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  Emma Goldman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Emma Goldman grew up in a Jewish family in Kaunas, Lithuania (then under the control of Russia, and called Kovno by the Russians), where her family ran a small inn.
Goldman was widely believed by the authorities to have been involved in the planning stages of the Frick assassination attempt, but Berkman and the other conspirators refused to give evidence against Goldman, and she was not charged in the indictment.
Emma Goldman is the protagonist in an unpublished
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 emma goldman, extreme virtue
Emma Goldman was an incredibly passionate person in every aspect of her life: in her sexuality and commitment to love; in her politics; in her absorption in the arts.
Goldman herself was attracted to what one might call the spiritual liberation that anarchism promised: she foresaw a flourishing of the arts, of sexuality in all its forms, and of human knowledge.
Emma Goldman provided an example for all women in the affirmation of her sexuality and her internal struggle with gender norms; she provided an example for all human beings in her total disrespect for the evil of institutions.
www.crispinsartwell.com /goldman.htm   (8287 words)

  
 Emma Goldman - anarchist women   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Emma Goldman was born in 1869 in a Jewish ghetto in Russia where her family ran a small inn.
Emma Goldman had followed the event intensely and as the day on the day of the hanging she decided to become a revolutionary.
Goldman died in 1940 and was buried in Chicago not far from the Haymarket Martyrs whose fate had changed the course of her life.
flag.blackened.net /revolt/talks/goldman.html   (1603 words)

  
 Who Was Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman (June 27, 1869 - May 14, 1940) was a Lithuanian-born anarchist known for her radical libertarian and feminist writing and speeches.
Goldman was friends with fellow Communists and New Yorkers John Reed and Louise Bryant, both of whom were also in Russia at this time (during a period when it was impossible to leave the country); they may even have shared an apartment (see also the film Reds).
Emma Goldman died in Toronto and was buried in Chicago.
www.francesfarmersrevenge.com /stuff/archive/oldnews4/emmagoldman.htm   (671 words)

  
 Emma Goldman: biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Emma Goldman was one of the “new immigrants” to the United States in the post Civil War era.
Goldman begins to travel all over New England giving speeches ranging in topics from the “Paris Commune, 1871,” to “The Right To Be Lazy.” Speaking mostly in German, sometimes in Yiddish, to groups, Emma encourages workers to join unions and strike for better working conditions.
Emma had requested to be buried in the same cemetery near the graves of the anarchists put to death for the Haymarket Square bombing, who inspired her in the very beginning.
recollectionbooks.com /bleed/Encyclopedia/GoldmanEmma/goldmanWright.htm   (1786 words)

  
 Anarchy in Interpretation: The Life of Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman was many things -- a feminist, a writer and an incredible public speaker -- but first and foremost, she was an anarchist.
Goldman was hounded for much of her life by two of the most notorious law enforcement officials in American history: Anthony Comstock and J Edgar Hoover.
Emma relates her reply to Kropotkin: "All right, dear comrade, when I have reached your age [she was thirty, Kropotkin fifty-seven], the sex question may no longer be of importance to me. But it is now, and it is a tremendous factor for thousands, millions even, of young people".
www.spunk.org /texts/people/goldman/sp001520/emmabio.html   (6611 words)

  
 Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman, anarchist activist and organizer, lecturer and agitator, feminist, spokesperson for the new drama, advocate of birth control and free speech, was in Paris in 1900.
Goldman's essay is cast in the form of a letter dated Berlin, March 1923: it constitutes a pro-homosexual but critical and sophisticated discussion discussion of that form of defense which tried to establish the same-sex orientation of worthy, talented, or famous historical figures - as a response to the popular, totally negative portrayal of homosexuals.
Goldman next presents a summary of the evidence which led von Levetzow to "diagnose" Michel as a Lesbian: as a child, she was an avid reader and was keenly interested in the natural sciences; her behavior was generally tomboyish, and she paid little attention to her appearance.
www.angelfire.com /ok/Flack/emma.html   (2439 words)

  
 Today in History: February 11
Emma Goldman, American anarchist and compelling advocate of free speech, women's equality, the eight-hour day, and birth control, was arrested in New York City on February 11, 1916, while giving a public lecture on family planning.
Goldman was born in Kaunas, a Russian city that is now part of Lithuania, on June 27, 1869.
In 1917, Goldman was arrested for obstructing the draft because of her outspoken opposition to military conscription associated with World War I.
memory.loc.gov /ammem/today/feb11.html   (653 words)

