Modest Stein, the Glossary
Modest Stein (1871–1958), born Modest Aronstam, was a Lithuanian Jewish and American illustrator and close associate of the anarchists Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman.[1]
Table of Contents
75 relations: AK Press, Alexander Berkman, Alfred A. Knopf, Americans, Anarchism, Anarchist Voices, Argosy (magazine), Austria, Austria-Hungary, Bourgeoisie, Consul (representative), Detroit, East Broadway (Manhattan), Emma Goldman, FamilySearch, Flushing, Queens, Gender equality, Gymnasium (school), Harvard University Press, Helene Minkin, Henry Clay Frick, Hercules, Herman Mishkin, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Homestead Steel Works, Homestead strike, Homestead, Pennsylvania, Intentional community, Jo Davidson, Johann Most, Kaunas, Leo Mishkin, Lithuania, Litvaks, Living My Life, Lockout (industry), Lunch counter, Ménage à trois, Metropolitan Opera, Minsk, Neil Hamilton (actor), New Haven, Connecticut, New York City, New York World, NewYork-Presbyterian Queens, Nikolay Chernyshevsky, October Revolution, Outhouse, Paris, Paul Avrich, ... Expand index (25 more) »
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AK Press
AK Press is a worker-managed, independent publisher and book distributor that specializes in publishing books about anarchism and the radical left.
Alexander Berkman
Alexander Berkman (November 21, 1870June 28, 1936) was a Russian-American anarchist and author. Modest Stein and Alexander Berkman are American anarchists, Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the United States and Jewish anarchists.
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Alfred A. Knopf
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. is an American publishing house that was founded by Blanche Knopf and Alfred A. Knopf Sr. in 1915.
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Americans
Americans are the citizens and nationals of the United States.
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Anarchism
Anarchism is a political philosophy and movement that is against all forms of authority and seeks to abolish the institutions it claims maintain unnecessary coercion and hierarchy, typically including the state and capitalism.
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Anarchist Voices
Anarchist Voices: An Oral History of Anarchism in America is a 1995 oral history book of 180 interviews with anarchists over 30 years by Paul Avrich.
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Argosy (magazine)
Argosy was an American magazine, founded in 1882 as The Golden Argosy, a children's weekly, edited by Frank Munsey and published by E. G. Rideout.
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Austria
Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps.
Austria-Hungary
Austria-Hungary, often referred to as the Austro-Hungarian Empire or the Dual Monarchy, was a multi-national constitutional monarchy in Central Europe between 1867 and 1918.
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Bourgeoisie
The bourgeoisie are a class of business owners and merchants which emerged in the Late Middle Ages, originally as a "middle class" between peasantry and aristocracy.
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Consul (representative)
A consul is an official representative of a government who resides in a foreign country to assist and protect citizens of the consul's country, and to promote and facilitate commercial and diplomatic relations between the two countries.
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Detroit
Detroit is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan.
East Broadway (Manhattan)
East Broadway is a two-way east–west street in the Chinatown, Two Bridges, and Lower East Side neighborhoods of the New York City borough of Manhattan in the U.S. state of New York.
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Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman (June 27, 1869 – May 14, 1940) was a Lithuanian-born anarchist revolutionary, political activist, and writer. Modest Stein and Emma Goldman are American anarchists, Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the United States and Jewish anarchists.
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FamilySearch
FamilySearch is a nonprofit organization and website offering genealogical records, education, and software.
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Flushing, Queens
Flushing is a neighborhood in the north-central portion of the New York City borough of Queens.
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Gender equality
Gender equality, also known as sexual equality or equality of the sexes, is the state of equal ease of access to resources and opportunities regardless of gender, including economic participation and decision-making; and the state of valuing different behaviors, aspirations, and needs equally, regardless of gender.
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Gymnasium (school)
Gymnasium (and variations of the word) is a term in various European languages for a secondary school that prepares students for higher education at a university.
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Harvard University Press
Harvard University Press (HUP) is a publishing house established on January 13, 1913, as a division of Harvard University, and focused on academic publishing.
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Helene Minkin
Helene Minkin (June 10, 1873 – February 3, 1954) was a Russian-Jewish anarchist immigrant who settled in New York City and had close ties with three of the U.S. anarchist movement's most notable figures – Emma Goldman, Alexander Berkman, and Johann Most – Minkin's common-law husband. Modest Stein and Helene Minkin are American anarchists, Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the United States and Jewish anarchists.
