Leo Huberman
Leo Huberman ( born October 17, 1903 in Newark, New Jersey; † November 9, 1968 ) was an American journalist and author. In 1949 he founded together with Paul Sweezy, the magazine Monthly Review. This article published by Albert Einstein, Scott Nearing, IF Stone, Henry A. Wallace, and others.
Huberman was born in 1903 as the last of eleven children in Newark. From the age of eleven years Huberman worked alongside the school in various jobs, such as in a celluloid factory, as an assistant to an electrician and a post office. After the completion of the Newark State Normal School, he worked as a teacher at the local elementary school. 1925 married Gertrude Heller and Huberman studied the way in New York City. In 1926 he completed his studies and moved to New York, where he became a teacher at a private school in Greenwich Village with his wife. 1932, after the release of We the people, he quit his job at the private school and went to London. There Huberman studied at the London School of Economics. After his return, he again worked in different jobs, for example as Chairman of the Department of Social Science at New College, Columbia University and in 1941 as a columnist for the U.S. Week. In 1949, Huberman with Paul Sweezy, the Monthly Review, whose editor he was, until his death on November 9, 1968.