Tag: Emma Goldman

In his book "American Anarchy," Pulitzer Prize finalist Michael Willrich sheds light on the little-known Jewish lawyer Harry Weinberger, who championed civil liberties by defending prominent anarchists like Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman in the early 20th century.
Emma Goldman, a prominent Jewish anarchist, was arrested at the Forward Building in 1916 for speaking about birth control, a subject deemed illegal under the Comstock Act of 1873.
The podcast explores the life of Emma Goldman, a Jewish anarchist activist in early 20th-century America known for her contributions to feminism and the American left.
The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is digitizing the Jewish Labor Bund archive, which includes 3.5 million pages of documents, photos, flyers, and correspondence.
Alla Nazimova, a theater star born in Crimea in 1879, became the highest-paid movie actress in the world in the late 1910s.
Emma Goldman, a prominent anarchist figure, is explored in the Jewish Lives Podcast through the perspective of Vivian Gornick, who authored a biography about Goldman titled "Emma Goldman: Revolution as a Way of Life."