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Year 2023 marked 120 years of the Lazarus Jewish Hospital in Lviv (Lww/Lemberg).This richly illustrated book is a tribute to its place in the once-vibrant Jewishcommunity of the city and in the society at large during the period 1903-1939.Visionaries from LvivLazarus, with the background of the Jewish life in Lviv. The volume also details the history of medicine and medical education in HabsburgGalicia prior to the hospital's founding, Jewish access to the medical profession, andthe impact of Jewish doctors on the path to modernity. It also shows the struggle ofwomen to become doctors. A moving and timely book with contributions fromleading historians, scholars, and medical professionals,Visionaries from Lvivperson's dream and commitment can impact the lives of so many. This publication was made possible with support from Furthermore: a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund and Gesher Galicia.

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“This book is much more than the simple story of a building and institution. The text—augmented by a wealth of wonderful illustrations—plunges the reader into the vivid maelstrom of the multifaceted Jewish society that grew up and gave birth to one of the few surviving physical monuments of prewar Jewish Lviv. We meet extraordinary individuals stretching back centuries, key among them Maurycy Lazarus, the hospital’s founder, a banker, businessman, politician, and philanthropist whose extended family encapsulated the intensely varied currents of a brutally vanished world.” —Ruth Ellen Gruber, Director of Jewish Heritage Europe “This moving and timely book describes the establishment and history of the Lazarus Jewish Hospital in Lviv (Lwów/Lemberg). Founded in 1898 by a prominent local Jewish philanthropist, Maurycy Lazarus, it was one of the most modern hospitals in Habsburg Galicia and served both the Jewish community and the larger society until the outbreak of war in 1939. It still exists and today houses a municipal maternity hospital. With contributions from four authors, the book provides a clear picture of the importance of the hospital, its history and architecture, and of the medical staff who served in it. It also depicts what preceded its establishment—the state of medicine and medical education in Galicia, Jewish access to the medical profession there, as well as the struggle of Jewish women to become doctors. It is essential reading for all those interested in the history of East-Central Europe and of the role of Jews in medicine in this area.”  —Antony Polonsky, Emeritus Professor of Holocaust Studies, Brandeis University, Chief Historian, Global Education Outreach Project, Museum of Polish Jews in Warsaw “A collection of well-documented chapters presents the fascinating history of a Jewish community coping with the challenges of modernity in a multiethnic environment. The Jewish hospital building was a “product of the minds of a Jewish philanthropist, Ukrainian master builder, and a Polish architect with very different political views.” Its story demonstrates how Jewish doctors and businessmen, along with other members of the multiethnic society of Lviv, played a significant part in the development of science, welfare, and culture in Lviv. It is an important contribution to the history of medicine in eastern Europe and an exciting memorial to a Jewish world that was destroyed in the Holocaust.” —Israel Bartal, Emeritus Professor of Modern Jewish History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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Ewa Herbst, PhDown research and development firm. In addition to publications in her area of research and several patents, she is the author of the bookDokument podry(Travel Document""Herman Diamand-on the 90th Anniversary of His Death"" (Kwartalnik Historii ydw / Jewish History Quarterly, 287, no. 3 [2023]), an article about her great-uncle, one of the leading Galician and Polish politicians. Anna Jakimyszyn-Gadocha, Dr. habil.(Institute of Jewish Studies, Jagiellonian University, Krakw) is a historian and a specialist in Judaic studies, and author of the following books:ydzi krakowscy w dobie Rzeczypospolitej Krakowskiej. Status prawny. Przeobraenia gminy. System edukacyjny(2008),Mykwa. Dzieje ydowskiej ani rytualnej przy ul. Szerokiej w Krakowie(2012),Yiddish-English-Polish Dictionary(2016),W trosce o zdrowie ydowskiej spoecznoci Lwowa(19181939)(2021), and numerous articles. She is also the translator ofStatut krakowskiej gminy ydowskiej z 1595 roku i jego uzupenienia(2005). She is the co-editor of Mamre de-Polin. Ksiga jubileuszowa dedykowana Profesorowi Edwardowi Dbrowie(2021) and of Anna Rutkowski's Polish translation ofMemoirs of Glickl of Hammeln(Glikl. Siedem ksig. Pamitniki z lat 16911719)(2021). Sergey R. Kravtsov, PhDis the author ofDi Gildene Royze: The Turei Zahav Synagogue in L'viv(2011) andIn theShadow of Empires: Synagogue Architecture in East Central Europeof Synagogues in Lithuania: A Catalogue (20102012) andSynagogues in Ukraine: Volhyniaco-edited three books. Andrew Zalewski, MDUniversity in Philadelphia. He has authored two books on Austrian Galicia:Galician Trails:The Forgotten Story of One Family(2012) andGalician Portraits: In Search of Jewish Rootsin Galicia. Dr. Zalewski is a frequent speaker at cultural and academic institutions in the US andabroad. His Gratz College course on the Jews of Galicia examines the internal and externalforces behind the Jewish path to modernity. Unique archival records provide the background for his in-depth description of multiethnic Galicia.

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