". . . .Benno (Benjamin Benno) was born in America of Russian-Jewish heritage and on the death of his mother in 1905 was sent to Russia. He was raised there by his maternal grandparents until his father brought him to New York in 1912.
Benno's father was an anarchist and promptly placed his already recalcitrant son in the Ferrer Modern School*, which was run by Emma Goldman and affiliated with anarchist movement in New York. There Benno had the opportunity to study art with R (showing 500 of 2351 characters). |
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