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About John Gerassi
- John "Tito" Gerassi was a professor and journalist born in Paris on July 12, 1931, and died in New York City July 26, 2012.
- Gerassi wrote a number of books on Latin America, Jean-Paul Sartre, and political affairs.
- He taught at a variety of colleges and universities in the United States and in France.
- Most notably, Gerassi was a longtime professor in the Political Science department at Queens College of the City University of New York.
- He taught at Queens College from 1981 until his passing.
- He was an activist in the New Left and a leading thinker regarding the significance of Sartre's work. His father was Fernando Gerassi, a Sephardic Jew and an anarchist general who defended the Republic from Franco during the Spanish Civil War.
- His mother was Stefania Avdykovych, Ukrainian and daughter of Klymentyna Avdykovych, famous Lviv candy factory owner.
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