Volume of correspondence. With correspondents across the world from Poland, to India, to America, to Eretz Israel. Autograph manuscript in Hebrew

CUENQUE, BENZION

Jerusalem

1899-1900

Sephardic cursive script

R. Benzion Cuenque (1866-1936), Av-Beth Din of the Sephardic community of Jerusalem, was the editor of the important rabbinic journal "Ha-Me'assef," which published contributions from Aschkenazic and Sephardic rabbis from across the globe. Ha-Me'assef appeared in Jerusalem from 1896-1914, publication ceased with the outbreak of World War One. Cuenque authored a volume of halachic responsa, Tzedakah u-Mishpat (Jerusalem, 1926). See Frumkin and Rivlin, Toldoth Chachmei Yerushalayim (1929), Vol. II, pp. 217, 295; S. Vanunu, Arzei ha-Levanon (2006), Vol. I, pp. 355-6. For the most part, the letters pertain to the rabbis' subscriptions to the journal. Follows a partial list of addresees: Jeruchem Meir Leiner (Radzyn). * Moshe Chaim Rabinowitz (Brownsville). * David Ginzburg (Rochester). * Nathan Adler (London). * Rachamim Joseph Franco (Hebron). * Ezekiel Sasoon (Calcutta). * Yosef Chaim (Baghdad. Author of Ben Ish Chai. * Jacob Elijah and Rachel Sasoon (Bombay). * Chaim Chekeziah Medini (Hebron. Author of Sedei Chemed. * Moshe Katz (Nitra). * Isaac Morelli (Algier). * Judah David Eisenstein (New York)