Azevedo (Ferme), Moses Cohen D'

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AZEVEDO (Ferme), MOSES COHEN D'

AZEVEDO (Ferme ), MOSES COHEN D' (1720–1784), English rabbi. Azevedo, who was born into a rabbinic family in Holland, immigrated to London, where he married in 1749 the daughter of haham Moses Gomes De *Mesquita. His appointment to the *bet din in 1757 led to the resignation from the rabbinate of Isaac *Nieto; after a four-year interval Azevedo was appointed haham. On the public fast day of December 13, 1776, marking the revolt of the American colonies, he preached the sermon, which was published both in English and in Spanish.

bibliography:

A.M. Hyamson, Sephardim of England (1951), 182–3; M. Gaster, History of the Ancient Synagogue of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews (1901), 131–41; Roth, Mag Bibl, 312, 324, 325.

[Cecil Roth]