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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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
...discrimination-continue to play out. It was here where Abraham Lincoln changed the course of U.S. history...Illinois representative with Whig colleague Abraham Lincoln and as an Illinois Circuit Court...with Drummond. After the election of Abraham Lincoln as president, Drummond and Davis...
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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
...United States. As the socialist Abraham Cahan wrote, "This was the only time...in Rye, New York, and by 1733 Abraham de Lyon was cultivating Porto...Abby" type of advice column in Abraham Cahan Jewish Daily Forward , answered...
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History of the Holocaust: A Handbook and Dictionary
Book by Abraham J. Edelheit, Hershel Edelheit; Westview Press, 1994
Subjects: Dictionaries, Polyglot, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Dictionaries--Polyglot
...HOLOCAUST A Handbook and Dictionary Abraham J. Edelheit Hershel Edelheit Westview...Cataloging-in-Publication Data Edelheit, Abraham J. History of the Holocaust: a handbook and dictionary / Abraham J. Edelheit and Hershel Edelheit. p...
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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
JEWISH CONTINUITY IN AMERICA ALSO BY ABRAHAM J. KARP AUTHOR New York Chooses a Chief...Creative Survival in a Free Society ABRAHAM J. KARP THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA PRESS...Cataloging-in-Publication Data Karp, Abraham J. Jewish continuity in America : creative...
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A Guide for the Study of Exceptional Children
Book by Willard Abraham; Porter Sargent, 1956
Subjects: Exceptional Children
...EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN by Willard Abraham Professor of Education Arizona State...Mass. Copyright 1955, 1956 by Willard Abraham DEDICATION To children -- who are...Greatest Natural Resource!" by Willard Abraham 85...
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journal articles on: Cahan Abraham  - 51 results

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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...Harper and Brothers, 1894. 41-57. Cahan, Abraham. "The Apostate of Chego-Chegg...94-104. --. The Education of Abraham Cahan. Trans. Abraham P. Conan, Lynn...
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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
...novels from the Progressive Era: Abraham Cahans The Rise of David Levinsky...does not have control. In addition, Cahan, like Johnson, dramatizes just how...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
...this essay, I want to use another Abraham Cahan text, "The Imported Bridegroom...first understood and publicized Abraham Cahan as a regionalist writer (see Higham...Harper and Row, 1964. 107-123. Cahan, Abraham. The Rise of David Levinsky. 1917...
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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
...the 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...
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Reading Material: Contextualizing Clothing in the Work of Anzia Yezierska
Journal article by Katherine Stubbs; MELUS, Vol. 23, 1998
Subjects: American literature--Jewish authors, Clothing and dress--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Immigrants--Literature, Yezierska, Anzia--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...immigrant writers Mary Antin and Abraham Cahan, the commodity that most visibly...See Antin, The Promised Land; Abraham Cahan, The Rise of David Levinsky...Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1912. Cahan, Abraham. The Rise of David Levinsky. New...
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Post-holocaust Literature
Magazine article by Sanford Pinsker; Tikkun, Vol. 12, November 1997
Subjects: Atrocities, Culture, Jews, Literature, Minority & ethnic groups, Social conditions & trends, Writers
...of the shocks and sordid poverty that immigrants found (mostly on the lower East Side and mostly in the fictions of Abraham Cahan, Anzia Yezierska and Henry Roth), but it became the saga of how a generation of immigrant sons managed to take the...
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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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Forward Thinking: So What If the Goyim Are Looking? A Jewish Newspaper Lets It All Hang Out
Magazine article by Gal Beckerman; Columbia Journalism Review, Vol. 42, January 2004
Subjects: Jewish newspapers
...Forwards mission, as pursued by its founding editor, Abraham Cahan, was to help Jews assimilate into American society...would have to contend with the overwhelming memory of Abraham Cahan, independent, opinionated, and daring, who ran the Yiddish...
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The Civil Liberties Crisis and the Threat of "too Much Democracy"
Magazine article by Paul Buhle; Tikkun, Vol. 18, May/Jun 2003
Subjects: Civil liberties, Democracy, Jews, Politics, Racial discrimination
...social-cause lawyers were bitterly resented by Jewish slumlords, (most) rising merchants, and the class that Forward editor Abraham Cahan dubbed "alrightniks" and that we would now term "yuppies." In the Yiddishe gassen (Jewish streets), among early generations...
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For Everyman, by Everyman: ... Irving Berlin Helped to Create a National Identity
Magazine article by Davi Schiff; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 277, March 1996
Subjects: Composers, Irving Berlin
...I had formed my own picture of him, based on the songs and on Abraham Cahans great 1890s novel, The Rise of David Levinsky (a favorite, by the way, of the lyricist Ira Gershwin). Cahan tells the story of a Russian immigrant who achieves success in...
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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
...the 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 Singer...


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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 York City...
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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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