Bohemian rabbi and author; died about 1750 at Jung-Bunzlau, where he was district rabbi and director of a Talmudic academy. His father, who was styled "Ḥarif" by his contemporaries, was rabbi at Mayence, Germany. Bezaleel wrote a collection of festival sermons and homiletic explanations on the Pentateuch, a work published at Prague in 1786 by his son, Baruch Judah Brandeis, and entitled "Ẓedah-Baruk."

Bibliography: Steinschneider, Cat. Bodl. No. 4590;
Benjacob, Oẓar ha-Sefarim. p. 506;
Fürst, Bibl. Jud. i. 129;
Baruch Judah Brandeis, Leshon Ḥakamim, Preface.L. G. I. Ber.