hominidmedia: people: emma goldman
media introduction:
Photo Credit:"Portrait Emma Goldman." New York: Komow and Lando, c. 1892-1917 Emma Goldman Collection Amsterdam: International Institute of Social History [iisg.amsterdam].
Mel Bucklin. "Emma Goldman: An Exceedingly Dangerous Woman" American Experience. PBS Home Video, 27 March 2005. [pbs.org]. The American Experience biography tries to balance Goldman's media construction of an agitating anarchist with her advocacy for human rights.
A recurring theme in Goldman's biographies, including An Exceedingly Dangerous Woman is her birth in the city of Kaunas. Frequently she is referred to as a Russian born into a Jewish family in 1869. Today, Kaunas is a Lithuanian city. It has been ruled (annexed or destroyed) by the USSR, Nazi Germany, Russian Empire and Napoleonic France. The last time Lithuania had home rule was as part of the Polish Lithuanian commonwealth (1569-1795). In this context, Goldman's national heritage (as a Russian) is questionable. Lithuania was a place where Baltic Jews settled and Poland was a frontier for Russian Jews. This part of her heritage--some kind of secular Judaism--is probably closer to an identity based on Lithuania's shifting historical rulers. This is important for a couple of reasons. First, the lack of a stable home state must have impacted her political anarchism. Second, Goldman was deported as part of the Palmer Raids. She was sent to post-revolution Russia which was yet another version of the physical place she was from--controlled by a new set of outsiders.
"Emma Goldman: An Exceedingly Dangeous Woman." American Experience PBS Transcript (2004):
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standard narrative:
Robert C. Binkley. "The Era of Nationalism and the Modern Age." Sense of History (Unpublished, 1939-40). Web. [.html]
Binkley on Goldman
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Melvyn Dubofsky, Foster Rhea Dulles. Labor in America: A History Eighth Edition. Wheeling (IL): Harlan Davidson Inc., 2010. 151. (First published, 1949).
Louis Hartz. The Liberal Tradition in America. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1955. 300, 301.
Hartz on Goldman:
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Carl N. Degler. Out of Our Past: The Forces that Shaped Modern America. New York and Evanston: Harper Colophon, 1962. (First Published: 1959). 370-72.
Degler on Goldman:
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Lois W. Banner. Woman in Modern America: A Brief History Harbrace History of United States. New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1974. 104, 109.
Calvin D. Linton (ed). The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America. Nashville and New York: Thomas Nelson Inc., 1975. (Second Printing) 237, 299-300.
Linton's Goldman chronology:
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Howard Zinn. A Peoples History Of The United States. New York: Harper Perrenial Modern Classics, 2005. (First Published: 1980). 272, 277-278, 321, 345, 372, 375, 503.
Zinn on Goldman:
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Miriam Schneir. "Goldman, Emma" The World Book Encyclopedia. USA: World Book Inc., 1988.
Schneir on Goldman:
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James A. Henretta, David Brody, Susan Ware, Marilynn S. Johnson. America's History Volume 2: Since 1865 Boston: Bedford, 2000. 732.
John Mack Faragher, Mary Jo Buhle, Daniel Czitrom, Susan H. Armitage. Out of Many: A History of the American People. brief 4th ed. New Jersey: Pearson, 2004. 442. (First Published: 1995).
Eric Foner. Give Me Liberty! An American History. WW. Norton: Second Seagull Ed., 2009. (First Published: 2005). 650-61, 697, 713.
Foner on Goldman:
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Mari Jo Buhle, Teresa Murphy, Jane Gerhard. Women and the Making of America. New Jersey: Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2009. 452-454, 456-457.
primary sources:
Emma Goldman. The Anarchist Library Archive. [.html]. This archive includes more than ninety Goldman texts. They are indexed (by users) along topics like "abolition [of prisons]," "anarcho-communism," "art," "atheism," "autobiography," "birth control," "education," "feminism," "Palmer Raids," "propaganda of the deed," "psychology," "repression," "Russian Revolution," "sexuality," "Spanish Civil War," "World War I," "Zionism." This thematic breakdown represents her early (and violent) vision of anarchism, for Mother Earth and "Disillusionment in Russia."
Goldman wrote biographies of her friends and allies including Alexander Berkman, James Colton, Leon Czolgosz, Francisco Ferrer, Simion Kolofsky and Walt Whitman, Ross Winn and Mary Wollstonecraft. She was a skilled political theorist and cared for her subjects. She was also very open about her own personal life, writing about sex, marriage, love and women's place in patriarchy.
Emma Goldman. "Primary Sources" The Emma Goldman Papers Project. University of California-Berkeley. [lib.berkeley.edu]. Some sections in this archive: book excerpts, "Published Essays and Pamphlets," four anti-conscription "speeches...delivered in New York City and London," five New York Times articles from 1917 about anti-war strikes, and personal correspondence. This last section (titled "Scanned Documents") includes selections of Goldman's correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, Edward Carpenter, Eugene Debs, Upton Sinclair, Max Nettlau, John Dewey and others.
Glassgold, Peter, ed. Anarchy! An Anthology of Emma Goldman's Mother Earth. Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 2001. Glassgold is a historian from New York State. [peterglassgold.com].
[Modernist Journals Project] hosts one full issue of Mother Earth New York: Emma Goldman (ed. and pub.), Vol. 6, No. 2: 1911-04-01 36p.; It is a good one, which includes a poem by Rudyard Kipling and an article by CLR James.
media introduction:
Photo Credit:"Portrait Emma Goldman." New York: Komow and Lando, c. 1892-1917 Emma Goldman Collection Amsterdam: International Institute of Social History [iisg.amsterdam].
