=Lublin= (province), annexed by Austria (1795), I 297 ritual murder cases in, I 96, 100 Crown Tribunal in, tries ritual murder cases, I 96, 100, 172 conference of rabbis and Kahal elders meet at, I 109 f, 123 Council of Four Lands meets periodically at, I 110, 152, 194 community of, receives royal permission to open yeshibah (1567), I 115 printing-press in, I 131, 196 disputations between Jews and Christians at, I 136 Gedaliah Lifschitz, Hebrew author, of, I 133 Jacob Itzhok, hasidic leader, of, I 384 Martin Chekhovich, Christian theologian, of, I 136 Rabbis of: Shalom Shakhna, father of Polish Talmudism, I 105, 122 f Israel, son of former, I 123 Joshua Falk Cohen, I 112, 128 Solomon Luria (_Maharshal_), I 125 Mordecai Jaffe, I 127 Meir of (=Maharam=), I 128 f, 199 Samuel Edels (=Maharsho=), I 129 Towns in: Shchebreshin, I 158 Voistovitza, I 178 Zamoshch, I 203 =Lubliner=, Polish-Jewish writer and patriot, II 109 =Lubny= (province of Poltava), Cossack massacres at (1637), I 144; (1648), I 145 =Lubomirski=, Polish Crown Marshal, imposes tax on Jews sojourning in Warsaw, I 268 f =Lueger=, anti-Semitic burgomaster of Vienna, III 32 =Luga= (government of St. Petersburg), Alexander I. causes expulsion of Jews from, I 409 =Lukasinski, Valerian=, Polish army officer, defends Jews, II 97 f =Lukov= (province of Shedletz), I 287 =Luria, Isaac= (Ari), name explained, I 134 influence of Cabala system of, on Poland, I 134, 202 study of writings of, forbidden before age of forty, I 214 writings of, studied by Besht, I 223 prayer-book of, accepted by Hasidim, I 231 =Luria, Solomon= (Reshal or Maharshal) native of Posen, I 124 rabbi in Ostrog and Lublin, I 125 follows casuistic method of Tosafists, I 125 criticises _Shulhan Arukh_, I 125 gravitates towards mysticism, I 126 criticises study of Aristotle in yeshibahs, I 120 leaves profound impress on posterity, I 199 =Lutherans=, Isaac Troki argues with, I 137; see Reformation =Lutostanski, Hippolyte=, accuses Jews of ritual murder, II 203 f receives acknowledgment from Alexander III., 203, 244 =Lutzk= (Volhynia), Crimean Jews settle in, I 35 important Jewish community in, I 59 Karaites in, I 60 Jews of, expelled (1495), I 65 =Lvov=, see Lemberg =Lvov=, Russian statesman, discloses connection between Government and pogroms, III 125 f =Lyck= (Prussia), _ha-Maggid_, published in, II 217 =Lysyanka= (province of Kiev), massacre at, I 184 =Maeotis=, see Azov, Sea of