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Jacob Pinkerfeld, also spelled Pinkerfield (1897–1956) ( he, יעקב פינקרפלד) was an Israeli archaeologist and architect.
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Jacob Pinkerfeld - 1897-1956
a concise, but detailed biography at Bauhaus.co.il (accessed April 2020) * :he:יעקב פינקרפלד, Jacob Pinkerfeld page on Hebrew Wikipedia
List of works by Jacob Pinkerfeld in the National Library of Israel catalog
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Jacob Pinkerfeld, also spelled Pinkerfield (1897–1956) ( he, יעקב פינקרפלד) was an Israeli archaeologist and architect.
Biography
Jacob Pinkerfeld was born in the city of Przemysl, Galicia, Poland in 1897, the son of an architect. He joined theHashomer Hatzair
Hashomer Hatzair ( he, הַשׁוֹמֵר הַצָעִיר, , ''The Young Guard'') is a Labor Zionist, secular Jewish youth movement founded in 1913 in the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Austria-Hungary, and it was also the name of the group ...
youth movement and later studied architecture at the College of Technology in Vienna
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, Austria
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. Pinkerfeld moved to the Land of Israel
The Land of Israel () is the traditional Jewish name for an area of the Southern Levant. Related biblical, religious and historical English terms include the Land of Canaan, the Promised Land, the Holy Land, and Palestine (see also Isra ...
with Hashomer Hatzair in 1920 and lived in Zichron Ya'acov
Zikhron Ya'akov ( he, זִכְרוֹן יַעֲקֹב, ''lit.'' "Jacob's Memorial"; often shortened to just ''Zikhron'') is a town in Israel, south of Haifa, and part of the Haifa District. It is located at the southern end of the Carmel mounta ...
. He returned to Europe to recover from malaria and pneumonia, after which he graduated university as an engineer-architect in 1925. That year, Pinkerfeld moved back to the Land of Israel.
Architecture and Jewish art research
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 untimely death.Archaeology career
He worked on excavations at :de:Tell el-Kheleifeh, whichNelson Glueck
Nelson Glueck (June 4, 1900 – February 12, 1971) was an American rabbi, academic and archaeologist. He served as president of Hebrew Union College from 1947 until his death, and his pioneering work in biblical archaeology resulted in the disco ...
at the time had mistakenly identified as Solomon
Solomon (; , ),, ; ar, سُلَيْمَان, ', , ; el, Σολομών, ; la, Salomon also called Jedidiah (Hebrew language, Hebrew: , Modern Hebrew, Modern: , Tiberian Hebrew, Tiberian: ''Yăḏīḏăyāh'', "beloved of Yahweh, Yah"), ...
's Ezion-geber
Ezion-Geber ( Ancient: ''Ġeṣyōn Geḇer''; also Asiongaber) is a city only known from the Hebrew Bible, in Idumea, a seaport on the northern extremity of the Gulf of Aqaba, in modern terms somewhere in the area of modern Aqaba and Eilat.
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, and at the putative site of the Church of Zion on Mount Zion
Mount Zion ( he, הַר צִיּוֹן, ''Har Ṣīyyōn''; ar, جبل صهيون, ''Jabal Sahyoun'') is a hill in Jerusalem, located just outside the walls of the Old City (Jerusalem), Old City. The term Mount Zion has been used in the Hebrew ...
in Jerusalem
Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...
, his findings forming the basis of Bargil Pixner
Bargil Pixner (March 23, 1921 – April 5, 2002) was an ethnically German Italian-American monk of the Order of Saint Benedict, Biblical scholar and archaeologist, and commentator on the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Biography
Pixner was born in 192 ...
's thesis of a pre- Crusader Jewish-Christian
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church on the site. Pinkerfeld was one of the four archaeologists killed in the Ramat Rachel shooting attack
The Ramat Rachel shooting attack was a mass shooting carried out by Jordanian Legion soldiers, on 23 September 1956, who opened fire across the Israel/Jordan border on a group of Israeli archaeologists working inside Israeli sovereign territory ...
on September 23, 1956.''Israel Rejects Jordan's Claim Madman Killed 3'', Meriden Journal, 24 September 1956, accessed 16 August 2016/ref>
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''.References
External links
Jacob Pinkerfeld - 1897-1956
a concise, but detailed biography at Bauhaus.co.il (accessed April 2020) * :he:יעקב פינקרפלד, Jacob Pinkerfeld page on Hebrew Wikipedia
List of works by Jacob Pinkerfeld in the National Library of Israel catalog
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