Moses Shabbethai Beer Explained

Moses Shabbethai Beer
Organisationposition:	Chief Rabbi of Rome
Began:	1825
Ended:	1835
Successor:	Israel Moses Hazan^[1]
Birth Place:	Pesaro, Papal States
Death Place:	Rome, Papal States

Moses Shabbethai Beer (; died May 6, 1835) was an Italian rabbi. He was born in Pesaro, and he officiated as rabbi in Rome from December 1825. He was admitted to interviews with Popes Leo XII and Gregory XVI in 1827 and 1831, respectively, in order that he might plead on behalf of his community.^[2] This was the first time in the history of the Roman Jews that one of their representatives was permitted to appear in person before the pontiff.

Publications

• Book: Gadol verav veram Napoleon. he,it,la. Tipographia della Società letteraria. 1809.
• Book: Raccolta di no. 26 prediche, orazioni funebri e discorsi panegirici. 1837. it. Beer . Moisè Sabbato .

Notes and References

1. Book: Morais, Sabato . Greenstone . Julius H. . Italian Hebrew Literature . Jewish Theological Seminary of America. New York . 1926 . 173.
2. Book: Gunzberg, Lynn M. . Strangers at Home: Jews in the Italian Literary Imagination . University of California Press . 1992 . 978-0-520-91258-8 . 135.