 Gordin had been the inspirer of the pan-Russian anarchist movement and one of the organizers of the Anarchist Federation of Moscow (1918).From 1925, he lived in New York, where he had emigrated and where he published a literary philosophical review, "Yiddishe Shriften" (1936–1957), as well as being a habitual contributor to the most long-lived anarchist periodical in the Yiddish language, the "Freie Arbeiter Stimme" (1890–1977).In 1958, Abba Gordin moved to Israel, and in Tel Aviv, founded a Yiddish anarchist circle, "Agudath Schochrei Chofesh" (ASHUACH), with a library of classic anarchist works in Yiddish, Hebrew, and Polish, and with a large hall for meetings and conferences.