Isidor Bronfin, M.D. Papers

Isidor D. Bronfin was born September 13, 1886, in Lantzkriene, Podolsk, Russia, to Leah and David Bronfin. In 1902 he migrated to the United States and attended school in New York City. Bronfin received a bachelor of arts degree at the University of North Carolina and earned a medical degree from the University of the State of New York in 1911--the same year that he became a U.S. citizen. He married Elizabeth Rothbardt in 1915, and they had two sons,... Leon and Gerald.

Bronfin was a noted authority on tuberculosis treatment and authored several publications on this topic. From 1918 to 1920 he was medical director and superintendent of Beth Israel Hospital of Boston. From 1921 to 1927 he served as medical director and superintendent of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society in Denver, Colorado. He was medical director and superintendent of National Jewish Hospital (Denver) from 1927 until his death. Bronfin's other involvement in the medical community included his roles as assistant professor of medicine at the University of Colorado, as director of the Central Jewish Aid Society, and as a member or leader of several other medical organizations in Colorado and at the national level. Bronfin died of tuberculosis on July 30, 1934. His son Leon Bronfin died, at the age of 17, less than four months after Isidor Bronfin died.