The Jewish Anarchist Movement in America: A Historical Review and Personal Reminiscences (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781849355483)

Joseph Cohen (1878-1953) was a vital figure of twentieth-century American anarchism. He was born in Belarus and emigrated to the United States in 1903 with his wife, Sophie, and settled first in Philadelphia, where they raised two children. For twelve years Cohen edited the famed Yiddish paper, the Fraye arbeter shtime (Free Voice of Labor). Throughout his life he took part in various anarchist institutions such as The Radical Library, New York's Francisco Ferrer Center, and the Stelton and Sunrise colonies. Cohen is the author of two previously-published books, The House Stood Forlorn (1954) and In Quest of Heaven: The Story of the Sunrise Co-operative Farm Community (1957).

Kenyon Zimmer is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at Arlington. He is the author of Immigrants Against the State: Yiddish and Italian Anarchism in America (2015) and coeditor of Wobblies of the World: A Global History of the IWW (2017), Deportation in the Americas: Histories of Exclusion and Resistance (2018), and With Freedom in Our Ears: Histories of Jewish Anarchism (2023).

Esther Dolgoff (1905-1989) was a lifelong anarchist that was raised in Ohio and later settled in New York City with her husband, Sam. Dolgoff was at the center of American anarchism her entire adult life.