Jerome D. Goldfischer, M.D., died peacefully at home on February 1, 2020. A graduate of Rutgers University (1951) and NYU College of Medicine (1955), ... Jerome D. Goldfischer, M.D., died peacefully at home on February 1, 2020. A graduate of Rutgers University (1951) and NYU College of Medicine (1955), he had a long, illustrious career practicing cardiology at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center and Montefiore Hospital. He was a member of the Board of Directors of the American Heart Association, Bergen County Chapter, from 1966 until 1981 and was the Director of the Electrocardiology Department at Englewood Hospital from 1966-2004, Director of the Coronary Care Unit from 1963-1981, Chief of Cardiology from 1971-1981, and Chief of Medicine from 1981-1992. He is survived by his four daughters, Mindy Goldfischer, Robin Goldfischer Hollander and her husband Paul Hollander, Cathi Goldfischer and Marilyn Goldfischer, and his grandchildren, Jodi Beth Innerfield, Rebecca Hollander, Steven Innerfield and Rachel Hollander. Funeral to be held Monday, February 3, 2020, 11:00 at Temple Emanu-El, Closter, New Jersey. In recognition of the outstanding care he received in the last year of life from the doctors, nurses, and physical and occupational therapists at the Valley Health System, donations can be made to Valley Home Care, Paramus, New Jersey. Posted online on February 01, 2020 Published in Record and Herald News
Collector - Consent management does not appear to be set up correctly. No consent groups were found. Default true. Gutterman and Musicant Jewish Funeral Directors Jerome D. Goldfischer, M.D., died peacefully at home on February 1, 2020. A graduate of Rutgers University (1951) and NYU College of Medicine (1955), he had a long, illustrious career practicing cardiology at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center and Montefiore Hospital. He was a member of the Board of Directors of the American Heart Association, Bergen County Chapter, from 1966 until 1981 and was the Director of the Electrocardiology Department at Englewood Hospital from 1966-2004, Director of the Coronary Care Unit from 1963-1981, Chief of Cardiology from 1971-1981, and Chief of Medicine from 1981-1992. He is survived by his four daughters, Mindy Goldfischer, Robin Goldfischer Hollander and her husband Paul Hollander, Cathi Goldfischer and Marilyn Goldfischer, and his grandchildren, Jodi Beth Innerfield, Rebecca Hollander, Steven Innerfield and Rachel Hollander. Funeral to be held Monday, February 3, 2020, 11:00 at Temple Emanu-El, Closter, New Jersey. In recognition of the outstanding care he received in the last year of life from the doctors, nurses, and physical and occupational therapists at the Valley Health System, donations can be made to Valley Home Care, Paramus, New Jersey. Published by The Record/Herald News from Feb. 1 to Feb. 2, 2020. To plant trees in memory, please visit the Sympathy Store. Sponsored by Gutterman and Musicant Jewish Funeral Directors.
Grapevine Magazine NYU Grossman School of Medicine Summer 2020: Page 39 IN MEMORIAM JOHN B. ROBBINS ’59, BA (WSC ’56) , a pioneer in vaccines and co-developer of a vaccine that has spared thousands of chil-dren from a major cause of death and intellectual disabil-ity, died November 27, 2019, after a long illness. He was 86. Dr. Robbins, together with his longtime colleague and collaborator, Rachel Schneer-son, MD, received the 1996 Albert Lasker Clinical Medical Research Award for develop-ing the polysaccharide-pro-tein conjugate vaccine for Hemophilus influenzae type b (Hib). The vaccine protects infants from a deadly bacte-rium called type b Hemoph-ilus influenza, or Hib, which causes meningitis and leads to developmental disability and death in young children. Before the vaccine became available in the late 1980s, 13,000 children each year in the United States developed severe Hib meningitis. The work of Dr. Robbins reduced the incidence of Hib meningitis by 98 percent in less than 10 years. Dr. Robbins was the chief of the Laboratory of Developmental and Molecular Immunity at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), part of the National Institutes of Health, until his retirement in 2012. In later years, Dr. Robbins, Dr. Schneerson, and their colleagues developed a vaccine for pertussis and worked on conjugate vaccines against typhoid fever, Staphylococcus aureus, and other bacterial diseases. For his work with the Hib conjugate vaccine, Dr. Robbins also received the Albert B. Sabin Gold Medal; the World Health Organization Children’s Vaccine Initiative Pasteur Award, with Dr. Schneerson; and Thailand’s Prince Mahidol Foundation Award for Public Health, with Dr. Schneerson and Porter W. Anderson, MD. He is survived by his wife, Joan; his children, Robert, Daniel, Ellen, and David; and nine grandchildren. DR. PAULA NEYMAN ’57 died October 23, 2019, at 93, after a long decline following a fall nearly six years earlier. She was born in 1926 in Baranowicze, Poland, in what is now Belarus. Her life changed dramatically in 1941 when the Nazis invaded her town and she and her family were transported to the Vilna Ghetto in present-day Lithuania. After losing her stepfather, she, her mother, and her aunt were able to remain together through five concentration camps and two death marches, and they arrived in New York City in 1947. She met her husband, Daniel “Teddy” Neyman ’60, at a Purim party for Holocaust survivors in New York City. They married in 1950. Despite having missed much of her education because of the war, she still dreamed of becoming a doctor. While working as an X-ray technician, she attended City College and Hunter College and graduated as one of only three women in her class from NYU College of Medicine. Dr. Neyman practiced pediatrics in the Bronx for almost 30 