Fleisher Alexander Yumovich (1948)

Fleisher (Fleischer) Alexander Yumovich (20 August 1948, Tashkent) - chemist.

Alexander Fleisher was born into the family of a trade worker Yuma Iosifovich Fleisher (1921, Ostrovets, Poland) and physician Bella Lvovna Platinskaya (née Galperin) (1918, Barnaul). He studied at School No. 64 in Tashkent (1955–1960), and after the family moved to Riga continued his education at Secondary School No. 23 (1960–1963). In 1965 he graduated from Boarding School No. 45 affiliated with Leningrad State University.

He studied at the Latvian State University (1965–1967), then transferred to Leningrad State University, from which he graduated in 1971. From 1971 to 1974 he worked as a junior research fellow at the Research Institute of Chemistry of Leningrad State University. After returning to Riga, in 1974 he worked as a laborer at the “Juglas Manufaktura” factory.

He was married to Tatyana Ivanovna Bogacheva (born 1949), with whom he had a son, Georgy Alexandrovich Fleisher (born 1970, Leningrad, now Saint Petersburg). The marriage was dissolved in 1974. In the same year he received permission to emigrate to Israel, where since 1945 his uncle (his father’s brother), Menachem Iosifovich Fleisher (born 1923, Ostrovets), had been living after liberation from the Auschwitz concentration camp.

Family:

Yuma Iosifovich Fleisher (1921) – father
Bella Lvovna Platinskaya (née Galperin) (1918) – mother
Iren Yumovna Fleisher (1957, Tashkent) – sister
Tatyana Ivanovna Bogacheva (1949) – former wife
Georgy Alexandrovich Fleisher (1970) – son
Menachem Iosifovich Fleisher (1923) – uncle