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  1. Michael Hannon (2010) Benjamin Gitlow was born in Elizabethport, New Jersey in 1891. While he was still young, his family moved to New York. Gitlow’s parents were labor supporters and active in the Socialist Party. Early on, Gitlow became interested in radical politics.

  2. Benjamin Gitlow was born on December 22, 1891, in Elizabethport, New Jersey. His parents were Jewish immigrants from the Russian Empire ; his father, Lewis Albert Gitlow, moved to the United States in 1888, followed by his mother, Katherine, in 1889.

  3. Aug 21, 2024 · Gitlow’s critics — aging socialists and young progressives — denounced him as a vengeful man bent on destroying the world he was forced to leave behind. Gitlow said he turned against Communism because of its “enslavement of the human mind.”

  4. His parents, Louis Albert Gitlow and Katherine Golman, emigrated from Russia in 1888 and worked in the New York garment industry. They became socialists, Kate Gitlow gaining prominence as a Socialist party organizer.

  5. Jun 2, 2021 · Around the same time, New York established an investigative commission known as the Lusk Committee that raided, arrested, and seized materials of suspected Communists and Socialists, including the defendant in this case, Benjamin Gitlow, publisher of the “Left Wing Manifesto.”

  6. Gitlow was born in New Jersey. He early became active in the Socialist Party and in the Retail Clerks Union of New York. Source for information on Gitlow, Benjamin: Encyclopaedia Judaica dictionary.

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