Anna Semyonorna Ingerman was a Russian-born Jewish-American physician and prominent socialist.
13 Facts About Anna Ingerman
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Anna Ingerman was a founding member of the Socialist Party of America and ran for office in New York City as a Socialist Party candidate several times, but was never elected.
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Anna Ingerman attended gymnasium, a form of secondary education in Russia.
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Anna Ingerman graduated from the University of Bern in 1893.
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Anna Ingerman met Sergius Anna Ingerman, a fellow medical student and socialist, while living in Bern.
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Anna Ingerman's son-in-law Bela Low was a metallurgical expert for the War Production Board, and her grandson was theoretical physicist Francis E Low.
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Anna Ingerman immigrated to America shortly after her husband Sergius, who immigrated in 1891.
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Anna Ingerman was a member of the Socialist Labor Party, the Social Democratic Party of America in the late 1890s, the Socialist Party since its inception, and Russian Social-Democracy organizations in New York.
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Anna Ingerman was a lecturer and teacher for numerous Russian, German, Jewish, and American study circles, women's clubs, and workingmen's societies connected to the socialist movement.
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Anna Ingerman opposed the Soviet regime ever since, claiming she had opposed the Bolsheviks since 1905.
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Anna Ingerman wrote socialist articles for newspapers in English and other languages, including the New York Call, the New Yorker Volkszeitung, the Novy Mir, and the Narodnaya Gazeta.
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Anna Ingerman lost to the election to Democrat William W Cohen.
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Anna Ingerman died in the Polyclinic Hospital following a severe surgery on May 19,1931.