SOAVE, MOISE

SOAVE, MOISE (1820–1882), Italian scholar and teacher in Venice. Soave contributed to Il Vessillo Israelitico, Il Corriere Israelitico, and to Geiger's Juedische Zeitschrift fuer Wissenschaft und Leben. Apart from studies such as L'Israelitismo Moderno (1865), he wrote mostly on the history of Jews in Italy, biographies, and on Italian Jewish literature. One of his works on the soncino family (Dei Soncini celebri tipografi italiani…, 1878) includes a list of books they printed. Soave corresponded with major Jewish scholars of his time, among them S.D. Luzzatto, E. Renan, and M. Steinschneider. -BIBLIOGRAPHY: M. Coen Porto, in: Vesillo Israelitico, 51 (1883), 22–24; G. Gabrieli, Italia Judaica (1924), index; I. Luzzato, Catalogo Ragionato… (1881), index. (Alfredo Mordechai Rabello)