Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman · Arts & Literature
Influential anarchist writer and activist, a pioneering advocate for free speech and women's rights.
1869, Kovno, Russian Empire (now Kaunas, Lithuania) — 1940, Toronto, Canada
Russian Empire · United States · Canada
Emma Goldman is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Influential anarchist writer and activist, a pioneering advocate for free speech and women's rights.
Emma Goldman was an influential anarchist writer, orator and activist who emigrated from the Russian Empire to the United States and became a pioneering advocate of free speech, women's emancipation, birth control and labor rights, founding the journal 'Mother Earth'. Deported during the anti-radical repression of 1919, she remained a leading figure of the international anarchist movement. She was born into a Jewish family in Kovno.
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Influential anarchist writer and activist, a pioneering advocate for free speech and women's rights.
Source: IMDb (Jewish Actors list)
