=Volga=, river, Khazars move towards banks of, I 19 Khazar capital situated at mouth of, I 23, 26, 28 called Ityl by Khazars, I 26, 28 bodies of alleged ritual murder victims found in, II 150 =Volhynia= (_Polish_, Volyn), forms part of Lithuania, I 59 ceded to Poland (1569), I 110 controlled economically by Polish magnates, I 140 uprising against Poles in (1648), I 145 returned to Poland (1667), I 159 annexed by Russia (1793), I 292 included in Pale (1794), I 317, (1804), I 342; (1835), II 39 called formerly government of Izyaslav, I 317 Cossack massacres in (1648), I 148 f Jews decimated in, I 157 Jews of, slain by haidamacks (18th century), I 182 f Jewish _arendar_ of, oppressed by Polish squire, I 266 Jews of, suffer from Polish civil war (1792), I 292 Polish nobility of, advocates anti-Jewish restrictions, I 324 Jews of, hold conference and decide to appeal to Tzar (1798), I 324 f Jews of, invited by Alexander I. to elect deputies, I 349 woolen mills established by Jews in, I 363 Jews of, indifferent towards Polish revolution (1831), I 107 statistics of Jews in, II 194 pogroms in, II 256 represented on Council of Four Lands, I 110 Jewish Provincial Assembly (or Dietine) of, I 113; called "Volhynia Synagogue," I 196 Talmudism deteriorates in, I 199 intellectual development of Jews of, differs from that in North-west, I 221 Besht travels about in, I 224 Baer of Mezherich, hasidic preacher in, I 227 Hasidism spreads in, I 229, 274 becomes hasidic headquarters, I 229 f Hasidism triumphant in, I 371, II 119 f Gubernatorial Kahal of, appealed to by Vilna Gaon, against Hasidism, I 373 Isaiah Horowitz (_Shelo_), Cabalist, rabbi in, I 135 Levi Itzhok of Berdychev, leader of Hasidim in, I 382 Menashe Ilyer, Talmudist and writer, resides in, II 115 Isaac Baer Levinsohn, native of, II 125 ff rabbis of, request Levinsohn to refute blood accusation, II 131 Localities in: Chudnov, III 117 Kremenetz, II 125[65] Old (Staro-)-Constantinov, II 21 f Ostrog, I 125 Rovno, III 99 Slavuta, II 42, 123 Troyanov, III 116 Zaslav, I 116, 177 Zhitomir, see Zhitomir =Volkspartei=, see Jewish National Party =Volozhin= (government of Vilna), yeshibah of, established by Hayyim Volozhiner, pupil of Vilna Gaon (1803), I 380 f sends forth large number of pupils, II 113 Itzhok Itzhaki, president of, member of Rabbinical Commission, II 57 =Volozhiner, Hayyim=; see Volozhin =Voltaire=, praises polemical treatise of Isaac Troki, I 138 =Vorontzov=, governor-general of New Russia, protests against proposed "assortment" of Jews by Nicholas I., II 64 ff, 142