13 Facts About Herman Branover

Herman Branover is a Russian Israeli physicist and Jewish educator.

Herman Branover is best known in the Jewish world as an author, translator, publisher, and educator.

Herman Branover was born in Riga, Latvia, into an atheist Jewish family.

Herman Branover's father was killed in World War II by the withdrawing Red Army, but his mother managed to escape with him to Russia and survive.

Herman Branover led a fifteen-year struggle to leave the Soviet Union, during which he initiated and directed a great number of activities advancing Jewish education and culture; he was among the initiators of the Jewish revival movement in Soviet Russia.

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Herman Branover learned Hebrew secretly at great peril while a student in Leningrad.

Herman Branover was the first Jew holding a Doctor of Science degree and the title of Full Professor to receive an exit visa to leave the USSR.

In Israel, Herman Branover started a research and development company, Solmecs, which developed a non-conventional environmentally safe energy generator which has led to many spin-off technologies.

In 1987 Herman Branover founded SATEC, which started out as a technological business incubator, soon after focusing on the development and manufacturing of power metering solutions, such as power meters and power quality analyzers.

Herman Branover's aim was to create jobs in a fitting technological environment for these immigrants, many of them holding advanced scientific degrees and in-depth technological experience.

In 1991, the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences invited Herman Branover to supervise its 8-volume Encyclopedia of Russian Jewry.

Herman Branover is president of the SHAMIR Association of Religious Professionals from the USSR and editor-in-chief of its publishing house.

Ruvin Ferber, Herman Branover has organized four international conferences in Riga entitled “Jews in a Changing World.