Julia Sister

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Julia Sister

Julia Dawidowna Sister ( Russian Юлия Давидовна Систер ; born September 12, 1936 in Chisinau ) is a Romanian - Soviet - Israeli chemist and journalist .

Life

Sisters father Dawid Iosifovich Sister was a doctor after he attended the Prague University Charles medicine had studied. The grandparents spoke Yiddish . At the beginning of the German-Soviet war , Dawid Sister and his family were evacuated from Chisinau, which had become Soviet in 1940, to the left bank of the Volga not far from Stalingrad , where he was the chief physician of a Rajon hospital and advisor to a military hospital in the steppe. The grandparents who remained behind on his father's side died in the Chisinau ghetto . Julia Sister's mother Yevgenia (Bat-Schewa) Moissejewna Sister wrote children's poems for her , with which she learned to read at an early age. One of the first poems was by Mayakovsky .

In 1944 the family moved to Kirovograd , where Julia Sister started school. A year later the family returned to Chisinau. Friends and acquaintances included writers , actors and scientists . Sister attended girls' middle school in Chisinau with graduation in 1954 and, on the recommendation of the chemistry teacher , took part in the Anton Wassiljewitsch Ablows chemistry student group at the University of Chisinau. After the interview with Yuri Sergejewitsch Lyalikow , she began studying at the chemistry faculty of the University of Chisinau in autumn 1954 . She became editor of the faculty newspaper, member of the student science society and examined mineral acids . In 1959 she successfully defended her diploma thesis on the chromatography of precipitations of mineral acids and graduated with honors.

After graduation, Sister was employed in the Analytical Chemistry Laboratory of the Moldovan Branch of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (since 1961 Academy of Science of the Moldovan Soviet Socialist Republic (AN-MSSR) ) headed by JS Lyalikov . For her investigations she used polarography . She built her own device for analyzing organic compounds using alternating current polarography and received her first polarograms. Their work led to the development of an automatic device with subsequent serial production in the USSR .

In 1959 Sister became a research assistant at the Institute for Chemistry of the AN-MSSR. In 1967 she successfully defended her dissertation on the use of some organic reagents in alternating current polarography for her doctorate as a candidate in chemical sciences. In her ecological studies she analyzed the pesticides in the environment , in biological substances and in food . She was also a polarography consultant at the Department of Physiology at the University of Chisinau.

In 1984 Sister was appointed to the Technology Construction Institute, where she soon headed the Laboratory for Physico-Chemical Methods. She also used high performance liquid chromatography in her investigations . She was a board member of the Moldovan branch of the All-Russian Mendeleev Chemical Society.

In 1990 Sister emigrated to Israel with her family . From 1992–1993 she worked as a senior research assistant at the Chair of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and then at Tel Aviv University , where she dealt with the biochemical analysis of biological substances.

In addition to her scientific work, Sister was now interested in problems of Russian - Jewish culture. Since 1991 she has worked as a freelance writer and editor of the Short Jewish Encyclopedia. She deals with the history of science and has published articles on Benjamin Levich , Frederick Reines , Moïse Haissinsky , Juri Abramowitsch Golfand and others. Since 1991 she has organized lectures , seminars and conferences in the Rechovot House of Scientists and Specialists . Seminars she leads regularly take place at the Weizmann Institute for Science . In 2008 and 2014 she organized conferences on bilu and first alijas . She is general director of the research center Russkoye yevreistwo v sarubeschje (Russian Jews abroad) founded in 1997 by Mikhail Parchomovsky (since 2012 Yevrei Rossiyi w Sarushye i Israile (Jews of Russia abroad and in Israel)).

Sister lives in Kirjat Ekron and is married to the hospital doctor Boris (Bezalel) Iossifowitsch Händler from Chisinau.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Наши авторы: Юлия Систер . In: Наука и жизнь Израиля . ( [1] [accessed August 3, 2020]).
  2. ↑ a b c d Леонид Школьник: Это - мы: 12 - 18 сентября 2008 (accessed on August 3, 2020).
  3. ↑ a b c Белла Кердман: Г-жа Генеральный директор . In: приложение “ Еврейский камертон ” к газете “ Новости недели ” . November 11, 2010 ( [2] [accessed August 2, 2020]).
  4. ↑ Julia Sister: Девочка в степи . In: Заметки по еврейской истории . January 9, 2013 ( [3] [accessed August 2, 2020]).
  5. ↑ Julia Sister: Академик Юрий Сергеевич Ляликов . In: Дом учёных и специалистов Реховота . January 9, 2010 ( [4] [accessed August 3, 2020]).
  6. ↑ JD Sister: Использование некоторых органических реактивов в переменнотоковой полярографии [ Тефератр дАвто ]: дарсто. на соискание ученой степени кандидата химических наук . Риж. политехн. ин-т. Хим. фак., Chisinau 1967.
  7. ↑ Проф. Арон Черняк: Доктор Юлия Систер: химик, популяризатор науки, публицист . In: приложение “ Еврейский камертон ” к газете “ Новости недели ” . 2006, p. 16 .
  8. ↑ Леонид Школьник: Это - мы: 8 - 14 сентября 2011 (accessed on August 3, 2020).
  9. ↑ Леонид Юниверг: Русское книжное дело в Израиле. In: Русское литературное эхо . 2011 ( [5] [accessed August 3, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Sister, Julia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sister, Julia Davidovna (full name); Систер, Юлия Давидовна (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian-Soviet-Israeli chemist and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Chisinau