Heiman, Jacob.

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Dr. Heiman was a New York physician. Both he and his wife, Elizabeth Kalisher (or Kalischer) Heiman (married in 1911), a dentist, were involved with the literary and artistic community in New York in the 1920s through the 1960s. Interested in printing and printing history, Jacob Heiman was a colleague and friend of Dr. Robert Leslie and was a member and supporter of the Typophiles. As an editor of the American Review of Soviet Medicine. Dr. Heiman was very active in facilitating an exchange of crucial medical information between the medical communities in the United States and the Soviet Union. His daughter Helen also became a physician and followed that line of research as well. Her papers are part of the bequest.

From the description of Heiman/Kalisher papers, [1920-1960] (New York Academy of Medicine). WorldCat record id: 77756204

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