Abraham Cahan

• Apr-1976
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Abraham Cahan (1860-1951) was a Lithuanian-born American communalist newspaper editor, politician, and novelist. His family, who was devoutly religious, moved to Wilna, New York in 1866 where the young Cahan received the usual Jewish preparatory educ...

• Mar-1996
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A collection of short works follows the adventures of Jewish immigrants who come to the New World in search of the promised land and instead find lives of grinding poverty, grueling work days, and challenges to their traditional values. Reprint....

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Lithuanian-born author, journalist, and activist Abraham Cahan made a name for himself first with his investigative journalism and later with his fiction, much of which focused on the immigrant experience in America and specifically New York City. In...

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His first novel, Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto, was published in 1896. The graphic story of an Americanized Russo-Jewish immigrant, it attracted much attention and was favorably commented on by the press both in America and in England. W. D. Ho...