Moses Cohen Belinfante

Moses Cohen Belinfante (משה בן צדיק הכהן בלינפנטי; 24 September 1761 – 29 June 1827) was a Dutch journalist, translator, and schoolbook writer.

Biography
Moses Cohen Belinfante was born in The Hague in 1761, the descendent of Sephardic Jews who fled Portugal during the reign of John III in 1526. His father Saddik, a cousin of Isaac Cohen Belinfante, was Chief Rabbi of the Portuguese community in Amsterdam. When he was fourteen, Belinfante was sent to Copenhagen to study medicine under his great-uncle Salomo Theophilus de Meza, but remained there only a year. He married Angela Sarah Monteira in May 1784, with whom he had three children, none of whom lived past the age of eight.

Belinfante succeeded his father as principal of the Portuguese Jewish community school after the latter's death in 1786, a position he held until his dismissal in 1795. With his brother Jacob, he founded the bookshop and publishing house Belinfante and Company in 1802. He started in 1806 the first Dutch Jewish paper, devoted especially to the interests of the Jewish community of Amsterdam. This paper was, however, discontinued in 1808.

Belinfante was a strong advocate for Jewish emancipation in the Netherlands.

Publications

 * Portuguese Jewish prayer books, translated into Dutch in collaboration with T. Saruco.
 * Textbook for children.
 * A translation from Hebrew into Dutch of Shalom Cohen's Hebrew catechism Shorashe Emunah.
 * A Hebrew reader, recast from Moses Philippson's German work, with a Dutch translation and additions.
 * A translation from Hebrew into Dutch of Shalom Cohen's Hebrew catechism Shorashe Emunah.
 * A Hebrew reader, recast from Moses Philippson's German work, with a Dutch translation and additions.
 * A translation from Hebrew into Dutch of Shalom Cohen's Hebrew catechism Shorashe Emunah.
 * A Hebrew reader, recast from Moses Philippson's German work, with a Dutch translation and additions.
 * A Hebrew reader, recast from Moses Philippson's German work, with a Dutch translation and additions.
 * A Hebrew reader, recast from Moses Philippson's German work, with a Dutch translation and additions.