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Cahan, Abraham (1860-1951): An entry from SJP's <i>St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture</i> by Robert A. Morace, 2000 Biography - Cahan, Abraham (1860-1951): An article from: Contemporary Authors by Gale Reference Team, 2003-01-01 The white terror and the red; a novel of revolutionary Russia by Abraham (1860-1951) Cahan, 1905-01-01 Yekl; a tale of the New York ghetto. by A. Cahan. by Cahan. Abraham. 1860-1951., 1896-01-01 United States Authors Series - Abraham Cahan by Marovitz, 1996-10-11

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1. Abraham Cahan : Biography
   Short biography for schoolchildren. Includes portrait.  
   http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAcahan.htm
   
   Extractions: Abraham Cahan, the son of a school teacher, was born near Vilnius in Lithuania in 1860. While a student at the Teachers Training Institute he became involved in revolutionary activities and after the assassination of Tsar Alexander II in 1881 he feared arrest and decided to emigrate to the United States. Cahan settled in the Lower East Side of New York City . Cahan worked in a factory and became involved in trade union activities. He also joined the Socialist Labor Party and was a delegate to the second and third congresses of the Socialist International in 1891 and 1893. Cahan became a journalist and worked for several Yiddish radical periodicals, including Di Zukunft and Di Arbeter Zeitung . In 1896 he published a novel, Yekl, a Tale of the New York Ghetto . The book won the enthusiastic support of the literary critic, William Dean Howells , and was praised for the realistic treatment of Jewish immigrant life.

2. Abraham Cahan
   Biography, timeline, bibliography, and picture of the author presented by history student Ivan Lupov.  
   http://history.hanover.edu/reference/336cahan1.htm
   
   Extractions: Abraham Cahan Biography Project by Ivan Lupov, Fall 2003 Abraham Cahan was born on July 7th, 1860 in the historic for Jewish culture town of Vilna, shtetl of Podberezya, Lithuania. He was the son of Schachne and Sarah Goldarbeiter Cahan, both Hebrew teachers, and the grandson of Rabbi Jacob of Nementchin. During his high school years, Abraham self-educated himself in various academic fields of study and enters the Vilna Teachers Institute. He graduated from the institute in 1881 with a teacher's diploma. As time went on he became affiliated with an anti-tsarist organization, which caused him strenuous tensions with the authorities. The tensions reached their peak when Abraham moved to a new school in the town of Velizh where he was suspected of illegal anti-tsarist activities. In an attempt to safe his life he decided to flee to Switzerland but circumstances lead him on his way to America. Cahan arrived in New York on June 6th, 1881. Initially he worked at a tin factory but with his intellectual background that period of his life lasted for very short time. Quickly he began teaching English at the Young Men's Hebrew Association and also he wrote his first article, published on the front page of the New York World. Again his political focus was directed against tsarist Russia and he pleaded for the release of young Russian revolutionaries. It was in 1890 when he was sent as a delegate to the Second International Socialist Congress and met with Frederick Engles, which confirmed his socialist ideology.

3. Abraham Cahan - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
   Cahan, Abraham Alternative names Cahan, Abe Short description Journalist, novelist, short story writer, memoirist Date of birth July 7, 1860 Place of birth  
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   Extractions: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search Abraham Cahan, socialist newspaper editor and novelist. Abraham "Abe" Cahan (July 7, 1860 – August 31, 1951) was a Lithuanian-born American socialist newspaper editor, novelist, and politician. Abraham Cahan was born July 7, 1860, in Podberezhye , now part of Lithuania but then part of the Russian empire , into a Orthodox Jewish family. His grandfather was a rabbi in Vidz, Vitebsk , his father a teacher of Hebrew language and the Talmud . The family, which was devoutly religious, moved in 1866 to Wilna (Vilnius) , where the young Cahan received the usual Jewish preparatory education for the rabbinate. He, however, was attracted by secular knowledge and clandestinely studied the Russian language , ultimately prevailing on his parents to allow him to enter the Teachers Institute of Wilna, from which he was graduated in 1881. He was appointed teacher in a Jewish government school in Velizh , Vitebsk, in the same year.

