Naphtali Brezniak

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Naphtali Brezniak (Hebrew: נפתלי ברזניאק‎; born June 5, 1950) is an Israeli physician (MD), dentist (DMD), Orthodontist (ABO), author and novelist.

Early life and education[edit]

Brezniak was born to Moshe and Tova (Guta), Polish-born holocaust survivors, in Givatayim, Israel. He studied at A.D. Gordon elementary school (1956-1959) and moved to Tel-Aviv with his family, where he studied at 'Hacarmel' elementary school and 'Tichon-Hadash' high school. He studied Medicine as an Israel Defense Force (IDF) Academic Reserve at the Sackler Faculty of Medicine in Tel-Aviv University and graduated following an internship (1975-1976) at Rabin Medical Center in Petah Tikva (MD). He served in the IDF as a physician at Eilat Naval base, worked at Yoseftal Medical Center, and was responsible for the local hyperbaric chamber treatments. From 1980 to 1983 he underwent professional retraining in dentistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem School of Dentistry and became a dentist (DMD). He specialized in orthodontics (1984-1986), earning a graduate degree (with honors) from the Orthodontic Program at the Dugony School of Dentistry, University of the Pacific. In 1996 he became a member of the American Board of Orthodontics (ABO).

Medical career[edit]

In 1986 Brezniak rejoined the IDF, commanded the orthodontic section at the Institute of Dentistry at the Chief Medical Officer Headquarters in Tel HaShomer, and became a Lieutenant Colonel. He joined the Orthodontic Department at the Goldschlager School of Dentistry, Tel-Aviv University, as an instructor (1987-1993). In 1992 he opened a specialization program in orthodontics recognized by the Israeli Ministry of Health and began training military dentists in the profession. In 1997 he retired from the IDF and began to work in a private clinic in Tel-Aviv, and in 3 satellite offices, in Hadera, Kibbutz Maabarot and Kibbutz Ma'anit. About four years after his retirement, he was recruited to manage the orthodontic program as a civilian (1992-2013).

Brezniak was the head of the Israel Orthodontic Society (1999-2000). He is the consultant in orthodontics to the chief dentist of Clalit Smile, a leading medical and dental provider in Israel (1997-open). He has published numerous professional articles^[1] and lectured in various places locally and internationally, and is a referee in several professional journals, including the American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics (AJODO) and The Angle Orthodontist (AO).

Literary career[edit]

Brezniak is a prolific successful writer and his books are widely acclaimed. His first book, entitled The Birch Trees Stand Tall [עצי הלבנה הזקופים/Etzei halivne hazkufim] was published in Hebrew in 2004 by Yad-Vashem, telling the story of the author's father, Moshe. as a Jewish soldier in the Polish army during World War II, his life at the ghetto in Mezritch (Międzyrzec Podlaski) in Poland, and the extermination camps Majdanek, Auschwitz, and Langenstein-Zwieberge Concentration Camp, a subcamp of Buchenwald concentration camp, to the Death march, from which he escaped to freedom, and his immigration to Mandatory Palestine in 1945. The book was translated to English (Amazon, 2010) and German ('Birkenland', 2011).

In 2008, he published his second book – Absracts [ימים ספורים/Yamim Sfurim], by Kinneret Zmora-Bitan Dvir, which describes the four years of Nitza Brezniak Zablodovski, his author's wife's life, who died in 1979. The book is currently 2022 being modified into a film by producer Doron Eran.

In 2012 he published his third book - The Patent [הפטנט/Hapatent] a thriller by Orion Publishing House, which tells the unbelievable story of a patent he developed.

In 2016, Breznaik published his fourth book - At Bike Level [בגובה אופניים/Begova Haofanaim], by Olam-Hadash publishers, in partnership with his partner, Agate Krausz, which was her final thesis in her studies for a master's degree in Hebrew Literature in Editing at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

Brezniak's fifth book - Someone from Germany is looking for you [מישהו מגרמניה מחפש אותך/Mishehu megermania mechapes otcha] is a thriller soon to be published by Orion Publishing House. The book, inspired by the story of his mother Tova during the Holocaust, is a mosaic of seven stories that prove that the Holocaust and its outcomes do not give the narrator a moment's rest, even for those who were born many years after its end. The heroine of the book is Gita (a Holocaust survivor), one of many, who wanted to tell her personal story during the Second World War, her immigration (Aliyah) to Israel, and her life in a kibbutz, exposing the narrative embraces a world of contrasting events that contain truths and lies, life and death and love and hatred, events that despite everything have the power to instill optimism that even in major chaos or disorder there is eventually some hope. The stories of a mother, her daughter, her granddaughter, her son-in-law, the daughter's mythological lover, a respected professor, a stranger, and a reluctant literary editor, intersect in this book in a plot full of twists and turns and a most surprising ending.

References[edit]

↑ Naphtali Brezniak on ResearchGate. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Naphtali-Brezniak.

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[:0-1] Naphtali Brezniak on ResearchGate. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Naphtali-Brezniak.

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