126 Jews of Poland forbidden use of Hebrew and Yiddish in civil affairs, legal documents, and business correspondence [Act of 1862], II 182 Jews of Poland retain use of their L., II 195 freedom of L. demanded by League for Equal Rights [1905], III 112 fight between Hebrew and Yiddish (1908), III 161 See Hebrew, Polish, Russian, and Yiddish =Lanskoy=, Minister of Interior, favors admission into Russian Interior of Jewish graduates of secondary schools, II 164 corresponds with officials concerning admission of Jewish artisans into Russian Interior, II 168 =Lantzkorona= (_Polish_, Lanckorona, Podolia), assembly of Frankists at fair of, I 213, 215 =Lapin, Shalom=, of Grodno, suspected of ritual murder, II 73 =Lapkovski, Benish=, from government of Vitebsk, elected Jewish deputy, I 393 =Laski, John=, Polish chancellor, edits Polish code of laws, I 71 =Laschenko= organizes pogrom at Ananyev, government of Kherson, II 251 =Lavrov=, Russian revolutionary in London, II 223 =Layze= (=Lazarus=), son of Jewish arendar, I 266 =Lazhentzka, Dorothy=, of Sokhachev, sentenced on charge of having sold host to Jews, I 86