Elieser Bassin (1840–1898) was a Russian-Jewish convert to Christianity, and an author and proponent of British Israelism.
[1][2] He later moved and settled in Britain and through the literature of Edward Hine became a proponent of British Israelism.
In 1885 Bassin was appointed as the first director of the "Scottish Home Mission to the Jews" in Edinburgh, a position he held until his death in 1898.
[3] In 1884 he delivered a lecture entitled "God's Dealings With His Chosen People Israel" to a crowd of British Israelites in Portobello, Edinburgh.
[4] In his book British and Jewish Fraternity Eleiser equated Britain with the Israelite tribe of Ephraim: The Hebrew Scriptures point to the British Isles as the home of God's first-born (i.e. Ephraim, the collective name for the Ten Tribes, Jeremiah 31:9)...It is my conviction that Britain is the nation with whom God has from first to last identified Himself.