Pichon (Pitchon), Joseph

Rabbinical author; lived in Turkey at the end of the seventeenth century. He was the author of "Minhage ha-Bediḳah be-'Ir Saloniḳi," a work relating to the method which was followed of making meat kasher in the slaughter-house at Salonica.

Bibliography:

  * Azulai, Shem ha-Gedolim, s.v.;
  * Franco, Histoire des Israélites de l'Empire Ottoman, p. 125, Paris, 1897.



S. M. Fr.