Anarchist Voices: An Oral History of Anarchism in America (Unabridged)

by Paul Avrich, Barry Pateman

Overview

This book contains 180 interviews conducted over a period of 30 years. The interviewees were active between the 1880s and the 1930s and represent all schools of anarchism. Each of the six thematic sections begins with an explanatory essay, and each interview with a biographical note. Their stories provide a wealth of personal detail about such anarchist luminaries as Emma Goldman and Sacco and Vanzetti. This work of impeccable scholarship is an invaluable resource not only for scholars of anarchism but also for those studying immigration, ethnic politics, education, and labor history.

Paul Avrich is a professor of history at Queens College and the Graduate School of the City University of New York.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781904859277
Publisher:	AK PR INC
Publication date:	06/01/2005
Pages:	592
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

Professor of History at Queens College and the Graduate School of the City University of New York. Barry Pateman is the curator of the Emma Goldman Archive at the University of California Berkeley and wrote the introduction to AK Press' Chomsky on Anarchism.

Table of Contents

	List of Illustrations	ix
	Preface and Acknowledgments	xi
Part 1	Pioneers
	Introduction	3
	Oriole Tucker Riche	8
	Beatrice Fetz	11
	Helena Bailie	14
	Laurance Labadie	15
	Alexandra Kropotkin	16
	John J. Most, Jr.	18
	Mary Schwab	20
	Henry R. Schnaubelt	22
	Milton W. Thorpe	23
	Grace Umrath	23
	Elmer B. Isaak	27
	Marion Bell	29
	Brigitte Hausberger	33
	Fermin Rocker	37
Part 2	Emma Goldman
	Introduction	45
	Freda Diamond	51
	Luba Stein Benenson	55
	Jeanne Levey	56
	Pauline H. Turkel	58
	Hilda Adel	60
	Roger N. Baldwin	62
	Albert Boni	65
	Gabriel Javsicas	66
	Ida Gershoy	68
	Arthur Leonard Ross	72
	Kate Wolfson	73
	Ora Robbins	76
	Millie Grobstein	77
	Ahrne Thorne	80
Part 3	Sacco and Vanzetti
	Introduction	87
	Spencer Sacco	92
	Gemma Diotalevi	95
	Jennie Paglia	96
	Ralph Piesco	98
	George T. Kelley	99
	Beltrando Brini	100
	Lefevre Brini Wager	104
	Concetta Silvestri	107
	Jenny Salemme	109
	Catina Willman	111
	Joseph Moro	112
	Bartolomeo Provo	115
	Vincenzo Farulla	120
	Sebastiano Magliocca	121
	Sara R. Ehrmann	122
	Art Shields	123
	Fred J. Cook	126
	George Vaux	127
	Harry Richal	128
	Louis Tarabelli	130
	Charles Poggi	132
	Febo Pomilia	134
	Florence Rossi	136
	Galileo Tobia	137
	Elide Sanchini	138
	Oreste Fabrizi	139
	Alberico Pirani	141
	Valerio Isca	143
	John Vattuone	151
	William Gallo	153
	Guy Liberti	157
	Hugo Rolland	159
	Esther Travaglio	160
	Vincenzo Ferrero	163
	Dominick Sallitto	166
	Lino Molin	167
	Mark Luca	168
	Frank Brand	169
	Attilio Bortolotti	175
Part 4	Schools and Colonies
	Introduction	191
	Amour Liber	196
	Revolte Bercovici	197
	David Lawson	198
	Manuel Komroff	200
	Benjamin G. Benno	203
	Maurice Hollod	204
	Rose Goldblatt	209
	Gussie Denenberg	211
	Charles Plunkett	214
	Moritz Jagendorf	219
	Morris Beresin	222
	Harry Melman	223
	Emma Gilbert	224
	Richard Gilbert	228
	Magda Schoenwetter	229
	Ray Shedlovsky	231
	Eva Bein	234
	Mary Rappaport	237
	Anna Schwartz	239
	Hugo Gellert	241
	Lillian Rifkin Blumenfeld	243
	Suzanne Hotkine Avins	245
	Anatole Freeman Ishill	248
	Ben Frumkin	249
	Siegfried Rolland	250
	Esther Walters	251
	Rina Garst	251
	Mollie Albert	254
	Molly Bogin	256
	Lallah Blanpied	257
	Dorothy Rick	259
	Jacques Dubois	259
	Henry Fruchter	260
	Nora Horn	261
	Jacob Landa	262
	Jo Ann Burbank	264
	Ben Lieberman	268
	Jacques Rudome	270
	Lydia Miller	273
	Eva Brandes	274
	Nellie Dick	282
	Macie Pope	291
	David Dadisman	292
	Pearl Pottu	294
	Radium LaVene	295
	Philip Trupin	296
	Louis A. Gittelman	299
	Ellis Grosner	301
	Aaron Rockoff	303
	Eleanor Litwak	304
	Shaindel Ostroff	306
	Emanuel V. Conason	308
	Beatrice Markowitz	309
	Dora Keyser	310
Part 5	Ethnic Anarchists
	Introduction	315
	Sam Dreen	320
	Rene Shapshak	324
	Lena Shlakman	325
	Julius Seltzer	328
	Joseph Spivak	330
	Rebecca August	332
	Ida Lehrer and Sonya Tucker	333
	Zalman Deanin	334
	Sonya Deanin	335
	Paul Rose	337
	Ida Radosh	339
	Clara Larsen	340
	Bessie Zoglin	342
	Sonya Farber	346
	Isidore Farbiash	348
	Israel Ostroff	349
	Abraham Blecher	351
	Clara Halpern	353
	Morris Schulmeister	359
	David Babich	364
	Victor Lynn	365
	Wanda Swieda	369
	Morris Ganberg	371
	Morris Greenshner	376
	Mark Mratchny	381
	Johanna Boetz	385
	Leon Shapiro	386
	Boris Yelensky	388
	Marcelino Garcia	390
	Sirio Esteve	393
	Jose Hernandez	394
	Louis G. Raymond	394
	Juan Anido	396
	Marcelo Salinas	397
	Gustavo Lopez	398
	Joachin Edo	399
	Federico Arcos	400
	H. L. Wei	407
	Red Jones	409
	Bella Wong	410
Part 6	The 1920s and After
	Introduction	415
	Sam Dolgoff	419
	Sarah Taback	429
	Jack Frager	431
	Abe Bluestein	435
	Louis Genin	439
	Louis Slater	443
	Clara Solomon	446
	Sidney Solomon	449
	Mark Schmidt	453
	Franz Fleigler	454
	Irving Sterling	457
	Audrey Goodfriend	460
	David Koven	461
	Bronka Greenberg	463
	Daniel Guerin	467
	Dwight Macdonald	469
	Robert S. Calese	470
	Richard Ellington	472
	Fred Woodworth	473
	Anne McVey	476
	Notes	477
	List of Periodicals	529
	Further Reading	537
	Index	543

