J. A. Maryson

Jacob Abraham Maryson (1866–1941[1]) was a Jewish–American anarchist, doctor,[2] essayist and Yiddish translator.[3] Maryson was among the few Pioneers of Liberty who could write in English.[3] He was among the Pioneers who launched the Varhayt in 1889, the first American anarchist periodical in Yiddish.[4] He was the second editor of Fraye Arbeter Shtime[3] and during the paper's hiatus in the late 1890s, he assisted in the cultural and literary journal Di Fraye Gezelshaft.[5] Beginning in 1911, he edited the anarchist periodical Dos Fraye Vort.[6] Maryson also wrote for multiple other publications.[7]

J. A. Maryson
Born1866 (1866)
Died1941 (aged 74–75)
OccupationPhysician, translator
Maryson's Yiddish translation of Das Kapital

He organized the Kropotkin Literary Society to print Yiddish translations of European thinkers.[8] Maryson handled some of the group's most challenging translations,[9] including Marx's Das Kapital, Stirner's The Ego and His Own, and Thoreau's Civil Disobedience.[1] He also translated John Stuart Mill's On Liberty.[10] Maryson later wrote The Principles of Anarchism in 1935.[1]

His wife's name was Katherina.[11]

Works
  • The Principles of Anarchism (1934, trans. 1935)[12]
  • Physiology (1918–1925; four volumes)
  • Mother and Child: Practical Advice for Mothers on How to Take Care of Themselves During Pregnancy and How to Rear Children (1912)
  • Anarchism and Political Activity (1907)

References
  1. Avrich, Paul (2005). Anarchist Voices: An Oral History of Anarchism in America. AK Press. p. 518. ISBN 978-1-904859-27-7.
  2. Falk, Candace, ed. (2003). Emma Goldman: Making speech free, 1902-1909. University of California Press. p. 122. ISBN 978-0-520-22569-5.
  3. Avrich, Paul (1988). "Jewish Anarchism in the United States". Anarchist Portraits. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. pp. 185. ISBN 0-691-04753-7. OCLC 17727270.
  4. Avrich 1988, p. 179.
  5. Avrich 1988, p. 187.
  6. Avrich 1988, p. 191.
  7. Christoyannopoulos, Alexandre; Adams, Matthew S., eds. (2018). Essays in Anarchism and Religion: Volume 2. Stockholm University Press. p. 31. doi:10.16993/bas. ISBN 978-91-7635-072-0.
  8. Zimmer, Kenyon (2015). Immigrants against the State: Yiddish and Italian Anarchism in America. University of Illinois Press. p. 36. ISBN 978-0-252-09743-0.
  9. Avrich 1988, p. 294.
  10. Allentuck, Marcia. "An Unremarked Yiddish Translation of Mill's On Liberty." The Mill News Letter 5:1 (Fall 1969): 10.
  11. Michels, Tony (2012). Jewish Radicals: A Documentary History. NYU Press. p. 220. ISBN 978-0-8147-5744-4.
  12. Falk, Candace, ed. (2008). Emma Goldman, Vol. 2: A Documentary History of the American Years, Volume 2: Making Speech Free, 1902–1909. University of Illinois Press. p. 534. ISBN 978-0-252-07543-8.



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