Early Life and Education
LeWinter was born in Vienna, Austria and raised in Brooklyn, New York. The son of Louis and Regina Mandel Le Winter, his parents were Jewish immigrants who ran an upholstery store. Oswald LeWinter was sent at the age of 8 years to the U.S. by his parents from Hamburg, Germany prior to WWII. He traveled with Gilbert Kraus on the President Harding in June 1939. His parents followed in February 1940 on the Saturnia.
By the late 1950s, LeWinter resided in California. He obtained a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley and a masters from San Francisco State College. After marrying, LeWinter returned to New York where he completed studies toward a Ph.D. at Columbia University.
From 1961 to 1963 he worked as an English instructor at the Penn State University. LeWinter supposedly received a doctorate of social sciences from the University of Tübingen in Germany.
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