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5. Cahan, Abraham - Hutchinson Encyclopedia Article About Cahan, Abraham
   Russianborn US editor and writer who emigrated to the USA in 1882. He wrote realistic novels of Jewish immigrant life, written variously in English and Yiddish; the best known  
   http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/Cahan, Abraham

6. The Apostate Of Chego-Chegg
   Cahan, Abraham . The Apostate of ChegoChegg Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library The entire work (KB) Table of Contents for this work  
   http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/CahApos.html

7. Abraham Cahan (1860-1951)
   Suggestions for teaching Cahan in the classroom.  
   http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/bassr/heath/syllabuild/iguide/cahan.html
   
   Extractions: Abraham Cahan (1860-1951) Contributing Editor: Daniel Walden Students need to understand the following: (1) the Eastern European Jewish culture out of which Cahan came; (2) New York City as a fast-changing urban and technologized environment in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century; and (3) the nature of ethnicity in the context of the forces of Americanization. To address these topics, I require I. Howe and E. Greenberg, Introduction to Treasury of Yiddish Stories (for the European culture), and Moses Rischin, The Promised City: New York's Jews 1880-1920 , for the culture of New York City. For an introduction to Cahan as a realist, see Jules Chametzky, From the Ghetto and Sanford Marovitz, Abraham Cahan I also use the following films: The Inheritance (a documentary made by Amalgamated, 1964). The Distorted Image (a set of slides on stereotyping by B'nai Brith, Anti-Defamation League). The Chosen (film of Chaim Potok's novel). Hester Street (film of Cahan's novel, Yekl The Pawnbroker (film of Wallant's novel).

8. Abraham Cahan (American Writer) -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia
   Facts about Cahan, Abraham, as discussed in Britannica Compton's Encyclopedia Cahan, Abraham When did Abraham Cahan die? When was Abraham Cahan born?  
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   Extractions: document.write(''); Search Site: With all of these words With the exact phrase With any of these words Without these words Home My Britannica CREATE MY Abraham Caha... NEW ARTICLE ... SAVE Table of Contents: Abraham Cahan Article Article Additional Reading Additional Reading Related Articles Related Articles External Web sites External Web sites Citations ARTICLE from the Abraham Cahan Jewish Daily Forward (Yiddish title Forverts ), which helped newly arrived Jewish immigrants adapt to American culture. Himself an immigrant, Cahan arrived in the United States in 1882. While working in a cigar factory, he learned enough English in six years to lecture and write. In 1897 he helped found the

9. CAHAN, Abraham — A T/m Z - De Personen Encyclopedie
   Amerikaans schrijver (1860 1951) * Rusland 7.7.1860 – New York † 31.8.1951. Cahan emigreerde in 1882 naar de VS en werd de eerste hoofdredacteur van de Jewish Daily Forward, die  
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   Extractions: Skip to content. Skip to navigation Search Site Sections Personal tools You are here: Home C Cae CAHAN, Abraham Sponsor Links test Document Actions by admin last modified 2004-04-10 07:19 PM Amerikaans schrijver (1860 - 1951) * Rusland 7.7.1860 – New York † 31.8.1951 Cahan emigreerde in 1882 naar de VS en werd de eerste hoofdredacteur van de Jewish Daily Forward, die hij lange tijd derigeerde; later ook van het socialistische blad The Forward, dat grote invloed had op de Amerikaans-joodse emigranten. Zijn The Rise of David Levinsky (1917; uit het Jiddish) is een klassieke roman over de wereld van de joodse immigranten in de VS. October 2010 Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa counter

