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Annette Teta Rubinstein (April 12, 1910-2007) was a Marxist educator, literary critic, and activist.
Biography
Rubinstein was born on April 12, 1910, on the Lower East Side.[1] Both of her parents, Abraham and Jean Rubinstein, were teachers.[2] Rubinstein earned her PhD from Columbia University and then became the principal of the Robert Louis Stevenson High School.[3] Rubinstein joined the Communist Party in the 1930s and remained a secret member of the Party until the 1952.[4] She was also active in the American Labor Party, and served as its state Vice-Chairman.[5] She met American Labor Party politician Vito Marcantonio in 1934 and later worked for him as an adviser.[6] In 1958, she ran for Lieutenant Governor of New York on the Independent-Socialist ticket.[7]
As an writer and literary critic, Rubinstein was the author of the two-volume book The Great Tradition in English Literature: From Shakespeare to Shaw, which focused "from a Marxist perspective on the relationship of political and social movements to 'major literary works'.[8] Rubinstein taught in East Germany between 1960 and 1962 and served as the vice-chairman of the German-American Friendship Society, which advocated for American recognition of the German Democratic Republic.[9]
- ^ Meyer, Gerald (March 3, 2017). "Annette T. Rubinstein and Progressive Secular Jewishness". Jewish Currents. Retrieved December 1, 2023.
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