Emma Goldman : Harry Weinberger 1940 [ Funeral Speech ]
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Scarce Eulogy Delivered At The Funeral of Emma Goldman By Her Lawyer Harry Weinberger
Weinberger, Harry. Emma Goldman Speech Delivered At Her Funeral Chicago, May 17th 1940. The Oriole Press. Berkeley Heights, N.J. 1940.
Scarce copy of the eulogy delivered at the funeral of Anarchist philosopher and organizer Emma Goldman by her lawyer, friend, and collaborator Harry Weinberger.
Weinberger (1888 – 1944) served as defense counsel for Goldman and Alexander Berkman during their unsuccessful 1917 Supreme Court Espionage Act case for “conspiring against the draft”, leading to a two-year prison term. Upon release, Goldman was subsequently deported in 1919, returning to the US only briefly for a 1934 speaking tour. She died in Toronto on May 14th, 1940.
In this speech delivered at her funeral in Chicago three days later, Weinberger welcomes Goldman back to America and lionizes her as a “warrior for freedom” against US, communist, and Nazi injustice.
Privately printed and hand bound by Joseph Ishill of The Oriole Press, the same publisher also released a collection of speeches by Weinberger under the title, The Liberty of the Press (1936).
14 copies listed in OCLC as of October 2024.
[6]pp. Saddle stitched pamphlet with blue laid paper wraps. Some soiling to wraps with creasing to front wrap fore edge. Wear and toning back wrap bottom edge. Spot to first free endpaper. Pages toned with minor soiling. Mostly clean. Good.
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