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661 661 32 small vols., 1796-1827;

(2) a translation from Shalom Cohen's Hebrew catechism, "Shorashe Emunah," Amsterdam, 1816; (3) " Geschenk noor de Israelitche Jeugd" an elementary work, 4 vols., The Hague, 1809-34; (4) " " Parabelin parables and legends extracted from the Talmud, 2 vols. Amsterdam, 1822 (5) " Moda' li-Bene Binah " (A Friend of the Intelligent Youth) a Hebrew reader, recast from Moses Philippsohn's German work, with a Dutch translation and additions, Amsterdam, 1817 (6) The Portuguese prayerbook, translated into Dutch in collaboration with T. Saruco, 4 vols., The Hague, 1791-93.

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Bibliography

Fiirst, Biblintheca Judaica, p. 99 Winter and Wiinsche, Jlldische Literatur, iii. 873 Zeitlin, Bibltotheca





Hebraica,

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BELINSON

Br.

MOSES

BEILINSON),

(or

ELIEZER:

Russian publisher and scholar; born at Odessa about 1835. He devoted himself chiefly to the study of the genealogy of old Russian Jewish families, to one of which he belongs. He wrote on this subject

two works, "Megillat Yuhasin

" (Scroll

of Genealogy), and " Yalkut Miskpahot " (Collection of Families), published at Odessa, 1892-94. These works, although of no great literary value, contain interesting contributions to the history of Jewish families in Russia.

In 1865 Belinson edited " 'Ale Hadas " (Myrtle Leaves), a periodical containing literary and scientific articles by the most eminent Russian scholars of the " day, and issued a second edition of the " Sefer Elam and "Ma'yan Gannin" of Salomon Joseph del Medigo, with notes and a biography of the author.

Two other periodicals,

"

Yagdil Torah

"

(Magnifying

the Law), and " Mekilta de Rabbanan " (The Rabbis' Study), dealing with questions concerning the Halakah and the exposition of the Talmud, were edited by Belinson (Odessa, 1871-81 and 1886-87); but, as in the case of the " 'Ale Hadas," only a few numbers appeared. He published also (Odessa, 1898) "Shelome Emune Yisrael " (The Perfectly Righteous Men of Israel), a collection of letters on literary subjects. Belinson contributed to many Russian and Hebrew periodicals, and was very active in disseminating the Neo-Hebrew literature through his printingoffice, from which were issued numerous works of the

Russan "maskilim."



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BELISARIO, MIRIAM MENDES

I.

Br.

English authoress and teacher; born in London about 1820; died there 1885. She was a granddaughter of Isaac Mendes Belisario (see Lyson, "Environs of London," iii. 429), and with her sisters for many years

kept a girls' school in which numerous members of the Scphardic community were educated under her She compiled a "Hebrew and English direction.

Vocabulary" for a selection of the daily prayers at Home" (1848), and wrote "Sabbath Evenings (London, 1856) the latter being in the form of dialogues upon the spirit and ordinances of the Jewish

religion.

Bibliography: Jacobs and Wolf, BibUotheca Anglo- Judaica, Nos. 2093, 2105.

Belkovsky

BELKIND, ISRAEL:

Russian Hebraist and

teacher; born in 1861 at Logoisk, government of Minsk, Russia educated at the high school of Mohilev on the Dnieper, and at the University of Kharkov. After the persecution of the Jews in Russia in 1881, when colonization committees were formed in the large Jewish centers of Russia, some of which

favored the establishment of agricultural colonies in America, and some in Palestine, Belkind became an ardent follower of the Palestinians, and he founded at Kharkov a society of Jewish students, under the name of "Bilu " (1^3). With the aid of some of its members he established the colony Giiedehaii or Katra, near Ekron (see Agricultural, Colonies in Palestine). The enterprise was not successful and Belkind, after many hardships, removed to Jaffa, where he became a teacher of Hebrew. Later he occupied a similar position in Jerusalem. To supply the want of Hebrew text-books he wrote the following On arithmetic, "Assefat Sheelot ha-Hesbon," Jerusalem, 1896; on geography, "Reshit Yedi'at Ketibat ha-Arez," Jerusalem, 1898, 2d cd. 1899; on general history, "Dibre Yeme ha-Amim," vol. i., Jerusalem, 1897. Israel's father, Meiir Belkind, held the office



Ghederah colony, and his sister, Olg-a Belkind, who practised midwifery at Jaffa, wrote articles in Hebrew. H. R. of rabbi at the

BELKIS, Queen

QUEEN OF SHEBA.

See Sheba,

op.

GREGOIRE

Russian political BELKOVSKY, economist; born at Odessa 1865. While a student he joined the Jewish nationalists of Odessa, and lectured at the Sabbath free school of Low and Sussman. For his treatise " Zalog po Rimskomu Pravu, he was honored with a gold medal. Graduating from the university in 1889, a proposition for a pro fessorship was made to him, but as one of the conditions was that he embrace Christianity, he declined Four years later he was invited to lecture the offer. at the University of Sofia, Bulgaria, on political economy and the history of Roman law. At Sofia he published (in the Bulgarian language) his " History

Roman Law," 1895; "Political Economy," "Exchange in Bulgaria," 1895; and "Credit and Banking in Bulgaria," in vols, xv., xvi., and of the

1896;

the magazine of the Ministry of Public InAt this time Belkovsky became active " in the spread of Zionism, and published Appel an das Judenthumund Seine Getreuen'Sohne" (anonymous, Sofia, 1897, in German, French, Hebrew, and He has been a prominent supporter of Spanish). the Zionist movement, and since 1899 one of the Russian representatives in the larger "Actionsxvii. of

Vnskhod, 1893, No. 50 100 Zeitlin, Bibl. Hebraica, p. 19. H. E.

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Committee." In 1897 Belkovsky returned to St. Petersburg, where he still lives (1902), and continues his propaganda of Zionism. Besides the above-named works he contributed articles on agriculture, political economy, and industrial subjects to the "Entziklopedicheski Slovar" of Brockhaus and Efron, to the

"Sudebnaya Gazeta," and other periodicals. On " O Zemle Dyeltskesthe Jewish question, he wrote kikh Fermakh, Kak o Razsadnikye Proizvoditelnavo Truda, " " Slovo o Pinskerye " " Die Lage der Juden