ISRAEL BEN BENJAMIN OF BELZEC
- ISRAEL BEN BENJAMIN OF BELZEC
- ISRAEL BEN BENJAMIN OF BELZEC (17th century),
rabbi and author. Israel was rabbi in Rubashov, Belzec (c. 1648), and
Lublin (c. 1648–50) and was regarded as one of the foremost talmudists
of his time. He was the author of Yalkut Ḥadash (Yalkut
Yisre'eli), an alphabetically arranged collection of homilies
taken from diverse kabbalistic, aggadic, and midrashic works (published
anonymously, Lublin, 1648, and later with an appendix entitled
Shikhḥat Leket, Wilmersdorf, 1673); and Tiferet
Yisrael, a collection of sermons delivered between 1632 and 1654
(Ms. Bodleian), including a funeral oration delivered in 1648 for the
victims of the chmielnicki massacres . According to
jehiel heilperin , Israel was also called Jacob, but he should not
be confused with Jacob Israels of Temesvár, rabbi of Slutsk, who was a
victim of the Chmielnicki massacres of 1648.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Heilperin, Dorot, 3 (1905), 54; Fuenn, Keneset, 683; S. Nissenbaum,
Le-Korot ha-Yehudim be-Lublin (1899), 54; S. Wiener,
Kohelet Moshe (1893–1918), 591 (no. 4825); Neubauer, Cat,
nos. 924, 989.
(Joseph Elijah Heller)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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