=Piotrkov, Diet of= (1496), confirms anti-Jewish Statute, I 64; restricts commercial rights of Lemberg Jews (1521), I 75 Sigismund II. confirms liberal Jewish Statute at Diet of (1548), I 83 Church Synod of, passes anti-Jewish "Constitution" (1542), I 82 f Crown Tribunal of, tries ritual murder cases, I 95 f; and Jews accused of blasphemy, I 164 f Jewish communities in province of, destroyed, I 156 Tobias Feder, Hebrew writer, native of, I 388 =Pirhe Tzafon=, Hebrew periodical in Vilna, II 136 =Pirogov, Nicholas=, Odessa physician, friend of Jews, II 207, 209 =Piryatin= (province of Poltavia), Cossack massacre at (1648), I 145 =Pisarevski=, instigator of Kishinev pogrom, commits suicide, III 91 =Pisaryev=, radical Russian writer, influences Russian-Jewish _intelligenzia_, II 209 influences M. L. Lilienblum, II 238 =Plehve=, Russian assistant-minister of Interior, II 379 chief of political police, II 381 objects to Jewish participation in Zemstvos, II 386 chairman of secret anti-Jewish Committee, II 399 suggests expulsion of Jews from Moscow, II 402 bars Jews from municipal government, II 425 appointed Minister of Interior, III 16, 67 plans to check revolution by pogroms, III 68 f subventions Krushevan's anti-Semitic paper, III 70 sends telegram to stop Kishinev massacre, III 75, 97 stifles press protests against Kishinev massacre, III 77 suspected of sending orders encouraging massacre, III 77 forbids Jewish self-defence, III 80, 90 forbids Zionism, III 82 f negotiates with Herzl, III 83 f plans regulating Jewish legislation, III 92 f stops expulsion of families of mobilized Jews, III 95 assassinated, III 97 urges Russo-Japanese War as anti-revolutionary measure, III 98 death of, predicted in _Voskhod_, III 98 investigation of Homel pogrom started during lifetime of, III 101 =Plotzk= (_Polish_, Plock), city in Poland, I 243 city and province of, annexed by Prussia (1793), I 292 Synod of, passes anti-Jewish resolution (1733), I 171 archbishop of, endorses project of Jewish reforms, I 292 =Poale Zion=, see Zionism