Jaffa, Adele Solomons, 1868-1953

Variant names

Hide Profile

Adele Solomons was born in San Francisco on November 7, 1868, the daughter of Seixus and Hannah Marks Solomons. She received an M.D. in homeopathy from Hahnemann Medical College of the Pacific. She married Myer Edward Jaffa, who was born in Sydney, Australia in 1857 and immigrated to California with his family in the mid 1860s. Dr. Adele Solomons Jaffa was a physician, lecturer in dietetics at UC Berkeley between 1912 and 1914, and child psychiatrist (on the staff of the Rockefeller Institute of Child Welfare at UC Berkeley between 1928 and 1935). She developed the California Preschool Mental Scale. Her interest in and enthusiasm for diagnosis of emotional and psychological problems in children led her to enter private practice as the "Play Doctor" in the offices of William Palmer Lucas in San Francisco, where she remained from 1934 until her retirement in 1952. Myer E. Jaffa was an agricultural chemist, professor of nutrition at the University of California, and first director of the California Bureau of Food and Drugs. He was an early advocate of pure food and drug laws for human and domestic animal consumption, and was associated with the movement which resulted in passage of the federal food and drug laws.

From the description of Adele Solomons Jaffa and Myer E. Jaffa family papers, 1880-1968. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 743435649

From the description of Adele Solomons Jaffa and Myer E. Jaffa family papers, 1880-1968. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83600812

Archival Resources
Role Title Holding Repository
creatorOf Jaffa, Adele Solomons, 1868-1953. Adele Solomons Jaffa and Myer E. Jaffa family papers, 1880-1968. Judah L. Magnes Memorial Museum, Rabbi Morris Goldstein Library
creatorOf Jaffa, Adele Solomons, 1868-1953. Adele Solomons Jaffa and Myer E. Jaffa family papers, 1880-1968. Judah L. Magnes Memorial Museum, Rabbi Morris Goldstein Library
referencedIn Portraits of University of California individuals and groups, ca. 1850-[ongoing] Bancroft Library
Role Title Holding Repository
Relation Name
associatedWith Bancroft Library. Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life. corporateBody
associatedWith Bancroft Library. Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life. corporateBody
associatedWith Committee for the Advance of Agricultural Research in Palestine. corporateBody
associatedWith Daunt, Yvonne person
associatedWith Jaffa, Aileen Raby, 1900-1988. person
associatedWith Jaffa family. family
associatedWith Jaffa, Myer E. (Myer Edward), 1857-1931. person
associatedWith Judah L. Magnes Museum. corporateBody
associatedWith Online Archive of California. corporateBody
associatedWith Stein, Allan person
associatedWith Stein, Michael person
associatedWith Stein, Sarah person
associatedWith Western Jewish History Center. corporateBody
Place Name Admin Code Country
California
Palestine
Palestine
California
Subject
Agriculture
Jewish families
Jewish women
Jews
Occupation
Activity

Person

Birth 1868

Death 1953

Information

Permalink: http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w62z1dr9

Ark ID: w62z1dr9

SNAC ID: 11689356