CAHAN, ABRAHAM

kän, 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, particularly Yekl: a Tale of the New York Ghetto (1896), The Imported Bridegroom and Other Stories (1898), and The Rise of David Levinsky (1917), are recognized for their historical portrayals of the immigrant experience. He also wrote, in Yiddish, Blätter von mein Leben (5 vol., 1926–31), an autobiography.

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Abraham Epstein: The Forgotten Father of Social Security
Book by Pierre Epstein; University of Missouri Press, 2006
Subjects: Epstein, Abraham--1892-1942, Social Security--United States
...1972. Burns, Eveline M. Towards Social Security. New York: Whittesley House, McGraw-Hill Books, 1936. Cahan, Abraham. The Rise of David Levinsky. New York: Grosset and Dun- lap, 1917. Davis, Kenneth S. FDR: The Beckoning of...
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A Court That Shaped America: Chicago's Federal District Court from Abe Lincoln to Abbie Hoffman
Book by Richard Cahan; Northwestern University Press, 2002
Subjects: District Courts--Illinois--Chicago Metropolitan Area--History, United States--District Court (Illinois : Northern District)--History
...Lewis, James Hamilton, 99 Lightfoot, Claude, 134 Lincoln, Abraham, xiv, 13, 16, z3-z6, 28, 151, t68, t?S Lindberg...Maric, Sveta, t34 Marovich, George, 225, 239 Marovitz, Abraham Lincoln, i5o-54, 189, 198, 215, z44 Marovitz, Andrew...
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Jewish Farmers of the Catskills: A Century of Survival
Book by Abraham D. Lavender, Clarence B. Steinberg; University Press of Florida, 1995
Subjects: Dade's Battle, 1835, Dade, Francis Langhorne--1793?-1835, Seminole War, 2nd, 1835-1842
...161 , 164 Butz, Earl, secretary of agriculture, 208 Cahan, Abraham, 7 Calhoun, Clifford C., 158 , 159 Calicoon, N...Volstead Act, 85 , 123 Cardozo, Moses Nunez and Abraham Nunez, 9 Catskill Center for Conservation and Development...
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Jewish Continuity in America: Creative Survival in a Free Society
Book by Abraham J. Karp; University of Alabama Press, 1998
Subjects: Conservative Judaism--United States--History, Judaism--History--Modern Period, 1750-, Judaism--United States--History, Rabbis--United States
...Religious Ethical Thinker New York, 1953 , 69, 90-92. 43. Jacob Joseph, Le-Bet Yaakob Vilna, 1888 . 44. Abraham Cahan, Bleter fun Mein Leben, vol. 2 New York, 1926 , 402-3. The author states that this is a paraphrase of the letter...
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A Guide for the Study of Exceptional Children
Book by Willard Abraham; Porter Sargent, 1956
Subjects: Exceptional Children
...Brownell Katherine Dodge, "The Child with Rheumatic Fever or Heart Disease," EC , Nov., 1952, pp. 65-67, 70-73, 83. Cahan Jacob M., "School Cardiac Census," Journal of School Health , Nov., 1953, pp. 276-280. Cain Leo F., "The Disabled...
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journal articles on: Cahan Abraham  - 71 results

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Haunted in the New World: Jewish American Culture from Cahan to the Goldbergs
Journal article by Mikel J. Koven; Western Folklore, Vol. 67, 2008
Subjects: Immigration, Novels, Studies
...stand-alone textual, hermeneutic studies of writers Abraham Cahan, Anzia Yezierska, Henry Roth, Arthur Miller, and...traditions that inform their works. In the chapter on Abraham Cahan, for instance, the contemporary critical reception...
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Literary Migration: Abraham Cahan's the Imported Bridegroom and the Alternative of American Fiction
Journal article by Philip Joseph; MELUS, Vol. 27, 2002
Subjects: Cahan, Abraham--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Immigrants--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Jews, American--History, Jews, American--Social aspects, Jews--Identity, The Imported Bridegroom (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...Throughout much of the 1890s, Abraham Cahan had quailed as much as any other...and Brothers, 1894. 41-57. Cahan, Abraham. "The Apostate of Chego-Chegg...104. --. The Education of Abraham Cahan. Trans. Abraham P. Conan...
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Race and Ethnicity in the Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man and the Rise of David Levinsky: The Performative Difference
Journal article by Catherine Rottenberg; MELUS, Vol. 29, 2004
Subjects: American literature--Criticism and interpretation, Cahan, Abraham--Criticism and interpretation, Johnson, James Weldon--Criticism and interpretation
...not have control. In addition, Cahan, like Johnson, dramatizes just...disaggregation of ethnicity from race, which Cahan and Johnson gesture towards in their...Matter. New York: Routledge, 1993. Cahan, Abraham. The Rise of David Levinsky. 1917...
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Marvels of Memory: Citizenship and Ethnic Identity in Abraham Cahan's "The Imported Bridegroom"
Journal article by Stephanie Foote; MELUS, Vol. 25, 2000
...essay, I want to use another Abraham Cahan text, "The Imported Bridegroom...first understood and publicized Abraham Cahan as a regionalist writer (see...Harper and Row, 1964. 107-123. Cahan, Abraham. The Rise of David Levinsky...
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Anniversaries in Conflict: On the Centenary of the Jewish Socialist Labor Bund
Journal article by Abraham Brumberg; Jewish Social Studies, Vol. 5, 1999
Subjects: Jews
...labor movement and in Yiddish-language activities, such as schools, book publishing, magazines, and summer camps. Abe Cahan , first editor of the New York-based, Yiddish Forward (which celebrated its centennial in 1997 ), was for a long time a...
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magazine articles on: Cahan Abraham  - 12 results

