Kahal of, complains to Council of State about Jewish disabilities, II 38; and begs permission to send spokesmen to St. Petersburg, II 39 printing-press in, II 42, 127 censorship committee in, II 44 visited by Max Lilienthal, II 54 Maskilim of, promise support to Lilienthal, II 55; and form his mainstay, II 136 Rabbinical Institute opened in (1847), II 59, 174; closed (1873), II 177; graduates of, un-Jewish, II 212 Teachers' Institute in, II 177 pupils of both Institutes form revolutionary circle in, II 223 visited by Moses Montefiore, II 68 center of Haskalah, II 132 ff Maskilim circle in, II 136 ff residential restrictions in, abolished by Alexander II., II 172 Brafman carries on anti-Jewish agitation in, II 187 ff, 240 pauperism among Jews of, III 24 Blondes, Jewish barber in, accused of ritual murder, II 37 Jewish labor movement in, III 55 "Bund" holds convention in (1897), III 56 Lekkert, Jewish workingman in, assails governor of Vilna, III 66 f Dr. Herzl enthusiastically received by Jews of, III 84 Jews of, assured by Svyatopolk-Mirski of just treatment, III 99 Jewish community of, signs petition for equal rights, III 108; and demands self-determination, III 109 league for Attainment of Equal Rights formed in (1905), III 111 Jewish community of, protests against denial of Jewish franchise, III 121 f place of publication, II 115, 126, 131, 134, 136, 226 _ha-Karmel_, published in, II 217 _ha-Zeman_, Hebrew daily, published in, III 162 Sabbatai Cohen (_Shak_), famous Talmudist, native of, I 130, 157 f Budny, Christian theologian, of, I 136 Moses Rivkes, Talmudist, of, I 200 Elijah of; see Elijah of Vilna Masalski, bishop of, employs Berek Yoselovich, I 294 Saul Katzenellenbogen, rabbi of, II 115 M. A. Ginzberg, Hebrew writer, resident of, II 133 Abraham Baer Lebensohn, Hebrew poet, resident of, II 134 f Micah Joseph Lebensohn, Hebrew poet, native of, II 226 Levanda, Russian-Jewish writer, resident of, II 239 S. M. Dubnow, author of present work, resident of, III 112 See Vilna (government)