Joseph Gaer

Joseph Gaer (originally named Joseph Fishman) (1897-1969) was a Russian-born Jewish man who immigrated to the United States, where he became a university lecturer of literature, and then worked a number of government jobs including for the Federal Writers' Project. He also wrote and published, and founded a press and a publishing company.

Background Joseph Fishman was born on March 16, 1897, in Edineț, in what was then Bessarabia, now Moldova. He immigrated to the US in 1917, and studied there and in Canada. That same month, when publishing a one-paragraph biography of Gaer, Congressional Record alleged that Direction, a magazine published by the Federal Workers Project, had been "pro-Communist." When a worker needs a friend (1944) Bretton Woods is no mystery (1945) Answer is full employment (1945) People's program for 1946 (1946) Remember in November (1946)