Yogikhes, Bekhaye
He was born in Vilna. He worked as a private Hebrew and Russian teacher.
He published in Vilna in the 1870s and 1880s a variety of pamphlets, originals and translations from Russian, such as: Der Held Yermak Mit di Royber (Yermak the Hero and the Robbers), in two parts (Vilna, 1874), 63 pp.—“This is a wonderful, beautiful story of the great hero Yermak who in the year 1580 conquered Siberia under Russian authority, translated from Russian by Bekhaye” [Yankev Yisroel Khurim].
Sources: Dr. Y. Shatski, Kultur-Geshikhte fun der Haskole in Lite (Cultural History of the Enlightenment in Lithuania) (Buenos Aires, 1950), pp. 97, 135; materials from the library of the Lubavitcher Rebbe in New York.