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PLEASE NOTE: If you do not see a GRAPHIC IMAGE of a family tree here but are seeing this text instead then it is most probably because the web server is not correctly configured to serve svg pages correctly. see http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/SVG:Server_Configuration for information on how to correctly configure a web server for svg files. ? Parent Parent Biological Child Biological Child Biological Child Parent Parent Biological Child Biological Child Parent Parent Parent Parent Biological Child Parent Parent Biological Child Biological Child Parent Parent Biological Child Biological Child Biological Child Parent Parent Parent Parent Biological Child Biological Child Biological Child Parent Parent Parent Parent Biological Child Biological Child Parent Parent Biological Child Parent Parent Parent Parent Biological Child Parent Parent Parent Parent Biological Child Biological Child Biological Child Biological Child Parent Parent 1875 2 Jan 1934 Pesa Weinberg 59 59 Left to South Africa at the age of 38 with her children: Pera (Polly) 10 years old, Schaya (Simon) 8 years old, Piners (Lewis) 7 years old and Israel (solly) one year old. Another Girl  Mrs. Swirdler, was written in the Passenger manifest as Chaya Orbach.


 Marriage (five children) Marriage (two children) Widowed Marriage Marriage (two children) m. 1918 Marriage (three children) Marriage (two children) m. 1954-1974 Marriage m. 1975 Marriage Marriage (two children) Marriage (two children) m. 16.3.1917 Marriage Marriage (a child) Divorce (two children) m. 1949 Marriage (a child) m. 3 Sep 1957 Marriage Pinchas Eliyahu Weinberg Sara Weinberg Lived in Pretoria, South Africa 1883 6 Aug 1953 Ester Weinberg 70 70 Lived in Pretoria, South Africa.  Cooper Hilda Cooper had 2 boys Pearl Cooper No children D. 1929 John Libner Was a Baker 1883 1 Aug 1945 Isaac Shain 62 62 Before Ester was married to Bertha (Ester's sister). 15 Nov 1895 17 Apr 1970 Fanny Weinberg 74 74 Was a cousin of her husband.
28 Mar 1883 2 Aug 1974 Leo Mandelstam 91 91 Born in Zagare. Worked in the Daimond Industry with his brothers in Johannesburg.After his retirement immigrated to Israel, lived in Dizingof corner of Frishman in Tel Aviv. buried in Darom Cemetery in Hulon Bat Yam. 
13 Nov 1919 20 Dec 2008 Joel Mandelstam 89 89 Microbiologist, Emeritus Professor, Oxford University,  England.

Mandelstam was married twice: first to Dorothy Hillier, and from 1975 until his deathto Maureen Dale, who survives him togetherwith the son and daughter of his first marriage

Joel Mandelstam was a pioneer in using bacteria to study fundamental biological phenomena, such as development, which had more usually been investigated in higher organisms. The latter part of his career was spent in research into spore formation, a feature of certain bacteria.

Joel Mandelstam was born in Johannesburg to Leo and Fanny Mandelstam, a Jewish couple of Lithuanian origin, and educated at Jeppe High School. While studying for a BSc at the University of Witwatersrand he initiated and ran, together with a group of friends, a voluntary night school, teaching mainly reading, writing and arithmetic to adult Africans who had had no formal education. From 1942 to 1947 he was a Research Assistant to Dr. Joseph Gilman at the Medical School in Johannesburg.

In 1947 Mandelstam came to London to work for a PhD with John Yudkin on “enzyme adaptation”, the synthesis in microbes of a new enzyme in response to the introduction into their environment of a substance on which the enzyme acts. On moving to the National Institute for Medical Research at Mill Hill, northwest London, he continued to pursue his interest in this phenomenon.

Enzyme adaptation was well known as a characteristic of growing bacteria, but, in a series of incisive experiments in the late 1950s and early 1960s, Mandelstam showed that starved bacteria could also make new enzymes and that they did this largely by degrading proteins that they no longer needed and recycling the constituent “building blocks” (the amino acids). Thus proteins, which had previously been thought to be stable, were in fact in a state of turnover.

This important discovery, broadly generalisable across biology, helped to establish Mandelstam’s reputation, and this was further enhanced by his unravelling the complex regulation of a multi-enzyme metabolic pathway in the soil bacterium Pseudomonas fluorescens. He was elected to the Royal Society in 1971.

