1. American Passages - Unit 9. Social Realism: Authors An introduction to the influential Jewish immigrant writer. http://www.learner.org/amerpass/unit09/authors-2.html

Home Channel Video Catalog About Us ... Contact Us 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 Social Realism Unit Overview Using the Video ... Activities Authors: Abraham Cahan (c. 1860-1951) ] Lewis Hine, Old Jewish Couple, Lower East Side (1910), courtesy of the George Eastman House. Abraham Cahan Activities 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

2. Abraham Cahan Biography, timeline, bibliography, and picture of the author presented by history student Ivan Lupov. http://history.hanover.edu/reference/336cahan1.htm

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 Its first editor was 37year-old Abraham Cahan (1860-1951). Cahan was born in Vilna, Lithuania, and emigrated to the United States in 1882. http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/biography/cahan.html

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

4. Untitled Document Brief bibliography and biographical overview of the late 19thcentury realist from history student Randy Hudgins. http://history.hanover.edu/reference/336cahan2.htm

Abraham Cahan 1860-1951 Biography Project by Randy Hudgins, Fall 2003 In a career that spanned six decades as an author, journalist, and editor, Abraham Cahan served as a beacon of guidance for the rapidly expanding Jewish immigrant community. Cahan was born in Lithuania in 1860. While attending college, Cahan developed into an ardent Socialist. Following his graduation in 1881, he took a position as a teacher. His Socialist views would bring him under government scrutiny following a popular uprising in 1882. In order to escape persecution for his political beliefs, he immigrated to the United States. After arriving in the United States, Cahan worked several factory jobs. His experiences as a factory worker, combined with his Socialist political views were to have a profound effect on his writing style. During the mid-1880's he became active in the Jewish community by helping to organize labor unions and making speeches on pertinent issues. He chose to deliver these speeches in the vernacular Yiddish, so his message would be more readily understood by audiences he was trying to reach. He also became a contributor to several Jewish newspapers. It was through his contributions to these newspapers that his work began to be recognized and published. His first major work was Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto , published in 1896. This was followed by

5. Abraham Cahan (1860-1951) Abraham Cahan (18601951). Contributing Editor Daniel Walden. Classroom Issues and Strategies. Students need to understand the following http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/bassr/heath/syllabuild/iguide/cahan.html

Abraham Cahan (1860-1951) Contributing Editor: Daniel Walden Classroom Issues and Strategies 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).

6. Abraham Cahan (1860-1951) Abraham Cahan (18601951) Contributing Editor Daniel Walden an introduction to Cahan as a realist, see Jules Chametzky, From the Ghetto and Sanford Marovitz, Abraham Cahan. http://college.hmco.com/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/cahan.html

Abraham Cahan (1860-1951) Contributing Editor: Daniel Walden Classroom Issues and Strategies 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

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Home Channel Video Catalog About Us ... Contact Us 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 Social Realism Unit Overview Using the Video ... Activities Authors The information for each author includes biographical and contextual materials and activities. Henry Adams (1838-1918) From his early childhood on, Henry Adams was acutely aware of his heritage as part of the remarkable political dynasty of the Adams family. Both his great-grandfather and his grandfather had served as President of the United States, and his father, Charles Francis Adams, was a congressman and a diplomat. But while Henry Adams maintained a lively... Abraham Cahan (c. 1860-1951) 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... Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945) One of the foremost practitioners of American realism, Theodore Dreiser wrote novels and stories that explored such themes as the dangerous lure of urban environments, the conflict between Old World parents and their Americanized children, and the hollowness of the American drive for material success. Dreiser's own life...

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12. Abraham Cahan (1860-1951) American Literature on the Web Abraham Cahan (18601951). General Resources A Clarity of Vision - an article about Cahan from Forward homepage; http://www.nagasaki-gaigo.ac.jp/ishikawa/amlit/c/cahan19re.htm

Abraham Cahan (1860-1951) General Resources A Clarity of Vision - an article about Cahan from Forward homepage A short biography of Cahan from Congregation Emanu-El homepage Welcome to America... (UCLA) Yiddish Literature from The Yiddish Homepage Writings "The Russian Jew in America" The Atlantic Monthly, 81 (February, 1898) Another site for "The Russian Jew in America" The Atlantic Monthly, 81 (February, 1898) "A Ghetto Wedding" The Atlantic Monthly, 81 (February, 1998) The Imported Bridegroom, and Other Stories (HTML at Eldritch Press) The Rise of David Levinsky (HTML at Eldritch Press) Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto (HTML at Eldritch Press) American Literature on the Web Cahan19re.htm April 1, 2000

