Background
The youngest of eleven children of Joseph and Fannie Kramerman-Huberman he was born and grew up in Newark, New Jersey.
The youngest of eleven children of Joseph and Fannie Kramerman-Huberman he was born and grew up in Newark, New Jersey.
From the age of eleven he studied at Newark State School, as well as supporting the family by working in a celluloid factory, as an electrician"s mate and in the post office.
In 1949 he founded and co-edited Monthly Review with Paul Sweezy. He was the chair of the Department of Social Science at New College, Columbia University. Labor editor of the newspaper Prime Minister.
And the author of the popular history books Manitoba’s Worldly Goods and We, The People.
After graduating from high school in 1926. He served as a teacher at a private experimental school until 1932.
Foreign their honeymoon they hitch-hiked across the country to California and back to New Jersey. His first book We the People was published in London and he gained a place at the London School of Economics.
He later attended New York University and competed a science degree in 1937.
He held a post at Columbia University in the Faculty of Social Sciences. From 1940 he became editor and columnist for the magazine United States. Week. In 1949, with Paul Sweezy, he founded the left wing magazine Monthly Review, and became its chief editors
He continued to write and publish on socialist topics until his death in 1968.
Married Gertrude Heller, July 3, 1925 (deceased.