10. American Passages - Unit 9. Social Realism: Authors
    An introduction to the influential Jewish immigrant writer.  
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    Extractions: Select a Different Unit 1. Native Voices 2. Exploring Borderlands 3. Utopian Promise 4. Spirit of Nationalism 5. Masculine Heroes 6. Gothic Undercurrents 7. Slavery and Freedom 8. Regional Realism 9. Social Realism 10. Rhythms in Poetry 11. Modernist Portraits 12. Migrant Struggle 13. Southern Renaissance 14. Becoming Visible 15. Poetry of Liberation 16. Search for Identity This link leads to artifacts, teaching tips and discussion questions for this author. As a journalist and fiction writer, Abraham Cahan explored the social, cultural, and spiritual tensions of the Eastern European Jewish immigrant experience in New York. His sensitive treatment of the dual identities of Jewishness and Americanism, and of issues of accommodation and acculturation, made him an influential spokesperson for his community. Born into an educated, Orthodox Jewish family in a small village near Vilna, Russia, Cahan trained to become a teacher. By the time he graduated from the Vilna Teachers' Institute in 1881, he had embraced the socialist cause and had become involved in radical intellectual circles. Because of these connections, he came under suspicion for anti-Czarist activities and was forced to flee Russia for the United States. Upon arrival in America, Cahan settled in New York's Lower East Side, at that time a neighborhood inhabited mainly by immigrants, including a large population of Eastern European Jews. He soon became a leading figure in the community, lecturing on socialism, organizing labor unions, teaching English to other immigrants, and writing stories and newspaper articles in Russian, English, and

11. Cahan, Abraham From Jewish Writers Of The Twentieth Century | BookRags.com
    Cahan, Abraham from Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century. Cahan, Abraham summary with 5 pages of research material.  
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12. Abraham Cahan – A Ghetto Wedding Essay
    An essay or paper on Abraham Cahan – A Ghetto Wedding. At a first glimpse, A. Cahan's  
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    Extractions: Having to confront the imperatives of both Jewish and American culture, life was too hard for anything but the immediacy of need. Cahan’s text brings about within this context an important issue: is it marriage a necessity, as perceived by the Jewish tradition? The answer seems to spring from the implied belief that marriage represents the driving force of what is considered to be normalcy, of progress, of personal and spiritual fulfillment, of everything important in one’s existence, being the cumulus of both spiritual and material dimensions of life – that is of the two definitory components of Jewish culture. Therefore, in this short story getting married Relying only on their relatives and community friends, Nathan and Goldy suffer from the Jews’ habit of not socializing with the Americans. The ghetto wedding demonstrates this lack of social aspect, as the two protagonists discover they have no other support when those from their world are unable or too blasé and indifferent to attend this event. Because of poverty or assimilation the community is falling apart.

13. Abraham Cahan
    Biography of the influential Yiddish writer, with particular emphasis on his career as a journalist.  
    http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/cahan.html
    
    Extractions: Abraham Cahan The 1890s were a dark era for many Jews. Between 1887 and the outbreak of World War I, more than 2 million Jews came to America. Most were poor and came from what are now Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania and other centers of Eastern European Jewish life. The new arrivals clustered in unsanitary tenements, worked long hours in sweatshops and open air markets, spoke mainly Yiddish and possessed few skills with which to enter the English-language labor force. They faced religious prejudice and the challenges of adapting to an unfamiliar environment. The Forward became a leading advocate for these Jewish immigrants. Named after the great Social Democratic newspaper in Berlin, the Forverts appeared on the streets of New York in April 1897, written entirely in Yiddish. Its first editor was 37-year-old Abraham Cahan (1860-1951). Cahan had clear ideas about the kind of paper he wanted to edit. He wanted the Forward Cahan made the Forward Forward A beacon for immigrant acculturation into American life, under Cahan the Forward never lost its pro-working class orientation or its thirst for social justice. What it did lose, inexorably was much of its Yiddish-speaking readership, which today is only a tiny fraction of what it was in the 1920s. The contemporary children and grandchildren of that earlier generation of Forward readers have emerged as American, and Americanized, Jewish leaders. Cahan would have been proud. The

