Isaac Cohen Belinfante (Hebrew: יצחק בן אליהו חזקיהו הכהן בלינפנטי, romanized: Yitzḥak ben Eliyahu Ḥizkiyahu ha-Kohen Belinfanti; c. 1720 – 7 September 1781) was poet, bibliophile, and darshan in Amsterdam.
He traced his ancestry to Joseph Cohen Belinfante, a fugitive from Portugal to Turkey in 1526.
[3] Among his works which remained in manuscript are Shefer Tehillim ('The Beauty of the Psalms'), poems on the preachers of Amsterdam; Ateret Paz ('The Golden Crown'), a collection of 87 satirical poems; Berit Kehunat Yitzḥak ('Alliance of the Priesthood of Isaac'), poems in honour of his friends; Avne Segullah ('Precious Stones'), a collection of poems dedicated to some fellow writers; Siaḥ Yitzḥak ('The Prayer of Isaac'), a catalogue of printed books and manuscripts, with extracts and biographical notes on the authors, especially the Spanish and Portuguese Jewish writers of London and Amsterdam.
A specimen of his work was published by Gabriel Polak [Wikidata] in Ha-Maggid (1869, nos.
[3] From one of his poems, Kinyan Torah ('The Possession of the Law'), it appears that Belinfante wrote many works on Talmud, grammar, ethics, Kabbalah, and philosophy.