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edit- https://www.flickr.com/photos/sashazur/7490286438/in/photolist-cpTFcC-cpTEYj-6aM8fZ-cpTGo9-cpTGJo-cpTFPd-cpTG4A-cpTGZJ - self-portrait on Flicksr! In fact, Sashazur seems to be a great-grandchild of Stein? I wrote them, asking if they would free up some images, but he hasn't responded.
- Marcia Stein "Marcia Mishkin Stein, perhaps the brashest of Broadway portraitists during the 1910s and 1920s, was born in Minsk, Russia, circa 1875. ... Through her pursuit of the art she met photographer, magazine illustrator, and anarchist Modest Aronstam in the mid-1890s and married him in June 1899..."
- Luba Stein Benenson "My father was born Modest Aronstam..." page from Anarchist Voices: An Oral History of Anarchism in America, By Paul Avrich
- Emma Goldman’s “Morose Moon”;Alexander Berkman’s Passionate Anarchism by Leonard Lehrman, from the Autumn 2013 issue of Jewish Currents, Discussed in this essay: Sasha and Emma: The Anarchist Odyssey of Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman by Paul Avrich and Karen Avrich. Harvard University Press, 2012, 528 pages.
- Sasha and Emma: The Anarchist Odyssey of Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman, By Paul Avrich, Karen Avrich "Modska" pockets filled with dynamite...
- http://www.pulpartists.com/Stein.html - probably not RS, but fair summary of above
- Emma Goldman: Made for America, 1890-1901
- !. :1 MODEST STEIN, 87, DIES; Pen-and-Ink Newspaper Artist Won Prize on Monday Feb 27, 1958, NYTimes obit, not available free.
- "Berkman met Emma Goldman on 15 August 1889 in New York, and within a short time they began living communally with Modest Stein (called Fedya in Goldman's Living My Life) and Anna and Helene Minkin (who later would become the partner of Johann Most). After living in Connecticut and Massachusetts, Goldman, Berkman and Stein returned to New York in an effort to work out support for the striking and locked out steel workers at the Carnegie Steel Company in Homestead, Pennsylvania." Barry Pateman, curator of Emma Goldman Archive and Kate Sharpley Library, intro to: Alexander Berkman What is Anarchism?
- Storm in My Heart: Memories from the Widow of Johann Most, by Helene Minkin " Alexander Berkman, in his memoir Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist, referred to him as “Fedya.” Aronstam arrived in New York in August 1888..."
- Berkman's Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist online in several places.
- Name change: Laws of the State of New York, 130th session, Jan 2-July 26, 1907. Nice, even his daughter didn't know when he changed his name, and this narrows it down to 7 months!
- [1] Partial list of magazine covers drawn by Stein, from the FictionMags index; there are also links to many of the covers