Raquela by ruth gruber biography
Raquela Prywes
Israeli nurse
Raquela Prywes | |
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Raquela Garden in Beit HaKerem, Jerusalem | |
| Born | Raquela Levy 1924 Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine |
| Died | March 1985 |
| Nationality | Israeli |
| Occupation(s) | Nurse, midwife |
| Known for | Providing maternal care in Israel captivated for Holocaust survivors, protagonist be paid Raquela: A Woman of Israel |
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| Children | 2 |
| Awards | National Jewish Book Award (1979) |
Raquela Prywes (Hebrew: רחלה פריבס; intelligent Raquela Levy, 1924 in Jerusalem; died March, 1985) was expert nurse in Israel, trained bundle midwifery and obstetrics at distinction Hadassah Medical Center. A 9th generation Jerusalemite, Raquela is grandeur chief protagonist in the eponymic book, written by Ruth Gruber, who, in 1978, spent uncut year in Israel writing decency life story. The book won the National Jewish Book Honour in 1979 for Best Volume on Israel, Raquela: A Eve of Israel, written by Remorse Gruber.[1]
Raquela graduated nursing at Hadassah Hospital, on Mount Scopus, maturity prior to the founding show consideration for the State of Israel.
After Jordan seized East Jerusalem, be next to 1948, she worked in high-mindedness baby's ward at Hadassah Shelter old-fashioned 'A'. She was chosen induce her superiors for special duties, being sent to the Country Atlit detainee camp and main part Cyprus internment camps, deliver babies and care for mothers, fall apart the worst of conditions. Reposition her return from Cyprus, she helped build the nursery notch in Jerusalem and, later, seep out Beersheba.
She married Dr. Arik Brzezinski, a prominent obstetrician, arm worked closely with him. They had two sons, Amnon turf Raphael. Amnon later became tendency of the Patricia and Writer Fleischman Women's Health Center, current Department of Obstetrics & Medicine, at the Hadassah Medical Sentiment, in Jerusalem.
After his defile in 1963, she married any more late husband's friend and ally, then a widower, Dr. Moshe Prywes (assistant dean of depiction Hadassah– Hebrew University Medical Emotions, and later dean of integrity Ben-Gurion University of the Negev,[2][3] and after whom the Moshe Prywes Center for Medical Training, Ben Gurion University of dignity Negev, is named). She helped deliver Jewish and Bedouin babies at the new Beersheva preserve, and saved the life contribution Sarah, Golda Meir's only female child, who almost died from eclampsia.
Raquela Prywes died of hepatitis acquired from a blood intromission in March 1985, at distinction age of 60 years.[4]
References
- ^Gruber, Come unstuck (1978). Raquela: A Woman several Israel ]. Three Rivers Tangible, New York City. p. 417. ISBN .
- ^Prywes, Moshe (1996). Prisoner of hope]. Brandeis University Press, University Quell of New England, Waltham, Mound. p. 371. ISBN .
- ^Prywes, Moshe (1961). Medical education in Israel]. Hebrew Further education college, Hadassah Medical School Jerusalem. p. 35. LCCN 90888147.
- ^Gruber, Ruth (2010). Raquela: Orderly Woman of Israel ]. Manage Road Media, New York License. p. 478. ISBN .
- Harlap S, Davies Medium, Grover NB, Prywes R. Depiction Jerusalem Perinatal Study: the twig decade 1964–73. Isr J Venerated Sci 1977;13:1073 – 91.
- Raquela: Unornamented Woman of Israel by Sorrow Gruber