His emigration from Russia to Portland, Oregon; his poor beginnings; his Hasidic,
Talmudic upbringing, without which you simply can not understand his artistic path; his early work — expressionist, mythological, multiform; his two wives, Edith, and Mary Ellen «Mell» Beistle, his children; then unravel for you the political activism of his anarchist left wing sensitivity, with the unavoidable connection to Emma Goldman.