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Henry Clay Frick
Henry Clay Frick (December 19, 1849 – December 2, 1919) was an American industrialist, financier, and art patron.
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Hercules
Hercules is the Roman equivalent of the Greek divine hero Heracles, son of Jupiter and the mortal Alcmena.
Herman Mishkin
Herman Mishkin (March 1870 – February 6, 1948) was a Russian-American photographer in Manhattan, New York City. Modest Stein and Herman Mishkin are Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the United States.
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Hollywood, Los Angeles
Hollywood is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles County, California, mostly within the city of Los Angeles.
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Homestead Steel Works
Homestead Steel Works was a large steel works located on the Monongahela River at Homestead, Pennsylvania in the United States.
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Homestead strike
The Homestead strike, also known as the Homestead steel strike, Homestead massacre, or Battle of Homestead, was an industrial lockout and strike that began on July 1, 1892, culminating in a battle in which strikers defeated private security agents on July 6, 1892.
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Homestead, Pennsylvania
Homestead is a borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States, along the Monongahela River southeast of downtown Pittsburgh.
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An intentional community is a voluntary residential community which is designed to have a high degree of social cohesion and teamwork.
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Jo Davidson
Jo Davidson (March 30, 1883 – January 2, 1952) was an American sculptor.
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Johann Most
Johann Joseph "Hans" Most (February 5, 1846 – March 17, 1906) was a German-American Social Democratic and then anarchist politician, newspaper editor, and orator. Modest Stein and Johann Most are American anarchists and Jewish anarchists.
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Kaunas
Kaunas (previously known in English as Kovno, also see other names) is the second-largest city in Lithuania after Vilnius, the fourth largest city in the Baltic States and an important centre of Lithuanian economic, academic, and cultural life.
Leo Mishkin
Leo Mishkin (January 22, 1907 - December 27, 1980) was an American film, theater, and television critic of the mid-20th century.
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Lithuania
Lithuania (Lietuva), officially the Republic of Lithuania (Lietuvos Respublika), is a country in the Baltic region of Europe.
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Litvaks
Litvaks or Lita'im are Jews with roots in the territory of the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania (covering present-day Lithuania, Belarus, Latvia, the northeastern Suwałki and Białystok regions of Poland, as well as adjacent areas of modern-day Russia and Ukraine).
Living My Life
Living My Life is the autobiography of Lithuanian-born anarchist Emma Goldman, who became internationally renowned as an activist based in the United States.
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Lockout (industry)
A lockout is a work stoppage or denial of employment initiated by the management of a company during a labor dispute.
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Lunch counter
A lunch counter or luncheonette is a small restaurant, similar to a diner, where the patron sits on a stool on one side of the counter and the server serves food from the opposite side of the counter, where the kitchen or food preparation area is located.
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Ménage à trois
A ménage à trois is a domestic arrangement or committed relationship consisting of three people in polyamorous romantic or sexual relations with each other, and often dwelling together.
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Metropolitan Opera
The Metropolitan Opera (commonly known as the Met) is an American opera company based in New York City, currently resident at the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center, situated on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
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Minsk
Minsk (Мінск,; Минск) is the capital and the largest city of Belarus, located on the Svislach and the now subterranean Niamiha rivers.
Neil Hamilton (actor)
James Neil Hamilton (September 9, 1899 – September 24, 1984) was an American stage, film and television actor, best remembered for his role as Commissioner Gordon on the Batman TV series of the 1960s, having first played a character by that name in 1928's Three Week-Ends.
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New Haven, Connecticut
New Haven is a city in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States.
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New York City
New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.
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New York World
The New York World was a newspaper published in New York City from 1860 to 1931.
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NewYork-Presbyterian Queens
NewYork-Presbyterian Queens, stylized as NewYork-Presbyterian/Queens (NYP/Q or NYP/Queens), is a not-for-profit acute care and teaching hospital affiliated with Weill Cornell Medicine in the Flushing neighborhood of Queens in New York City.
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Nikolay Chernyshevsky
Nikolay Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky (–) was a Russian literary and social critic, journalist, novelist, democrat, and socialist philosopher, often identified as a utopian socialist and leading theoretician of Russian nihilism and Narodniks.
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October Revolution
The October Revolution, also known as the Great October Socialist Revolution (in Soviet historiography), October coup,, britannica.com Bolshevik coup, or Bolshevik revolution, was a revolution in Russia led by the Bolshevik Party of Vladimir Lenin that was a key moment in the larger Russian Revolution of 1917–1923.
