=Witte=, Russian Minister of Finance, advocates liquor monopoly as means of dislodging Jews from villages, III 17; and eliminating Jewish "exploitation," III 22 favors mitigation of Jewish disabilities, III 107 f Jews address petitions for equal rights to, III 108 f receives, as president of Council of State, memorandum on pogroms, III 125 appointed Prime Minister, author of manifesto of October 17, 1905, III 127 adopts policy of oppression, III 131 League for Equal Rights votes down proposal to send delegation to, III 131 =Wolff, Sir H. D.=, member of English parliament, interpellates Government concerning pogroms, II 262 =Worms, Baron Henry De=, member of English parliament, interpellates Government concerning pogroms, II 262 Gladstone replies to interpellation of, II 292 =Yadviga= (_Polish_, Jadwiga), Polish queen, marries Yaguello, grand duke of Lithuania (1386), I 54 Yaguello, Vladislav II. (_Polish_, Wladyslaw Jagiello), king of Poland and grand duke of Lithuania (1386-1434), I 54 converted from paganism to Catholicism, I 55 restricts commercial operations of Jews, I 58 Lithuania ruled by Vitovt, as representative of, I 59 extinction of Y. dynasty, I 88 f, 91 =Yalta=, health resort in Crimea, Jews expelled from, II 428 f, III 18 f =Yampol= (Volhynia), ritual murder trial at, I 178 =Yaroshevski=, Russian-Jewish novelist and physician, protests against affront to Jewish army surgeons, II 320 =Yaroslav= (_Polish_, Jaroslaw; Galicia), meeting-place of Council of Four Lands, I 110, 194 =Yekaterinoslav= (city), Orshanski, Russian-Jewish writer, native of, II 238 pogrom at (1883), II 358 ff; (October, 1905), III 128 =Yekaterinoslav= (government), territory of, raided by Turks and defended by Cossacks, I 143 territory of, opened to Jews (1791), I 316 tract of land in, set aside for Jewish converts (1820), I 400 included in Pale (1794), I 317; (1835), II 403 Jewish agricultural colonies in, II 72 Rostov and Taganrog transferred from, to territory of Don army and barred to Jews (1887), II 346 pogroms in (1883), II 360 =Yelisavetgrad= (government of Kherson), Government agents appear in, to prepare pogroms, II 248 pogroms at (1881), II 249 ff, 333; (October, 1905), III 128 "Spiritual Biblical Brotherhood," heterodox Jewish sect, founded by Jacob Gordin in (1881), II 333 f =Yellow Waters= (_Polish_, Zolte Wody), Polish army defeated by Cossacks near, I 145 =Yemetyanov, Theodore=, alleged victim of ritual murder, II 75 f =Yeremyeyeva=, Russian woman, accuses Jews of Velizh of ritual murder, II 75 convicted by Council of State, II 82