13. The Bulletin Archive 19> of America. That translation may be traced, both literally and symbolically, to the person of Abraham Cahan (18601951). Cahan, a http://www.emanuelnyc.org/bulletin/archive/20.html

Abraham Cahan In the history of our people's sojourn in America, many Jewish authors have been recognized by their Gentile counterparts as literary equals. Indeed, by the middle decades of the twentieth century, American-Jewish intellectuals with the names of Alfred Kazin, Leslie Fiedler, Henry Roth, Delmore Schwartz, Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud, and others had clearly become primi inter pares ("first among equals"). Today, so accepted is the Jew in the society of American letters, the singling out of an "American-Jewish" author seems unnecessary, out-date, even obsolete. And yet, there was a definite beginning to this process of acculturation, which included the translation of a Yiddish heritage to the kultur of America. That translation may be traced, both literally and symbolically, to the person of Abraham Cahan (1860-1951). Cahan, a typical Eastern European immigrant fleeing the Russian pogroms of 1881, was to the newly arrived Jew in America what Shmuel Agnon was to the masses who settled in Palestine/Israel. A journalist, an editor, an author, a socialist leader, Cahan quickly assumed the literary leadership of a Jewish community brimming with intellectual fervor and social discontent. His first book, Yekl, A Tale of the New York Ghetto (1896), was praised by William Dean Howells as the harbinger of a "new New York." Having achieved distinction among the literati, Cahan would continue his furious and pointed penmanship. This culminated in two directions: as editor of the Yiddish paper, the Forward, and as author of a number of novels.

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15. Heath Anthology Of American Literature 4/e Abraham Cahan - Author Page Textbook Site for The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Fourth Edition Paul Lauter, General Editor. Abraham Cahan (18601951) http://college.hmco.com/english/lauter/heath/4e/students/author_pages/late_ninet

Site Orientation Heath Orientation Timeline Access Author Profile Pages by: Fourth Edition Table of Contents Concise Edition Table of Contents Authors by Name Authors by Year ... Internet Research Guide Textbook Site for: The Heath Anthology of American Literature , Fourth Edition Paul Lauter, General Editor Abraham Cahan Abraham Cahan has been described as the single most influential personality in the cultural life of well over two million Jewish immigrants and their families during his lifetime. As a journalist and writer, his unique ability to mediate among the various sensibilities and languages of the Lower East Side in New York City placed him at the center of American Jewish culture and Jewish writing. His major fictional works, Yekl (1896) and The Rise of David Levinsky (1917), are widely recognized as classic accounts of the immigrant experience of Americanization. Born in Podberezy, Russia, Cahan was educated at traditional Jewish cheders and also studied at the Vilna Teachers Institute, a Russian government school for Jewish teachers. After graduating in 1881, he began teaching and at the same time became deeply involved in radical, underground anti-czarist activities. Forced to flee, he joined a group of immigrants bound for America and arrived in Philadelphia on June 5, 1882. The next day he reached New York, where his religious training proved useless and secular success beckoned. In 1890 he became editor of the weekly Arbeiter Zeitung

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var AID="10306044_1"; Abraham Cahan, the "Forward," and Me Lipsky, Seth An editorial ghost hauntsand helpsan illustrious Jewish newspaper. ...You could feel the chill come over the room... ...As we settled in at a table of smoked fish and other delights, I mentioned an editorial the Wall Street Journal had run a few days earlier asserting that the ideal way to deal with immigration in America was to pass a constitutional amendment mandating open borders... ...He concluded: "'My country, right or wrong' is not a sentiment I ever believed I'd see expressed in a newspaper founded in the spirit of Eugene Victor Debs and Norman Thomas... ...So I looked up what the Forward had had to say about another outrage in Hebron many decades earlier... ...What I got, instead, was an extraordinarily admiring eulogy... ...In addition to editing and writing for the Forward, the indefatigable Cahan composed a five-volume autobiography in Yiddish and a number of remarkable works of English fiction, including The Rise of David Levinsky (1917... ...In response, we printed the Forward's editorial of June 27, 1950, the morrow of the attack by Communist North Korea on the South...

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