=Vitebsk= (city), Jews of, defend city against invading Russians, I 154 Jews of, robbed by Cossacks and maltreated or exiled, I 154 Jews of, made prisoners of war by Russians, I 245 Mendel of, hasidic leader, I 234, II 117 Dyerzhavin writes "Opinion" on Jews in, I 330 pogrom at, III 101 Jewish community of, protests against denial of Jewish franchise, III 121 See Vitebsk (government) =Vitebsk= (government), annexed by Russia (1772), I 186, 262 Jews from, made prisoners of war by Russia, I 245 formerly called government of Polotzk, I 307, 315, 317 forms part of White Russia, I 307, 315 included in Pale (1794), I 317; (1835), II 40 Jews of, visit Smolensk and Moscow, I 315 Jews of, invited to elect deputies, I 349 Jewish deputies from, I 393 expulsion of Jews from villages of, begun (1808), I 351 Jews, expelled from villages of, economically ruined, I 364 Jews elected to municipal offices in, I 368 expulsion of Jews from villages of, decreed (1823), I 406 Supreme Court acquits Velizh Jews accused of ritual murder, II 76 placed under jurisdiction of Muravyov, II 188 Cities in: Kreslavka, I 331 Polotzk, I 243 Velizh, II 75 See Vitebsk (city), and Russia, White =Vitovt= (also Vitold, or Witold; _Polish_, Witowt), grand duke of Lithuania (1388-1430) protects Jews of Lithuania, I 35 grants Jews charter (1388) and additional privileges (1389), I 59 =Vladimir= (_Polish_, Wlodzimierz Volhynia), early Jewish community in, I 59 =Vladimir=, prince of Kiev, receives Khazar Jews (986), I 30 =Vladimir, Monomakh=, prince of Kiev, stops anti-Jewish riots, I 32 =Vladimir=, grand duke, brother of Alexander III., holds Russian revolutionaries responsible for pogroms, II 260 =Vladimir=, archbishop (Mitropolit) of St. Petersburg, encourages pogroms, III 125 =Vladislav= (also Wladislaus and Leidislaus; _Polish_, Wladyslaw), =Lokietek=, Polish ruler, unites Great Poland and Little Poland, and assumes royal title (1319), I 42, 50 =Vladislav= (_Polish_, Wladyslaw) IV., Polish king (1632-1648), I 91 tolerant to other creeds, I 97 confirms Jewish privileges, I 98 makes erection of synagogues and establishment of cemeteries dependent on royal permission, I 98 restricts Jews in response to anti-Jewish petitions, I 98 f uprising of Khmelnitzki during reign of, I 144 dies during uprising, I 145 offered, as crown prince, Russian throne (1610), I 244 =Voislovitza=, near Lublin, Jews of, accused of ritual murder, I 178 f =Volfovich, Simeon=, denounces abuses of Vilna Kahal, I 276 persecuted and imprisoned, I 276 advocates abolition of Kahal, I 276