Robert Haberman was an American
socialist lawyer
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and
activist
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who lived most of his life in
Mexico City and
Yucatán working as the head of the Foreign Language Department of the
Ministry of Education. Of
Romanian Jewish origin, he helped introduce important socialist reforms to the
Yucatán Peninsula.
[Víctor Alba, ''Politics and the labour movement in Latin America'' (Stanford University Press, 1968)
Page 113]
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American socialists
American emigrants to Mexico
Jewish socialists
Mexican Jews
Mexican people of Romanian-Jewish descent
Mexican socialists
American people of Romanian-Jewish descent
Naturalized citizens of Mexico
Lawyers from Mexico City
Year of birth missing
Year of death missing
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