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Moses Gomez de Mesquita (1688 – May 8, 1751) was ḥakham of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews of London.

Biography

Mesquita was born and trained in Amsterdam. He was appointed ḥakham in London in 1744, in succession to Isaac Nieto, who had resigned, and held the office until his death. He solemnized the second marriage of Isaac Nieto in 1747, and the marriage of his own daughter, in 1749, to Moses Cohen d'Azevedo, who became ḥakham in 1760.

He died on May 8, 1751, at the age of sixty-three. At his funeral, Nieto and Aaron Hart of the Great Synagogue gave graveside addresses.

Notes

1. May 6, according to The London Magazine.

References

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Jacobs, Joseph; Cohen, Israel (1904). "Mesquita, Moses Gomez de". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 8. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 505.

1. Berenbaum, Michael; Skolnik, Fred, eds. (2007). "Mesquita". Encyclopaedia Judaica. Vol. 14 (2nd ed.). Detroit: Macmillan Reference. p. 110. ISBN 978-0-02-866097-4. Gale CX2587513740.
2. ^ Rubinstein, William D.; Jolles, Michael A.; Rubinstein, Hillary L., eds. (2011). "Gomes de Mesquita, Moses". The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History. London: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 351–352. ISBN 978-0-230-30466-6. OCLC 793104984.
3. "The Monthly Chronologer". The London Magazine: Or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer. London: 236. May 1751.
4. Hyamson, A. M. (2020). The Sephardim of England: A History of the Spanish and Portuguese Jewish Community, 1492–1951. Taylor & Francis. p. 167–168. ISBN 978-1-000-04384-6.

• 1688 births
• 1751 deaths
• 18th-century British Sephardi Jews
• 18th-century English rabbis
• English Sephardi Jews
• Dutch emigrants to England
• English people of Dutch-Jewish descent
• Rabbis from Amsterdam