PONTREMOLI, BENJAMIN:
By: Isidore Singer, M. Franco
Turkish rabbinical writer; lived at Smyrna at the end of the eighteenth century. He was the author of a work entitled "Shebeṭ Binyamin" (Salonica, 1824), on drawing up commercial papers. He had two sons, Ḥayyim Isaiah and Ḥiyya.
Bibliography:
- Hazan, Ha-Ma'alot li-Shelomoh, pp. 31, 95;
- Franco, Histoire des Israélites de l'Empire Ottoman, p. 266.
