Abraham "Abe" Cahan (Yiddish: אַבֿרהם קאַהאַן; July 7, 1860 – August 31, 1951) was a Lithuanian-born Jewish American socialist newspaper editor, novelist...
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Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto is Abraham Cahan's first book, published in 1896. It depicts the life of Jewish immigrants living in a New York City...
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Hester Street is a 1975 drama film based on Abraham Cahan's 1896 novella Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto, and was adapted and directed by Joan Micklin...
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The Rise of David Levinsky is a novel by Abraham Cahan. It was published in 1917, and remains Cahan's best known work. The book is told in the form of...
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socialists of the Forward Publishing Association were Louis Miller and Abraham Cahan. These two founding fathers of The Forward were quick to enlist in the...
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embittered matriarch who is finally reconciled again to her family. Abraham Cahan, an editor of the Jewish Daily Forward, said of her performance in Mirele...
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Cahan is an Irish and Jewish surname. Notable people with the surname include: Abraham Cahan (1860–1951), American writer and politician Charles Cahan...
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Louis Miller (section Split with Cahan)
Yiddish-language weekly published in America, and a co-founder with Abraham Cahan of the Jewish Daily Forward, the country's first and foremost Yiddish-language...
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authored are: The Citizens Constitution: An Annotated Guide The Rise of Abraham Cahan The Floating Kilogram A 2011 interview's overview listed second "teaching...
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Streets – Stephen Crane (1893) Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto – Abraham Cahan (1896) The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton (1905) The Melting Pot – Israel...
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Recipe for Passion and Intimacy, and Kosher Jesus Joshua Braff, novelist Abraham Cahan, journalist, author and editor of Yiddish newspaper Jewish Daily Forward...
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such as Stephen Crane, Frank Norris, Hamlin Garland, Harold Frederic, Abraham Cahan, Sarah Orne Jewett, and Paul Laurence Dunbar. In 1902, Howells published...
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After two hard years, in 1921, they returned to Warsaw. In 1921, after Abraham Cahan noticed his story Pearls, Singer became a correspondent for the American...
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(1903–1946), Abraham Cahan (1860–1961), using an alter-ego with a variation of his name: Cahan/Kohen vs. Levinsky/Levi/Levite; Abraham becomes David...
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production into tasks able to do by less-skilled workers. Writing in 1917, Abraham Cahan credited these immigrants with the creation of American style: Foreigners...
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relationship with the Forverts began to cool when Abraham Cahan became its editor. He left the paper after Cahan rejected an anti-Zionist article he wrote, but...
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Haunted in the New World (redirect from Haunted in the New World: Jewish American Culture from Cahan to The Goldbergs)
Cahan to The Goldbergs is a 2005 book by Donald Weber written as an overview of 20th century Jewish American literature and popular culture. Abraham Cahan...
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novelists to write in English, and in the Yiddish-inflected works of Abraham Cahan. William Dean Howells also represented the realist tradition through...
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Imported Bridegroom, and Other Stories of the New York Ghetto is a book by Abraham Cahan. First published in 1898 by Houghton Mifflin Company it was composed...
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Yeshiva University (redirect from S. Daniel Abraham Israel Program)
racehorse owner Ahmed Zayat (B.A. 1983) Adrienne Asch, bioethics scholar Abraham Cahan, publisher of the socialist Jewish Daily Forward newspaper (English...
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affiliate with the SDA. Among the prominent members of this faction were Abraham Cahan, Meyer London, Isaac Hourwich, Morris Winchevsky, Michael Zametkin,...
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book by Hutchins Hapgood Novels Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto by Abraham Cahan. The film Hester Street is based on the book. Salome of the Tenements...
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Isaakovich Bogrov, Ezeldel Kotik, Avrom Ber Gotlober, Pauline Wengeroff and Abraham Cahan. With the Klezmer revival in the late 1970s and early 1980s, there was...
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future use in his imaginative writing. He met and made friends with Abraham Cahan, publisher of the Yiddish-language Jewish Daily Forward (Der Forverts)...
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was nearly forced to stop writing the novel by his editor-in-chief, Abraham Cahan, but was saved by readers who wanted the story to continue.[citation...
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Baskin Mendel Beilis Benjamin J. Bialostotzky Jeanette Goodman Brill Abraham Cahan Roger C. Carmel Erwin Chargaff Betty Comden William Edlin Morris Feinstone...
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novelist, short story writer and social reformer (died 1935) July 7 – Abraham Cahan, American Jewish journalist and novelist (died 1951) July 14 – Owen...
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Yated Ne’eman, Parshas Bo, 5770 Lipsky, Seth (2013-10-15). The Rise of Abraham Cahan. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-8052-4310-9. "Agudath...
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Dubinsky denied any personal ambitions and rebuffed a proposal from Abraham Cahan of The Forward to promote him as Sigman's heir apparent. When Morris...
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as a director, Hester Street (1975), was based on a short story by Abraham Cahan, and produced by Midwest Films, a company Silver founded with her husband...
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