PONTREMOLI, ḤIYYA:
By: Isidore Singer, M. Franco
Turkish rabbinical author; died at Smyrna in 1832; son of Benjamin Pontremoli. Ḥiyya Pontremoli wrote, among other works, the "Ẓappiḥit bi-Debash," a collection of responsa on Oraḥ Ḥayyim.
Bibliography:
- Hazan, Ha-Ma'alot li-Shelomoh, pp. 31, 85;
- Franco, Histoire des Israélites de l'Empire Ottoman, p. 268.
