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Sima is the attempted adoption of a poor Jewish girl who has been orphaned by a pogrom in 1905 Ukraine. A wealthy couple, Yakov and Regina Krasovitsky, visit an orphanage for children left parentless ...

For the anarchists, the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War signifed the long-awaited realization of a worldwide revolution. In this regard, the Russian-Lithuanian-American-English anarchist and ...

Lately I’ve been thinking about Emma Goldman, the Russian-born Jewish anarchist who attracted droves of followers in her 30-plus years in the United States. I’ve not really been focused on her place ...