Synopses & Reviews
Partner of one of the most infamous anarchists of her time, Johann Most, Helene Minkin joined the anarchist movement after emigrating from Russia in 1888 with her father and sister. Framed as a reaction and corrective to Emma Goldman's Living My Life, Minkin's memoir provides a unique account of turn-of-the-century anarchism and immigrant life in the United States. Published in the Yiddish-language newspaper Forverts in 1932, this is its first English translation.
Tom Goyens teaches American history at Salisbury University in Maryland. He is the author of Beer and Revolution: The German Anarchist Movement in New York City, 1880-1914.
Synopsis
A Jewish immigrant in America, dedicated to the cause of freedom, gives her account of life in the anarchist movement.
About the Author
Tom Goyens teaches American history at Salisbury University in Maryland. He is the author of Beer and Revolution: The German Anarchist Movement in New York City, 1880-1914 (University of Illinois Press, 2007) and has published on immigrant anarchism in Social Anarchism and Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice. He is currently working on a biography of Johann Most, and editing a collection of essays on anarchism in New York City from 1880 to 2011.