Nina Rubinstein

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Nina Rubinstein (born July 2, 1908 in Berlin , † September 28, 1996 in New York , pseudonym: Nina Stein ) was a sociologist and translator who had been in exile several times .

Nina Rubinstein was born in Berlin in 1908, she came from a family of Jewish, Latvian-Russian Mensheviks , her father was Alexander N. Rubinštejn, known under his pseudonym Alexander Stein . She lived with her mother in Copenhagen from 1914 to 1917, and in Petrograd in 1917 and 1918, and from 1918 back in Berlin. Rubinstein, who called herself Nina Stein at the time and worked as a translator, studied sociology at the Universities of Heidelberg and Frankfurt am Main from 1929 and submitted her dissertation to the University of Frankfurt in 1933 on French emigration after 1789. Before these defended and Rubinstein doctorate was, her doctor father was after the seizure of power of the Nazis forced out of the university and forced to emigrate. As a Jew and because of her Russian origins, Rubinstein also had to emigrate and tried to translate the work she had saved from Frankfurt and submit it to the Sorbonne in Paris ; Due to the living conditions in French exile, it did not come to that. Rubinstein was forced to emigrate again when the Wehrmacht occupied Paris. She had to leave her dissertation in France. The attempt to resubmit a dissertation at the New School for Social Research in New York also fails due to the living conditions in exile. Rubinstein, who spoke several languages, worked as a translator, most recently at the United Nations . She had been an American citizen since 1949. Her dissertation was found in Paris and sent to New York. In 1989 it was submitted again to the University of Frankfurt. Nina Rubinstein, now 81 years old, was invited to the disputation of her work and in 1989, 56 years late, was awarded her doctorate.

A street on the Westend campus of the Goethe University Frankfurt has been named after Nina Rubinstein since 2016 .

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