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Abraham Cahan

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Journalist, novelist, short story writer, memoirist (1860-1951)

United StatesWritersLived 1860 to 1951 · aged 91
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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.

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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.

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United States
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Writers
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deceased
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Lived 1860 to 1951 · aged 91
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15 languages

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