Helene Minkin

Helene Minkin
העלענע מינקין
Helene Minkin, 1907
Born	(1873-06-10)June 10, 1873 Grodno, Russian Empire
Died	February 3, 1954(1954-02-03) (aged 80) The Bronx, New York, United States
Resting place	Mount Hebron Cemetery
Years active	1886–1932
Title	Editor of Freiheit
Term	1905–1907
Predecessor	Johann Most
Successor	Max Baginski
Movement	Anarchism
Spouse	Johann Most

Helene Minkin (June 10, 1873 – February 3, 1954) was a Russian-Jewish anarchist immigrant who settled in New York City and had close ties with three of the U.S. anarchist movement's most notable figures – Emma Goldman, Alexander Berkman, and Johann Most – Minkin's common-law husband.

Working closely with Most, Minkin contributed to the German anarchist paper Freiheit, and took over editorial responsibilities during her husband's many incarcerations as well as after his death in 1906.^[1] She later went on to write her memoirs, which were later translated and published as a collection, Storm in My Heart: Memories from the Widow of Johann Most, which provides her personal perspective of her and Most's lives, as well as a close look into the conditions of late 19th- and early 20th-century immigrant life in the United States.^[2]