Abraham Cahan

Abraham Cahan was born in 1860 near Vilnius and graduated in 1881 from the city's institute for Jewish teachers. Suspected of ties with revolutionaries, he fled Russia in 1882 and settled in New York, where he first worked in a cigar factory. In 1897 he co-founded a Yiddish daily, which he edited for more than forty years from 1902, and in 1906 he launched there a letters column in which immigrants set out their cases. He wrote in English as well as in Yiddish and was active in the socialist parties. He died in New York in 1951.

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• NovelThe Rise of David LevinskyAbraham Cahan · 1917LiteraturePublic domain