A Doctor’s Lectures

Mordechai Borochov

1913

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The Ḥaydakim [Bacteria]1 and Their Characteristics

[ . . . ] There are grounds for thinking that, apart from the absence of alcoholism, there are also race factors among Jews that play a certain role in the body’s battle against tuberculosis. Tuberculosis is not so common among uncivilized people, such as Negroes and Native Americans. But when these…

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Mordechai Borochov

1882–1959

Born in Maišiagala (Polish: Mejszagoła), near Vilna, Mordechai Borochov received a traditional education that included study at the Telz Yeshiva. After yeshiva, he studied at a gymnasium and then at universities in Basel, Bern, and Zurich, obtaining his medical degree in 1910. After two years in Berlin, Borochov immigrated to Palestine, where he was associated with the Herzliya Gymnasium. During World War I, he served in the Ottoman Army. After the war, he worked at Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem, and in 1929 he directed the first school in Mandatory Palestine for students with mental disabilities. Borochov wrote extensively on medicine and human development both in Hebrew scholarly journals and in the Yishuv’s popular press.

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