Creator Bio
Meir Cohen Belinfante
18th Century
Meir Cohen Belinfante was a scribe in Amsterdam in the eighteenth century.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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De Pinto Psalter
This decorated psalter was made for Aaron de Joseph de Pinto, a member of the prominent Portuguese Jewish family in Amsterdam. It is a manuscript, copied from a print edition done by David de Castro…
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Moses Belinfante’s Handwritten Psalms in 18th-Century Barbados
Rabbi Moses Cohen Belinfante of Barbados hand-copied the Book of Psalms in 1742, creating a unique manuscript instead of using printed Hebrew or Spanish editions.
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Jewish Printing and Book Culture
1500–1750
Jewish printing unified far-flung communities by standardizing religious texts, created textual uniformity, and enabled vernacular translations, and facilitated the spread of Jewish texts and knowledge.