Cahan, Abraham

Cahan, Abraham( 1860–1951),
who came to the U.S. from Russia (1882), was long the editor of the Jewish Daily Forward. Besides works in Yiddish he wrote realistic fiction in English, including Yekl, a Tale of the New York Ghetto (1896), The Imported Bridegroom and Other Stories (1898), and The Rise of Devid Levinsky (1917), a novel of the good and bad in a Jew's Americanization in New York. He also wrote an autobiography (5 vols., 1916–36). His journalism (1897–1903) was collected and posthumously published in Grandma Never Lived in America (1988).