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The archive contains personal and family material, material on Haffkine as a Jewish activist, Haffkine in a medical context and other general material.
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שפה נוכחית
Waldemar Mordecai Wolff Haffkine archive
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Photo by Elliott & Fry, 1899From Waldemar Mordecai Wolff Haffkine archive.
Reference Code
ARC. Ms. Var. 325
Dates
1865-1931
Consists of
11.85 m..
Languages
English; Russian; French;
location
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The Archives Collection of the National Library of Israel
| Title |
Waldemar Mordecai Wolff Haffkine archive. |
|---|---|
| Additional Titles |
כותרת בעברית: ארכיון ולדימיר מרדכי וולף חבקין. |
| Contributors |
EdytheLutzker ((Creator of the archive)) |
| Notes |
Haffkine's papers are also to be found in the Pasteur Institute, Paris, YIVO in New York and in the Waller Manuscript Collection in the Uppsala University Library, Sweden. |
| Citation Note |
ARC. Ms. Var. 325, Waldemar Mordecai Wolff Haffkine archive, Archives Department, the National Library of Israel, Jerusalem |
| Host Item |
Waldemar Mordecai Wolff Haffkine archive. |
| Former Call Number |
Ms. Var. 325 |
| Level of Description |
Fonds Record |
| Biographical summary |
Waldemar Mordecai Wolff Haffkine was born and educated in Odessa. He studied under the Nobel prize winner Elie Mechnikoff and received a doctorate in natural sciences in 1884. In 1890 he became assistant to the director of the Pasteur Institute in Paris and began working on his cholera vaccine. He discovered the cholera vaccine in 1892 and the bubonic plague vaccine in 1896. From 1893 onwards he spent most of his time in India establishing laboratories and leading mass vaccinaton campaigns. In 1915 he moved to Paris and became active in Jewish affairs, including rights of Jews in Eastern Europe. A foundation to aid yeshivot was established in Lausanne in 1930 with money he had bequeathed. He died in October 1930, unmarried and without children. In 1925 the Plague Research Institute of Bombay was renamed the Haffkine Institute after its founder. |
| Ownership history |
The archive was bequeathed by Haffkine before his death and arrived on Mount Scopus in 1933. It was brought to Givat Ram in 1964/5. |
| Language Note |
The archive contains documents in English, Russian and French. |
| National Library system number |
990026513520205171 |
| Links |
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