  
 History News Network   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Born in Kovno, Lithuania, Emma Goldman was, in the words of one of her biographers, "an almost mythical figure, the archetypal woman activist." In 1882 she moved with her family to the Jewish ghetto in St Petersburg where she started reading the radical literature of Turgenev and Chernyshevsky.
Goldman credited this event for her conversion to anarchism and subsequent divorce of her husband, Jacob Kershner, of less than a year.
At first, Goldman was excited to see first hand revolutionary Russia, but she quickly realized that the Bolsheviks and the massive dictatorship created by Lenin was crushing the "spontaneity of the masses." In 1921, Libertarian sailors revolted at Kronstadt against the Bolshevik government.
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 Emma Goldman
After she was released from prison Goldman became involved in the campaign for women's suffrage and birth control information.
Emma Goldman was in Toronto when she died on 14th May 1940.
Emma Goldman and Berkman are out only because of their international reputations.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAgoldman.htm   (4378 words)

  
 Anarchisms greatest hits:Emma Goldman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Emma Goldman was a legend in her own lifetime.
Emma Goldman was a formidable public speaker and a prolific writer.
Emma was blamed for his action and was forced into hiding for a time.
flag.blackened.net /revolt/ws/gold49.html   (589 words)

  
 Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman was born in Kovno, Lithuania in 1869 into a religiously traditional household.
After her release from prison in 1895, Goldman ceased advocating for direct action such as assassination and general strikes and proclaimed instead that "the key to anarchist revolution was a revolution in morality … a conquest of the ‘phantoms’ that held people captive" such as racism and religious intolerance.
Goldman avoided arrest until 1917, when she was jailed for 18 months for speaking out against conscription in World War I. In 1919, the U. government deported her to Russia.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/EGoldman.html   (734 words)

  
 JWA - Emma Goldman—Overview
Emma Goldman dedicated her life to the creation of a radically new social order.
Goldman's deep commitment to the ideal of absolute freedom led her to espouse a wide range of controversial causes.
Although Goldman was hostile to religion in general, her core beliefs emerged in part from a Jewish tradition that championed the pursuit of universal justice.
www.jwa.org /exhibits/wov/goldman   (304 words)

  
 Emma Goldman resources at Erratic Impact's Feminism Web
At the turn of the 20th century, Emma Goldman (1869-1940) was probably the most hated woman in her adopted country.
Goldman's marvelously militant autobiography gives ample evidence of her gift for bearing a grudge and inability to mince words--she decries fellow leftists at least as often as the bourgeoisie, especially after she is deported to the Soviet Union in 1919 and discovers that the Bolshevik Revolution is not what she hoped for.
Emma Goldman (1869-1940) stands as a major figure in the history of American radicalism and feminism.
www.erraticimpact.com /~feminism/html/women_goldman_emma.htm   (460 words)

  
 Emma Goldman
Goldman (1869-1940), the Russian-American anarchist, was one of the most renowned radicals of the early twentieth century.
In this essay, Emma Goldman portrays her contemporary and comrade Voltairine de Cleyre as a determined fighter who, following a brief flirtation with socialism, embraced anarchism as a result of the Haymarket Tragedy.
In 1917 Goldman and her longtime companion, the anarchist Alexander Berkman, were imprisoned for their outspoken opposition to World War I. Upon their release from prison in 1919, they were deported, and left for Russia.
www.lib.umich.edu /spec-coll/ishill/goldman.html   (438 words)

  
 The Emma Goldman Test
Emma Goldman was one of the most influential women in modern American history.
Goldmanís experience in protesting led her to found the American Civil Liberties Union, which is still a prominent political institution.
Goldman had such passion for all forms of protest that she soon became an advocate of anarchism and atheism, although she never formally claimed the anarchist party.
www.zpub.com /notes/emmatest.html   (682 words)

  
 Forest Home Cemetery: Emma Goldman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Emma Goldman was an anarchist and radical who worked for the causes of free speech, women's rights, birth control and an eight-hour workday.
She became a political activist as a result of the Haymarket incident in 1886.
As she had earlier expressed a wish to be buried near the Haymarket monument, her body was brought back to the United States with the permission of Immigration.
www.graveyards.com /IL/Cook/foresthome/ne-goldman.html   (165 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Living My Life, Vol. 1: Books: Emma Goldman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Emma Goldman applies the same unrelenting scrutiny to her political actions and the actions and philosophies of governments as she does to her love affairs and friendships.
Emma fought for things we have taken for granted in modern life, such as birth-control and the eight-hour work day; she went to jail in the struggle to obtain these for us.
The book is testimony of the powerful eloquence and charisma of Emma Goldman, who managed to weave the minute details of the lives of some of our most brilliant and--by virtue of their radicalism--unknown revolutionary activists of turn-of-the-century America and abroad into an absorbing and intense piece of non-fiction.
www.amazon.com /Living-My-Life-Vol-1/dp/0486225437   (1992 words)

