{{short description|Turkish rabbi and poet}} {{Infobox Jewish leader | honorific-prefix = | name = Benjamin Pontremoli | honorific-suffix = | title = | image = | caption = | synagogue = | synagogueposition = Chief rabbi of Smyrna | yeshiva = | yeshivaposition = | organisation = | organisationposition = | began = | ended = | predecessor = | successor = | rabbi = | rebbe = | kohan = | hazzan = | rank = | other_post = | birth_name = Bejamin Pontremoli | birth_date = 18th century | birth_place = Smyrna | death_date = 19th century | death_place = Smyrna | buried = | nationality = Turkish | denomination = | residence = | dynasty = Pontremoli | parents = | spouse = | children = Hiyya Pontremoli Isiah Joseph Pontremoli | occupation = Rabbi | profession = Rabbi, Poet | alma_mater = | semicha = | signature = }} '''Benjamin Pontremoli''' (Smyrna, 1740 – Smyrna, 1784) was a Turkish rabbi and poet, member of the Pontremoli dynasty.<ref>"Les Pontremoli, deux dynasties rabbiniques en Turquie et en Italie" Parigi, 1997 ([https://books.google.com/books?id=AvARAQAAIAAJ on-line])</ref>

==Biography== Benjamin Pontremoli was an important rabbi of the Turkish Jewish community in the 19th century. He was an excellent author, among his most famous works is "Shebeṭ Binyamin" (Salonica, 1824) describing the laws of finances and financial documents.<ref>«Benjamin Pontremoli». In: ''Jewish Encyclopedia'', Vol. XIX, 1888 Isidore Singer ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/12268-pontremoli-benjamin on-line])</ref> He was descended from a branch of an important family of rabbis of Italian origin who immigrated from Casale Monferrato in the seventeenth century. From the Italian branch important rabbis were born such as Rav.Eliseo Graziadio Pontremoli (Great Rabbi of Nice), Rav.Gabriel Pontremoli (Chief Rabbi of Turin), Rav.Chakam Esdra Pontremoli (Rabbi of Vercelli).<ref>"Les Pontremoli, deux dynasties rabbiniques en Turquie et en Italie" Parigi, 1997 ([https://books.google.com/books?id=AvARAQAAIAAJ on-line])</ref>

==Bibliography== *"Les Pontremoli, deux dynasties rabbiniques en Turquie et en Italie" Parigi, 1997 ([https://books.google.com/books?id=AvARAQAAIAAJ on-line]) *«Benjamin Pontremoli». In: ''Jewish Encyclopedia'', Vol. XIX, 1888 Isidore Singer ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/12268-pontremoli-benjamin on-line])

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