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Abraham Cahan

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Abraham Cahan , 1860-1951, Russian-American journalist, Socialist leader, and author, b. Vilnius, Lithuania. He emigrated to New York City in 1882, entered journalism, and helped found the Jewish Daily Forward (1897); as editor in chief after 1902, he made it the most influential Jewish daily in America. He was a founder of the Social Democratic party in 1897 and after 1902 supported the Socialist party. Active in spreading socialist teachings among Jewish workers, he encouraged the unionization of East Side garment workers and supported them in their strikes. Cahan's writings in English,... Read more

Cahan, Abraham 1860-1951
American Decades CAHAN, ABRAHAM 1860-1951 Editor and novelist An Exiled Russian Radical Born in Lithuania, Abraham Cahan immigrated to New York in 1882 to escape...Chametzky, From the Ghetto: The Fiction of Abraham Cahan (Amtierst: University of Massachusetts... Read more

Abraham Cahan
Encyclopedia of World Biography Abraham Cahan 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 Vilna, Lithuania. His father... Read more

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