  
 NETV Emma Goldman
For nearly half a century, Russian emigrant Emma Goldman was the most controversial woman in America, taunting the mainstream with her fervent attacks on government, big business and war.
To the tabloids, she was "Red Emma, queen of the anarchists," but many admired Goldman for her defense of labor rights, women's emancipation, birth control and free speech.
"Emma Goldman" is a production of the Nebraska ETV Network for "American Experience," and was written, produced and directed by NETV's Mel Bucklin, with Liz Renner as associate producer, Ralph Hammack as editor, New York-based cinematographer Eddie Marritz as director of photography and original music by Brian Keane of Connecticut.
net.unl.edu /nptv/emma_preview_page.html   (507 words)

  
 Emma Goldman Biography
Emma Goldman was born in Kovno, Russia and emigrated to live with a sister in Rochester, New York, when she was fifteen.
Her family’s financial hardships had forced her to leave school and work in a factory, and her first work in America was as a seamstress in a clothing factory.
Emma Goldman was arrested and detained several times for her activism, but her most severe punishment, two years in prison, was for obstructing the draft during World War I. In 1919 she and Berkman were deported to Russia where she was able to witness the consequences of the 1917 Revolution.
www.americanswhotellthetruth.org /pgs/portraits/Emma_Goldman.html   (359 words)

  
 Essays: Emma Goldman
Part of the Emma Goldman Papers Project, which "has collected, organized, and edited tens of thousands of documents by and about Goldman from around the world," this site offers an extensive amount of online information.
Socialist, anarchist, and feminist, Goldman was born in Russia and emigrated in 1885 to New York City, where she worked in clothing factories and began writing and lecturing on behalf of reform movements, including feminism and birth control.
In 1893, she was arrested for inciting a riot after urging a group of unemployed workers to take food by force.
www.bedfordstmartins.com /litlinks/essays/goldman.htm   (260 words)

  
 The Emma Goldman Papers (DL SunSITE)
Emma Goldman (1869–1940) stands as a major figure in the history of American radicalism and feminism.
An influential and well-known anarchist of her day, Goldman was an early advocate of free speech, birth control, women’s equality and independence, and union organization.
Emma Goldman and the Emma Goldman Papers Staff in the news.
sunsite.berkeley.edu /Goldman   (506 words)

  
 Go-Gra: Positive Atheism's Big List of Emma Goldman Quotations
Redemption through the Cross is worse than damnation, because of the terrible burden it imposes upon humanity, because of the effect it has on the human soul, fettering and paralyzing it with the weight of the burden exacted through the death of Christ.
They knew that justice, truth, and fidelity are not conditioned in heaven, but that they are related to and interwoven with the tremendous changes going on in the social and material life of the human race; not fixed and eternal, but fluctuating, even as life itself.
Christ and his teachings are the embodiment of submission, of inertia, of the denial of life; hence responsible for the things done in their name.
www.positiveatheism.org /hist/quotes/goldman.htm   (2290 words)

  
 (DV) Nimmo: Emma Goldman for President
Emma, the most important anarchist of the 20th century, has been my hero now for more than three decades.
In 1919, Emma was deported after a raid conducted by the John Ashcroft of the day, A. Mitchell Palmer.
In short order Goldman took Lenin and his version of authoritarianism to task, especially after the massacre of the Kronstadt rebels in 1921.
www.dissidentvoice.org /Mar04/Nimmo0320.htm   (1204 words)

  
 Emma Goldman
Red Emma, the greatest orator of all American history, was born on the 27th of June, 1869, in the Russian province of Kovno.
When she was 17, she emigrated to America and arrived in January 1886, the year the Statue of Liberty was inaugurated.
Emma Goldman, equally inspired on the platform, and often Sibylline in utterance, gave nevertheless the impression of radiating from an intellectual centre.
www.powys-lannion.net /Powys/America/Goldman.htm   (410 words)

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