Dr. George Halperin: knows and understands Russia

              Knows and Understands Russia


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DR. GEORGE HALPERIN




Of the Department of Current Medical Literature of the Journal of the American Medical Association, a Well-Known Physician and Surgeon, Editor and Speaker, who Returned to His Native Russia Recently for an Extensive Study of Political, Social and Educational Gains




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DR. GEORGE HALPERIN



A Distinguished American Physician, Surgeon, Medical Writer, Editor and Speaker, Examines Russia, Land of His Birth, as a Result of a Recent Visit and Extensive Study




DR. GEORGE HALPERIN
 knows present-day Russia, its history, its peoples, its literature, and what lies back of Russia's magnificent battle against its enemies.  Ever since he came to this country from Russia as a boy of 15 he has been a close student of everything that pertained to his mother country.  In 1935 this American doctor and medical writer returned to his native Russia to make a first-hand study of their social, political and educational gains.  He looked at Russia as a doctor would a patient, and learned much.  It is not surprising that Dr. Halperin has been so successful in his talks about present-day Russia.  He truly knows his stuff, and is an A-1 speaker.




At present Dr. Halperin is associated with the Department of Current Medical Literature of the Journal of the American Medical Association, following a brilliant career as a physician and surgeon.  Here is his own interesting and modest account of his rise from a Russian immigrant boy to one of America's leading surgeons and medical writers:




I was born in a village in the province of Kiev in 1881.  We moved to the city in Elisavetgrad, a typical southern town of retired land owners and military officials in the province of Kherson, when I was eight years old.  A competitive examination admitted me immediately to a local gymnasium (American grammar and high school), a classics school with an emphasis on Latin and Greek.




By the time I was 15, my father was ruined financially.  Salvation seemed to lie in emigration to America.  The family arrived in Chicago in the year 1896.  For the next five years I worked in factories on the great West Side.  In 1901 I entered Rush Medical College.  I supported myself and paid my tuition by keeping several jobs.  The privilege of studying under great teachers such as Jacques Loeb, Alexander Smith, F. L. Barker, Haynes, Billings, Senn, Sippy and Herrick made those years the richest and happiest in my experience.




Upon graduation in 1905, I served as interne in the Michael Reese Hospital.  For the next ten years I practiced medicine on my beloved West Side and taught in my Alma Mater.  During World War I, I served in the Medical Corps of the U. S. Army.  After the war I specialized in surgery and taught the subject at Northwestern University Medical School.  In 1938 I accepted the position of head of the Department of Current Medical Literature of the Journal of the American Medical Association.




During all these years of professional life I have never lost interest in Russian literature and the Russian language.  The old memories were too rich to be crowded out.




In 1935 I visited the U. S. S. R. on the occasion of the International Physiologic Congress convening in Leningrad and Moscow.  I took the opportunity to travel from Moscow to the Caucasus, to Crimea, to the Ukraine.  I visited hospitals, schools, factories, theaters and collective farms.  Being fluent in the language opened all doors to me.




Out of these observations and from talks with people of most varied occupations I have formed the impression that Modern Russia was in a veritable economic, political and cultural renaissance.





Lecture Subjects



1.


Truth About Russia.


2.


Why the Russians Are Winning.


3.


Education in U. S. S. R.—the Remaking of Man.


4.


Solution of the Problem of Racial Minorities.


5.


Is Bolshevism Synonymous with Hitlerism?


6.


Pushkin—Creator of Russian Poetry.


7.


Gogol—the Dawn of the Realistic Novel.


8.


Dostoyevsky and the Psychological Novel.


9.


Count Leo Tolstoy—
War and Peace.


10.


Tourgenev.


11.


Chekhov, the Autumnal.




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