=Pethahiah=, of Ratisbon, Jewish traveller, I 29 refers to Russia, I 32 f =Petrograd=, Greco-Jewish inscription kept in Hermitage at, I 15 Russian _Mitropolit_ resides at, II 125; see St. Petersburg =Pfefferkorn=, Jewish convert, II 189 =Phanagoria= (Taman Peninsula), Jews settled in, I 14, 18 =Philadelphia=, Marcus Jastrow accepts post of rabbi in, II 179 place of publication, III 51 =Philippson, Ludwig=, founder of _Allgemeine Zeitung des Judentums_, II 67 corresponds with Max Lilienthal, II 67 serves as model for Russian-Jewish publicists, II 219 =Philipson, David=, quoted, I 54 =Philosophy, Jewish=, studied in Poland, I 132 f opposed by Joel Sirkis, I 133 reflected in doctrine of Besht, I 225 f imbedded in doctrine of Shneor Zalman, I 374, 382 opposed by Rabbinism, I 381 regarded as destructive by Nahman of Bratzlav, I 383 =Phineas=, of Koretz, disciple of Besht, I 227 descendants of, II 123 =Photius=, Patriarch of Constantinople, hopes for conversion of Crimean Jews, I 18 =Physicians, Jewish=, in Poland, attacked by Christian physician, I 96 originally natives of Spain or Italy, I 131 f study at University of Padua, I 105, 132 at Polish court, I 132, 136 at Russian court, I 258 in White Russia, I 331, 386 admitted to residence in Russian Interior and to civil service (1861), II 165, 167 excluded from civil service, III 27 =Physicians, Jewish=, in Russian army: number of, restricted, II 319 f first to be mobilized in Russo-Japanese war, III 94 f families of mobilized P. expelled, III 95 accused of revolutionary propaganda, III 156 =Piast=, progenitor of Piast dynasty in Poland, I 40 =Piatoli=, secretary of Polish king, assists Jews, I 291 =Pidyon=, contribution of Hasidim, term explained, II 119 =Pikolski=, monk at Lemberg, conducts agitation against Jews, I 174 =Pilpul=, method of talmudic dialectics, fostered in Poland, I 119 f carried from Bohemia to Poland, I 122 opposed by Solomon Luria, I 256 grafted upon by Cabala, I 135, II 117 shunned by Elijah of Vilna, I 236 =Pinkasevich, Jacob=, Jewish martyr in Posen, I 175 =Pinsk=, important community in Lithuania, I 73 Jewish community of, represented in Lithuanian _Waad_, I 112 Avigdor, rabbi of, I 377 f =Pinsker, Leon=, editor of _Sion_, II 220 author of _Autoemancipation_, II 330 f ideas of, affect "Love of Zion" movement, II 332 becomes its leader, II 376, III 42, 49 elected president of Society for Granting Relief in Syria and Palestine, II 422 contrasted with Herzl, III 43 =Pinsker, Simha=, father of former, teacher in Odessa school, II 133