Max Ascoli was a Jewish Italian-American professor of political philosophy and law at the New School for Social Research, United States of America.
15 Facts About Max Ascoli
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Max Ascoli was born in Ferrara, Italy on June 25,1898, into an Italian Jewish family.
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Max Ascoli was the only child of Enrico Ascoli, a coal and lumber merchant, and Adriana Finzi.
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In 1928, Max Ascoli held the chair of Philosophy of Law at the University of Rome, but he was arrested.
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In 1931, Max Ascoli received a Rockefeller Foundation scholarship and moved to the United States.
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Max Ascoli met Alvin Johnson during his time with the Rockefeller Foundation and later joined the New School for Social Research that Johnson co-founded in New York.
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Max Ascoli was active in the Mazzini Society, an anti-fascist organization founded in 1939 by Italian intellectuals who had fled fascist Italy.
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Max Ascoli founded a number of other important cultural organizations in the US, including the Handicrafts Development Incorporated, a private organization that helped artists and artisans in Italy.
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In 1938, Max Ascoli teamed up with a noted writer and correspondent Dorothy Thompson.
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For many years, Max Ascoli taught at the New School for Social Research, becoming dean of the Graduate School.
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Max Ascoli left the New School to serve the government for two years under Nelson A Rockefeller, then Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs.
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Max Ascoli then went on to focus on a new magazine.
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Max Ascoli was assigned to go to Latin America because the OSS feared that the Axis powers were trying to make inroads in such countries as Argentina, Mexico, and Brazil.
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In 1949, Max Ascoli joined James Reston to found The Reporter, an influential, liberal magazine for some two decades.
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Max Ascoli died after a long illness at his home in Manhattan on January 1,1978, at the age of 79.