Cahan, Abraham (1860-1951)
The flowering of Jewish-American fiction in the 1950s and 1960s had its origin in the pioneering work of Abraham Cahan: immigrant, socialist, journalist, and fiction writer....
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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...
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Abraham Cahan, journalist, novelist, socialist activist, and union organizer, is a commanding figure in the history of Jewish-American culture and a persuasive witness on the key American issues of im...
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Abraham Cahan was a spellbinding speaker, a fine writer, a brilliant editor, and a deep and creative thinker. Cahan dominated the thinking of the immigrant Jewish community on the Lower East Side of N...
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Abraham Cahan was a founder of the great Yiddish newspaper the Jewish Daily Forward in 1897 and its senior editor from 1903 until his death in 1951. In this role he played a crucial part in the accult...
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In the following essay, Kress discusses Cahan's portrayal of women and marriage, arguing that his characters' ambivalence about marriage parallels their ambivalence about assimilation in...
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In the following essay, Walden discusses Cahan's influence on Jewish-American culture in the early twentieth century and its reflection in his early stories.
Almost from his first days in Am...
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In the following essay, Singer examines The Rise of David Levinsky in light of Charles Liebman's thesis that most Jews who emigrated to the United States were shaped more by cultural and social...
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In the following essay, Marovitz argues that Cahan's characters fail to achieve healthy personal relationships because they abandon their faith for materialism.
William Dean Howells, impress...
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In the following essay, Chametzky provides an overview of Cahan's writings in Yiddish.
Cahan began to write fiction cautiously—that is, in Yiddish, in the pages of the Arbeiter Zeitun...
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In the following essay, Engel interprets Levinsky's inability to integrate the dichotomies in his life—including the differing cultures of Europe and America—as his greatest flaw....
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Cahan, Abraham (1860-1951)
Abraham Cahan
Abraham Cahan
Critical Essay by Susan Kress
