Jack Olsen

Standard Name: Olsen, Jack

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Tillie Olsen
Tillie and Jack Olsen finally got married (after years together and the birth of two children) only because Jack had enlisted in the army and only wives were eligible for military benefits.
Reid, Panthea. Tillie Olsen: One Woman, Many Riddles. Rutgers University Press, 2010.
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Family and Intimate relationships Tillie Olsen
Julie, eldest daughter of Tillie and Jack Olsen , was born. (They had hoped for a boy.)
Reid, Panthea. Tillie Olsen: One Woman, Many Riddles. Rutgers University Press, 2010.
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Family and Intimate relationships Tillie Olsen
TO 's husband Jack Olsen died.
Reid, Panthea. Tillie Olsen: One Woman, Many Riddles. Rutgers University Press, 2010.
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Family and Intimate relationships Tillie Olsen
Tillie Goldfarb first encountered Jack Olsen (originally Olshansky), a Communist longshoreman with Eastern European origins, at a rally he led; in 1934 she worked with him on the general strike in San Francisco. She spent...
Family and Intimate relationships Tillie Olsen
TO 's Guggenheim application in early 1975 stated that she was living apart from her husband ,
qtd. in
Reid, Panthea. Tillie Olsen: One Woman, Many Riddles. Rutgers University Press, 2010.
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and a couple of years later she seemed indeed to have dropped him.
Reid, Panthea. Tillie Olsen: One Woman, Many Riddles. Rutgers University Press, 2010.
275
She was often...
Health Tillie Olsen
It is not quite clear whether Tillie Lerner's highschool pregnancy ended in miscarriage or abortion, but it is clear that she felt deeply guilty. After the San Francisco strike she apparently had another abortion, with...
politics Tillie Olsen
A harbour strike in San Francisco, in which Tillie and Jack Olsen were deeply involved, blockaded piers on the waterfront.
“General Strike”. The Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco.
politics Tillie Olsen
A city-wide general strike in San Francisco in support of the ongoing harbour strike (in which Tillie and Jack Olsen were deeply involved) produced violence, gun battles, and the epithet Bloody Thursday.
“General Strike”. The Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco.
Textual Production Tillie Olsen
Yonnondio began its resurrection when Jack Olsen found the supposedly lost manuscript of the novel about the Holbrook family in the form it had reached in the 1930s: two large envelopes containing eight disordered but...

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