Given name: Jechiel Family name: Kornfeld

55 years old, died. Long standing owner and headmaster of the elementary schools in Warsaw, former chairman of the association of owners of private elementary schools in old-time Poland. Outstanding pedagogue, educational activist and initiator of a new type of Jewish education. In the field of Jewish education, he combined progress with tradition, created a type of religious school, where young people acquired Yiddish, Hebrew and attachment to Jewish traditions and cultural goods, without any loss in the field of secular sciences.