Menahem Noveira Explained

Birth Date:	1717
Death Date:	1777 (60 years old)
Birth Place:	Verona, Italy
Began:	1757
Ended:	1777
Predecessor:	Solomon Bassani
Successor:	Samuel Mortara
Menabem ben Issac Noveira

Menahem ben Issac Noveira (1717–1777), also known as Menaḥem b. Noṿairah^[1] or Menahem Navarra, was an Italian physician and poet who was the rabbi of Verona from 1757 until his death in 1777.^[2]

Biography

Menahem was born in 1717 in Verona, Italy. He was the third son of Issac Navarra, a scholar, and his wife Grazia. His grandmother, Hezekiah Mordecai Bassani, who was the rabbi of Verona at the time, wanted Menahem to take up her family's traditions, she taught him the bible. In 1734, he married Ester Basevi, the daughter of a notable family. They had eight children: five sons and three daughters. Prior to that, Menahem composed the epitaph for his late father's tombstone. In 1757, Menahem became the rabbi of Verona, retaining that role until he died suddenly during a church sermon in 1777.^[3]

Works

• Yeme Temimim (1753)^[4]
• Derek Haskel (1756)
• Hanukkat ha-Bayit (1759)
• Penei Yitshak^[5]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Menaḥem b. Noṿairah (1717-1777), Rabbi, author - Library University of Leeds . 2024-02-25 . explore.library.leeds.ac.uk.
2. Book: Levinson . Joshua . Jews and Journeys: Travel and the Performance of Jewish Identity . Bashkin . Orit . 2021-08-06 . University of Pennsylvania Press . 978-0-8122-9793-5 . en.
3. Roth . Cecil . 1925 . Rabbi Menahem Navarra: His Life and Times. 1717-1777. A Chapter in the History of the Jews of Verona . The Jewish Quarterly Review . 15 . 4 . 427–466 . 10.2307/1451738 . 1451738 . 0021-6682.
4. Web site: NOVEIRA, MENAHEM - JewishEncyclopedia.com . 2024-02-26 . jewishencyclopedia.com.
5. Book: Levy . B. Barry . Planets, Potions, and Parchments: Scientifica Hebraica from the Dead Sea Scrolls to the Eighteenth Century . Jewish Public Library (Montréal . Québec) . Museum . David M. Stewart . 1990 . McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP . 978-0-7735-0793-7 . en.