Schechter, Solomon, on Hasidism, 69.

Schick, Baruch (Shklover), scientist, 94, 96, 105-106, 119, 125.

Schiller, on Maimon, 89;
  referred to, 192.

Schools, secular, 163-165, 182-185, 195-196, 227-228, 229, 235, 239,
  253, 273-274, 276-277, 290-292, 297.

Sefer ha-Berit, 102.

Seiberling, Joseph, censor of Hebrew books, 200.

Shabbatai Zebi, pseudo-Messiah, 64, 69.

Shalkovich, Abraham Lob (Ben Avigdor), 296.

Shatzkes’ Ha-Mafteah, 244.

Shavli, Moses of, writer of polemics, 36.

Shibhe ha-Besht, 123, 134.

Shklov, 105, 124.

Shkud, Mikel of, rabbi, 61.

Shneersohn, Menahem Mendel, zaddik, 175, 176.

Shmoilovich, Abraham, merchant, 22.

Shulhan ’Aruk, commentators on, 34, 36;
  its effect on Jewish life, 73;
  Elijah Vilna on, 74;
  criticism of, 123;
  annotations to, 127;
  referred to, 215.

Siberia, 140-143, 160.

Sin’at ’Olam le-’Am ’Olam, 280-281.

Sixtus V, pope, 72.

Skazanye O Florye Rimlyaninye, by Korolenko, 302.

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.