Emma Goldman

Russian-born American anarchist (1869–1940)

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Emma Goldman was a human born in Kaunas on 27 June 1869 and died in Toronto on 14 May 1940 due to a stroke. She held citizenship in the Russian Empire, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Lithuania. An atheist of Lithuanian Jewish ethnicity, she worked as an anarchist, journalist, women's rights activist, and lecturer, primarily in New York City. Her political ideologies included anarchism and feminism. She was influenced by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Friedrich Nietzsche, Johann Most, and Henry David Thoreau.

Goldman spoke English, German, Russian, and Yiddish. She was unmarried to Alexander Berkman and was convicted of sedition. Her notable works include *Living My Life*, *Anarchism and Other Essays*, and *My Disillusionment in Russia*. Other works cited are *Down with the anarchists!*, *Syndicalism*, *The place of the individual in society*, *Emma Goldman on Anarchism*, and *Marriage and Love*. Her archives are held at the International Institute of Social History and the New York Public Library Main Branch.

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Born: 27 June 1869
Died: 14 May 1940
Works: 136

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Down with the anarchists!
Syndicalism
The place of the individual in society
Emma Goldman on Anarchism
Marriage and Love

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Instance of: human
Given name: Emma
Family name: Goldman
Gender: female
Citizenship: Lithuania
Place of birth: Kaunas
Place of death: Toronto
Occupation: pacifist
Languages spoken: English language
Religion: atheism
Participant in: Spanish Civil War
Field of work: philosophy
Conflict: Spanish Civil War
Image: Emma Goldman seated.jpg
Work location: New York City
Convicted of: sedition
Political ideology: feminism

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Commons category: Emma Goldman
date of birth: 1869-06-27
date of death: 1940-05-14
topic's main category: Category:Emma Goldman
cause of death: stroke
influenced by: Max Stirner
manner of death: natural causes
unmarried partner: Alexander Berkman
ethnic group: Lithuanian Jews
archives at: New York Public Library Main Branch
described by source: Living My Life
place of burial: Haymarket Martyrs' Monument
owner of: Mother Earth
writing language: English language
name in native language: Emma Goldman
P12749: Tupigny
Commons Creator page: Emma Goldman

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Emma Goldman (June 27, 1869 – May 14, 1940) was a Russian-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.

Born in Kaunas, Lithuania (then within the Russian Empire), to a Lithuanian Jewish family, Goldman immigrated to the United States in 1885. Attracted to anarchism after the Haymarket affair in Chicago, Goldman became a writer and a renowned lecturer on anarchist philosophy, women's rights, and social issues, attracting crowds of thousands. She and anarchist writer Alexander Berkman, her lover and lifelong friend, planned to assassinate industrialist and financier Henry Clay Frick as an act of propaganda of the deed. Frick survived the attempt on his life in 1892, and Berkman was sentenced to 22 years in prison. Goldman was imprisoned several times in the years that followed, for "inciting to riot" and illegally distributing information about birth control. In 1906, Goldman founded the anarchist journal Mother Earth.

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