The daring life and dangerous times of Eve Adams / Jonathan Ned Katz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Katz, Jonathan, 1938- author.

Contributor:

EBSCOhost.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Adams, Eve.

Lesbians--United States--Biography.

Lesbians.

Jewish women.

United States.

Poland.

Jewish women--Poland--Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Chicago : Chicago Review Press, 2021.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

"On these pages, Eve Adams rises up, loves, rebels--her times, eerily resembling our own." --Joan Nestle, cofounder of the Lesbian Herstory Archives and author of A Restricted Country Historian Jonathan Ned Katz uncovers the forgotten story of radical lesbian Eve Adams and her long-lost book Lesbian Love -- Born Chawa Zloczewer into a Jewish family in Poland, Eve Adams emigrated to the United States in 1912, took a new name, befriended anarchists, sold radical publications, and ran lesbian-and-gay-friendly speakeasies in Chicago and New York. Then, in 1925, Adams risked all to write and publish a book titled Lesbian Love. Adams's bold activism caught the attention of the young J. Edgar Hoover and the US Bureau of Investigation, leading to her surveillance and arrest. Adams was convicted of publishing an obscene book and of attempted sex with a policewoman sent to entrap her. Adams was jailed and then deported back to Europe, and ultimately murdered by Nazis in Auschwitz. In The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adams, acclaimed historian Jonathan Ned Katz has recovered the extraordinary story of an early, daring activist. -- Carefully distinguishing fact from fiction, Katz presents the first biography of Adams, and the publisher reprints the long-lost text of Adams's rare, unique book Lesbian Love

Contents:

1 Eve Speaks p. 1

2 Departure and Arrival p. 9

3 1912 p. 23

4 War Clouds and a Fan Letter p. 28

5 Spied On p. 33

6 Chicago, the Grey Cottage, Ruth p. 43

7 Greenwich Village, Eve's Place, Trouble p. 54

8 Eve Adams's Lesbian Love p. 77

9 The Bureaucrats Attack p. 90

10 Eve in Exile p. 106

11 The Crash p. 110

12 Fascism p. 117

13 War p. 132.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO; viewed March 23, 2021)

ISBN:

9781641605175

1641605170

Publisher Number:

99987736977

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.