Miriam Mendes Belisario Explained

Miriam Mendes Belisario
Pseudonym:	Little Miriam
Birth Date:	30 November 1816
Birth Place:	London, England
Death Place:	London, England
Occupation:	Educator and writer

Miriam Mendes Belisario (; 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

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

Notes and References

1. Book: Galchinsky, Michael . The Origin of the Modern Jewish Woman Writer: Romance and Reform in Victorian England . Wayne State University Press . 1996 . 978-0-8143-4445-3. 1014125029 . Detroit.
2. Endelman. Todd M.. The Frankaus of London: A Study in Radical Assimilation, 1837-1967. Jewish History. 8. 1. 1994. 117–154. 10.1007/BF01915911. 20101194. 2027.42/43006. 161441946. free.
3. Book: Rottenberg, Dan . Finding Our Fathers: A Guidebook to Jewish Genealogy . Baltimore . Genealogical Publishing Company . 1986 . 978-0-8063-1151-7 . 13880202 . 171.
4. Luke. Devine. 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. Spring 2011. 8. 1. 1209-9392.
5. Brown. Malcomb. The Jews of Hackney before 1840. Jewish Historical Studies. 30. 1987. 84. 29779839.
6. Book: Rubinstein . William D.. William Rubinstein. Jolles. Michael A.. Rubinstein. Hillary L.. The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History . Palgrave Macmillan . London . 2011 . 978-0-230-30466-6 . 793104984 . 67–68.