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Outhouse
An outhouse is a small structure, separate from a main building, which covers a toilet.
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city of France.
Paul Avrich
Paul Avrich (August 4, 1931 – February 16, 2006) was an American historian specialising in the 19th and early 20th-century anarchist movement in Russia and the United States. Modest Stein and Paul Avrich are American anarchists and Jewish anarchists.
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Pen
A pen is a common writing instrument that applies ink to a surface, usually paper, for writing or drawing.
Pharmacist
A pharmacist, also known as a chemist in Commonwealth English, is a healthcare professional who is knowledgeable about preparation, mechanism of action, clinical usage and legislation of medications in order to dispense them safely to the public and to provide consultancy services.
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Pinkerton (detective agency)
Pinkerton is a private security guard and detective agency established around 1850 in the United States by Scottish-born American cooper Allan Pinkerton and Chicago attorney Edward Rucker as the North-Western Police Agency, which later became Pinkerton & Co. and finally the Pinkerton National Detective Agency.
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Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh is a city in and the county seat of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Propaganda of the deed
Propaganda of the deed (or propaganda by the deed, from the French propagande par le fait) is specific political direct action meant to be exemplary to others and serve as a catalyst for revolution.
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Puck (magazine)
Puck was the first successful humor magazine in the United States of colorful cartoons, caricatures and political satire of the issues of the day.
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Pulp magazine
Pulp magazines (also referred to as "the pulps") were inexpensive fiction magazines that were published from 1896 until around 1955.
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Russian Empire
The Russian Empire was a vast empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its proclamation in November 1721 until its dissolution in March 1917.
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Russo-Japanese War
The Russo-Japanese War was fought between the Japanese Empire and the Russian Empire during 1904 and 1905 over rival imperial ambitions in Manchuria and the Korean Empire.
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Saint-Tropez
Saint-Tropez (Sant Tropetz) is a commune in the Var department and the region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Southern France.
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Sasha and Emma
Sasha and Emma: The Anarchist Odyssey of Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman is a 2012 history book about Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman.
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Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.
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Springfield, Massachusetts
Springfield is the most populous city in and the seat of Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States.
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Street & Smith
Street & Smith or Street & Smith Publications, Inc., was a New York City publisher specializing in inexpensive paperbacks and magazines referred to as dime novels and pulp fiction.
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Strike action
Strike action, also called labor strike, labour strike and industrial action in British English, or simply strike, is a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to work.
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The New York Sun
The New York Sun is an American conservative news website and former newspaper based in Manhattan, New York.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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Theatre
Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage.
Union busting
Union busting is a range of activities undertaken to disrupt or weaken the power of trade unions or their attempts to grow their membership in a workplace.
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University of South Carolina
The University of South Carolina (USC, South Carolina, or Carolina) is a public research university in Columbia, South Carolina.
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Vanity Fair (American magazine 1913–1936)
Vanity Fair was an American society magazine published from 1913 to 1936.
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Vilnius
Vilnius, previously known in English as Vilna, is the capital of and largest city in Lithuania and the second-most-populous city in the Baltic states.
What Is to Be Done? (novel)
What Is to Be Done? (What to do?) is an 1863 novel written by the Russian philosopher, journalist, and literary critic Nikolay Chernyshevsky, written in response to Fathers and Sons (1862) by Ivan Turgenev.
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Worcester, Massachusetts
Worcester is the 2nd most populous city in the U.S. state of Massachusetts and the 114th most populous city in the United States.
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42nd Street (Manhattan)
42nd Street is a major crosstown street in the New York City borough of Manhattan, spanning the entire breadth of Midtown Manhattan, from Turtle Bay at the East River, to Hell's Kitchen at the Hudson River on the West Side.
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See also
Artists from Kaunas
- Aaron Harry Gorson
- Alfonsas Krivickas
- Algimantas Žižiūnas
- Antonietta Raphael
- Arbit Blatas
- George Maciunas
- Grytė Pintukaitė
- Inga Likšaitė
- Lazar Krestin
- Modest Stein
- Robertas Antinis
- Romas Dalinkevičius
- Varvara Stepanova
- Vigintas Stankus
- Virgilijus Trakimavičius
- Yehezkel Streichman
- Zygmund Sazevich
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modest_Stein
Also known as Fedya, Modest Aronstam.
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