14. Cahan, Abraham Definition Of Cahan, Abraham In The Free Online Encyclopedia.
    Cahan, Abraham (k n), 1860–1951, RussianAmerican journalist, Socialist leader, and author, b. Vilnius, Lithuania. He emigrated to New York City in 1882, entered journalism, and  
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15. Abraham Cahan Encyclopedia Topics | Reference.com
    Cahan, Abraham, 18601951, Russian-American journalist, Socialist leader, and author, b. Vilnius, Lithuania. He emigrated to New York City in 1882, entered journalism, and helped  
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16. Abraham Cahan - My Jewish Learning
    The story of the immigrant journalist and novelist.  
    http://www.myjewishlearning.com/culture/2/Literature/Jewish_American_Literature/

17. Cahan, Abraham
    Cyber encyclopedia of Jewish history and culture that covers everything from antiSemitism to Zionism. It includes a glossary, bibliography of web sites and books, biographies  
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    Extractions: CAHAN, ABRAHAM CAHAN, ABRAHAM Jewish Daily Forward , which he helped found in 1897 and headed for almost half a century. Toward the end of his first year in America, eager for freedom and determined to write, Cahan mailed an unsolicited article describing the coronation of Czar Alexander III to New York World , where it promptly appeared. He briefly served as American correspondent for various Russian periodicals, but soon gave this up when he discovered a growing immigrant audience responsive to his Yiddish lectures with their call to labor unionism and socialism. The , the Arbeyter Tsaytung , and the Tsukunft , which he edited, pioneered the popular Yiddish journalism that he was later to perfect. At the same time, his urge to transcend the Yiddish-speaking community was reflected in his feature articles, literary criticism, and stories in , and various leading monthlies, as well as his books Yekl, a Tale of the New York Ghetto Imported Bridegroom The White Terror and the Red (1905); and The Rise of David Levinsky Commercial Advertiser

18. 1896 Novel, NY Jewish Ghetto
    1 Yekl Yekl Yekl Yekl Yekl A Tale of the New York Ghetto Abraham Cahan Abraham Cahan Abraham Cahan Abraham Cahan Abraham Cahan New York D. Appleton and Company 1896  
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19. Yekl, By Abraham Cahan, 1896
    1896 novella upon which the movie Hester Street was based. Available in several formats.  
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    Extractions: yekl-1.htm yekl-2.htm . [191K] HTML same as first except lines are not justified at right margin yekl.pdf . [469K] Adobe PDF file (no links) made with PageMaker. Get free Acrobat Reader at http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/readstep.html yekl.rtf . [261K] Microsoft Rich Text Format read in compatible word processing program yekl-2.txt . [167K] Ascii text (Unix file format) read in text editor yekl-2.zip . [70K] Ascii text compressed with Zip program yekla.html . [191K] HTML using special fonts below. ignacs.ttf . [43K] Special typeface for HTML headings, like Yiddish follow your operating system manufacturer's instructions to install TrueType fonts minionw.ttf . [85K] Special typeface for body text of HTML file for this test only, please do not redistribute Send your preferences along with detailed reasons to mailto:EricEldred@usa.net Yekl is a short novel about Jewish immigrants on the Lower East Side of New York City in the late 1800's. After you read the book we hope you will join us to "always check for the union label" in clothing you use for yourself and your family. For more information on the clothing industry union, please see http://www.uniteunion.org

20. The Imported Bridegroom, By Abraham Cahan, 1898
    Full text of the 1898 book, in HTML.  
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    Extractions: The Imported Bridegroom A Providential Match A Sweatshop Romance Circumstances ... A Ghetto Wedding F lora was alone in the back parlor, which she had appropriated for a sort of boudoir. She sat in her rocker, in front of the parlor stove, absorbed in Little Dorrit . Her well-groomed girlish form was enveloped in a kindly warmth whose tender embrace tinged her interest in the narrative with a triumphant consciousness of the snowstorm outside. Little by little the rigid afternoon light began to fade into a melancholy gray. Dusk was creeping into the room in almost visible waves. Flora let the book rest on her lap and fixed her gaze on the twinkling scarlet of the stove-glass. The thickening twilight, the warmth of the apartment, and the atmosphere of the novel blended together, and for some moments Flora felt far away from herself. She was the only girl of her circle who would read Dickens, Scott, or Thackeray in addition to the Family Story Paper and the Fireside Companion

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