Yiddish cartoon commenting on Goldman's fight for freedom of speech


Emma Goldman's career, followed closely by many in the Yiddish-speaking world, provided this newspaper — subtitled "A Journal of Humor, Wit, and Satire" — with a great deal of subject material. The caption under this cartoon reads: "Emma Goldman, the grogger [noise-maker] and Free Speech in America." The cartoonist effectively pokes fun both at Goldman's outspokenness and at the authorities' attempts to silence the "noise-maker."

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Date / time: 
June 4, 1909
Publication: 
Der Grosser Kunds [=The Big Stick]
Date published: 
04-JUN-09

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