Biographical/Historical Information
The urologist and author Joseph Tenenbaum was born in Sasów, Poland (Sasiv, Ukraine) in 1887. He studied medicine in Vienna and in Lviv and then served as a military doctor in the Austrian Army during World War I. He was a delegate to the Paris Peace Conference in 1919. Tenenbaum immigrated to the U.S. in 1920, practicing Urology and being active in the American and World Federation of Polish Jews, the World Jewish Congress, the Workmen’s Circle, and the Zionist Organization of America. He also published articles, essays, speeches, and books on medical topics, Jewish issues, and the Holocaust. Joseph Tenenbaum died in New York in 1961.
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Joseph Tenenbaum, Leo Baeck Institute, F 3450.