Benjamin, Walter, 86, 216 Ben-Yehuda, Eliezer, 204 Berdiaev, Nikolai, 91–92 Berezovsky, Boris, 362 Bergelson, David, 298, 299 Berlin Wall, fall of, 358 Berman, Jakub, 314 Berman, M. D., 199 Bernstein, Eduard, 85 Bezymensky, Aleksandr, 228 Biale, David, 365 Bible: on chosenness, 26 education in, 128 endogamy in, 12–13 intellect in, 26 and Joyce, 77 millenarianism in, 91–92 moneylending in, 9–10 and socialism, 94 Bikerman, I. M., 183, 185 Birnbaum, Solomon, 18–19 Birobidzhan, 248–49 Bismarck, Otto von, 49 Blake, William, 44 Blank, Aleksandr Dmitrievich, 245 Blank, Moshko Itskovich, 245 Bleichrsder, Gerson von, 49 Bleichrsder banking house, 47, 120 blood: Jews by, 286–88, 295, 301, 359 and purity/pollution, 21 in Soviet Union, 285 taboos on, 60. See also ethnicity; race Boas, Franz, 98, 342