title: ["When all of you will be forgotten, the name Israel will still be shining" : James Israel (1848-1926): a career in the German Empire and his nomination for the Nobel Prize].
abstract: In 1902, the Berlin Jewish urologist James Israel was nominated for the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. Taking scholar, social, and political aspects into consideration, this biographical essay traces how James Israel gained a sound scientific reputation especially in kidney surgery within Imperial Germany and its antisemitic attitude and how he promoted urology to become a specialty in its own right.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Geschichte, Theorie und Ethik der Medizin, Heinrich Heine Universität, Düsseldorf, Deutschland. friedrich.moll@uni-koeln.de.|Museum, Bibliothek und Archiv, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Urologie e. V., Düsseldorf, Deutschland. friedrich.moll@uni-koeln.de.|Urologische Klinik, Kliniken der Stadt Köln gGmbH, Neufelder Straße 32, 51067, Köln, Deutschland. friedrich.moll@uni-koeln.de.
authors.forename: Friedrich H
authors.initials: FH
authors.lastname: Moll
authors.affiliation: Institut für Geschichte, Theorie und Ethik der Medizin, Heinrich Heine Universität, Düsseldorf, Deutschland.
authors.forename: Thorsten
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Halling
authors.affiliation: Institut für Geschichte, Theorie und Ethik der Medizin, Heinrich Heine Universität, Düsseldorf, Deutschland.
authors.forename: Nils
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Hansson
authors.affiliation: Institut für Geschichte, Theorie und Ethik der Medizin, Heinrich Heine Universität, Düsseldorf, Deutschland.
authors.forename: Heiner
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Fangerau
mesh_terms: D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D007585:Jews / Q000266:history*; D009392:Nephrectomy / Q000266:history*; D009613:Nobel Prize; D011287:Prejudice / Q000266:history*; D014570:Urologic Diseases / Q000266:history*; D014572:Urology / Q000266:history*
keywords: Culture of remembrance; History of medicine; History of urology; James Israel; Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine