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that Rembrandt’s painting, “The Jewish Bride” (c. 1665) was a
portrait of Barrios and his second wife.
Bibliography: W.C. Pieterse, Daniel Levi de Barrios als
geschiedschrijver… (1968); K.R. Scholberg, Poesía religiosa Miguel
de Barrios (1962); idem, in: JQR, 53 (1962/63), 120–59; J. Amador de
los Ríos, Estudios históricos (1848), 608–19; Kayserling, Bibl, 16–26;
J.A.C. Zwarts, Significance of Rembrandt’s “The Jewish Bride” (1929);
H.V. Besso, Dramatic Literature of the Sephardic Jews of Amsterdam
(1947), 73–84; J. Sasportas, Ẓiẓat Novel Ẓevi, ed. by J. Tishby (1954),
363ff.; Scholem, Shabbetai Ẓevi, 2 (1957), 446f. Add. Bibliography:
E.M. Wilson, “Miguel de Barrios and Spanish Religious Poetry,”
in: Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 40 (1963), 176–80; T. Oelman, Marrano
Poets of the Seventeenth Century: An Anthology of the Poetry of
Joao Pinto Delgado, Antonio Enriquez Gomez, and Miguel de Barrios
(1982); J.L. Sanchez Fernandez, “Miguel de Barrios, un epíono olvidado,”
in: “M. Peléez del Rosal (ed.), Conferencias del I curso de Verano
de la Universidad de Cóndoba sobre “El Barroco en Andalucía,”
vol. 1 (1984), 103–13
[Kenneth R. Scholberg / Yom Tov Assis (2nd ed.)]
BARRIS, CHUCK (Charles; 1929– ) U.S. television producer.
Barris is known for his role as the producer of popular
TV game shows, including some of the earliest forms of “reality
television.” Barris was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
and attended the Drexel Institute of Technology. After graduating,
he moved to New York, where he began his career in the
television industry with a low-level job at NBC. Laid off a year
later, Barris was unemployed for a year before being hired by
ABC, where he worked with Dick Clark, the host of American
Bandstand. Barris later sold the pilot of his own show,
The Dating Game, to ABC. The Dating Game was an immediate
hit, moving to primetime in 1966 and paving the way for
Barris’ popular The Newlywed Game. Barris continued to utilize
the same formula in three more shows, The Family Game,
Dream Girl of 1968, and How’s Your Mother-in-Law? In 1968,
he founded his own company, Barris Industries, which would
produce television programs such as The Game Game and Operation
Entertainment. The Newlywed Show was canceled in
1974, and Barris struggled to find a new niche in the television
market until 1976, when he made his first appearance as
the host of the talent competition The Gong Show. Barris’ antics
as the host of The Gong Show transformed the producer
into a celebrity during the show’s four-year run. Barris wrote
his autobiography Confessions of a Dangerous Mind in 1986,
which made the controversial claims that he had lived a double-life
during the 1960s, working both as a TV producer and
as an international CIA assassin. Barris also published a second
autobiography, The Game Show King (1993), which made
no reference to his alleged involvement with the CIA. In 2002,
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind was made into a feature film
of the same title directed by George Clooney.
[Walter Driver (2nd ed.)]
BARRON, JENNIE LOITMAN (1891–1969), U.S. lawyer,
suffragist, judge, and community leader. Barron was born in
Boston, the third of four daughters of Fannie and Morris Loit-
barros basto, arturo carlos de
man. An outstanding student, she earned her undergraduate,
law and master of law degrees from Boston University between
1908 and 1914 while working at night teaching Americanization
classes. She opened a law practice in Boston in 1914. An
active suffragist, Barron become the first president of the Boston
University Equal Suffrage League and continued working
for women’s causes throughout her life, including women’s
rights to serve on juries, to become notaries, and to have uniform
laws on marriage and divorce. Following her 1918 marriage
to Samuel Barron, a graduate of Harvard Law School,
she and her husband founded Barron and Barron, a law firm
that continued until 1934 when Jennie Barron began a 30-year
career in the judiciary when she was appointed a special judge
for Norfolk County, Massachusetts. Barron and her husband
had three daughters. Throughout her life she hosted Friday
night Sabbath dinners at her home for her children and their
growing families. Barron was awarded the National Mother of
the Year Award by American Mothers, Inc. in 1959 when she
was already a grandmother several times over.
In 1937, Barron was named an associate judge of the Boston
Municipal Courts. In 1957 she was the first woman appointed
as a full-time justice of the Massachusetts Superior
Court. Active in numerous volunteer organizations, Barron
was the president of the Massachusetts Association of Women
Lawyers, the first president of the Women’s Division of the
American Jewish Congress, a national board member of Hadassah,
and chair of the League of Women’s Voters, among
numerous other appointments.
Bibliography: “Barron, Jennie Loitman,” in: P.E. Hyman
and D. Dash Moore (eds.), Jewish Women in America 1 (1997), 122–23;
Obituary, in: New York Times (March 30, 1969).
[Judith R. Baskin (2nd ed.)]
BARROS BASTO, ARTURO CARLOS DE (1887–1961),
leader of *Marrano revival in Portugal. Born at Amarante near
Oporto, of a New Christian family, he was introduced to the
secret practices of the Marranos by his grandfather, entered
a military career in 1906 after he moved to Lisbon, where he
tried to be accepted by the local Jewish community, and in
the revolution in 1910 hoisted the Republican flag on the town
hall of Oporto. On returning from World War I, he studied
Hebrew, entering Judaism officially at the age of 33 in Tangiers,
where he was circumcised, assuming the name Abraham
Ben-Rosh. In Lisbon he married a member of a prominent
Jewish family. He was the founder of the revivalist movement
among the New Christians in Portugal that flourished
under his leadership in the 1920s and 1930s. In 1923, together
with some East European Jews he organized a community at
Oporto, called Mekor Haim, secured foreign support for the
construction of a monumental synagogue, set up a rudimentary
seminary, called Yeshivat Rosh Pinnah in connection with
it, and went on missionary journeys through the Marrano centers
of northern Portugal. Two months after its establishment
in June 1923, the community was officially recognized by the
Portuguese authorities. Barros Basto served as the leader of the
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