Savel Zimand
Savel Zimand (May 14, 1891, Iasi, Romania–1967) was a health educator, and journalist. From 1909 to 1912 he studied in Berlin, Germany attending the Friedrich Wilhelm University of Berlin 's Seminar of Oriental Languages and the Höhere Webeschule, a technical college.He left for the United States of America in 1913.[1] He was a visiting lecturer at Yale University and occasionally lectured at Harvard and Columbia universities.[2]
His father was Morris Zimand and his mother Marie Kauffman Zimand. He became a naturalised US citizen in 1919[2] In 1926 he married Gertrude Folks, the daughter of Homer Folks, who worked for the National Child Labor Committee at the time.[3]
He wrote a number of articles for The New York Times including interviews with Leon Trotsky, Mahatma Gandhi and Nadezhda Krupskaya
He died in the Columbus_Hospital, New York in December 1967.[2]
Selected publications
[edit]- 1921 Modern Social Movements
- 1926 State Capitalism in Russia
- 1928 Living India
- 1940 Your Health Center
References
[edit]- ^ "Savel Zimand papers". archives.lib.umn.edu. University of Minnesota Libaries. Retrieved 12 June 2025.
- ^ a b c "SAVEL ZIMAND,76 RAN HEALTH DRIVE; Author and Lecturer Dies-- Taught at Yale". New York Times (19 December 1967): 47. 1987.
- ^ "Gertrude Folks Zimand (1894-1966): Child Welfare Advocate and Reformer". Social Welfare History Project. Virginia Commonwealth University. 21 January 2011.