Editorial Reviews

The 180 interviewees in this oral history (mostly anarchists, but also their friends, associates and relatives) represent diverse political tendencies-individualists, collectivists, pacifists, revolutionaries. What unites them is an optimistic faith that people will live in harmony once the impositions of government disappear. The respondents give firsthand recollections of Emma Goldman, Rudolf Rocker, Sacco and Vanzetti and other key anarchists; describe their experiences in libertarian schools and colonies; and offer trenchant observations on the dangers of authoritarian communism, bureaucracy and entrenched institutions. Among those interviewed are self-proclaimed ``philosophical anarchist'' Roger Baldwin, founder of the American Civil Liberties Union; Daniel Gurin, historian of the U.S. labor movement; Alexandra Kropotkin, English-born daughter of Russian anarchist Peter Kropotkin; Albert Boni, publisher of ``Modern Library'' classics and a socialist; and Dwight Macdonald, who launched the journal Politics in 1944. Avrich (The Haymarket Tragedy) profiles a movement that continues to exercise an appeal with its calls for self-determination, direct grass-roots action and voluntary cooperation. (Feb.)

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

Avrich (history, Queens Coll.) is America's leading authority on anarchist movements. Through his many books and articles he has shown that anarchism is a distinctive political tradition with deep roots in the American experience. Anarchist Voices draws on interviews with native and foreign-born anarchists that Avrich has been conducting over the past 30 years. While a few of his subjects are relatively well-known (Dwight MacDonald, Daniel Guerin), most are obscure. The interviews, however, address major historical figures such as Emma Goldman and Sacco and Vanzetti, as well as the impact of anarchism on the education system, ethnic movements, and the New Left. Avrich's absorbing collection makes a vital contribution to the history of the American left. Expensive but recommended for academic and larger public library history collections.-Kent Worcester, Social Science Research Council, New York

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