Abraham Jevons Goldfarb

Tillie Lerner married Abraham Goldfarb in Reno, Nevada, where they had eloped. She used the name Matilda, backformed from Tillie.

TO 's first husband, Abraham Goldfarb , was found dead under a bridge in his smashed-up car. Some suspected foul play; some suspected union infighting, or Tillie.

The future TO bore a daughter with her first husband, Abe Goldfarb . They named her Karla Barucha Goldfarb after Karl Marx ; the birth certificate again called Tillie Matilda.

By late 1929 Tillie Lerner met Abraham Jevons Goldfarb , a radical writer who was like herself the child of Russian Jewish immigrants to the USA. She ran away with him after her eighteenth birthday...

Some of her jobs after leaving highschool were alienatingly bourgeois, like working in an antiquarian bookstore. Other casual paid work was less important in her life than her speaking on behalf of the Young Communist League

After marrying Abe Goldfarb at a time of near-starvation for many American workers, the future TO wrote dramatic and publishable journalism under the pseudonym of T(h)eresa Landale in support of the Communist Party .