Rosa Pavlovsky de Rosemberg

Rosa Pavlovsky de Rosemberg (1862–1936) was a Russian Empire-born Argentine physician.

Biography

She was born in Taganrog to Santiago Pavlovsky and Agafia Gershova, Russian Jews who fled anti-Semitism in the Russian Empire and settled in Argentina along with their children. She devoted her career to pediatrics at the French Hospital in the City of Buenos Aires. She completed her thesis in France and revalidated her credentials in Argentina.^[1]^[2] She assisted in the fight against a cholera epidemic in Mendoza.^[3] She became Chief of Pediatrics and was decorated by the French government with the Legion of Honor.

References

^ Revue pratique d'obstétrique et de paediatrie (in French). 1894. p. 186.
^ Deutsch, Sandra McGee (2010-07-13). Crossing Borders, Claiming a Nation: A History of Argentine Jewish Women, 1880–1955. Duke University Press. p. 88. ISBN 978-0-8223-9260-6.
^ Gorodischer, Angélica (1994). Mujeres de palabra (in Spanish). La Editorial, UPR. p. 118. ISBN 978-0-8477-0218-3.

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[1] Revue pratique d'obstétrique et de paediatrie (in French). 1894. p. 186.

[2] Deutsch, Sandra McGee (2010-07-13). Crossing Borders, Claiming a Nation: A History of Argentine Jewish Women, 1880–1955. Duke University Press. p. 88. ISBN 978-0-8223-9260-6.

[3] Gorodischer, Angélica (1994). Mujeres de palabra (in Spanish). La Editorial, UPR. p. 118. ISBN 978-0-8477-0218-3.

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