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334:. His mother, Bella Perlmutter of the Finkelstein family, tended a pushcart that sold ices. Perlmutter's wife was Ruthann Perlmutter of the Osofsky family. His children are Dean and Nina. His brother Philip was a prominent scholar and activist in the field of inter-ethnic relations and Jewish civil rights.
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