Editing Maya Deren (section)

==Early life==
Deren was born {{OldStyleDate|May 12|1917|April 29}} in [[Kyiv|Kiev]]<!--See WP:KYIV-->, into a [[Jewish]] family,<ref name="Nichols 2001, p. 3">Nichols 2001, p. 3</ref> to psychologist Solomon Derenkowsky and Gitel-Malka (Marie) Fiedler,<ref name="metrica" /> who supposedly named their daughter after Italian actress [[Eleonora Duse]].<ref>Nichols 2001, p. 17</ref><ref>Soussloff 2001, p. 120</ref>

In 1922, the family fled the [[Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic|Ukrainian SSR]] because of [[Kiev pogroms (1919)|antisemitic pogroms]] perpetrated by the [[White movement|White Volunteer Army]] and moved to [[Syracuse, New York]]. Her father shortened the family name from Derenkovskaya to "Deren" shortly after they arrived in New York.<ref name=Nichols>{{cite book |title=Maya Deren and the American Avant-Garde: Includes the complete text of An Anagram of Ideas on Art, Form, and Film |editor-first=Bill |editor-last=Nichols |publisher=[[University of California Press]] |location=Berkeley |year=2001 |pages=3–10, 268}}</ref><ref name=":0">Bruce R. McPherson, “Preface,” in, ''Essential Deren: Collected Writings on Film by Maya Deren,'' ed. Bruce R. McPherson (New York: McPherson & Company, 2005), 8.</ref> He became the staff psychiatrist at the [[Syracuse State School|State Institute for the Feeble-Minded]] in Syracuse.<ref>{{Cite book| publisher = Taylor & Francis| isbn = 978-0-8240-5306-2| last = Litoff| first = Judy Barrett| author-link1=Judy Barrett Litoff| title = European Immigrant Women in the United States: A Biographical Dictionary| date = 1994 |page=74 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1ZyYa0cAPbkC |access-date=February 29, 2020 |via=GoogleBooks}}</ref> Deren's mother was a musician and dancer who had studied these arts in Kiev.<ref name=":0" /> In 1928, Deren's parents became [[naturalized citizen]]s of the United States.<ref name="Nichols 2001, p. 3" />

Deren was highly intelligent, starting fifth grade at only eight years old.<ref name=":0" /> She attended the [[League of Nations]] [[International School of Geneva]], [[Switzerland]] for high school from 1930 to 1933.<ref>{{Cite book| publisher = Farrar, Straus and Giroux| isbn = 978-0-374-71132-0| last = James| first = Jamie| title = The Glamour of Strangeness: Artists and the Last Age of the Exotic| date = 2016 |page=624 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0qUJ-JuSPdQC |access-date=February 29, 2020 |via=GoogleBooks}}</ref> Her mother moved to Paris, France to be nearer to her while she studied. Deren learned to speak French while she was abroad.<ref name=":1">Bruce R. McPherson, “Preface,” in, ''Essential Deren: Collected Writings on Film by Maya Deren,'' ed. Bruce R. McPherson (New York: McPherson & Company, 2005), 9.</ref>

Deren enrolled at [[Syracuse University]] at sixteen, where she began studying journalism and political science.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.answers.com/topic/maya-deren |title=Maya Deren |website=Answers.com |access-date=August 28, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140504210211/http://www.answers.com/topic/maya-deren |archive-date=May 4, 2014}}</ref><ref name=":0" /> Deren became a highly active socialist activist during the [[Trotskyism|Trotskyist movement]] in her late teens.<ref name="Legend" /> She served as National Student Secretary in the National Student office of the [[Young People's Socialist League (1907)|Young People's Socialist League]] and was a member of the Social Problems Club at Syracuse University.

At age eighteen in June 1935, she married Gregory Bardacke, a socialist activist whom she met through the Social Problems Club.<ref name="Legend" /> After his graduation in 1935, she moved to New York City. She finished school at [[New York University]] with a Bachelor's degree in literature in June 1936, and returned to Syracuse that fall.<ref name="Nichols" /> She and Bardacke became active in various [[socialist]] causes in New York City; and it was during this time that they separated and eventually divorced three years later.<ref name="sicherman">{{Cite book| publisher = Harvard University Press| isbn = 978-0-674-62733-8| last1 = Sicherman| first1 = Barbara| last2 = Green| first2 = Carol Hurd| title = Notable American Women: The Modern Period : a Biographical Dictionary| date = 1980 |page=[https://archive.org/details/notableamericanw00sich/page/187 187] |url=https://archive.org/details/notableamericanw00sich | url-access = registration|access-date=February 29, 2020 |via=GoogleBooks}}</ref>

In 1938, Deren attended the [[New School for Social Research]], and received a master's degree in English literature at [[Smith College]].<ref name="bauer">{{Cite book| publisher = ABC-CLIO| isbn = 978-1-4408-3649-7| last = Bauer| first = Laura L. S.| title = Hollywood Heroines: The Most Influential Women in Film History| date = 2018 |pages=109–110 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZdB5DwAAQBAJ |access-date=February 29, 2020 |via=GoogleBooks}}</ref> Her Master's [[thesis]] was titled ''The Influence of the French Symbolist School on Anglo-American Poetry'' (1939).<ref>{{Cite book| publisher = Edinburgh University Press| isbn = 978-1-4744-0326-9| last = Brill| first = Olaf| title = Expressionism in the Cinema| date = 2016 |page=290 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wjRWDwAAQBAJ |access-date=February 29, 2020 |via=GoogleBooks}}</ref> This included works of Pound, Eliot, and the Imagists. By the age of 21, Deren had earned two degrees in literature.<ref name=":1" />