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mas," 62 sonnets, and the three comedies, "Pedir Favor al Contrario," "El Canto Junto al Encanto," and " El Espanjol de Oran, " Brussels, 1663 " Contra la Verdad no ay Fuerca, " Amsterdam, 1665-67, a panegyric on Abraham Athias, Jacob Rodrigues Caseres, and Rachel Nunez Fernandez, who His Works, were burned as martyrs at Cordova "Coro de las Musas," in nine parts, " Imperio de Bios en Brussels, 1672 la Harmonia del Mundo," Brussels, 1670-74 (the second edition contains 127 verses the first, but 125) " Sol de la Vida," Brussels, 1673; "Mediar Estremos, Decada Primera en Ros Hasana, " Amsterdam, 1677 " Metros Nobles," Amsterdam, n. d. "Triumpho Cesareo en la Descripcion Universal de Panonia, y de la Conquista de la Ciudad de Buda," Amsterdam, 1687; "Dios con Nos Otros," ib. n. d. (1688); "Historia Real de la Gran Bretana," ib. 1688; "Arbol de la Vida con Raizes de la Ley," ib. 1689. The opuscula, or minor literary and biographical works, of De Barrios appeared under various titles

Barrientos

Barsimson

of many countries. Its most popular form in England is to be found in a Norman ballad of William of Malmesbury. Voltaire has utilized the story in his tragedies "Artemire" and "Tancred." Boaistuan (sixteenth century), in the preface to his version of the legend (" Histoires Tragiques par Boaistuan et Belleforest,"

Lyons, 1596), refers to the work of Bar-

ruchius in eulogistic terms.









Bibliography: Ferd. Wolf,

in the JahrbUeher far Wissenschafthche Kritik, Dec. 1835 Franz Delitzsch, Zur Oesch. der JildwchenPoesie, pp.65, 66, Leipsic, 1836; Steinschneider, Jewish Literature, p. 178, 1837 (German ed., p. 434b); Karpeles, Oesch. der JUd. Lit. 1886, p. 740.

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G. A. K.



at different periods, in two different editions. They treated of the various "hermandades academicas"

and "academias

caritativas. " The often-quoted " Relacion de los Poetas, y Escriptores Espafioles de " la Nacion Judayca" and Hez Jaim (Hayyim), Arbol

de

which treat of the Amsterdam scholmost value. Both have been reprinted, with explanatory notes, in " Revue Etudes Juives, las Vidas,"

ars, are of

His last work bears de la Sonjada Estatua

xviii. 281-289, xxxii. 92-101. the title " Piedra Derribadora

Desde

el

Afio de 1689 al de 1700

A certain Daniel Lopes in 1748. Bibliography

"

(no date). Barrios lived in

America

M. Kayserling, Sephardim, Roman. Poesien der Juden in Spanien, passim idem, Revue EludesJuives, xviii. 276 et seq.; idem, BibUoteea Espan.-Portug.-Judaica,



pp. 16-26.

M. K.

G.

BARRIOS, SIMON LEVI DE



Son of Daniel

Levi de Barrios; born March 17, 1665, at Amsterdam; died May 16, 1688, at Barbados. Member of Ez Hayyim and of several poetical academies of

Amsterdam. Bibliography p. 26





Kayserling, Blblioteca Espa1i.-Portug.-Jud. Am. Jewish Hist. Soc. v. 115.

Publications of

M. K.

G.

BARROCAS, MORDECAI: A Marano, physiand poet. In Holland, at an advanced age, he openly returned to Judaism about the year 1605; and in celebration of his initiation he composed some tercets in Spanish. Tamar Barrocas, a MaranoJewess, probably one of his relatives, suffered a martyr's death at the stake in Lisbon, Aug. 3, 1603, in company with Diego de la Ascension. cian,

Bibliography Barrios, Relacion de los Pnetas, p. 58 idem, Govierno Popular Judayco, p. 43 Cardoso. Excelencias, p. 363; Kayserling, Sephardim, pp. 211, 177; idem, Tiibl. Es]}.;





Port.-Jud.

p. 26.

M.

G.

BARRtTCHITJS TINTJS



(BARTJCHP),

Spanish poet

He is He wrote in

twelfth century.

K

VALEN-

probably in the said to have been a native

lived

clear and ornate Latin the history of the Count Lyonnais (Palanus) an old romantic legend recounted by early Catalonian chroniclers, and found in various versions in the folk-tales

of Toledo.

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BARSIMSON, JACOB (also known as Barsimsom, Bersimson, and Barstinsen) One of the earliest Jewish settlers at New Amsterdam (New

He arrived at that port on the ship "Pear Tree" July 8, 1654, it is believed from Holland, which country he seems to have left in company with a coreligionist named Jacob Aboab (Aboast or Aboaf ?), also bound for New Amsterdam. It is doubtful whether Aboab ever reached the New World. Early records refer to some transactions between these emigrants when their vessel was off the Isle of Wight; hence, in view of the date and the circumstances, the Dutch origin attributed to these early emigrants. Barsimson was succeeded York).

by a party

of twenty-three Jews, who arrived at the following October and who believed, from Brazil. This fact makes

New Amsterdam came, it is Barsimson the

earliest

identified

Jewish

settler

within the present limits of the state of New York though there is reason to believe that there were still earlier Jewish residents whose identity is to-day lost. References to Barsimson in the early tax-lists indicate that he was a man of small means, as about a year after his arrival he was taxed voluntarily at a sum very much lower than the majority of Jewish and non-Jewish residents. This did not prevent him, however, from vigorously insisting upon his rights, and from freely appealing to the courts for redress, no matter how influential his opponent. In 1658 he succeeded in securing from the Dutch municipal court in New Amsterdam a ruling which is surprising even in the light of latter-day principles of He was summoned to court as defendant on a Saturday but the court decided, in the terse language of the record, that, " though defendant is absent, yet no default is entered against him, as he was summoned on his Sabbath." Three years earlier Barsimson and another early Jewish settler, Asser Levy, joined in a petition to the governor and council of New Netherland to be permitted to stand guard like the other burghers, or to be rereligious liberty.



from the special tax imposed upon their nation in lieu thereof by resolution of governor and council but their request was curtly refused, with the remark that they might go elsewhere if they liked. Instead of following this litter advice, Barsimson and his coreligionists succeeded before long in obtaining instructions to Governor Stuyvesant from his superiors the Dutch West India Company of Holland condemning such unjustified and illiberal discriminations. There is reason to believe that the heavy Jewish holding of stock of the company lieved



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