Modest Stein
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Modest Stein, born Modest Aronstam, was a Lithuanian Jewish and American illustrator and close associate of the anarchists Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman. He was Berkman's cousin and intended repl
Signed sketch by Modest Stein, likely self-portrait.
Photograph of Alexander Berkman, by Marcia Stein, c. 1920, signed by both.
1918 photograph of American dancer Desiree Lubovska by Marcia Mishkin Stein
Argosy cover, January 1912, by Stein
Emma Goldman
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Emma Goldman 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 t
Modest Stein
…February 26, 1958), born Modest Aronstam, was a Lithuanian Jewish and American illustrator and close associate of the anarchists Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman. He was Berkman's cousin and intended replacement in the attempted assassination of Henry Clay Frick, an industrialist and union buster, in 1892. Later…
Goldman, c. 1911
Emma Goldman's family in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1882. From left to right: Emma, standing; Helena, seated, with Moishe on her lap; Taube; Herman; Abraham.
Emma Goldman in 1886
Goldman enjoyed a decades-long relationship with her lover Alexander Berkman. Photo c. 1917–1919.