Aug 30, 2008
Abraham Cahan (kahn), creator of the earliest imaginative literature dealing with the Jewish immigrant experience in the United States, also established the most successful Yiddish-language newspaper in the world. At the age of five, Cahan moved with his parents from the small town where he was born to Vilna, Lithuania, a center of Jewish learning in the Russian empire. His father taught Hebrew to boys; his mother taught Yiddish to girls. At fourteen, Cahan abandoned the study of Hebrew and sought a secular education in Russian language schools. From 1876 to 1881 he attended the Vilna...
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