![]() ![]() At home I involved myself in politics, made my little speeches, and was active in the Labor Youth League. ![]() Like most adolescents, I had begun to lead a divided life. In her memoir, In My Mother's House, Chernin writes: Kim Chernin was active as an organizer of the LYL Labor Youth League and, upon graduation from high school, traveled to Moscow for the Seventh World Festival of Youth and Students. government tried unsuccessfully to denaturalize her and deprive her of citizenship for such activities. Her mother resumed full-time work as a party organizer and in 1951 made national headline news when she was arrested for "advocating the overthrow of the government." Rose Chernin was later called before the House Un-American Activities Committee for her work as a party organizer. Shortly after Nina's death, the Kusnitz family relocated to Los Angeles to be near relatives. ![]() Chernin's childhood was influenced by the death of her older sister, Nina, to Hodgkin's lymphoma. Paul Kusnitz was a teacher of Marxism for the Communist Party. Rose Chernin was an organizer for the Communist Party and founded the Los Angeles Committee for the Protection of the Foreign Born. Her parents, Rose Chernin and Paul Kusnitz, were Russian-born Jewish immigrants. ![]() Kim Chernin (– December 17, 2020) was an American feminist writer, poet, and memoirist.Ĭhernin was born on May 7, 1940, in the Bronx, New York. Feminism, Judaism, mysticism, psychoanalysis, spirituality, eating disorders, food ![]()
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