Aron Brand-Auraban born in Ozorków

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, Poland

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, was an Israeli pediatric cardiologist. He served as chairman of the Israel Medical Association

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 in Jerusalem, Israel

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, and founded the Jerusalem Academy of Medicine.

Brand grew up in Koło, where he attended heder and the Jewish gymnasium. In 1925, his father Natan a fervent Zionist

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, sent him to Palestine to study at Gymnasia Herzliya in Tel Aviv

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. In 1928, he studied philosophy and Jewish studies

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 in Berlin.

In 1935, Brand completed his doctoral thesis in the Friedrich-Wilhelms university of Berlin

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.

In the summer of 1939, Brand returned to Poland and married Esther Malka (Mala) née Aurbach, of Przedecz

Przedecz

Przedecz is a town in Koło County in the Greater Poland Voivodeship of Poland, with 1,779 inhabitants . It is situated west of Central Poland, midway between Chodecz and Kłodawa. It is about northwest of Łódź, west of Warsaw and east of Poznań. The southeast side of Przedecz borders on Lake...

. By a stroke of luck, they left Poland one day before the Nazis invaded. At the time, Brand was a teacher at the Ma'aleh School in Jerusalem. The couple had three sons, Avraham, Natan

Natan Brand

Natan Brand was an Israeli classical pianist.-Biography:Brand was the son of a doctor, Aron Brand, and his wife, Mala, who immigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1939. The family settled in Jerusalem. Brand began his studies as a child prodigy at the age of seven, with Haim Alexander at the Rubin...

 and Haim.

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. In 1969-1970, he was a visiting associate professor of pediatrics at Harvard College

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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

Henrietta Szold

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 Prize for his contribution to public health.

Commemoration

Rehov Aron Brand, a street in the Har Nof

Har Nof

Har Nof is a neighborhood on a hillside on the western boundary of Jerusalem, Israel, with a population of 20,000 residents, primarily Orthodox Jews.-History:...

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, 9
• 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. . Wingate Institute. 1976. 104 pp.