Yulia Sister ^People

Yulia Sister is a Soviet Moldovan and Israeli analytical chemist engaged in che- mical research with the use of polarography and chromatography, a science historian, and a researcher of Russian Jewry in Israel, France, and other countries.Yulia Sister and her family repatriated to Israel in 1990. In 1992-1993 she served as a senior researcher of the Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and then she was engaged in the topics related tothe analysis of biological objects at the Tel Aviv University. During these years, along with her career in chemistry, Yulia Sister became deeply interested in the study of Russian-Jewish culture. In 1991 Sister began to write for the Shorter Jewish Encyclopedia (SJE) as a non-staff editor. She served as a research fellow covering the field of history of science and wrote about 90 articles for the encyclopedia. Yulia is the author of the articles Chemistry (jointly with P. Smorodnitsky), Veniamin Levich, Frederick Reines, Moise Haissinsky, Yuri Golfand and many others. Yulia Sister's activities in the House of Scientists and Experts of Rehovot started in 1991.Within this forum she organizes lectures, seminars and scientific conferences. She leadsthe scientific seminars of theHouse of Scientists that are regularly held at the Weizmann Institute of Science. In 2008, and then in 2014 she organized conferences devoted to the Bilu movement and to the First Aliyah.