Annette Rubinstein

Annette Teta Rubinstein (April 12, 1910 – June 20, 2007) was an American Marxist educator, literary critic, and activist.

[2] Rubinstein earned her PhD from Columbia University and then became the principal of the Robert Louis Stevenson High School.

[5] She met American Labor Party politician Vito Marcantonio in 1934 and later worked for him as an adviser.

[7] As a 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.