Isaac Ben Ḥayyim Ben Abraham Ha-Kohen:

By: Solomon Schechter , Isaac Broydé

Italian exegete; lived successively at Bologna, Jesi, Recanati, and Rome, in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. He was the author of the following works: (1) a commentary on the Song of Songs, on Lamentations, and on the Sayings of the Fathers, extant in manuscript ("Al- manzi," p. 71); (2) a commentary on Esther, mentioned by Alḳabiẓ in "Monot ha-Levi"; (3) sermons and a series of didactic verses, fragments of which have been preserved ("Almanzi," p. 71).