Savel Zimand

Savel Zimand (May 14, 1891, Iasi, Romania–1967) was a health educator, and journalist. From 1909 to 1912 he studied in Berlin, Germany attending the Friedrich Wilhelm University of Berlin 's Seminar of Oriental Languages and the Höhere Webeschule, a technical college.He left for the United States of America in 1913. He was a visiting lecturer at Yale University and occasionally lectured at Harvard and Columbia universities.

His father was Morris Zimand and his mother Marie Kauffman Zimand. He became a naturalised US citizen in 1919 In 1926 he married Gertrude Folks, the daughter of Homer Folks, who worked for the National Child Labor Committee at the time.

He wrote a number of articles for The New York Times including interviews with Leon Trotsky, Mahatma Gandhi and Nadezhda Krupskaya

He died in the Columbus_Hospital, New York in December 1967. Provided by Wikipedia