Emma Goldman: life of the week
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Widely associated with the quotes. If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution. Emma Goldman embodied an irrepressible commitment to freedom. Born into a Lithuanian Jewish family in eighteen sixty nine. She emigrated from the Russian Empire as a teenager, in search of a freer life in the United States.
In this episode of the History Extra podcast, Danny Byrd and Ruth Kinner trace Goldman's extraordinary journey from her political awakening as an anarchist in America to to the Russian Revolution and Spanish Civil War. Exploring her contributions to freedom and resistance and social change that still resonate today.
Ruth, for those who may only vaguely know about Emma Goldman as the famous anarchist firebrand, could you start by introducing her? Who was she and what was it about her early life that helped shape the person she would become? So Emma Goldman was born in what's now Lithuania in eighteen sixty nine. And she studied in Tsarist, Russia. She left Russia in the eighteen eighties to go to America with her sister. And she went to America as someone who had been introduced to revolutionary literature in Russia.
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