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461 461 Yom-Tob Lipman

(No.

His wife died in Elul, in years when he

11).

and he was already advanced his son Moses Lob (No. 10).

1760, lost

Baiazet

THE JEWISH ENCYCLOPEDIA

9. Moses ben Jacob Bak of Joseph ben Judah (No. 7).



and partner

Printer,

Died

Tammuz

14,

1712.

Moses Lob Bak: Compositor

10.

ing-office of his father,

Judah (No.

8),

II.

Bakhmut

agogue of the Jews is described as being on the same site; and Stow ("Survey of London," ed. Thorns, p. 108) refers to the tradition that Bakewell Hall was once a Jewish synagogue. It was built on land that originally belonged to Josce of York. At his death it escheated to the king and passed to Samuel

in the print-

in 1757,

and

son-in-law of Mendel Steinitz.

Yom-Tob Lipman Bak

Printer from 1757 firm of Bak was still in existence in 1784 under the title of " Bakische und Cazische Pri-

11.



The

to 1789.

vilegirte Buchdruckerei."

Bibliography: Zunz, Z. O. p. 264; Steinsebneider, Cat. Bodl. Nos. 7835-7844 Hock, Die Familien Frags, s.v. Bach Simonsen, Hehravsk Bngtryk i Oeldre oa Nyere Tid, p. 20,



Copenhagen, 1901



Grunwald, In Jtidisches Literaturblatt,

xxii. 35.

A. F.

G.

BAKBTJK, SONS OF



A

family of Nethinim

that returned with Zerubbabel (see Ezra ii. 51 and the corresponding list of Neh. vii. 53). The identification of these with " the sons of Acub " mentioned in I Esd. v. 31 (compare Ezra ii. 45) is doubtful. G. B. L. j. jr.

BAKBTJKIAH A

Levite who returned with Zerubbabel (Neh. xii. 9) " second among his brethren " (Neh. xi. 17). He was one of those that lived in Jerusalem, and was a porter of the storehouse at G. B. L. the gate (Neh. xii. 25).



J.

JR.

Old London Jewry, Showing (A) Location of Bakewell Hall. (From Ralph Ag^as' " Map of London," 1586.)

Hoppocole, and then to Ysaac the " Cy rographer, over to his son Samson. It ultimately came into possession of Aaron fil. Vives in 1281, and was in the hands of his mother at the expulsion in It was the only synagogue in London in 1290. preex pulsion times that was not confiscated and re-

who handed it

mained

BAKER

Among

the Hebrews the task of preparing the daily supply of fresh bread fell to the housewife. It was only in the larger cities that professional bakers were found, and, even in these, not Bakers and baking are menat a very early date.

tioned in Gen.

xl. 2;

Hosea

vii. 6.

Mention

is

made

Jews down to the expulhas been suggested that the name

in possession of the

sion in 1290.

It

was derived from "Bathwell "

mikweh," or

Hall," and that the

London Jewry was same building.

ritual bath, of the

also situated in the

Jacobs, In Papers of Anglo-Jewish Exhibition, p. 11: Idem, Jews of Angevin England, pp. 234-236; Jewixh Ideals, idem, p. 170; Abrahams, Jewish Life in the

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BAKHCHI-SAKAI

(Tatar for "a palace surFormer residence of the rounded by gardens ") Tatar khans (fifteenth century to 1783) now a town in the government of Taurida (Crimea), Russia, situated on the rivulet Churuksu, nearly midway between Simferopol and Sebastopol. In a total population of 13,377, mostly Tatars (in 1881), about seventy families were Karaites and about twenty The Karaites trade families Talmudical Jews. largely in dress-stuffs, mercery, and groceries, while



most of the Talmudical Jews are artisans. communities have their synagogues. Bibliography Mandelstamm, Hazmi la-Mo'ed, iii. 16,

Both Vienna,



1877- Deinard, Maxsa' la-hazi ho-I Krim, p. 104, fl arsaw, Petersburg, 1879; Entzihlopedichcslri Slovar, iii. s.v., St.

Egyptian Baker. (From "

Zeltsi-hrift der

r

Egyptischen Sprache.")

of a "street of bakers" in Jerusalem in the days of Jeremiah (Jer. xxxvii. 21); and one of the towers at " Tower the city wall bore the rather curious name of of the

"Ant J.

"

Ovens" (Neh. iii. 11, xii. 38; see Josephus, xv 9 § 2). See Bread and Baking. I"

JR.

BAKEWELL HALL A

BE

-

large building in the site neighborhood of the Guildhall, London, on the now occupied by Gresham College. In a document 4542, f. 37), a synat the British Museum (Add. MS.

h. r.

BAKHMUT

City in the government of YekaIt has 4,000 Jews in a populaThe district of Bakhmut, including



terinoslav, Russia.

tion of 19,000. total the city, has a Jewish population of 9,469 in a Until 1882, the Jews of the vicinity of of 332,171. Bakhmut rented land for cultivation; but since the

law of

May

1882, only 10 or 15 of them hold land names and sublet it to peasants. There

3,

in Christians'

are 583 artisans lors.

among

the Jews, including 185 taiof the latter is clue

The lamentable condition