# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/abraham-cahan
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:20:56.419Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/abraham-cahan"
name: "Abraham Cahan"
slug: "abraham-cahan"
description: "Abraham \"Abe\" Cahan was a Lithuanian-born Jewish-American socialist newspaper editor, novelist, and politician. Cahan was one of the founders of The Forward, an American Yiddish publication, and was its editor-in-chief for 43 years. During his stewardship of the Forward, it became a prominent voice in the Jewish community and in the Socialist Party of America, voicing a relatively moderate stance within the realm of American socialist politics."
tagline: "Journalist, novelist, short story writer, memoirist (1860-1951)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Portrait_of_Abraham_Cahan.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1860-07-07"
deathDate: "1951-08-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.08
  momentum:             0
  historical:           14.49204666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0128605/"
    handle:    "nm0128605"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump