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572 Basel Prog-ram

THE JEWISH ENCYCLOPEDIA

Bashemath

Rumania, one and the executive committee shall appoint two. At least three of the members must reside in London. The executive committee will defray the necessary expenses of its

administration. 3. The first action of this committee shall be taken in connection with the Jews now residing in Turkey. 4. The Colonial Bank shall cooperate in obtaining the desired permission for colonization from the Turkish government. 5. The Congress enjoins upon all Zionists the duty of influencing all colonization societies to work in harmony with the above plan. 6. The Congress requests the executive committee to undertake accurate investigations to ascertain the legal position of the Jews in Turkey, and particularly in Palestine.

Another important resolution of the second Zionist Congress was the founding of the Jewish Colonial Bank, which is to be the financial instrument of political Zionism. The second Zionist Congress also gave

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widely known as the founder of the "Beethoven Matinees" (1859), which eventually culminated in the well-known Societa del Quartette, which exerted a great influence upon the musical life of Florence, and of Italy in general; and in connection with which Basevi offered an annual prize for the best string-quartet. Basevi founded in 1863 the Concerti Populari di Musica Classica. He was a frequent contributor to musical periodicals, and is the author of "Studio sulle Opere di G. Verdi" (1859), "Introduzione ad un Nuovo Sistema d'Armonia " (1862),

and

"

Compendio

della Storia della

Musica

" (1866).

Musih-Lexicnn, Leipsic, 1887 Grove, Diet, of Music and Musicians, London, 1890; Boccardo, Nuttva Enciclopedia Itdltana, Supplement i. J. So. s.

Bibliography



Retmann,

Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Eng., Designed by George Basevi. (From a photograph.)

to the female delegates the right of voting and rendered them eligible to office in all Zionist matters. The third Zionist Congress made the Zionist organization complete, by accepting a statute which regFinally, it ulates the organizations and elections. drew up a definite order of business. The fifth Congress established the Jewish National Fund.

d.

BASEMATH. BASEVI,

See Bashemath.

ABBAMO



Italian

composer and

writer on music; born at Leghorn Dec. 29, 1818; died at Florence November, 1885. At first a physician in Florence (1858), he later devoted himself exclusively to the study of music, and L.chieved, after hard struggles (his first attempts as composer and as editor of the musical paper " L'Armonia " failed), some distinction as composer of operas (" Romilda

ed Ezzelino, " 1840



"

Enrico Howard, " 1847).

He is

BASEVI, EMMANTJELE and medical writer



Italian physician

born at Pisa in 1799 died in 1869. Basevi studied at the high



Florence Sept. 18, school of his native city and later at the university there, obtaining his degree in 1817. He devoted the next six years to further study. In 1823 he published his first work "Discorso," following it in 1824 with "L'Esposizione della Medicina Fisiologica di Broussais. His other works were " Cenni sulla Medicina Fisiologica Confrontata Colla Dottrina Medica Ital(1825); " SugH Uffici del Medico" (1826); "Sul Magnetismo Animale" (1828), and "Sulla Conducibilita Electrica del Vetro Ridatto in Fili o

iana"

Lamine

" (1841).

In 1825 the grand duke of Tuscany appointed Basevi secretary of the Jewish community of Leghorn.