Cahan, Abraham (1860-1951)
The flowering of Jewish-American fiction in the 1950s and 1960s had its origin in the pioneering work of Abraham Cahan: immigrant, socialist, journalist, and fiction writer....
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The Jewish author and journalist Abraham Cahan (1860-1951) was a prominent Socialist leader and union organizer among Jewish immigrants in the United States.Abraham Cahan was born in Podberezhie, near...
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Abraham Cahan, journalist, novelist, socialist activist, and union organizer, is a commanding figure in the history of Jewish-American culture and a persuasive witness on the key American issues of im...
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Abraham Cahan was a spellbinding speaker, a fine writer, a brilliant editor, and a deep and creative thinker. Cahan dominated the thinking of the immigrant Jewish community on the Lower East Side of N...
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Abraham Cahan was a founder of the great Yiddish newspaper the Jewish Daily Forward in 1897 and its senior editor from 1903 until his death in 1951. In this role he played a crucial part in the accult...
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