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Barasch, Julius
THE JEWISH ENCYCLOPEDIA
In addition to those works already enumerated, Barasch published many books on popular science. In 1886 (July 4) a society was founded in Bucharest for the investigation of the history of the
some
articles on the Jewish question in the periodicals " Rasssvyct," " Ha-Karmel," and " Syveruaya
Pchela." Russia,
Jews
in Rumania, which received, in honor of Julius Barasch, the name "Societatea Istorica Juliu Barasch."
Bibliography
ii.
E. Sd.
Spanish physician and
Marano, who openly avowed himself a Jew at Amsterdam about 1640. He was conversant with astronomy, medicine, and botany, and was acquainted with Arabic and Syriac. Manasseh b. Israel dedicated to him the essay entitled " De la Pragilidad Humana. " He wrote " Prognostico e Lunario de Anno de 1635, Conforme as Noticias Tirado de Arabigo que Traduzzio do Syriaco de Jonathan Abenizel [b. Uziel] R. Ismael de Ulmazia," Seville,
,
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1630.
Bibliography
Kayserling, Bibl. Esp.-Port.-Jud. p.
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M. K.
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Censorship of
BARATIER, JEAN
PHILIPPE: Christian translator of Benjamin of Tudela's travels; born at Schwabach, Bavaria, in 1721 died in 1740. He was only thirteen years old when he published his first
work, " Voyages de Rabbi Benjamin Fils de Jona de Tudele. Traduits de l'Hebreu et Enrichi de Notes et de Dissertations Historiques et Critiques sur ces Vo3 ages, par J. P. Baratier, Etudiant en Theologie. •A Amsterdam, aux Depens de la Compagnie," 1734. r
It is difficult to believe that the translation in two large volumes is the work of a child of eleven but the preface, dated Schwabach near Nuremberg, 1733, contains an affirmation of the fact by a modest pastor of the Reformed Church, who knew Hebrew and called himself the sole preceptor that Jean had yet
had. Besides the running commentary on the translation in the form of explanatory notes at the bottom of each page, the volumes contain a number of essays on the Jews and their rabbis whom Benjamin met on his travels; on the Hebrew terms used on Benjamin himself, and on the exilarchs, the Chazars, and Unfortunately, the author repeats the Ten Tribes. many of the errors of his predecessors and makes many statements that show how biased he was against those about whom he was writing. These essays show, however, the learning of this short;
lived prodigy.
Bibliography Fr. Baratier, Nachricht von Seinem FrliliMauclerc, Stettin, zeitia Gdehrtem Sohne, published by Paul von Evnem sehr lf>8- idem Merkiottrdige Nachricht Frllhzeitia GeUihrtem Kinde una Jetzt Vierundzwanzia-
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Island of the British West Indies colonized in 1625. It is probable that Jews were among the earliest settlers on this island. The statement is made by Sir Robert H. Schomburgk that their arrival dates from 1628. Some confirmation is given First Settlement to this assertion by a letter from one Abraham Jacob to the earl of Carlisle, of Jews. the proprietor of the island, dated London, Sept. 22, 1628, complaining that the island business was exceedingly unprofitable (" Publications Am. Jewish Hist. Soc." v. 46). As late as 1844 a tombstone was standing in the congregational cemetery bearing the date 1658, though the name was obliterated ("Occident," ii. 294). Upon petition the Jews were granted, on Aug. 12, 1656, the enjoyment of the " privileges of Laws and Statutes of ye Commonwealth of England and of this Island, relating to foreigners and strangers " (E. S. Daniels; see Bibli-
in the
337, 338, 748, 749.
BARASSA, DIEGO:
See
BARBADOS
M. Schwarzfeld, Dr. Juliu. Barasch, Schitza Bioarafica, Bucharest, 1888; Spre Jilrmnria Doetorului Juliu Barasch, Bucharest, 1861; Ben Chaiiatija, 186a, pp. S.
Barbados
Windward Group
ography). From 1661 more definite data are available. On April 8 of that year Benjamin de Caseres, Henry de Caseres, and Jacob Fraso petition the king to permit
and trade in Barbados and Surinam. is supported by the king of Denmark, they were probably not residents of England, and were therefore prohibited by the terms of the Navigation Act from trading in the English plantations' ("Publications Am. Jewish Hist. Soc." v. 47). It is more than likely that these Caseres were relatives of Simon de Caceres, one of the leading members of the Crypto-Jewish community in London, who, according to Lucien Wolf, had established a branch of his business in Barbados ("Transactions Jewish Hist. Soc. of England," i. 73). Though remonstrances were made by English merchants against granting the petition, the Council for Foreign Plantations advised that, inasmuch as the petitioners had "behaved themselves well, and with general satisfaction, many years upon Barbados, " the desired privileges be accorded them On ("Publications Am. Jewish Hist. Soc." v. 47). July 24, 1661, Daniel Bueno Henriques is granted letters of denization (ib. p. 65); but in Letters of 1677 he and Manuel Martinez Dormido complain that their letters have never Denibeen issued to them. The residence zation.
them to As their
live
petition
iUhriaem Magistro, Stettin and Leipsic, 173o; Zunz, Z. G. Tudele, p. 24, d 15- Carmoly, Notice Hixtor. sur Ben), aleLiterature, i. I. d'lsraeli. Curiosities of Brussels 1852 Steinschneider, in Zett. Hebr. Bibl. u. ol.
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BARATZ,
HERMAN
(HIRSCH)
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Russian
lawyer and censor of Hebrew books born at Dubno School of 1835; graduated from the Rabbinical of Kiev in Jitomir in 1859, and from the University In 1871 he was appointed by the governor1869 and congeneral of Kiev censor of Hebrew books Baratz wrote affairs. Jewish on official sulting
of the former is given as in Barbados, latter as in London ("Calendar of State Papers, Colonial America and West Indies,"
and that of the
1677-80, p. 201, No. 556). Upon the dissolution of the Jewish community of Cayenne in 1664, some of its members emigrated to Barbados ("Publications Am. Jewish Hist. Soc." ii.
About this time (March, 1664) Isaac Israel de Piso, and Aaron Israel de Piso, with his sisters and two brothers, " also Moses and his mother, sent thither by Abraham Cohen," are deprived of their letters of 95).
denization and ordered to be banished from the island, by reason of their failure to discover gold-
