=Minsk= (city), Jews of, complain against abuses of Kahal, I 275 Kahal of, decides to send deputation to Tzar, I 336 Jews of, communicate with Jews of Vilna concerning Hasidism, I 373 Max Lilienthal opposed by Jews of, II 55 visited by Alexander II., II 187 minutes of Kahal of, used by Brafman as incriminating material, II 189 growth of pauperism in, III 24 Convention of Russian Zionists at, III 45, 51, 59 pogrom at, III 119 Jewish community of, protests against denial of Jewish franchise, III 121 Jehiel Halperin, rabbi of, I 200 Naphtali, resident of, Hebrew author, I 201 Pollak, resident of, offers to establish agricultural farms, III 25 =Minsk= (province, or government), annexed by Russia (1793), I 292 included in Pale (1794), I 316 f; (1804), I 342; (1835), II 39 famine in, I 322 f Polish nobles of, propose restrictions for Jews, I 322 ff Jewish deputies from, active in St. Petersburg, I 337 Jews of, asked to elect delegates, I 349 massacre of Jews and Russians threatened by Poles in, I 357 Solomon of Karlin killed by troops in, I 372 placed under military dictatorship of Muravyov, II 188 Brafman, accuser of Jews, native of, II 187 Localities in: Bobovnia, II 80 Mir, II 113 Nesvizh, I 239 =Mint=, Polish, administered by Jews, I 42 =Mir= (government of Minsk), yeshibah at, II 113 =Mishnah=, term explained, II 114 =Mithnagdim=, name of opponents of Hasidim, I 238, 372 oppose Hasidim, I 274, 278, 372, 375 =Mitropolit=, highest ecclesiastic title in Russia, III 125 =Mitzkevich= (_Polish_, Myckiewicz), Adam, Polish poet friendly to Jews, II 108 =Mizrahi=, Orthodox Zionists, III 47 =Mladanovich=, Polish governor of Uman, betrays Jews, I 184 killed by Haidamucks, I 185 =Mocatta, Moses=, English translator of Isaac Troki's work, I 130 =Modebadze, Sarre=, Gruzinian girl, alleged victim of ritual murder, II 204 =Moghilev, on the Dnieper= (city), I 98 Jews of, transferred to outskirts of city (1633), I 98; and barred from Christian neighborhood (1646), I 98 f Jews of, expelled by invading Russians (1654), I 153; and massacred by Russian soldiers, I 154, 245 echo of Sabbatian propaganda, in, I 205 rabbinical conference at, protests against Hasidism, I 238 Kahal of, appealed to by Vilna Gaon against Hasidism, I 373 Shmerling, deputy from, dies at St. Petersburg Conference (1882), II 304 pogrom at (1904), III 100 f; avenged by Jewish youth, III 107