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Shalita, Dr. Alberta
She was the wife of Meyer Mendelson, whom she married in New York (probably in the 1940s).
She was a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, who published her work from time to time in Unzer Tsayt.
Source: Biography in this very Lexicon of Meyer Mendelson.
שאַליטאַ, ד״ר אַלבערטאַ
די פֿרױ פֿון מאיר מענדעלסאָן, מיט װעמען זי האָט חתונה געהאַט אין נ״י (מסתּמא אין די 1940ער).
זי איז געװען אַ פּסכיאַטאָרין און פּסיכאָאַנאַליטיקערין, און האָט געדרוקט פֿון צײַט צו צײַט אירע אַרבעטן אין אונזער צײט, נ״י.
מקור: ביאָגראַפֿיע (דאָ) פֿון מאיר מענדעלסאָן.
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