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preparing the "Bibliotheca Hebrsea." Together with his son Naphtali Hirz, Liepmann in 1703 had a

In 1879 he founded there the weekly Russoperiodical "Russki Yevrei," which he published and edited conjointly with H. M. Rabinovich until 1883, and after that with L. O. Kantor to the

new synagogue

end of 1884.

to Hanover, thus enabling the pastor Joliann Christian Wolf of Hamburg to avail himself of it in

erected

upon

the site of the old one,

which, constructed by order of the duke of Hanover in 1609, had been torn down four years after its erec-

The fate of Liepmann's two sons Gumbert and Isaac is related in a family "megillah," published by Jost in the second volume of the " Jahrbuch fur die Geschichte der Juden." tion.

burg.

Hebrew

Behrmann is the author of " Osnovy Moiseyeva Zakona," which was recommended by the Ministry of Public Instruction as a manual for all high schools where the Jewish religion was taught and of " SanktPeterburgskiya Yevreiskiya Uchilishcha. Bibliography: Vengeroy, Kritiko-Biografieheski St.

Bibliography



Liepmann und

Wiener,

Monatexchrift, xiii. 161 et set/.; Mat/azin, 1863, i.-it.; idem, in Berliner's Magazin,

1879,

pp. 48-63.

A. F.

o.

BEHRENS, SIR JACOB:

Municipal worker England born at Pyrmont, Germany, Nov., 1806; died at Torquay April 22, 1889. His father, removing to Hamburg in 1815, became a successful merchant; and Jacob began his career by enat Bradford,



tering his father's firm.

England and took up

In 1834 he

left

Hamburg for

Here he entered into business as merchant, and in a short time extended his operations to Manchester. In 1838 he finally settled at Bradford, and the history of the development of the worsted trade of that town is inseparably associated with his name. He took an active part in the municipal life of the town, was the founder of the Bradford Chamber of Commerce, and was regarded as an authority upon questions of tariffs and of commercial treaties. He was also an expert statesman, occupying himself in that capacity mainly with obtaining statistics on trade, the tribunals of commerce, the bankruptcy laws, and the Yorkshire Joint Tariffs Committee (of which he was president). Mr. Behrens appeared before a commission at Paris as a witness from the English worsted district, in reference to the commercial treaty with France. In recognition of his services on this occasion, he was knighted by Queen Victoria Oct., 1882. Sir Jacob was an advocate of free trade, and rendered much assistance to Richard his residence in Leeds.

Cobden in the intricate negotiations which led up to the French treaty of 1861. He was active also in philanthropic movements, held a prominent place in the Bradford Philosophical Society, founded the Eye and Ear Hospital

at Bradford and was a member of the Anglo-Jewish Association, although he took no further active part in Jewish communal affairs.

Bibliography





Jewish Chronicle and Jewish World, April

36, 1889.

G. L.

J.

BEHRMANN, 1AZAR JAKOVLEVICH: Russian teacher and editor; born in Fricdrichstadt, Courland, Sept. 26, 1830; died at St. Petersburg April 27, 1893. He received his early education in the heder and in the district school of his native town, where he began his vocation as private teacher. In 1854 he settled in Mitau, where in 1861 he opened a private school for Jewish boys. The Jewish community of St. Petersburg invited him in 1864 to found its first Jewish school, which remained under his management until his death. From 1869 to 1882 he was instructor in the Jewish religion at the

Kolomenskaya Women's College

in St. Peters

Sloiior,

iii.,

Petersburg, 1893.

Seine SOhne, in idem, in Ilannoversches

H. R.

BEHRMANN, VASILI LAZAROVICH



Russian lawyer; son of Lazar Jakovlevich Behrmann; born in Mitau, Russia, Sept. 15, 1862; died at Cairo, Egypt, March 18, 1896. He received his early education at his father's school in St. Petersburg, passed through the gymnasium, and then studied law at the University of St. Petersburg, whence he graduated in 1885. While at the university he edited the foreign news department of the periodical " Russki Yevrei " (Russian Hebrew), published by his father. After the anti-Jewish riots in South Russia in 1881 he became an ardent Zionist, an active promoter of the Palestine movement

and a useful collaborator of the Society Promotion of Education Among the Jews

in Russia,

for the

of Russia.

In 1884 Behrmann published a collection of artiand in 1892 another collection, Siok (Zion). In 1894 he visited England on a mission to collect information about the English emigration system. He left in manuscript a work on " How to Regulate Russian-Jewish Emigration. Bibliography Vengerov, Kritiko-Biografieheski Slovar, iii. cles entitled "Palestina,"



Petersburg, 1893 private sources.

91, St.



Achiasaf,

p. 301,

Warsaw,

1896



and

H. R.

BEILIN, ISAAC WTTLFOVICH: teacher and physician the nineteenth century



born in the

first

Russian quarter of

died at Wilna March 9, 1897. the Rabbinical School of Wilna, and subsequently held the position of senior teacher there for seventeen years, until the school was closed by order of the government. He then, at the age of forty, began to study medicine, and, after being graduated from the Academy of Medicine of St. Petersburg, was appointed military physician to the 107th Troitzky Regiment, which position he held until his death. He contributed some valuable articles on the Jewish question to the " Yevreiskaya Biblioteka" and to "Razsvyet."

He was graduated from

Bibliography



Nedelnaya Khrnnika Voskhoda,

n. k.

1897,

No. x.

V. R.

BEIM, SOLOMON BEN

ABRAHAM:

Kaborn there about 1820. Having received a good education from his father, who was an excellent Hebrew scholar, Solomon devoted himself to the instruction of his coreligionists, and founded many schools in Odessa and in the Crimea. He published in Russian at Odessa in 1862 a memorial work on the chief seat of Karaism in the Crimea— viz., Chufut-Kale entitled "Pamjato Chufut-Kale," in which he endeavors to demonstrate the great antiquity of the Karaite sect and raite

hakam and hazan

at Odessa



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