Meanwhile, the Iveagh Professorship of Microbiology at the University of Oxford had become vacant through the death of D.D. Woods in 1964. The electors decided to offer the chair to Mandelstam, whose originality and clarity of thought were already becoming evident, rather than to make the more conventional choice of electing a classical bacteriologist. After some hesitation Mandelstam agreed to accept the professorship.

In the event his tenure was an uninterrupted success. With the opportunity to assemble a larger team of researchers, he initiated an important new project to understand spore formation in the bacterium Bacillus subtilis. He became a leading figure in this field internationally, and over the next 20 years his group made major contributions in finding and characterising the key genes involved in controlling development and in determining when, where and how the genes were turned on and off.

During his time at Oxford Mandelstam trained and mentored a large number of researchers who went on to establish their own independent scientific careers. He was generous in allowing the people in his group to follow their own intuition. Unlike many successful and ambitious scientists, he would not add his name to scientific papers from his lab if he believed that he had not made a sufficient contribution to the work. Nor was he the type of scientists to spend time in self-advertisement by rushing from one international conference to another.

He was soft-spoken, courteous and self-effacing, but his reticence was in no way due to timidity or to a lack of self-confidence. He had a just sense of what he and his group had accomplished, and he took great pleasure in the success of his junior associates. He was not seduced by the Byzantine politics of Oxford administration, and he did not seek power. He seldom spoke at faculty meetings, but when he did he was listened to with respect, since his colleagues appreciated his integrity, objectivity and good judgement.

Mandelstam was married twice: first to Dorothy Hillier, and from 1975 until his death to Maureen Dale, who survives him together with the son and daughter of his first marriage.

Professor Joel Mandelstam, FRS, Biochemist and Microbiologist, was born on 13th November 1919, he died on 20th December 2008 aged 89.


 1928 Charles Mandelstam Was a Librarian.  Bertha Weinberg Abe Shain Samuel Nathan Shain 5 Nov 1923 8 Dec 1996 Dorothy Alma Hillier 73 73 Dorothy Mandelstam was sometimes called affectionately the Queen of Continence; and her life from her late forties was intertwined with the Continence Movement.
Working in a Cinderella branch of medicine where the general public and fellow professionals expected nothing but quiet warehousing of destitute and discarded old people, she took a single-minded interest in the causes, alleviation and management of incontinence - long a taboo subject.

Dorothy Hillier born in 1923, she was evacuated from London during the Second World War to Llanelli in Wales, and billeted in a general practitioner's household, which must have encouraged her interest in medicine and led her to choose physiotherapy as a career. By good fortune she trained at King's College Hospital Physiotherapy School.
In those days physiotherapy was generally taught in an insular and enclosed atmosphere, in small schools attached to big medical teaching hospitals and the students were unexposed to other disciplines or indeed to anything outside the hothouse of hospital. King's was different. The Medical Director, Dr Frank Cooksey, was a pioneer medical rehabilitationist: helping disabled people back to functional life in the community. With a further two years post-qualification, working at the Red Cross Rheumatism Clinic in Peckham Rye and at the Roffey Park Psychiatric Centre, Dorothy's interest was assured in the psyche as well as the soma of illness and disability. Having come under the influence of the philosopher and educationist Frank Coles as a student, she decided on a social science diploma and enrolled at the London School of Economics from 1946 to 1948. She then worked in the Children's Department of the London County Council, assisting unmarried mothers and adoption processes. This she continued after her marriage in 1954 to a South African scientist, Joel Mandelstam, later the Iveagh Professor of Microbiology at Oxford. After the birth of her first child in 1956, she returned to part-time work as a physiotherapist in the Obstetrics Department of Edgware General Hospital in north London; five years later, true to her principles, she courageously allowed her second delivery to be filmed, and used the film in her classes. Edgware Hospital was also the home of a progressive department of geriatric medicine, and visitors were attracted to it from many parts of the world. The Principal of the Guy's Hospital School of Physiotherapy, Elizabeth Tanner, requested the opportunity to work voluntarily with the geriatric unit: she wanted to test a hypothesis that the practice of suitable exercise could prevent many present-day illnesses. Her paramount speculation related to the high incidence of incontinence in elderly women. Did it relate to childbirth and damage to the pelvic floor muscles and lack of re-education of these muscles to function optionally afterwards? A link-up between Tanner, in the geriatric unit, and Mandelstam, in the obstetric department, was easily arranged. When Tanner left the hospital, Mandelstam moved half her allegiance to the department of geriatric medicine. At that time, the labels senile, lazy, or dirty were often applied to sufferers of incontinence. Little or no training was given to medical students and nurses' training was mainly directed to containment: the pad, mop and bucket approach. The department had close ties with the Disabled Living Foundation (DLF), created by Lady Hamilton, who had long been at the forefront of a movement to encourage professional interest in the demoralising subject of incontinence, underlining what a devastating effect it could have. When a vacancy occurred at the DLF in 1974, Mandelstam was appointed the first Incontinence Adviser to run the Incontinence Advisory Service (IAS). The DLF's Annual General Reports from 1974 to 1992 record the speed with which the whole subject opened up. Through her contact with Edgware Hospital, Mandelstam was already working with the Open University in the production of a module on incontinence. Initial permission was refused for a television programme to support the incontinence chapter - it "might upset viewers". Two years later, the response to just such a broadcast came in shoals of letters to the DLF begging for help. Its Incontinence Advisory Service soon became a focal point for obtaining or disseminating information and testing new ideas nationally and internationally.

