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The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adams

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Eve Adams was a rebel. Born Chawa Zloczewer into a Jewish family in Poland, Adams emigrated to the United States in 1912. The young woman befriended anarchists, sold radical publications, took a new name, 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. In a repressive era, long before today's gay liberation movement, when American women had just gained the right to vote, 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.

In a case that pitted immigration officials, the New York City police, and a biased informer against her, 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 Deadly Times of Eve Adams, acclaimed historian Jonathan Ned Katz has recovered the extraordinary story of an early, daring activist. Drawing on startling evidence, 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.
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    • AudioFile Magazine
      Historian Jonathan Katz has provided a welcome and nuanced biography of an early-twentieth-century lesbian activist and author who has been almost forgotten except by archivists. Sadly, this revelatory account of Eve Adams (n�e Chawa Zloczower) and her roles as Emma Goldman's friend, Henry Miller's associate, a Polish-Jewish immigrant, and an anarchist suffers in this audiobook edition. Narrator Romy Nordlinger's overly bright tones, audible breathing, and odd pacing, which renders sentence clauses emphasized in odd ways, can't seem to get a handle on the narrative's parts or its elegant whole. While pronunciations of names that range from Yiddish to New York state's anglicized Dutch place names are largely correct, the overall effect disappoints. F.M.R.G. © AudioFile 2021, Portland, Maine

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