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Forward-backward-forward?
Magazine article by Paul Buhle; Tikkun, Vol. 16, July 2001
Subjects: Forward (Publication), Journalism, Newspapers
...first few years) by the autocratic Abraham Cahan, a Lithuanian immigrant who had...language agitators in the New Land. Cahan was no insular European living inside...later Woody Allen and Ben Katchor, Cahan had merged Yiddishkeit with popular...
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Is This Picasso, or Is It the Jews? a Family Portrait at the End of History
Magazine article by Mark Shechner; Tikkun, Vol. 12, November 1997
Subjects: Culture, Jews, Literature, Minority & ethnic groups
...ready-to-hand to writers from Abraham Cahan, Anzia Yezierska, Henry Roth...those multitudes dwindled from Abraham Cahan to Saul Bellow. It is no fault...is an inheritor of the line of Abraham Cahan "look at what we have become...
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A Family Portrait at the End of History
Magazine article by Mark Shechner; Tikkun, Vol. 12, November 1997
Subjects: Jews, Literature, Social conditions & trends, Writers
...ready-to-hand to writers from Abraham Cahan, Anzia Yezierska, Henry Roth...those multitudes dwindled from Abraham Cahan to Saul Bellow. It is no fault...is an inheritor of the line of Abraham Cahan "look at what we have become...
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The Forward Is Backward: New York's Unclassifiable Jewish Weekly
Magazine article by Lenni Brenner; The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, Vol. XVI, July 31, 1997
Subjects: History, Industry, International, Israel, Lipsky, Seth, New York, NY, Philosophy, Politics, Publishing industry, Steinhardt, Michael
...period of decay, in 1925, editor Abraham Cahan visited Palestine and cried at the...but the Judaica says that in 1933 Cahan became "the first member of the...direction." This really meant that Cahan was moving in a capitalist direction...
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Going Native: When American Literature Became Good Enough for Americans, What Happened to the Literary Canon?
Magazine article by Morris Dickstein; American Scholar, Vol. 76, Winter 2007
Subjects: American literature--Forecasts and trends, American literature--Study and teaching, American writers--Works, Authors, American--Works, Universities and colleges--Curricula, Universities and colleges--United States
...where he sponsored the work of younger writers like Crane, Frank Norris, Hamlin Garland, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and Abraham Cahan. They wrote dark, gritty books, quite unlike the historical romances that were bestsellers in their day. Inspired...
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Range of America's Written Words; Essays on Cultural History Collected
Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), October 18, 2009
Subjects: Essay, Essays
...words of those who lived it, and including excerpts from unjustly neglected classic fiction (by Anzia Yezierska, Abraham Cahan, Ole Rolvaag, et al) as well as the work of such illustrious masters as Jacob Riis, Henry Roth and Isaac Bashevis...


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encyclopedia articles on: Cahan Abraham  - 2 results

 
 
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Cahan, Abraham
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CAHAN, ABRAHAM kan, 1860 1951, Russian-American journalist, Socialist leader, and author, b. Vilnius, Lithuania. He emigrated to New...
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Singer, Israel Joshua
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...collection of stories Perl un Andere Dertzeylungen (1922; tr. Pearls, 1923) was acclaimed by the New York publisher Abraham Cahan, who hired Singer as Polish correspondent to his Yiddish newspaper the Jewish Daily Forward. Singers epic masterpiece...


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