Mel Bucklin. "Emma Goldman: An Exceedingly Dangerous Woman" American Experience. PBS Home Video, 27 March 2005. [pbs.org]. The American Experience biography tries to balance Goldman's media construction of an agitating anarchist with her advocacy for human rights.
A recurring theme in Goldman's biographies, including An Exceedingly Dangerous Woman is her birth in the city of Kaunas. Frequently she is referred to as a Russian born into a Jewish family in 1869. Today, Kaunas is a Lithuanian city. It has been ruled (annexed or destroyed) by the USSR, Nazi Germany, Russian Empire and Napoleonic France. The last time Lithuania had home rule was as part of the Polish Lithuanian commonwealth (1569-1795). In this context, Goldman's national heritage (as a Russian) is questionable. Lithuania was a place where Baltic Jews settled and Poland was a frontier for Russian Jews. This part of her heritage--some kind of secular Judaism--is probably closer to an identity based on Lithuania's shifting historical rulers. This is important for a couple of reasons. First, the lack of a stable home state must have impacted her political anarchism. Second, Goldman was deported as part of the Palmer Raids. She was sent to post-revolution Russia which was yet another version of the physical place she was from--controlled by a new set of outsiders.
"Emma Goldman: An Exceedingly Dangeous Woman." American Experience PBS Transcript (2004):
[load text]
standard narrative:
Robert C. Binkley. "The Era of Nationalism and the Modern Age." Sense of History (Unpublished, 1939-40). Web. [.html]
Binkley on Goldman
[load text]
Melvyn Dubofsky, Foster Rhea Dulles. Labor in America: A History Eighth Edition. Wheeling (IL): Harlan Davidson Inc., 2010. 151. (First published, 1949).
Louis Hartz. The Liberal Tradition in America. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1955. 300, 301.
Hartz on Goldman:
[load text]
Carl N. Degler. Out of Our Past: The Forces that Shaped Modern America. New York and Evanston: Harper Colophon, 1962. (First Published: 1959). 370-72.
Degler on Goldman:
[load text]
Lois W. Banner. Woman in Modern America: A Brief History Harbrace History of United States. New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1974. 104, 109.
Calvin D. Linton (ed). The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America. Nashville and New York: Thomas Nelson Inc., 1975. (Second Printing) 237, 299-300.
Linton's Goldman chronology:
[load text]
Howard Zinn. A Peoples History Of The United States. New York: Harper Perrenial Modern Classics, 2005. (First Published: 1980). 272, 277-278, 321, 345, 372, 375, 503.
Zinn on Goldman:
[load text]
Miriam Schneir. "Goldman, Emma" The World Book Encyclopedia. USA: World Book Inc., 1988.
Schneir on Goldman:
[load text]
James A. Henretta, David Brody, Susan Ware, Marilynn S. Johnson. America's History Volume 2: Since 1865 Boston: Bedford, 2000. 732.
John Mack Faragher, Mary Jo Buhle, Daniel Czitrom, Susan H. Armitage. Out of Many: A History of the American People. brief 4th ed. New Jersey: Pearson, 2004. 442. (First Published: 1995).
Eric Foner. Give Me Liberty! An American History. WW. Norton: Second Seagull Ed., 2009. (First Published: 2005). 650-61, 697, 713.
Foner on Goldman:
[load text]
Mari Jo Buhle, Teresa Murphy, Jane Gerhard. Women and the Making of America. New Jersey: Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2009. 452-454, 456-457.
primary sources:
Emma Goldman. The Anarchist Library Archive. [.html]. This archive includes more than ninety Goldman texts. They are indexed (by users) along topics like "abolition [of prisons]," "anarcho-communism," "art," "atheism," "autobiography," "birth control," "education," "feminism," "Palmer Raids," "propaganda of the deed," "psychology," "repression," "Russian Revolution," "sexuality," "Spanish Civil War," "World War I," "Zionism." This thematic breakdown represents her early (and violent) vision of anarchism, for Mother Earth and "Disillusionment in Russia."
Goldman wrote biographies of her friends and allies including Alexander Berkman, James Colton, Leon Czolgosz, Francisco Ferrer, Simion Kolofsky and Walt Whitman, Ross Winn and Mary Wollstonecraft. She was a skilled political theorist and cared for her subjects. She was also very open about her own personal life, writing about sex, marriage, love and women's place in patriarchy.
Emma Goldman. "Primary Sources" The Emma Goldman Papers Project. University of California-Berkeley. [lib.berkeley.edu]. Some sections in this archive: book excerpts, "Published Essays and Pamphlets," four anti-conscription "speeches...delivered in New York City and London," five New York Times articles from 1917 about anti-war strikes, and personal correspondence. This last section (titled "Scanned Documents") includes selections of Goldman's correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, Edward Carpenter, Eugene Debs, Upton Sinclair, Max Nettlau, John Dewey and others.
Glassgold, Peter, ed. Anarchy! An Anthology of Emma Goldman's Mother Earth. Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 2001. Glassgold is a historian from New York State. [peterglassgold.com].
[Modernist Journals Project] hosts one full issue of Mother Earth New York: Emma Goldman (ed. and pub.), Vol. 6, No. 2: 1911-04-01 36p.; It is a good one, which includes a poem by Rudyard Kipling and an article by CLR James.