Aron Kornfeld (1795 - 1881)

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Birthplace: Goltsch Jenikau, Haus 26 , Česká republika
Death: Died in Česká republika
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About Aron Kornfeld

http://www.iajgsjewishcemeteryproject.org/czech-republic/golcuv-jenikov.html

Aron Kornfeld (2nd August 1795-27th October 1881, Golčův Jeníkov) -theologian and philosopher

    He has been recognized as one of the last classical rabbi authors in Bohemia. He organized ješiva – a talmudic school, higher level of Jewish school. Jewish rabbis, judges and teachers graduated there. But also the future businessman trained their logical thinking at this school. Some of the famous people who studied there were: Ignác Kuranda, later he became a deputy of Imperial Diet, Szanto, publisher of a popular Jewish weekly magazine Die Neuzeit and Isaak Mayer Weis-Wise, a founder of American reform Judaism. When Kornfeld died, the school(the last one of its kind in Bohemia) was closed down. He wrote a publication Poznámky ke kabale(1865)

And from the Jewish Encyclopedia: http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/9473-kornfeld-aaron

Austrian Talmudist; born Aug. 2, 1795, at Goltsch-Jenikau, Bohemia; died there Oct. 26, 1881. His only teacher was his father, Rabbi Mordecai Bär Kornfeld, head of a yeshibah, who taught him both the Talmud and the profane sciences. Kornfeld was only eighteen years old when he took over the direction of the yeshibah at his father's death. The fame of the school was so great that sometimes as many as eighty pupils were in attendance. When Sir Moses Montefiore was passing through Bohemia on his return from Damascus, he undertook the difficult journey to Goltsch-Jenikau purposely to become acquainted with the celebrated Talmudist.

In 1864, when Kornfeld suffered from an affection of the eyes and was not allowed to read until an operation had been performed, he composed from memory a compendium of 300 commandments which he skilfully clothed in the gemaṭriot of their Biblical verses. It appeared under the title "Ẓiyyunim le-Dibre ha-Ḳabbalah," Prague, 1865. Besides a short article, printed in "Shomer Ẓiyyon ha-Ne'eman," this is Kornfeld's only publication.

Bibliography: M. H. Friedländer, Das Leben und Wirken der Hervorragendsten Rabbinischen Autoritäten Prags, pp. 51-59, Vienna, 1902.

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Aron Kornfeld's Timeline

1795
August 2, 1795
Česká republika
1815
1815
Age 19
Goltsch Jenikau, Haus 10
1816
November 19, 1816
Age 21
Goltsch Jenikau, Haus 12
1821
August 9, 1821
Age 26
Vysočina, Česká republika
1824
September 24, 1824
Age 29
Goltsch Jenikau, Haus 23
1830
November 25, 1830
Age 35
Česká republika
1881
October 27, 1881
Age 86
Česká republika
October 30, 1881
Age 86
Goltsch Jenikau