Abūn ben Tsedakah

Abūn ben Tsedakah was a merchant living in Jerusalem during the mid- to late eleventh century. He was a frequent correspondent of Abū Yaḥya Nahray ben Nissim, a commercial and communal leader of the Jewish community of Fustāt (Old Cairo). Abūn’s letters record information about the trading situation in and around the medieval Mediterranean, his own connections to Sicilian Jewish communities, and the characteristics of Jerusalem’s Jewish neighborhoods. He seems to have been related to some of the geonim of his day, but the precise relationships remain uncertain.