Rebecca Edelsohn : First Woman to Attempt a Hunger Strike in the United States, Ukrainian-American Anarchist, Hunger Striker, 1914 Prisoner Accused of Disorderly Conduct during an Industrial Workers of the World Speech

1892 — 1973

Entry 214

Public

From: holdoffhunger [id: 1]
(holdoffhunger@gmail.com)

../ggcms/src/templates/revoltsource/view/display_childof_people.php

RevoltSource People Rebecca Edelsohn

Not Logged In: Login?

0

0

A Ukrainian-American anarchist and hunger striker who was jailed in 1914 for disorderly conduct during an Industrial Workers of the World speech. According to The New York Times, she was the first woman to attempt a hunger strike in the United States.

From : Wikipedia.org

Quotes by Rebecca Edelsohn

Writings by Rebecca Edelsohn

Image Gallery of Rebecca Edelsohn

Chronology

An icon of a baby.

1892

Birth Day.

An icon of a gravestone.

1973

Death Day.

An icon of a news paper.

March 12, 2020; 2:05:26 PM (UTC)

Added to http://RevoltSource.com.

An icon of a red pin for a bulletin board.

December 8, 2022; 6:03:27 PM (UTC)

Updated on http://RevoltSource.com.

Links

• Wikipedia: Becky Edelsohn

• ElisaRolle.com: Rebecca Edelsohn

• KateSharpleyLibrary.net: Becky Edelsohn

Comments

Login to Comment

0 Likes

0 Dislikes

Who Liked This?

No comments so far. You can be the first!

Navigation

<< Last Entry in People William J. Duiker	Current Entry in People Rebecca Edelsohn	Next Entry in People >> Albert Einstein
All Nearby Items in People Duiker, William J. - A former United States Foreign Service officer and is currently Liberal Arts Professor Emeritus of East Asian Studies at Penn State University. His area of expertise is East Asia; while in the Foreign Service, he was stationed in Taiwan (the Republic of China), the Republic of (South) Vietnam, and Washington, D.C.. After leaving the State Department in 1965, he received his PhD degree in East Asian studies at Georgetown University. Duke, James Herriott Durruti, Buenaventura - A Spanish insurrectionary, anarcho-syndicalist militant involved with the CNT and FAI in the periods before and during the Spanish Civil War. Durruti played an influential role during the Spanish Revolution and is remembered as a hero in the anarchist movement. Dutta, Prajit K. - ...a Professor in the Department of Economics at Columbia University, author of Strategies and Games: Theory and Practice, MIT Press, and a Partner at Aicon Art in downtown Manhattan. Previously, he was an Associate Professor at the Department of Economics at the University of Wisconsin... Duveau, Georges - A French scholar, writer, historian and sociologist. His best known work is The Romantic Testament, published in 1927. Dyboski, Roman - A Polish philologist and literature scholar. Professor at the Jagiellonian University since 1911. Member of the Polish Academy of Learning. Dykema, Peter A. Ealham, Chris - A British historian and hispanist. He is specialised in the history of anarchism in Spain. He earned a PhD in 1995 from Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, reading a dissertation titled Policing the Recession: Unemployment, Social Protest and Law-and-Order in Republican Barcelona, 1930-1936, supervised by Paul Preston. Eaton, Henry Griffin - Organizer for the International Labor Defense; CP; Received Passport# 25342 San Francisco on March 8, 1937 which listed his address as 831 Mont Rose Avenue, South Padedena, California; Sailed March 5, 1937 aboard the Britannic; Served with the XV BDE, Washington BN, Co. 3, Section 1; Lincoln-Washington BN, Co. 3, Commissar; Killed in action September 3, 1937, Belchite... ?calan, Abdullah - A political prisoner and founding member of the militant Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). ?calan was based in Syria from 1979 to 1998. He helped found the PKK in 1978, and led it into the Kurdish?Turkish conflict in 1984. For most of his leadership, he was based in Syria, which provided sanctuary to the PKK until the late 1990s. Edelsohn, Rebecca - A Ukrainian-American anarchist and hunger striker who was jailed in 1914 for disorderly conduct during an Industrial Workers of the World speech. According to The New York Times, she was the first woman to attempt a hunger strike in the United States. Ervin, Charles W. Fromm, Erich - A German social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, humanistic philosopher, and democratic socialist. He was a German Jew who fled the Nazi regime and settled in the US. He was one of the founders of The William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Psychology in New York City and was associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory. Eriksen, Thomas Hylland - ...a Norwegian anthropologist. He is currently a professor of social anthropology at the University of Oslo, as well as the 2015?2016 president of the European Association of Social Anthropologists. He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Epictetus - A Greek Stoic philosopher. He was born into slavery at Hierapolis, Phrygia (present-day Pamukkale, in western Turkey) and lived in Rome until his banishment, when he went to Nicopolis in northwestern Greece for the rest of his life. His teachings were written down and published by his pupil Arrian in his Discourses and Enchiridion. Epicurus - An ancient Greek philosopher and sage who founded Epicureanism, a highly influential school of philosophy. He was born on the Greek island of Samos to Athenian parents. Influenced by Democritus, Aristippus, Pyrrho, and possibly the Cynics, he turned against the Platonism of his day and established his own school, known as "the Garden", in Athens. Enrico 'Nello' Rosselli, Sabatino - ...an Italian Socialist leader and historian. Rosselli was born in Rome to a prominent Jewish family. His parents were Giuseppe Emanuele "Joe" Rosselli (1867 - 1911) and Amelia Pincherle (1870 - 1954), who was the paternal aunt to writer Alberto Moravia. Engels, Friedrich - A German philosopher, critic of political economy, historian, political theorist and revolutionary socialist. He was also a businessman, journalist and political activist, whose father was an owner of large textile factories in Salford (Lancashire, England) and Barmen, Prussia (now Wuppertal, Germany). Emilyevich Mandelstam, Osip - A Russian and Soviet poet. He was one of the foremost members of the Acmeist school. Emerson, Ralph Waldo - An American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and his ideology was disseminated through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States. Einstein, Albert - A German-born theoretical physicist, widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest and most influential physicists of all time. Einstein is best known for developing the theory of relativity, but he also made important contributions to the development of the theory of quantum mechanics.

Home|About|Contact|Privacy Policy