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    Mikhail Zametkin&rsquo;s wife, Adella Kean Zametkin, was one of those women. Born into a prosperous, educated (but still religious) family, Kean was privileged enough to have been given private lessons from a tutor at an early age. As a young woman she herself tutored poor girls, presaging her future activities in the United States. In 1888, at the age of twenty-five, Kean immigrated to New York, where she quickly gravitated to the socialist movement and met Zametkin, who had already established himself as a leader. In addition to her participation in the SLP, Kean Zametkin frequently lectured to women&rsquo;s groups and contributed to the leading socialist publications. In 1897 she helped found the daily Forverts and worked as its cashier. In later years Kean Zametkin wrote and lectured on nutrition, hygiene, birth control, child education, and other &ldquo;women&rsquo;s issues.&rdquo; According to the Forverts, &ldquo;She taught thousands of women simple things that are very necessary for the average working woman.&rdquo;<br> <br> Dr. Anna Anita Ingerman can be considered the most extraordinary of the labor movement&rsquo;s women intellectuals. Born near the city of Gomel in White Russia in 1868, she was one of a growing number of women who attended gymnasium, the most prestigious form of secondary school in Russia. In the late 1880s Amitin moved to Berne, Switzerland, where she studied medicine and joined Georgy Plekhanov&rsquo;s Group for the Emancipation of Labor (GEL), the first organization of Russian Marxists. In this group she met her fellow medical student and future husband, Sergei Ingerman. The couple immigrated to the United States in the early 1890s, where they established the Russian Social Democratic Society for the purpose of raising funds for the GEL and, later, the Russian Social Democratic Workers&rsquo; Party. For many decades the Ingermans served as ambassadors for the party&rsquo;s Menshevik wing. At the same time Anna Ingerman was very active in the local socialist movement. She was known for &ldquo;her tireless service as lecturer and teacher for numerous Russian, German, Jewish, and American study circles, women&rsquo;s clubs, and workingmen&rsquo;s societies.&rdquo; With Adella Kean Zametkin and several other women, Ingerman helped found the Arbeterin Fareyn (Workingwomen&rsquo;s Society) in December 1893, with its main goals the organization of &ldquo;women&rsquo;s trades,&rdquo; achievement of &ldquo;equal political rights,&rdquo; and to &ldquo;struggle hand in hand with the male proletariat for the liberation of humanity without the difference of sex.&rdquo;<br> <br> The Workingwomen&rsquo;s Society grew; four thousand Jewish women marched under its banner in the 1895 May Day parade. Along with other women&rsquo;s socialist groups, it forged a tradition of women&rsquo;s activism, and became a powerful force in the Jewish labor movement&mdash;a force led, organized, and conceived by women.

 
 
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