page_title: Elias Lieberman
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Elias Lieberman / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Looking southwest at front door of Jeff HS on a sunny morning.
context_page_description: Elias Lieberman was an American poet, writer and educator, known for 1916 poem "I Am an American".
context_section_description: In 1903, Lieberman began working as an English teacher at public schools.  At NYU, he served as editor of Puck, The American Hebrew, and The Scholastic.
  In 1915, Juliet Stuart Poyntz became education director of the Worker's University of Local 25 of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) under committee chair Lieberman.
  In 1918, he became head of the English department at Bushwick High School in Brooklyn through 1924.
  In 1924, Lieberman became principal of Thomas Jefferson High School in Brooklyn.  Students included movie star and comedian Danny Kaye and wife Sylvia Fine, scientist Martin Pope, Jack Rollins (producer), and typewriter expert Martin Tytell.  Thomas Jefferson was one of seven public high schools in New York to receive a M. P. Moller pipe organ in 1926 under Lieberman. (In the 1990s, this organ was removed and discarded.)
  In 1940, Lieberman joined the New York City Board of Education, as an associate superintendent of schools in charge of the junior high school division.  He retired in 1954.
caption: Thomas Jefferson High School,  where Lieberman was principal from 1924 to 1940
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