=Mark= (=Mordecai=), victim of blood accusation, I 100 =Markovich, Moses=, "general syndic" of Polish Jews, I 160 =Marriage=, among Jews, restrictions placed upon, by Polish Diet (1775), I 267; disregarded, I 268 limitation of number of M's proposed by Poles, I 282 age of, restricted by Russian law (1835), II 40 early M's in vogue, II 112 =Marseilles=, Altaras of, visits Russia, II 69 =Masalski=, bishop of Vilna, employs Berek Yoselovich, I 294 =Maskilim=, see Haskalah =Massacres=, see Pogroms =Masudi=, Arabic writer, quoted, I 23 f =May Laws=, see Temporary Rules =Maximova=, witness in ritual murder case, II 82 =Mazovia=, Polish principality and province, I 42, 85 annexed by Prussia (1795), I 297 =M'Caul=, London missionary, attacks Talmud, II 131 =Me'assef=, Hebrew periodical, I 386; II 137 =Meat Tax=, see Tax =Meath, Earl of=, addresses Guildhall Meeting, II 391 =Mechanics=, see Artisans =Mechislav=, prince of Great Poland, forbids violence against Jews, I 42 =Mechislav= (=Meshko=), Polish king, mentioned on coins, I 42 =Medicine=, see Physicians =Medzhibozh= (Podolia), Besht settles in, I 225 visited by his disciples, I 228 residence of Borukh Tulchinski, I 384; and his disciples, II 121 =Meir= of Lublin (_Maharam_), rabbi and scholar, I 128 f leaves profound impress on posterity, I 199 =Meir=, of Shchebreshin, describes Cossack persecutions, I 158 =Meir=, of Tarnopol, Hebrew author, I 201 =Meisels, Berush=, rabbi in Cracow, and member of Austrian parliament, II 179 rabbi in Warsaw, and active in Polish Insurrection (1863), II 179 ff =Melammed=, see Heder =Melitopol= (government of Tavrida), pogrom at, III 115 =Melitzah=, conventionalized Hebrew style, II 225, 228 =Menahem=, king of Khazars, I 26 =Mendel=, chief rabbi of Great Poland, I 104 =Mendel Kotzker=, hasidic leader, II 122 =Mendel=, of Lubavichi, see Shneorsohn =Mendel=, of Vitebsk, hasidic leader, I 234 =Mendele Mokher Sforim=, see Abramovich =Mendelssohn, Moses=, "Father of Enlightenment," I 238, II 125 "Enlightenment" of, contrasted with Russian Haskalah, II 137 followers of, among Polish and Russian Jews, I 239, 331, 384, 385, 387 Isaac Baer Levinsohn, called "the Russian M.," II 125 Bible translation of, rendered into Russian, II 118 David Friedländer, pupil of, approached by Polish Government, II 90 attacked by Smolenskin, II 235 Wessely, associate of, II 135 =Mengli-Guiray=, Khan of Crimea, communicates with prince of Moscow through Jewish agents, I 35 f =Menorah=, represented on tombstones in Tauris, I 16