She was the daughter of Samuel [Simcha] Nesin, a union organizer and founding member of the Communist Party, and Celia [Tzupa] Chattick Nesin (the two were never formally married). As a child, her family lived in the United Workers Cooperative Colony in the Bronx, NY. The community, also known as "The Coops", of about 700 families was a Jewish labor housing cooperative that practiced the utopian ideals of equity and a just society.
After attending Hunter College, she enlisted in the US Navy. She was later featured in a documentary film titled "At Home in Utopia", about her growing up in the "Coops".
Interment for her and her husband on November 2, 2018.
She was the daughter of Samuel [Simcha] Nesin, a union organizer and founding member of the Communist Party, and Celia [Tzupa] Chattick Nesin (the two were never formally married). As a child, her family lived in the United Workers Cooperative Colony in the Bronx, NY. The community, also known as "The Coops", of about 700 families was a Jewish labor housing cooperative that practiced the utopian ideals of equity and a just society.
After attending Hunter College, she enlisted in the US Navy. She was later featured in a documentary film titled "At Home in Utopia", about her growing up in the "Coops".
Interment for her and her husband on November 2, 2018.
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