Introduction to Emma Goldman

Tue, 16 Nov 1993 00:22:58 +0000
Anarchists, Emma Goldman, Feminism, History, International, Talk, Review

Emma Goldman was born in 1869 in a Jewish ghetto in Russia where her family ran a small inn. When she was 13 the family moved to St Petersburg. It was just after the assassination of Alexander II and so was a time of political repression. The Jewish community suffered a wave of pogroms. The severe economic hardship of the time meant that Emma Goldman had to leave school after six months in St Petersburg and work in a factory.