Yetta Barsh Shachtman (1915–1996) was an American socialist politician, who was married to Max Shachtman, a Marxist theorist. She appears in the letters of classmate Saul Bellow; the two attended Tuley High School. She graduated in 1932. and Bellow delivered a eulogy at her funeral. Further reading In Memory of Yetta Barshevsky, by Saul Bellow References American communists 1915 births 1996 deaths