Kornfeld, Joseph Saul

Kornfeld, Joseph Saul
(1876–1943)
   US rabbi and diplomat. A Reform rabbi, Kornfeld supported Warren Harding for president in the 1920 elections, and the following year he was appointed United States minister plenipotentiary to Teheran. As such he was able to intercede with the Shah on behalf of his Persian fellow-Jews. After three years of diplomacy, he returned to the rabbinate in the United States and Canada.

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