Aron Brand-Auraban (21 February 1910 – 22 April 1977) was an Israeli pediatric cardiologist. He served as chairman of the

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Jerusalem Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...

, and founded the Jerusalem Academy of Medicine.''The Streets of Jerusalem: Who, what, why'', Ronald L. Eisenberg
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Biography

Aron Brand grew up in

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, where he attended

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and the Jewish gymnasium. His father, Natan, was a

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and miller. In 1925, his father, a fervent

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, sent him to Palestine to study at Gymnasia Herzliya in

Tel Aviv Tel Aviv-Yafo ( he, תֵּל־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ, translit=Tēl-ʾĀvīv-Yāfō ; ar, تَلّ أَبِيب – يَافَا, translit=Tall ʾAbīb-Yāfā, links=no), often referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the ...

.APF News, American Physicians Fellowship Inc. for the Israel Medical Association, Prof. Brand-Auraban of Jerusalem: A Saga of the Eternal Jew, March 1970, p.12 In 1928, he studied philosophy and Jewish studies in Berlin.Who's who in Israel and in the work for Israel abroad. Bronfman & Cohen Publications, 1973. p.75 He studied simultaneously at the University of Berlin and the Hochschule fuer die Wissenschaft des Judentums. One of his classmates at the Hochschule was

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. In 1935, Brand completed his doctoral thesis in the Friedrich-Wilhelms University of Berlin. In the summer of 1939, Brand returned to Poland and married Esther Malka (Mala) née Aurbach, of Przedecz. By a stroke of luck, they left Poland one day before the

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invaded. At the time, Brand was a teacher at the Ma'aleh School in Jerusalem. The couple had three sons, Avraham, Natan and Haim.

Medical career

In 1955, Brand founded the Jerusalem Academy of Medicine. From 1964 until his death, he headed the Pediatric Department of Bikur Cholim Hospital in Jerusalem. He was the founder of the Israel Institute for Medical History and a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics. In 1969-1970, he was a visiting associate professor of pediatrics at

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in Boston, Massachusetts. Brand published numerous articles on medicine, philosophy, literature and art, and organized hundreds of lectures and workshops open to the general public on health-related issues. In 1976, he was awarded the Henrietta Szold Prize for his contribution to public health.

Commemoration

Rehov Aron Brand, a street in the

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neighborhood of Jerusalem, is named after him.

Published works

*Mechanik von Ventilbildungen an den Brustorganen in ihren Beziehungen zum Pneumothorax. Thesis (doctoral)- Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin, 1935 (In German) *The effect of added corticosteroids on the rates of recovery from beta-hemolytic streptococci in children with rheumatic fever under penicillin prophylaxis, ''Clinical Pediatrics,'', vol. 16, 9Article on Rheumatic fever
/ref> *Some Observations on the Epidemic of Asian Influenza in Jerusalem. International record of medicine, Volume 172, Hermes Press, 1959. p. 101 *Polygot medical pocket dictionary. ha-Aḳademyah li-refuʼah bi-Yerushalayim, 1976. 308 pp. *Physical culture and medicine. ( he, תרבות הגוף והרפואה). Wingate Institute. 1976. 104 pp.
The Mysterious Illness of Moses Mendelssohn, ''Koroth'', 6:7-8 (1974), pp.421-426

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