One of Mandelstam's first acts, in 1976, had been to organise a competition to design an "Emergency Pack for Incontinence" to be carried by district nurses. Radio and press interviews followed, giving the valuable oxygen of publicity to the subject. A leaflet on incontinence was produced by the Health Education Council in conjunction with the DLF - which they had refused to do before. In 1977, Marjorie Proops launched Mandelstam's first book, Incontinence - a guide to the understanding and management of a very common complaint; about a third of purchasers were professionals (in 1978 it went into a second edition). In the same year the Chief Nursing Officer recommended that a specialist advisory nurse be designated to every health district. Mandelstam then compiled and edited a text book Incontinence and its Management (1980). In 1981, at a meeting at Bedford College, the Association for Continence Advisers was formed; it later became the Association for Continence Advice (ACA). Dorothy Mandelstam was appointed Chairman and remained so until 1990, when she was made an Honorary Life Member. By that time the ACA had 1000 members. In October 1996, the ACA Executive decided to call a bursary fund for tertiary education of its members the Dorothy Mandelstam Educational Award. This particular accolade gave her tremendous pleasure in her last weeks. As a physiotherapist Mandelstam was consistently preaching the gospel of exercise for maintenance of the muscles of the pelvic floor. The first course paying serious attention to the pelvic floor was validated in 1988 by the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP), on the Promotion of Continence and Management of Incontinence. This closed the circle for her. The group later changed its name to the Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in Women's Health and proposed the election of Mandelstam to the highest honour the CSP awards, a Fellowship, in 1992. After 17 years of outstanding service, Dorothy Mandelstam retired from the DLF in 1992, and, due to financial constraints, the IAS was subsumed into other departments. Mandelstam had foreseen this possibility, and with so many new organisations related to continence springing up, she had gathered together a collection of enthusiastic professionals to brainstorm a pattern for the future. The great need appeared to be for an over-arching organisation (much as the DLF had been) to be a focal point and umbrella for all the small groups; the Continence Foundation was launched at the House of Commons in March 1992, with the potential of becoming an international resource centre. Retirement was stranger than Dorothy Mandelstam had realised, although she had always maintained a life apart from work. She continued to play tennis twice a week and started to play the piano again - taking lessons and playing in a trio with two friends, a cellist and violinist. It was only during the past year that she discovered an occupation that really lit her up in the same way that incontinence had - the National Trust house, 2 Willow Road, the former home of the modernist architect Erno Goldfinger, where she trained as a guide and revelled in being able to enthuse the visitors she was showing round. Monica Stewart Dorothy Alma Hillier, physiotherapist: born London 5 November 1923; married 1954 Joel Mandelstam (marriage dissolved 1974; one son, one daughter); died London 8 December 1996.
(The Independent - Monica Stewart 5 February 1997)

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