Samuel Rubin (1901 – 21 December 1978) was a Russian

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Biography

Samuel Rubin was born to a

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family In 1930, Rubin founded the Spanish Trading Corporation, following up in 1937 by founding Faberge Perfumes. He retained ownership of the company until 1963 at which point, it having been made a great success, he sold it. Part of the profits went into the Samuel Rubin Foundation, which he had established in 1959. In 1958 an endowed scholarship was established in his name at

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. In 1972 he took part in a dinner meeting in Paris with Susan George and French political figures and intellectuals who all opposed the

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. This was at the request of

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. They discussed setting up the

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(TNI) in Europe. About this he said: “Since we all agree that the world is suffering from war, from inequities, from the inhuman treatment of perhaps more than two thirds of humanity, let us come together to examine these questions and to see what answers we can collectively produce that may perhaps deliver us, as humanity, as the human race, into a world different from the one we are living in today.” The Samuel Rubin Foundation has been an important funder of the

for many years. TNI set up the "Samuel Rubin Young Fellowship Programme" in honor of his support. The foundation also helped established, as part of the "Samuel Rubin Program for Liberty and Equality Through Law", a visiting professorship and an annual lecture on

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in 1981. Known as 'The Samuel Rubin Lectures', the professorship and the lecture are to address current issues in human and civil rights law.

Personal life

Rubin was married twice. His first marriage was to

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, an anthropologist; they had two children, Reed and activist

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rubin, Samuel 1901 births 1978 deaths Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the United States