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practise as a doctor: instead she worked as a librarian and a laboratory assistant. During the war she lived in
Yorkshire, returning to London afterwards. Her treatment by the Nazis manifested itself in the form of depression, hallucinations and a persecution complex; as a result, she was committed to
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she writes to her male colleagues to not look at women from just the point of view of a gynecologist. She also argued that women's inferiority to men due to their biologically determined lighter brains was not true. She stated that women's physical and psychological weakness compared to men came from
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mm – could penetrate the kidneys and pass into the urine: the previous belief had been that this was only possible with liquids. She was mocked at a meeting of the
Society of the Charité's Directors and her research was ignored. However, in 1957, G. Volkheimer, an assistant at Charité,
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In 1908, Hirsch was appointed head of the polyclinic at the Charité's
Medical Clinic; however, she was never a paid employee there. After being replaced, she left the Charité and started her own internal medicine practice in Berlin. At her private practice, she had modern x-ray equipment and wealthy
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As a Jewish woman Hirsch was prohibited from teaching. She went on to write a treatise titled the "Physical
Culture of Women." She wrote to counter the medical prejudice against physical activity for women and favored naturally-fitting clothing. Hirsch tried to bring attention to women's public
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Her reputation was upheld by G. Volkheimer. Many internal medicine textbooks refer to the “Hirsch Effekt” and the State of Israel honored her by including her in the gallery of Famous Jewish
Scientists in Jerusalem. In 1995, a bronze statue of Rahel Hirsch stands in the old lecture hall at the
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gathered momentum, Hirsch lost her professional opportunities, culminating in the cancellation of her license to practice medicine in 1938. When she learnt that she was about to be arrested, she escaped on 7 October 1938, "at the last minute," to
England, aged 68. In England, Hirsch could not
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as an intern. The Charité was militarily strong and she was the second female to ever be hired here. Hirsch worked as an assistant to the physiologist
Professor Friedrich Krause. Rahel Hirsch worked alongside the surgeon Ernst von Bergmann and the anatomist Wilhelm von Waldeyer-Hartz.
73:(1833–1900). Mendel Hirsch was the director of the girls' school of the Jewish religious community in Frankfurt am Main. Mendel's father – Rahel's paternal grandfather – was the eminent rabbi
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in July 2020 and on 19 January 2023 was named the "Rahel Hirsch Center for
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