Simon Brainin was a Russia

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n physician

Physician

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.

He graduated from the gymnasium

Gymnasium (school)

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 in Riga; studied medicine at the universities of Dorpat and Berlin

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; held the position of physician of the Jewish community of Riga; and was one of the directors of the community, the last independent Jewish "kahal

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" in Russia, until this institution was abolished by the government. He was a member of the committee of the government to investigate the rights of the Jews of the city of Riga, 1885; delegate from the government of Poltava to the rabbinical conference at St. Petersburg, 1892; and a member of the Society for the Promotion of Culture Among the Jews of Russia

Society for the Promotion of Culture among the Jews of Russia

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. In 1895 he emigrated to New York

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, where he is now (1902) a practising physician, and member of the county medical and German medical societies, of the Harlem Medical Association, and of the New York Historical Society.

Literary works

Brainin is the author of:

• "Oraḥ la-Ḥayyim", a work on popular medicine, in Hebrew, Wilna, 1883
• "Der Aerztliche Führer", Riga, 1885
• "Ueber Kefyr," Vienna
  Vienna
  Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
  
  , 1886

and many articles in various periodicals.