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.
Helene Minkin | |
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העלענע מינקין | |
Helene Minkin, 1907 | |
| Born | June 10, 1873 Grodno, Russian Empire |
| Died | February 3, 1954 (aged 80) The Bronx, New York, United States |
| Resting place | Mount Hebron Cemetery |
| Years active | 1886–1932 |
| Title | Editor of Freiheit |
| Term | 1905–1907 |
| Predecessor | Johann Most |
| Successor | Max Baginski |
| Movement | Anarchism |
| Spouse | Johann Most |
Working closely with Most, Minkin contributed to the German anarchist paper Freiheit, and took over editorial responsibilities during her husband's many incarcerations as well as after his death in 1906. She later went on to write her memoirs, which were later translated and published as a collection, Storm in My Heart: Memories from the Widow of Johann Most, which provides her personal perspective of her and Most's lives, as well as a close look into the conditions of late 19th- and early 20th-century immigrant life in the United States.