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series of articles

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Kayserling, Die Judisclisn Frauen, pp. 177, ha-Gedolim, s.v. Yaw, No. 7; Buber, pp. 80-82 ; Gratz, Gesch. tier Juden, x. 58 (from the year of her birth may be approximately deterthe date of her death is unattainable) J. London, in

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BELLCAYRE

City in Catalonia, Spain had Jewish inhabitants in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. It was the birthplace of David of Bellcayre, the richest Jew of Barcelona, who owned in the ghetto of the latter city the finest houses, with eight large stores. In 1391 he accepted baptism, changing his name to Michael Lobet; a family of the name of Lobet stiil lives at Barcelona. Senton (Shem-Tob) de Bellcayre, another Jew of Barcelona, called himself after baptism Arnaldo Ferrarli. Bibliography Amador de los Rios, Histnria de los Judios en Bspana, ii. 408; Revue Etudes Juives, iv. 59, 61.





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daughter of (1040-1105,) and wife of R. Eliezer. Belle-Assez (not "Bellejeune," " Belle, " " Schon, " see Jacob Tarn, " Sefer ha-Yashar, ed. N. Rosenthal, p. 44, note), like the other daughters of Rashi, was very well versed in Hebrew and rabbinical literature. It was at one time thought that Belle-Assez or at least one of Rashi's daughters) or

Solomon ben

Isaac, called

used to take

down



"Rashi

his responsa

"

on juridical ques-

tions (Gratz, "Geschichte," vi. 82), butZunz showed that this was due to a misreading of the original text

which referred only

to Rashi's grandson ("Zur Geschichte," pp. 172, 567). From a responsum of her nephew Jacob Tam (I.e.) it is learned that she was unhappy in her married life, and that she obtained a

divorce from R. Eliezer. Bibliography Gratz, Gesch. der Juden, Die Jildischen Frauen, p. 116.

and the

controversy of an anti-Semitic character Athens. caused him to leave for Italy and when a student in the Istituto di Studi Superiori at Florence he was appointed principal of the Jewish schools at Leghorn. Belleli in 1890 resigned his principalship, which allowed him little time for study, and paid a lengthy visit to Paris, whence he returned to Greece after having contributed " Deux Versions Peu Connues du Pentateuque " to the " Revue des Etudes Juives, " vol. xxii. and "Une Version Grecque du Pentateuque du Seizieme Siecle " to the " Revue des Etudes Grecques," vol. iii. In the following year Belleli graduated in Florence as doctor of philology with a special certificate in Hebrew and Aramaic. Shortly after graduating, Belleli was a witness of the Corfu outbreak against the Jews which followed the murder of the Jewish girl Rubina Sarda and he reported for the Alliance Israelite Universelle the trials which in that connection came before the Patras assize court. The spread of anti-Jewish literature induced Belleli to undertake the translation into Greek of Th. Reinach's " Histoire des Juifs, " and the work was published at Athens in 1895. In 1897 Belleli, while in England, contributed to the "Revue des Etudes Juives," vol. xxxv., an article severely criticizing D. G. Hesseling's transcriptionof the Constantinople Neo-Greek Pentateuch. Belleli in 1899 represented the Greek government at the twelfth Congress of Orientalists. Bibliography Harris, Jewish Year Boole, 1901, p. 244.

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BELLERMANN, JOHANN

JOACHIM

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On graduating from the University of Gottingen Bellermann accepted a position as teacher at Reval, Russia, where he remained for four years. On his return to Erfurt in 1782, he became "Magister legens " in the gymnasium, and later assistant professor of theology and philosophy in the University of Erfurt. In 1804 he was appointed director of the Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster at Berlin, and professor of theology at the university in that city. Bellermann was one of the earliest students of Hebrew epigraphy.

Among

his

numerous writings

on various subjects, the following works are of special interest to Jewish scholars: (1) "De Inscriptionibus Hebraicis Erfordia; Repertis," printed in the Gymnasium Program, i.-iv., 1793-94; (2) " De Duodecim Lapidibus in Jordanis Laveo Erectis," 1795; (3) "De iEnigmatibus Hebraicis," Prog, i.-iv., 17961800 (4) " De Usu Palaeographise Hebraicse ad Explicanda Biblia Sacra, cum Tribus Tabulis In" Ueber den Kunstvollen Plan im Buche cisis " (5) Hiob, " 1813 (6) " Versuch einer Metrik der Hebraer, 1813 (7) " Geschichtliche Nachrichten aus dem Alterthum uber Essaer und Therapeuten," 1821; (8) " Die Urim und Thumim, die Aeltesten Gemmen ein Beitrag zur Alterthumskunde, " 1824.

philologist;

born







in

Corfu, Greece, Oct. 31, 1862. In 1877 he edited " 'Atteret Bahurim " (The Crown of the Young), being a Hebrew-Greek vocabulary for the Book of Genesis, supplemented by a sketch of Hebrew

grammar, and afterward contributed

to the

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Christian Hebraist and professor of theology at Berlin University born at Erfurt Sept. 23, 1754 died at Berlin Oct! 25, 1842.



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Greek potyglot writer and

the "Famiglia Israelitica, "

Belleli matriculated in the University of

A

J.

wife of Joshua FALK A woman of Talmudic learning born at Lemberg about the middle of the sixteenth century; died at a very advanced age at Jerusalem. She was a daughter of the philanthropist and head of the community at Lemberg, Israel Edels, and wife of the well-known Talmudist Joshua Falk ha-Kohen, anthor of the " Sefer Me'irat 'Enayim." Supported by his fatherin-law, Falk carried on his studies privately, and conductedaTalmudichigh school atLemberg. When he died, in 1614,his wife, Bella, removed to Jerusalem. Bella had a strong inclination toward Talmudic studies, and gave some decisions on certain difficult halakic cases. One of these was that on festivals the festive blessing over the lights should be said before and not after the lights are kindled (see Ezekiel Landau, " Dagul me-Rebabah " to Shulhan 'Aruk, Orah Hayyim, ch. 12).

BELLA,

Bibliography

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Colonial Bank.

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