מקור השם רובינסון

Jacob Robinson (1889-1977) Jurist. Robinson family. Family of Jewish public figures and scholars. Jacob Robinson (1889-1977) , jurist, was the founder of the Hebrew high school in Virbalis which he directed from 1919 to 1922. From 1922 to 1926 he was a member of the Lithuanian parliament, representing the Zionists and was chairman of the Jewish faction and leader of the minorities bloc. Robinson was a leading spokesman for Jewish causes at international gatherings, especially concerning minority status. He was also legal adviser to the Lithuanian government. He left Lithuania for New York in 1940 and became head of the Institute for Jewish Affairs; he also taught international law at Columbia University. He served as an adviser to the prosecution in the Nuremberg and Eichmann trials and was legal adviser to the Israel UN mission, 1948-57. In 1952 Robinson drafted Israel's Reparations Agreement with Germany. A leading authority on the Holocaust, he wrote many works on the subject.

Edward G. Robinson (1893-1973) Film actor.

Born in Bucharest, Romania, he was taken to the US in 1903 and made his New York debut in 1913. He first made his name on the stage in Theatre Guild productions. On the screen he became prominent with his role in Little Caesar (1931), the first of many gangster, racketeer and tough guy roles he portrayed. When the classic period of gangster films ended, he played a wide range of roles including a portrayal of the scientist, Dr. Paul Ehrlich, and two dramas directed by Fritz Lang - "The Woman in the Window" and "Scarlet Street".Robinson was very active in Jewish and pro-Israel causes and was a noted art collector.

Isak Robinson (1876-1932), physician, roentgenologist, born in Brody, Ukraine (then in Galicia, part of Austria-Hungary). He was the first roentgenologist at the Allgemeine Krankenhaus (General Hospital) in Vienna (a student of professor Holznecht). Robinsohn constructed the first device, the throchtoscop, to scan patients while lying down, and later the tube screen. He also had meaningful achievements in urological roentgenology. The calcification of the pelvic nerves, the so called Robinsohnische Flecken ("Robinsohn Spots") are named after him. He, among others, also pioneered dental roentgen diagnosis.