B.
(BEKHAYE) YOGIKHES
He was born in Vilna. He worked as a
private Hebrew and Russian teacher. He
published in Vilna in the 1870s and 1880s a variety of pamphlets, originals and
translations from Russian, such as: Der
held yermak mit di royber (Yermak the hero and the robbers), in two parts
(Vilna, 1874), 63 pp.—“This is a wonderful, beautiful story of the great hero
Yermak who in the year 1580 conquered Siberia under Russian authority,
translated from Russian by Bekhaye” [Yankev Yisroel Khurim].
Sources:
Dr. Y. Shatski, Kultur-geshikhte fun der
haskole in lite (Cultural history of the Enlightenment in Lithuania)
(Buenos Aires, 1950), pp. 97, 135; materials from the library of the Lubavitcher
Rebbe in New York.
Khayim Leyb Fuks
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