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On August 5, 1953 Isra Tobias Broadwin, a life member of the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, died in London a few days after his attendance at the International Psychoanalytic Congress. With his untimely death psychoanalysis in the United States has lost one of its most highly esteemed and valued pioneers.
Dr. Broadwin was born in New York City on June 18, 1893, and was graduated from New York University and Bellevue Medical College in 1917. He interned at the Montefiore Hospital, and served in the Army during World War I. Soon after his discharge from active military duty he became affiliated with the Department of Neurology at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York City. During this time he was also associated with the first Mental Hygiene Clinic at Bellevue Hospital.
A short biographical sketch of Broadwin cannot give a true portrait of the man, the friend, the physician, the analyst, and the services he rendered in the developmental phases of psychoanalysis for more than twenty-five years.
The history of the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute distinctly reveals many of his constructive activities and the untiring time and effort which he freely devoted to the early problems of organization and functioning of the Society. He was a member of various important committees and his participation in discussions, his practical suggestions, his loyalty to analysis and to his colleagues indicated careful objective reasoning and wisdom. He had a unique ability of calling into play a remarkable sense of humor which was always welcome, never offensive.
He was a dynamic force in acquainting social service organizations and allied institutions with the value of psychoanalytic orientation. More than twenty-five years ago he was associated