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Joseph Jacob Cohen
Joseph Jacob Cohen (1878–1953) was a Anarchism, anarchist who cofounded and led the Stelton Colony, Stelton and Mohegan Colony, Mohegan intentional communities and edited the Yiddish anarchist periodical ''Fraye Arbeter Shtime''. Biography Cohen was born Joseph Jacob Kantorowitz on Russian Empire territory that is modern Belarus and was quickly pushed into Rabbinic Judaism, rabbinical studies when he was young. In 1903 he immigrated to the United States. He settled in Philadelphia, where he became involved with the Jewish anarchism, Jewish Anarchist movement. References Further reading * * * * * * External links Personal papers archived at YIVO 1878 births 1953 deaths 19th-century American Jews 20th-century American Jews 20th-century American male writers 20th-century American non-fiction writers 20th-century anarchists American anarchist writers American male non-fiction writers American people of Belarusian-Jewish descent American political writers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russian Empire
The Russian Empire was an empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its establishment in November 1721 until the proclamation of the Russian Republic in September 1917. At its height in the late 19th century, it covered about , roughly one-sixth of the world's landmass, making it the list of largest empires, third-largest empire in history, behind only the British Empire, British and Mongol Empire, Mongol empires. It also Russian colonization of North America, colonized Alaska between 1799 and 1867. The empire's 1897 census, the only one it conducted, found a population of 125.6 million with considerable ethnic, linguistic, religious, and socioeconomic diversity. From the 10th to 17th centuries, the Russians had been ruled by a noble class known as the boyars, above whom was the tsar, an absolute monarch. The groundwork of the Russian Empire was laid by Ivan III (), who greatly expanded his domain, established a centralized Russian national state, and secured inde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |