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THE JEWISH ENCYCLOPEDIA

Belkovsky

Jews in Cochin are sometimes called "Jerusalem Jews" ("Jiid. Lit.-Blatt," xix. No. 25, p. 95; "Jewish Quarterly Review," 23). The same chronicle mentions a Hayyim Belilla (hazan), who had come

Belinfante, a fugitive from Portugal to Turkey in 1526. The family included a number of writers and divines, the most eminent of the latter being Zaddik Cohen Belinfante, chief rabbi of Amsterdam toward

from Safed.

the end of the eighteenth century. The annexed sketch-pedigree gives the chief members of the family up to the beginning of the nineteenth century.

i.

Bibliography p. 106



Kayserling. Oesch. der Juden in Portugal, Schechter, in Jewish Quarterly Review, vi. 143.

G.

J.

BELIN

ELIJAH BEN MOSES

BLIN),

(or

German commentator and liturgical poet of the fifteenth century. He was rabbi, cantor, and teacher of Talmud and Rabbinic literature at AVorms, 1490.

Bibliography

Bibliography No. 367 L. G.





Brill, in

Bet Ozar

Michael, Or ha-Sifrut, i. 31, 33. p. 107



lia-Haymm,

BEN

BLIN), ELIJAH

(or

German Talmudist; died

II.:

at

Worms

Feb. 26, 1587, having taken an active part in the

Jewish community in that city. A manuscript copy is extant (Neubauer, "Cat. Bodl. Hebr. MSS." No. 2184) of a disputation in the form of question and answer which Belin had with Naphtali Herz ben Gersom of Worms. The controversy dates from 5338 (= 1578), and is partly transcribed in Judoso-Germau. affairs of the

Bibliography



Kaufmann, R. Jair Chajjim Baeharaeh,

etc.,

p. 15.

25, 1881.

BELINFANTE, ISAAC COHEN



Poet and

the great synagogue 'Ez Hayyim, Amsterdam; died in that city Sept. 7, 1781; son of In an approbation to the Elijah Cohen Belinfante. work " Dibre David " he enumerates the following political works written by him which are still extant in manuscript in the Bodleian Library (Nos. 5 and 6 of the old Michael collection) and in the Montesinos " Shefer Tehillim " (The library at Amsterdam (1) Beauty of the Psalms), poems on the preachers of

preacher at



Amsterdam



(2) "

'AteretPaz

(The Golden Crown),

"

=

a collection of 87 satirical poems (" Paz " 87) (3) " Berit Kehunat Yizhak " (Alliance of the Priesthood " Abne of Isaac), poems in honor of his friends (4) Segullah " (Precious Stones), a collection of poems dedicated to some fellow-writers; (5) "Siah Yizhak" (The Prayer of Isaac), a catalogue of printed books and manuscripts, with extracts and biographical notes on the authors, especially the Spanish and Por;

tuguese Jewish writers of London and Amsterdam. A specimen of his work was published by Gabriel Polakin "Ha-Maggid," 1869, Nos. 10, 11. Belinfante's printed

works

are:

(1)

"MinhatNe-

dabah " (A Free Offering), a poem in honor of the poet David Franco Mendes (Amsterdam, 1764) (2) " Gilah we-Ranen " (Joy and Singing), an epithalamium (Amsterdam, 1777) (3) " Kinah" (Lamentation), elegies on the destruction of the Temple, inserted in the prayer-book " Mishmerot ha-Layelah " (Amsterdam, 1768); (4) two sermons in Portuguese, "Sermao do Nada Moral " (Amsterdam, 1761) " Sermao Moral Sobre o Temor Heroyco " (Amsterdam, 1767) and



L. G.

I.

BER.

BELINFANTE FAMILY A Sephardic

ish family

Feb.



BeR.

I.

BELIN MOSES

Zunz, L. G.

American Hebrew,

J.

I.:

According to Zunz, he lived before this at Bingenon-the-Rhine. Belin wrote a supercommentary on Rashi's commentary on the Pentateuch; and Simon Aschenburg incorporated some of his explanations into his own compilation and supercommentary " Debek Tob " (Venice, 1588), mentioning the fact in the preface. In the collection of manuscripts at the Bodleian Library, Oxford (Neubauer, " Cat. Bodl. Hebr. MSS." No. 672), there are three Hebrew poems by Belin.



who

trace their ancestry to Joseph

JewCohen



Joseph Cohen Belinfante



a number of Hebrew odes (" shirim "), which are printed in other works written and published at

Mei'r I

Joseph,

Amsterdam.

about 1596

fl.

From one of his poems, "Kinyan Torah" (The Possession of the Law), it appears that Belinfante

Cohen Belintante,

Mei'r

" Sofer " at Spalatro, Dalmatia

wrote Joseph,

Hazan

on Talmud, grammar, ethics,

and philosophy.

He

revised the prayer-

book of the Sephardic rite printed at Amsterdam, 1726, by S. Rodrigues Mendes, and other works

Me'ir=Reina Aben Danon, d. 1721 in

many works

cabala,

at Belgrade, Servia

Amsterdam

printed in that city. Bibliography: Fuenn, Keneset Yisrael, p. 596 Ha-Karmel, vi., No. 32 Ha-Maggid, 1869, Nos. 10, 11 Kayserling, BOA. Espan.-Portug.-Jud. pp. 26, 31, 90 M. Roest, Bet ha-Sefer, p. 350, Amsterdam. 1868 Fiirst, BiN. Jud. i. 99 Catalog der Rosenthal schen Bibliothek, i. 284 (list of occasional

I





Zaddik. 1675-1750

Joseph, fl.





1678



.

.



.

poems).

b.

I

Isaac, d. 1780,

Amsterdam

— Zaddik,

I.

Moses Cohen,

Elijah Hezekiah, 1699= Rachel da Costa, London

at



Zaddik

and writer of school-books; born at The Hague Sept. 24, 1761 died there June 29, 1837. He founded in 1806 the first Judaso-Duteh paper,

lator,

Cohen Belinfante,

d. 1804,

chief rabbi,

London



Amsterdam, b. 1733, d. 1786

Moses Cohen

Jacob Cohen

Belinfante,

Belinfante

b. 1761, d. 1807

Br.

BELINFANTE, MOSES BEN ?ADDIK: HA-KOHEN A Juda»-Dutch journalist, trans-

The Hague

" Sulamith, " devoted especially to the interests of the Jewish community of Amsterdam. This paper was, however, discontinued in 1808. Belinfante published the following works: (1) " Israeli tischer Almanach,"