Skripitzyn's _Information about the Killing of Christians_, etc., 229. Slonim, Samson of, rabbi, 106. Slonimsky, Hayyim Selig, inventor and editor, 199, 200, 201-202, 203. Slutsk, 76, 105, 202. "Slutsker Maggid, the," 246. Smolensk, 21, 162. Smolenskin, Perez, and Haskalah, 13; his descriptions of the heder and yeshibah, 50, 266; his life, 261-267; his conception of Haskalah, 261; on nationalism, 262-263, 284; on reformers, 264-265; attacks Mendelssohn, 265; on the prophetic consciousness of the Jewish masses, 266-267; his popularity, 267; organizes the Kadimah, 285; opposes the Alliance Israelite Universelle, 285. Sobieski, John, 39. Society for the Promotion of Haskalah among the Russian Jews, 237-239, 246, 252, 291-292. Sofer, Moses, rabbi, 133. Sofer, Shabbatai, rabbi, 36. Sokolov, Nahum, publicist, 280. Sosima, monkish proselyte, 26. Spector, Isaac Elhanan, rabbi, 288. Speir, Bima, of Mohilev, opponent of Frank, 104. Spinoza and Maimon compared, 86, 88. Stern, Abraham Jacob, inventor, 201. Stern, Bezalel (Basilius), pedagogue, 164, 165, 175, 176. Strashun, Mattathias, Talmudist, 203. Surovyetsky, on Russian Jews, 162, 318 (n. 1). Switzerland, 257, 298, 299, 300. _Talmud, Der, in seiner Nichtigkeit_, by Buchner, 146. Talmud, the, the study of, 31, 71-72; burnt in public, 70; customs of, according to Elijah Gaon, 74; attacks on, 145-147, 170, 242-248; published in Russia, 147-149; neglected in Germany, 168. Talmud Torah, the, 47, 184. Talmudists, ancient Russo-Jewish, 28-30; opposed by Hasidism, 66; in Vilna, 197-198. Tarnopol, on Russo-Jewish women, 299-300. Taz, David, rabbi, 34. Temkin's _Derek Salulah_, 146. _Te'udah be-Yisrael_, by Levinsohn, 205-207, 209, 210, 212. _Toledot Ya'akob Yosef_, by Jacob Joseph Polonnoy, 65. Tolstoi, 245, 250, 302. Troki, city, 22. Troki, Abraham, author and physician, 39. Troki, Isaac ben Abraham, Karaite scholar, 36. Turgenief, on Russia, 224; his Zhid, 224; referred to, 245, 250; on Alexander II, 251; his _Virgin Soil_, and _Fathers and Sons_, 257; his Lithuanian Jewish character, 259-260. Tushiyah Society, 296-297. Ukraine, the, Jewish community in, 20; famous for scholars, 35-36; Jewish self-government in, 44; expulsions from, 56-57; state of morality in, 64; Hasidism in, 69, 122; first school in, 164. Uman, 59, 164. United States, the, 158, 220, 270, 283. Uvarov, on persecution, 155, 302; on "re-education," 171, 174, 175, 182. Vassile Lupu, hospodar of Moldavia, 40. Vassilyevich, Ivan, 23, 26. Vernacular, the, 18, 29, 30-31, 38, 188, 194, 255.