ABSTRACT
Anarchism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as Bill Fishman demonstrated, must be taken seriously as a secular movement noteworthy for its embrace of the Jewish working class. In addition to anarchist fervour for that much-mythologised conflict, the attraction of, and mutual support afforded to anarchists by Jews from 1918 to 1946, can be attributed partly to the veneration of their past leaders as well as the movement's remaining stalwarts. One the one hand the anarchist cause was complemented by relatively good-quality photography, and on the other, the movement itself counted a few individuals, connected to photography, and to Alexander Berkman and Peter Kropotkin personally, as their most ardent adherents. A closer examination of the time around the attempted assassination of Frick, in 1892, possibly shows a previously unexamined but intriguing tie to photography.
