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Alexander Goldfarb (born in 1947 in Moscow) is a Jewish-Russian-Israeli-American microbiologist, activist, and author.
Scientific career
Goldfarb studied biochemistry at the Moscow State University and graduated in 1969. After graduation, he worked in Kurchatov Research Institute of Nuclear Energy where he studied radiation damage of DNA
He emigrated from the USSR in 1975 and lived in Israel where he received his Ph.D in 1980 from Weizmann Institute in Tel Aviv and in Germany, where he had his post-doctoral training in Max Planck Institute..
In 1981-1991 he was an assistant professor at Columbia University in New York. Since 1992 he is a principal investigator at the Public Health Research Institute of New Jersey Medical School (PHRI).
Political activism and social work
Mr Goldfarb became known in the 1980s for his helping refuseniks to defect from the USSR while working at Columbia University in New York .
From 1993 to 1997 he managed the Soros Foundation in Russia. He worked with Dr. Paul Farmer to battle tuberculosis in Russian prisons from 1997 to 2000. During this work he first met Alexander Litvinenko who was a prisoner at this time. Since 2001 Goldfarb heads International Foundation for Civil Liberties established by Boris Berezovsky in New York.
Mary Dejevsky, the chief editorial writer of The Independent, opined that Mr Goldfarb "expertly fronted" a publicity campaign in the last week of Alexander Litvinenko's life and that Mr Berezovsky dictated the view that the British public had of the event.
Books
Alexander Goldfarb helped Alexander Litvinenko to leave Russia and prepare the book Lubyanka Criminal Group for publication. Mr Goldfarb was a spokesman for Mr Litvinenko during the two last weeks of his life. He later wrote and published book "Death of a Dissident: The Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko and the Return of the KGB" together with widow Marina Litvinenko.
References
- Polonium in London (Russian), by Zhores Medvedev, "Worker of Krasnoyarsk", March 15, 2007
- Alexander Goldfarb, Ph.D., a research summary and C.V., The Public Health Research Institute Center, New Jersey Medical School.
- A Lethal Web of Spooks, Oligarchs and Spin], by Catherine Belton, The Moscow Times, 26 December 2006. Paid contents.
- The Litvinenko files: Berezovsky, Mary Dejevsky, The Independent, May 2, 2008
- Litvinenko poisoning: the main players, The Guardian, 24 November 2006.
- A. Litvinenko and A. Goldfarb. Lubyanka Criminal Group Template:Ru icon GRANI, New York, 2002. ISBN 978-0-9723878-0-4.
His books
- Alex Goldfarb and Marina Litvinenko. Death of a Dissident: The Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko and the Return of the KGB. Free Press, New York, 2007. ISBN 978-1416551652.
Links
Books mentioning Goldfarb
- Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003, 2005 edition: ISBN 0-520-24326-9
- Tracy Kidder, Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World, Random House, 2003 hardcover: ISBN 0-375-50616-0, 2004 paperback: ISBN 0-8129-7301-1