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Publishers:  Emanuel Julius, Born: July 30, 1889, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Married: Anna Marcet Haldeman, June 1, 1916, Girard, Kansas. Died: July 31, 1951.  Marcet Haldeman, Born: June 18, 1887, Girard, Kansas.

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Died: February 13, 1941.

Marcet and Emanuel Haldeman-Julius were called "the Henry Fords of publishing" and the parents of the paperback book.

Emanuel Julius was born in Philadelphia in 1889, the son of Jewish emigrants who fled Russia to escape religious persecution.

As a boy, Emanuel, too, was harassed for being Jewish, resulting in a disdain for all religion as an adult. After leaving school at the age of 15, he worked at a variety of menial jobs. All the while, he read voraciously.

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Because literature and pamphlets produced by the socialists were inexpensive, Julius read them and became convinced of their truth. Ultimately he found jobs as a correspondent for socialist newspapers in several cities. In 1915 h