Gorfinkel Simon (1905)

Gorfinkel Simon (23 September 1905, Riga – date of death unknown) — educator.

Simon Gorfinkel studied at the Riga Private Gymnasium and Real School of Ya. Landau, and graduated in 1922 from the Riga City Jewish Gymnasium. In the summer of that same year, he completed the State Summer Pedagogical Courses and began work as acting teacher of Yiddish, Hebrew, and Jewish history at the City Jewish School in Subate.

He pursued further studies in Switzerland at the University of Basel, Faculty of Philosophy.

In 1927, he began teaching at the Riga Private Gymnasium and Real School of Y.L. Landau. From 1 August 1932, he became owner and principal of the S. Gorfinkel Private Jewish Primary and Secondary School in Riga.

In October 1940, he was granted official certification as a full-fledged teacher. According to the Certification Commission for Teachers of the Ministry of Education, in the 1940/41 academic year he was authorised to teach Yiddish at the State Pedagogical Institute in Rezekne, as well as Yiddish and Jewish history at the Rezekne State Jewish Secondary School.