Miriam Mendes Belisario

Miriam Mendes Belisario
Born(1816-11-30)30 November 1816
London, England
Died1885 (aged 68–69)
London, England
Pen nameLittle Miriam
OccupationEducator and writer

Miriam Mendes Belisario (Hebrew: מרים מנדס בליסאריו; 30 November 1816 – 1885), also known by the pen name Little Miriam,[1] was an English Jewish writer and educator.

Biography

Miriam Mendes Belisario was born in London in 1820, the daughter of Jamaican Jewish merchant Abraham Belisario.[2] Her paternal grandfather was artist Isaac Mendes Belisario.[3]

Belisario for many years ran an Orthodox girls' school in Clapton founded by her mother in 1807, in which numerous members of the Sephardic community were educated under her direction.[4][5] She compiled a Hebrew and English Vocabulary for a selection of the daily prayers (1848), and wrote Sabbath Evenings at Home (1856), a collection of dialogues on the Jewish religion. Belisaro was an influence upon the Christian writer Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna.[6]

Bibliography

  • Belisario, Miriam Mendes (1856). Sabbath Evenings at Home; or: Familiar Conversations on the Jewish Religion, its Spirit and Observances. London: S. Joel.
  • Belisario, Miriam Mendes (1848). A Hebrew and English Vocabulary, from a Selection of the Daily Prayers. London.

References

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Jacobs, Joseph (1902). "Belisario, Miriam Mendes". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 2. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 661.

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  4. ^ Devine, Luke (Spring 2011). "Reading Jewish Identity, Spiritual Alienation, and Reform Judaism Through the Veil of Abstract Self-Hatred, Racial Degeneration, and Anti-Semitism in Julia Frankau's Dr. Phillips: A Maida Vale Idyll". Women in Judaism. 8 (1). ISSN 1209-9392.
  5. ^ Brown, Malcomb (1987). "The Jews of Hackney before 1840". Jewish Historical Studies. 30: 84. JSTOR 29779839.
  6. ^ Rubinstein, William D.; Jolles, Michael A.; Rubinstein, Hillary L., eds. (2011). The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History. London: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 67–68. ISBN 978-0-230-30466-6. OCLC 793104984.