years, and taught pediatrics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She was affiliated with Jacobi and Montefiore Hospitals. She spoke six languages and harbored a deep love of learning. She was committed to teaching young people about the dangers of racism and anti-Semitism and told her story often at local high schools and middle schools. Dr. Neyman is survived by her daughters Sarena Neyman and Freyda Neyman, MD, as well as four grandchildren and a great-grandson. MD Alumni IRWIN H. SLATER ’41 JEROME S. SILVERMAN ’46 BARBARA BLANCKE ’51 EUGENE H. KAPLAN ’51 WILLIAM E. TRUMBULL ’51 MELVIN H. WORTH, JR. ’54, FACULTY/STAFF JEROME D. GOLDFISCHER ’55 ALBERT L. ACKERMAN ’56 MICHAEL R. BALSAMO ’56 HERBERT W. BERGER ’57 EDWARD A. DAVIES ’57 ELLIOT M. LEVY ’58 LAWRENCE U. COOKSON ’61 GLENN E. SISLER ’61 ARTHUR I. FEINBERG ’65 SELWYN A. COHEN ’66 ERIKA O. FRIED ’68 ANDREW J. DREXLER ’72 ROBERT P. LIEBERMAN ’75, PHD (GSAS ’75) ALAN B. BERNSTEIN ’77 MARJORIE SCHULMAN ’80 Faculty/Staff IRWIN R. BERMAN, RES. ’67 ARTHUR F. BOYD, MD LEONARD DILLER, PHD (GSAS ’50) LEONARD L. SHENGOLD, MD 39 | GRAPEVINE ALUMNI MAGAZINE SUMMER 2020
Kurt Piehler: This begins an interview with Dr. Jerome D. Goldfischer on March 29, 1998, in Fort Lee, New Jersey, with Kurt Piehler and . THE # 15 ORAL HISTORY WEBSITE IN THE WORLD Interviewee: Goldfischer, Jerome D. Recommended Citation: Goldfischer, Jerome. Oral History Interview, March 29, 1998, by G. Kurt Piehler, Scott Ceresnak, and Jason Goldfischer, Page #, Rutgers Oral History Archives. Online: Insert URL (Last Accessed: Insert Date). Permission to quote from this transcript must be obtained from the Rutgers Oral History Archives. Please email the ROHA staff with a description of how and where you wish to use the material to obtain permission. Kurt Piehler: This begins an interview with Dr. Jerome D. Goldfischer on March 29, 1998, in Fort Lee, New Jersey, with Kurt Piehler and ... Jason Goldfischer: ... Jason Goldfischer ... Scott Ceresnak: ... and Scott Ceresnak. KP: I would like to begin by asking you a little bit about your parents. Your father and mother both emigrated from Eastern Europe. KP: From Russia. Could you tell me a little bit about why they came? JDG: My mother, at the age of fourteen, ran away from Russia because of the pogroms [anti-Semitic riots]. She was the tenth of ten children. Her oldest brother and her fifth sister were both in this country and she felt that she had to get away. There were too many people being killed. So, at the age of fourteen, she ran away from Chernobyl and walked across Russia to Austria, and then, somehow, got on a boat to this country, alone. When they were about to dock at Ellis Island, she found out that if you didn't have parents, they would send you back. They didn't want a youngster by themselves. So, there was a mother and father with another young lady about her age. She asked if they would accept her as their daughter when they got off the boat and they said, "Of course." So, she went through Ellis Island with them, and then, she went with her [family]. She was picked up by her brother. Her sister was very upset that she came to this country and she [his mother] ostensibly lived with some mutual friends and grew up that way, as a fifteen-year-old. My dad was from Poland, was visiting his uncle in Austria and was picked up by the Austrian police and conscripted into the Austrian Army, over his protest. He said that he wasn't an Austrian citizen and they said, "You're in Austria--you're an Austrian citizen." He had two weeks of training, and then, went to the front and participated in the only battle in two World Wars that the Italians won, The Eleventh Battle of Isonzo. [laughter] It's a very famous battle between the Italians and the Austrians and it's easy to find out which one, [since] it was the only battle that the Italians won in two World Wars. They apparently decimated the Austrian troops. Five thousand men were reduced to--what?--170-some-odd. My dad was amongst them, was captured by the Italians and brought to Italy. Then, when he was just brought into a prisoner of war camp, they wanted to know if there were any barbers. He figured, "What is there to be a barber?" So, he said, "I'm a barber." [laughter] So, they made him a barber to the Italian officers. At the end of the war, he lived in Italy for about four or five years, in Genoa, and then, came over to this country because his oldest brother was here. So, he came over and met his oldest brother, Willy, and decided to become an automobile mechanic. He went to school and became an automobile mechanic, and then bought a garage in Brooklyn. It was a square block. It had about, I think, fourteen or fifteen bays where they took care of cars. Now, you're talking about the late '20s, during Prohibition, and the only paying customers that he had were the prohibitionists. [laughter] Louis "Lepke" Buchalter was his biggest customer and he said the benefit was, number one, they paid in cash. Number two, he didn't have to pay protection, because, any day, there were always a half a dozen of his men there playing pinochle. [laughter] Any time someone came in to ask for protection--this is Brooklyn, now--they'd see who was sitting there and they'd think he's protected. When Buchalter was killed, my father went bankrupt. He had no one else. [laughter] His oldest brother was in the needle trade. He then went to FIT and learned the needle trade, became a cutter and a pattern maker, dress maker, and then, worked his way up and, ultimately, owned his own factory and became a dress manufacturer, and then, brought Jason's dad to this country. He was the youngest of the brothers. This is now '39. Eli refused to come over, because he didn't want to leave his motorcycle behind.
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