 Judah Beer was a leader of the Berlin Jewish community and maintained a private synagogue in his house which leaned towards <unk> views . Jacob Beer wrote an early <unk> for performance at this synagogue . Both Judah <unk> Beer and his wife were close to the Prussian court ; when <unk> was awarded in 1816 the Order of Louise , she was given , by Royal dispensation , not the traditional Cross but a portrait bust of the Queen . The Beer children were provided with a fine education ; their tutors included two of the leaders of the enlightened Jewish intelligentsia , the author Aaron Halle @-@ <unk> and Edmund <unk> , ( later a reform movement rabbi in Hamburg ) to whom they remained attached into their maturity . The brothers Alexander von Humboldt , the renowned naturalist , geographer and explorer , and the philosopher , linguist and diplomat Wilhelm von Humboldt were close friends of the family circle . 
