=Sigismund= (_Polish_, Zygmunt) II. Augustus, king of Poland (1548-1572), ratifies Jewish privileges, I 83 enlarges and establishes Jewish autonomy, I 83 places Jews on estates under jurisdiction of nobles, I 84 endeavors to stop execution of Jews accused of host desecration, I 86 f forbids ritual murder and hosts trials, I 88 bestows on Jews of Great Poland charter of autonomy (1551), I 105 ff confers on Jews right of establishing _yeshibahs_, and bestows large powers on presidents of _yeshibahs_, I 115 grants Jews of Cracow monopoly of importing Hebrew books, I 131 attended by Jewish body physician, I 132 writes to Ivan the Terrible demanding admission of Jews to Russia, I 243 last king of Yaguello dynasty, I 88 =Sigismund= (_Polish_, Zygmunt) III., king of Poland (1588-1632), I 91 ratifies Jewish privileges, I 93 protects Jews against magistracies, I 94 reaction against "Arian" heresy during reign of, I 91 requires consent of clergy for erection of synagogues, I 98 attended by Jewish court physician, I 136 =Silesia=, Jews fleeing from Crusades seek shelter in, I 41 Jews own estates in, I 42 John Casimir, king of Poland, flees to, I 155 Solomon Maimon ends days in, I 240 =Simferopol= (government of Tavrida), pogrom at, checked (April, 1905), III 115 pogrom at (October, 1905), III 128 =Simeon Volfovich=, see Volfovich =Simon=, of Trent, alleged victim of ritual murder, I 179 =Simon, Sir John=, interpellates Gladstone concerning Russian Jews, II 291 =Simon, Leon=, quoted, III 51, 60 =Sion ("Zion")=, Jewish periodical in Russian, II 218, 220 =Sipyaghin=, Russian Minister of Interior, pursues reactionary policy, III 16 assassinated, III 66 =Sirkis, Joel=, called _Bah_, Polish rabbi and Talmudist, I 130, 206 opposed to philosophy, I 133 =Sittenfeld=, manager of secular Jewish school in Odessa, II 133 =Skarga, Peter=, leading Jesuit in Poland, I 90 =Skharia (Zechariah)= converts Russian priests to Judaism, I 36 =Skvir= (government of Kiev), hasidic center, II 120 =Slaves=, manumission of, among Jews of ancient Crimea, I 15 f =Slavium=, Slav tribe, tributary to Khazars, I 26 =Slavs=, the, tributary to Khazars, I 26 treated tolerantly by Khazars, I 22 throw off Khazar yoke, I 28 German Jews visit lands of, I 33, 39 =Slavuta= (Volhynia), Jewish printing-press in, II 42 f, 123 =Sliosberg, G.=, counsel for Jewish victims of Homel pogrom, III 102 members of Central Committee of League for Equal Rights, III 112 =Sloboda=, older name for government of Kharkov, I 251 =Slutzk=, Jewish community of, represented on Lithuanian _Waad_, I 112