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Rabinovich Lea (1900)

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SurnameRabinovich
NameLea
Birth year1900
Birth month1
Birth day28
Birth placeAizpute
SexF

Rabinovich (Rabinowitsch) Lea (28 January 1900, Aizpute — ?) - teacher.

Lea Rabinovich was born into the family of Rabbi Yessel Rabinovich. In 1918, she graduated from E. M. Chernova’s Private Girls’ Gymnasium in Vitebsk.

In 1920, she enrolled in the Department of Mathematics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences of the University of Latvia, graduating in 1932 with a Candidate’s degree in Mathematics. She began her teaching practice in the spring of 1919 in Liepāja, at Hibert’s Private Gymnasium and at the Jewish primary school in Liepāja, where she taught German, algebra, geometry, and trigonometry.

From early 1925, she worked in Aizpute at the Municipal Jewish School. In 1930, she began teaching at the Ludza Municipal Jewish Gymnasium, which was soon reorganized into a commercial school.