Moshe Prywes
{{Short description|Polish-Israeli physician and educator}}
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Moshe Prywes ({{Langx|he|משה פריבס}}; January 3, 1914 - March 1998) was a Polish-Israeli physician and educator. He was the first President of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (1973-1975).
Biography
Prywes was born in Warsaw, Poland.{{cite web|url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/prywes-moshe|title=Prywes, Moshe|publisher=Jewish Virtual Library}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l9MuAQAAIAAJ&q=Moshe+Prywes|title=Encyclopaedia Judaica: Year book|date= 1982|publisher=Encyclopaedia Judaica|via=Google Books}} He studied medicine for two years at the University of Tours in France, and graduated from the University of Warsaw in 1939.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1uMg048oX_IC&q=Moshe+Prywes+warsaw&pg=PA30|title=Safe Among the Germans: Liberated Jews After World War II|first=Ruth|last=Gay|date= 2008|publisher=Yale University Press|via=Google Books|isbn=9780300133127}}
After the outbreak of World War II and the German invasion of Poland, Prywes was drafted into the Polish army as a physician-officer in 1939. He was taken captive by the Russians and sent to a labor camp in Siberia where he was kept from 1940 to 1945. From 1945–46, he was head of surgery in the Kherson hospital in Ukraine. Next, he became a chief assistant in the department of surgery, University Hospital, Gdańsk, Poland. He emigrated to France and from 1947-51 was director of the Œuvre de secours aux enfants (OSE) Jewish Health Organization in Paris. In 1962 he was awarded a Knight of the French Legion of Honor.
In 1951 Prywes immigrated to Israel, joined the Hebrew University faculty in Jerusalem, and was one of the founders of the medical school, where he served as a Dean of secondary education and Head of the Department of Medical Education.{{cite web|url=https://in.bgu.ac.il/en/fohs/PrywesCenter/Pages/AboutUs.aspx|title=The Moshe Prywes Center for Medical Education - About Us|website=in.bgu.ac.il}} When Ben-Gurion University was founded in the Negev, he served as its first president from 1973 to 1975, succeeded by Yosef Tekoah.{{cite web|url=https://in.bgu.ac.il/en/Pages/management/Former_Presidents.aspx |title=Ben-Gurion University of the Negev - Former Presidents |publisher=In.bgu.ac.il |date= |access-date=2020-02-19}} In 1973 he established a medical school, the Center of Health Services of the Ben Gurion University of the Negev, where medical studies were combined with the treatment of community clinics at all stages of the study.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ol8rAAAAYAAJ&q=Moshe+Prywes&pg=PA326|title=Medical Education and Societal Needs: A Planning Report for the Health Professions: Report of a Study|date=1983|publisher=National Academies|isbn=9780309077576|via=Google Books}} He was the first Dean of the school.
In 1990 he was awarded the Israel Prize in Life Sciences. After retiring from work in Beersheba, Prywes returned to Jerusalem and served until his death as editor of the English medical journal Israel Journal of Medical Sciences.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aB0r5xX7dZwC&q=Moshe+Prywes&pg=PA8|title=מקאלה' פי ביאן בעד אל-עראצ' ואלג'ואב....|first1=Moses|last1=Maimonides|first2=Abū ʿImrān Mūsā b ʿUbayd Ibn|last2=Maymūn|date=1974|publisher=University of California Press|via=Google Books|isbn=9780520022249}}{{Cite journal|title=Moshe Prywes, editor-in chief of the Israel Journal of Medical Sciences--laureate of the Israel prize for medicine. The Israel Journal of Medical Sciences celebrates its 25th anniversary|date=May 7, 1990|journal=Israel Journal of Medical Sciences|volume=26|issue=5|pages=241–242|pmid=2199403}} He was a member of the World Health Organization (WHO). In 1995, he was awarded the Ben-Gurion Foundation's Ben Gurion Prize.
Prywes published his autobiography Prisoner of Hope in English in 1996.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VLhtAAAAMAAJ|title=Prisoner of hope|first1=Moshe|last1=Prywes|first2=Haim|last2=Chertok|date=1996|publisher=Published by University Press of New England [for] Brandeis University Press|isbn=9780874516531|via=Google Books}}
He was married to dentist Isabelle Priwes who died in 1965 and later to nurse Raquela Levy Brzezinski Prywes who died in 1985.
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Category:Academic staff of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Category:University of Tours alumni
Category:University of Warsaw alumni
Category:Polish emigrants to Israel
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Category:Israel Prize in life sciences recipients
Category:Presidents of universities in Israel
Category:20th-century Polish physicians
Category:Members of the National Academy of Medicine