Aron Brand

Aron Brand-Auraban (1910-1977), born in Ozorkow, Poland, was an Israeli pediatric cardiologist. He served as chairman of the Israel Medical Association in Jerusalem, Israel, and founded the Jerusalem Academy of Medicine.

Brand grew up in Kolo, where he attended heder and the Jewish gymnasium. In 1925, his father Ze'ev, a fervent Zionist, sent him to Palestine to study at Gymnasia Herzliya in Tel Aviv. In 1928, he studied philosophy and Jewish studies in Berlin.

In the summer of 1939, Brand returned to Poland and married Esther Malka (Mala) nee Auerbach, of Przedecz. By a stroke of luck, they left Poland the week 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 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.

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 Har Nof neighborhood of Jerusalem, is named after him.

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