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Robert Treuhaft was born on August 8, 1912, in New York City. He was the son of Hungarian Jewish immigrants. [2] He graduated from Harvard University in 1934 and attained his LL.B. degree from Harvard Law School in 1937. [3]
- Attorney, political activist
- November 11, 2001 (aged 89), New York, U.S.
- August 8, 1912, New York City, U.S.
Dec 2, 2001 · Robert Edward Treuhaft was born in New York on Aug. 8, 1912, the son of working-class immigrants from Hungary. His mother eventually came to run her own hat shop on Park Avenue; his father, a ...
Nov 16, 2001 · Robert E. Treuhaft, crusading civil rights activist and attorney whose long-standing criticism of the funeral industry helped develop his late wife Jessica Mitford’s scathing bestseller “The ...
Robert Treuhaft, who has died aged 89, was a crusading American lawyer who championed left-wing causes for more than 60 years, in particular the rights of trade unionists and blacks. In the 1950s ...
Nov 17, 2001 · Robert E. Treuhaft, 89, a civil rights activist and lawyer whose long-standing criticism of the funeral industry helped develop his wife Jessica Mitford's scathing, best-selling book, "The ...
Watch Robert Treuhaft at a 1998 C-SPAN TV tribute to Mitford. Benjamin Ivry is a frequent Forward contributor. I hope you appreciated this article. Before you go, I’d like to ask you to please ...
Robert E. Treuhaft (1912-2001) a radical left-wing attorney prominent in progressive and New Left politics in the San Francisco Bay Area, was known for his work as a civil rights and civil liberties attorney as well as representing New Left organizations and individuals, such as the Free Speech Movement.
