ABSTRACT
Fannia M. Cohn (1885-1962) was born in Kletzk, an industrializing city in the Russian empire, one of five children in a relatively well-to-do Jewish family. Able to benefit from a good private education, her idealistic inclina - tions brought her into collision with the social realities around her, and by the age of fifteen she had joined the revolutionary underground, in the ranks of the Marxist-influenced populist organization that came to be known as the Socialist Revolutionary Party. In 1904, following an anti-Jewish riot (pogrom) in which her brother was almost killed, she and her brother emigrated to the United States.
