Rabinovich (Rabinowitsch) (née Sheidina) Berta Solomonovna (05.01.1902 [23.12.1901], Riga) - translator.

In 1909 Berta Rabinovich entered a gymnasium, which she completed in 1918 in Tver (where the family had evacuated in 1915). In 1919 she returned to Riga and enrolled at the University of Latvia, but in 1922 (1923?) was forced to go abroad to continue her studies.

In 1922–23 (?) she studied at the University of Jena (?) in Germany; until 1926 — at the University of Strasbourg; in 1926–27 — at the University of Marseille; in 1927–28 — Licentiate of Natural Sciences at the Sorbonne in Paris. Until 1929 she worked as a secretary-translator at the USSR Trade Representation in Paris. In 1930–32 she was a translator; in 1932–41 — translator of scientific and technical journals.

In 1941 Berta Rabinovich returned to Riga, where her parents lived. Three months later she evacuated to Alma-Ata, where from 1942 she worked in the Standardstroy artel; in 1943–45 she was a lecturer and dean at the Institute of Foreign Languages. In 1945 she returned to Riga and until 1957 worked as head of Salon No. 1 of the Māksla Combine. From 1957 — retired. In 1964 she applied for permission for private emigration to Israel. She was fluent in French, German, and English.

In 1924 she married Gerson Moiseevich Rabinovich (28.11.1904 – 20.06.19(?)), a chemical engineer. In the marriage a daughter was born — Maya Rabinovich (26.05.1931 – 26.12.1941).

Father — Solomon Zalmanovich Sheidin (1875 – ?).

Mother — Hanna Zalmanovna Sheidina (1875 – ?).

Sister — Lyuba Solomonovna Berger (née Sheidina) (10.11.1905 [27.09.1905], Riga – ?), who in 1927 left for France, where she enrolled in the dental faculty of the University of Montpellier (?), after completing her studies married Max Berger (a Palestinian subject) and in 1935 left for Israel.