We give some backstory to Emma's childhood in Europe (Tsarist Russia-occupied Lithuania, Popelan, St. Petersburg, Königsberg) and her later experience as an immigrant in the “United States” ("Rochester" (Seneca land) and "New Haven" (Quinnipiac land) before her "spiritual birth" leading her into "New York City" (Lenapehoking).)

References:

• Drinnon, Richard. Rebel in Paradise: A Biography of Emma Goldman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961.
• Avrich, Paul and Karen Avrich. Sasha and Emma: The Anarchist Odyssey of Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012.
• Falk, Candace, Barry Pateman, and Jessica M. Moran, eds. Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years, Vol. 1: Made for America ...