=Posen= (_Polish_, Poznan), leading city of Great Poland, I 42, 74, 110, 116 surrendered by Shlakhta to invading Swedes (1655), I 155 refugees from crusades settle in, I 41 Jews of, petition Casimir IV. to renew charter (1447), I 61 Jews of, petition Sigismund I. to ratify election of rabbis (1518), I 104 Jews of, persecuted on charge of host desecration, I 55, 95 riots in, I 64, 75, 90, 95, 161 Jews of, restricted in economic pursuits, I 74, 95 magistracy of, joins other cities in economic fight against Jews, I 75 Jews of, limited to separate quarter, I 75; and forbidden to increase number of houses, I 85 rights of Jews of, enlarged by Stephen Batory, I 89 f Jews of, accused of ritual murder (1736), I 172, 174 ff Jewish community of, represented on Council of Four Lands, I 110 exorcism of devils in, I 203 rabbis of: Naphtali Cohen, I 204 Solomon Edels (_Maharsho_), I 129 Sheftel Horowitz, I 135, 158 Mordecai Jaffe, I 127 Solomon Luria (_Maharshal_), native of, I 120 Arie Leib Calahora, preacher in, I 175 =Posen=, province of, annexed by Prussia (1772), I 187, 262 Polish troops destroy Jewish communities in (1656), I 156 =Posner, Solomon=, prominent Jew in Warsaw, II 103 =Potemkin=, Nota Shklover purveyor to army of, I 338 =Pototzki= (_Polish_, Potocki), commander of Polish army, I 145 =Politzki=, voyevoda of Kiev, I 184 =Polotzki, Severin=, member of "Jewish Committee" of Russian Government (1802), I 335 =Politzki, Stanislav=, delivers eulogy on Berek Yoselovich, I 303 f =Praga=, suburb of Warsaw, attached by Russian Government (1802), I 335 home of Berek Yoselovich, I 294 =Prague=, capital of Bohemia, visited by Pethahiah of Ratisbon, I 33 Jews attacked by crusaders in, I 41 Mordecai Jaffe, rabbi of, I 127 =Pravo ("The Law")=, Russian journal, suppressed for protesting against Kishinev massacre, III 77 protests against court verdict in Homel pogrom, III 103 f =Prayer=, importance of, emphasized by Besht, I 226 Hasidim adopt Ari's form of, I 231 =Press, Russian=, used euphemistically to designate Russian Government, II 386 pursues anti-Semitic policy, II 278, 379, III 31 f makes no reference to expulsion from Moscow, II 407 liberal P. protests against Kishinev massacre, III 76 f stifled by Plehve, III 77 =Press, Jewish=, in Russia, II 216 ff in Hebrew, II 217 f, 372, III 58, 162 in Yiddish, III 58 f, 162 in Russian, II 218 ff, 277 f; yields to press in Hebrew, II 372