Friday 10 October 2014

IDA BADANES-ROVINSKI (ROVINSKY)

IDA BADANES-ROVINSKI (ROVINSKY) (1874-January 1946)
Born in Smorgon (Smarhon’), near Vilna.  In 1897 she became a medical doctor in Boston.  She was the wife of the Anglo-Russian writer (on medical topics), Dr. Aleksander Rovinsky (d. 1931).  She began publishing in 1886.  For many years she contributed essays to Der tog (The day) in New York.  She composed two plays, one of which was published under the title Dem doktors refue (The doctor’s remedy), a drama in four acts (New York, 1913), 132 pp.

Source: Biographical Encyclopedia of American Jewry (New York, 1935).


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