| Jacob Pinkerfield | |
| Birth Date: | 1897 |
| Birth Place: | Przemyśl, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Poland) |
| Death Date: | 23 September 1956 (aged 58–59) |
| Death Place: | Ramat Rachel, Jerusalem District, Israel |
| Death Cause: | Murdered by Jordanian soldiers in the Ramat Rachel shooting attack |
| Native Name Lang: | he |
| Alma Mater: | Vienna University of Technology |
Jacob Pinkerfield (he|יעקב פינקרפלד; 1897 – 23 September 1956) was an Israeli archaeologist and architect.
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.
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.[1]
He worked on excavations at, which Nelson Glueck at the time had mistakenly identified as Solomon's Ezion-geber,[2] 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.[3]
Pinkerfeld was one of the four Israeli archaeologists killed by Jordanian soldiers in the Ramat Rachel shooting attack on 23 September 1956.[3]