Julius Bernard Maller (April 15, 1901 – May 8, 1959) was a Lithuanian-born Jewish-American educator and sociologist from New York. Life Maller was born on April 15, 1901 in Vabalninkas, Russia, the son of Abraham Shalom Maller and Minna Glass. He immigrated to America in 1921. An orphan at nine, Maller quickly started working whatever job he could find, attend school irregularly, and saved money to buy books and study at home. When he was fourteen, he began working as a tutor until he saved enough money to come to America and join his three married sisters in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he got a job as an assistant for the public library's foreign language department. In November 1921, he moved to St. Louis, Missouri and worked as a teacher in the Montefiore School while attending the Central High School as a special student. He was able to graduate from the school in nine months, after which he went to Washington University. He graduated from there in 1925. During that time, he also wrote for several local Jewish publications, served as an editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for two years, and became librarian of the Menorah Society. Maller then went to New York City, New York, receiving a Doctorate of Hebrew Letters from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in 1928 and a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1929. He worked as director of educational research for the Union of American Hebrew Congregations from 1929 to 1932. An expert in general and Jewish education, his published contributions include achievement tests in Jewish history and a syllabus of educational psychology that embodied an application of certain general principles to the teaching of Jewish studies. He was especially interested in character education of the child. In 1933, he published the results of a survey on juvenile delinquency among Jews. He conducted a survey for the New York State Board of Regents into the character and cost of public education in the state. He made an exhaustive analysis of the relation of schools in given communities to the communities' social and economic backgrounds, and the results were published in School and Community in 1939. As a director of Institute of Crime Prevention, he published Studies in Service and Self-Control in 1929 and Character and Personality Traits in 1934. Maller worked as a lecturer and an educational psychology and research associate for Teachers College,