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Jacob Pinkerfield (Hebrew: יעקב פינקרפלד; 1897 – 23 September 1956) was an Israeli archaeologist and architect.
Biography
Pinkerfeld was born in Przemyśl, modern-day Poland, in 1897. He joined Hashomer Hatzair in his youth and later studied architecture at the College of Technology in the city of Vienna. In 1920, Pinkerfeld briefly moved to Mandatory Palestine, where he lived with the Yishuv in Zikhron Ya'akov. He later moved back to Europe to recover from malaria and pneumonia, and soon graduated as an engineer-architect in 1925. That year, Pinkerfeld made aliyah.
= Architecture
=Pinkerfeld worked as an architect and designer, building a large number of public structures. According to the Artlog website, "his dream was to establish a Research Institute for Jewish Art. Together with a group of friends he founded "Ganza", the Society for Jewish Craft, which later became the Museum of Ethnography and Folklore in Tel Aviv, and acted as its Director from 1950 until his death.
= Archaeology
=He worked on excavations at de:Tell el-Kheleifeh, which Nelson Glueck at the time had mistakenly identified as Solomon's Ezion-geber, and at the putative site of the Church of Zion on Mount Zion in Jerusalem, his findings forming the basis of Bargil Pixner's thesis of a pre-Crusader Jewish-Christian church on the site.
Death
Pinkerfeld was one of the four Israeli archaeologists killed by Jordanian soldiers in the Ramat Rachel shooting attack on 23 September 1956.
Published works
The Synagogues of Eretz YIsrael. (Hebrew) Rabbi Kook Institute (1945/1946)
The Synagogues of Italy. (Hebrew) Bialik Institute; (1954)
Bishvili Omanut Yehudit: Sefer Zichron (Hebrew) (1957)
The Synagogues of North Africa. (Hebrew) Bialik Institute (1974)
Jerusalem: Synagogues and the Karaite Community.
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References
External links
Jacob Pinkerfeld - 1897-1956, a concise, but detailed biography at Bauhaus.co.il (accessed April 2020)
Jacob Pinkerfeld page on Hebrew Wikipedia
List of works by Jacob Pinkerfeld in the National Library of Israel catalog
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Jacob Pinkerfield
- Mar Elias Monastery
- Tomb of Jesse and Ruth
- Church of Zion, Jerusalem
- David's Tomb
- 1961 in poetry
