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Emma Goldman (June 27, 1869 – May 14, 1940) was a Lithuanian-born anarchist revolutionary, political activist, and writer. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the 20th century.
Jewish Lives is a biography series published by Yale University Press and the Leon D. Black Foundation. It was founded in 2006 and the first book was published in 2010. [1]The series explores the lives of influential Jews from antiquity through the present, including Moses, Albert Einstein, Louis D. Brandeis, Barbra Streisand, David Ben-Gurion, Emma Goldman, and more.
The No Conscription League in the United States was founded by anarchist Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman in 1917 in response to the draft in World War I.The draft was enforced by the Selective Service Act of 1917, which granted the federal government the right to raise a national army.
Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years is a collection of original documents pertaining to anarchist Emma Goldman's time spent in the United States. . Prepared by Candace Falk, founding director of the Emma Goldman Research Project at the University of California, Berkeley, the documents cover Goldman's career from her 1890 arrival in the United States through her 1919 ...
Her more notable books include Emma Goldman: Political Thinking in the Streets (2011), The Man Question: Visions of Subjectivity in Feminist Theory (1993), and Kibbutz Journal: Reflections on Gender, Race and Militarism in Israel, a work of political theory written in the personal essay form while living with her husband and two young sons on a ...
Emma Goldman in America is a biography of Emma Goldman by historian Alice Wexler originally published as Emma Goldman: An Intimate Life in 1984. It covers the first five decades of Goldman's life. Wexler published a second volume on the remainder: Emma Goldman in Exile (1989).
Rebel in Paradise: A Biography of Emma Goldman is a 1961 biography of Emma Goldman by historian Richard Drinnon. Bibliography. Bremner, Robert H. (1962). "Review of ...
When a British anarchist, John Turner, was arrested under the Anarchist Exclusion Act and threatened with deportation, Emma Goldman joined forces with the Free Speech League to champion his cause. [8] The League enlisted the aid of Clarence Darrow and Edgar Lee Masters, who took Turner's case to the US Supreme Court.