Sarah Bavly
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Dr. Sarah Bavly |
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| Born |
October 18, 1900 Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Died | 1993 (age 92–93) Jerusalem, Israel |
| Other names | Sara Bavli |
| Nationality | Dutch, Israeli |
| Fields | Nutrition, chemistry |
| Institutions |
Hadassah Medical Center College of Nutrition and Home Economics |
| Education | M.S., chemistry, University of Amsterdam M.S., Columbia University Teachers College, 1929 PhD, nutrition, Columbia University Teachers College, 1947 |
| Thesis | 'Family Food Consumption in Palestine: A comparison of consumption by the Jewish urban population in 1943 and in 1946, and a study of methods conducive to improvement of food selection' (1948) |
| Spouse | Dr. Yehuda Meir Bromberg |
| Children | 2 |
Sarah Bavly (Hebrew: שרה בבלי, also spelled Sara Bavli) (October 18, 1900 – 1993), was a Dutch–Israeli nutritionist, educator, researcher, and author. Having immigrated from the Netherlands to British Mandatory Palestine in 1926, she became the chief dietitian for Hadassah hospitals and head of Hadassah's school lunch program. Her 1939 book Tzunatenu (Our Nutrition) was a standard elementary-school textbook for nearly 30 years. She founded and directed the Institute of Nutrition Education in 1952 and was founder and dean of the College of Nutrition and Home Economics in Jerusalem from 1953 to 1965. After her retirement, she continued to engage in research and conducted periodic nutrition surveys for the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics.
Sarah Bavly was born in Amsterdam to Nathan and Lina-Leah Bavly. She was the youngest of five children in a religious Jewish family. She and her siblings all belonged to the Zionist youth movement, and all made aliyah to Palestine between 1919 and 1926.
Sarah received her M.S. in chemistry at the University of Amsterdam in 1925. On the recommendation of a friend who had already made aliyah, she spent the following year acquiring specialized training in nutrition and economics in order to bring useful work skills to Palestine.
Her first position in Palestine was as a teacher of nutrition and chemistry at a WIZO school in Nahalal, where she taught young women in their twenties. In April 1927 she left the moshav for a position as dietitian at the Hadassah hospital in Tel Aviv. Shortly afterward, she was engaged as a teacher of nutrition and dietetics at the Hadassah Nursing School in Jerusalem, becoming the first educator in the country to teach these subjects.
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