A fact from Modest Stein appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 30 January 2016 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that before becoming a successful pulp magazine illustrator, Modest Stein was an aspiring assassin until he dumped his dynamite in a Pittsburgh outhouse?
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Marcia Stein "Marcia Mishkin Stein, perhaps the brashest of Broadway portraitists during the 1910s and 1920s, was born in Minsk, Russia, circa 1875. ... Through her pursuit of the art she met photographer, magazine illustrator, and anarchist Modest Aronstam in the mid-1890s and married him in June 1899..."
Luba Stein Benenson "My father was born Modest Aronstam..." page from Anarchist Voices: An Oral History of Anarchism in America, By Paul Avrich
Emma Goldman’s “Morose Moon”;Alexander Berkman’s Passionate Anarchism by Leonard Lehrman, from the Autumn 2013 issue of Jewish Currents, Discussed in this essay: Sasha and Emma: The Anarchist Odyssey of Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman by Paul Avrich and Karen Avrich. Harvard University Press, 2012, 528 pages.
"Berkman met Emma Goldman on 15 August 1889 in New York, and within a short time they began living communally with Modest Stein (called Fedya in Goldman's Living My Life) and Anna and Helene Minkin (who later would become the partner of Johann Most). After living in Connecticut and Massachusetts, Goldman, Berkman and Stein returned to New York in an effort to work out support for the striking and locked out steel workers at the Carnegie Steel Company in Homestead, Pennsylvania." Barry Pateman, curator of Emma Goldman Archive and Kate Sharpley Library, intro to: Alexander Berkman What is Anarchism?
