Brooks, Andrée Aelion

Andree Aelion Brooks (http://www.andreeaelionbrooks.com/) is a journalist, lecturer and author, including of Russian Dance: A True Story of Intrigue and Passion in Stalinist Moscow (2004), concerning Bluet Rabinoff (d. 1976) an American Jewish woman and the wife of Max Rabinoff, the foremost ballet and opera impresario of the 1920s, who had fallen in love with a Jewish Bolshevik spy named Marc Cheftel, and with whom she lived in the Soviet Union in the late 1920s-early 1930s. While Rabinoff returned to the U.S., Chaftel perished in one of the periodical Soviet wave of purges.

From the guide to the Andree Aelion Brooks Research Files on Bluet Rabinoff, ca. 1920-ca.2009, (Tamiment Library / Wagner Archives)

Andrée Aelion Brooks is an author, lecturer and journalist. She is an Associate Fellow at Yale University and the founder and first president of the Women’s Campaign School at Yale. She is also an historical advisor and board member of the Gomez Mill House and historic site in Marlboro, N.Y.

She is the author of a number of books, including The Woman Who Defied Kings, Russian Dance, and Children of Fast Track Parents .

For 18 years she was a contributing columnist and newswriter for the New York Times where she covered personal finance, the women's movement and real estate investment issues, among other topics.

based on http://www.andreeaelionbrooks.com

From the guide to the Papers of Andrée Aelion Brooks, 1981-2005, (American Sephardi Federation)