LIVNI, Shlomo, L.R.C.P. (Lond.), M.R.C.S. (Eng.). Medical Practitioner. Born Vilna, Poland, 22nd July. 1904; son of David and Menuha Hinda Livni. Came to South Africa 1925. Educated at "Herzlia" Gymnasia, Tel Aviv; University of the Witwatersrand, London Hospital Medical College. Superintendent, Serenity Home for the Aged, Johannesburg. Director, Serenity Nursing Home (Pty) Ltd. Formerly Medical Officer, Jerusalem Government Hospital, 1933-1936; Distributive Surgeon, Rustenburg, 1938- 1952. Registrar, Tara Hospital for Nervous Diseases, Johannesburg. During World War II served with South African Forces Captain in S.A.M.C., 1940- 1944. Won Noristan Prize, 1961, for paper on "Alcoholism in General Practice' (S.A. Medical Journal, 1961). Member, Tara Bowling Club and Histadrut Ivrit, Johannesburg. Married Diana Mary Maude Brooke, 21st July, 1933; three sons, three daughters. Add.: 5, Shengwedzi Road, Emmarentia, Johannesburg.
Biographies extracted and digitised by Dr Jeremy Hodes from the South African Jewish Yearbook 1929 edited by Morris De Saxe and South African Jewry, 1967-68 edited by Leon Feldberg. Use the page, label or search box to find the information you are seeking.
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Livni, Shlomo
LIVNI, Shlomo, L.R.C.P. (Lond.), M.R.C.S. (Eng.). Medical Practitioner. Born Vilna, Poland, 22nd July. 1904; son of David and Menuha Hinda Livni. Came to South Africa 1925. Educated at "Herzlia" Gymnasia, Tel Aviv; University of the Witwatersrand, London Hospital Medical College. Superintendent, Serenity Home for the Aged, Johannesburg. Director, Serenity Nursing Home (Pty) Ltd. Formerly Medical Officer, Jerusalem Government Hospital, 1933-1936; Distributive Surgeon, Rustenburg, 1938- 1952. Registrar, Tara Hospital for Nervous Diseases, Johannesburg. During World War II served with South African Forces Captain in S.A.M.C., 1940- 1944. Won Noristan Prize, 1961, for paper on "Alcoholism in General Practice' (S.A. Medical Journal, 1961). Member, Tara Bowling Club and Histadrut Ivrit, Johannesburg. Married Diana Mary Maude Brooke, 21st July, 1933; three sons, three daughters. Add.: 5, Shengwedzi Road, Emmarentia, Johannesburg.
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