Bibliography

Marovitz, Sanford E., and Lewis Fried. "Abraham Cahan (1860-1951): An Annotated Bibliography." American Literary Realism 3, No. 3 (Summer 1970): 197-224.

Works by and about Cahan in English, with author index.

Richards, Bernard G. "Introduction: Abraham Cahan Cast in a New Role." In Yekl and the Imported Bridegroom and Other Stories of the New York Ghetto, by Abraham Cahan, pp. iii-viii. New York: Dover Publications, 1970.

Short survey of Cahan's literary career.

Biography

Sanders, Ronald. The Downtown Jews: Portraits of an Immigrant Generation. New York: Harper and Row, 1969, 477 p.

Discusses Cahan's activities as a writer, editor, and political activist.

Criticism

Carlin, M. M. "The Rise of David Levinsky." UCT Studies in English, No. 9 (September 1979): 54-70.

Praises the stylistic and thematic strengths of Cahan's novel.

Fine, David M. "Abraham Cahan, Stephen Crane, and the Romantic Tenement Tale of the Nineties." American Studies 14, No. 1 (Spring 1973): 94-107.

Discusses Cahan's novels and stories of Jewish ghetto life in the context of turn-of-the-century American literary realism.

Greenspan, Ezra. "Westward the Course of History." In The "Schlemiel" Comes to America, pp. 30-43. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1983.

Notes Cahan's use of the traditional Jewish "schlemiel" archetype.

Guttmann, Allen. "The Rise of a Lucky Few: Mary Antin and Abraham Cahan." In The Jewish Writer in America: Assimilation and the Crisis of Identity, pp. 25-33. New York: Oxford University Press, 1971.

Highlights the clash-of-cultures theme in Cahan's fiction.

Higham, John. Introduction to The Rise of David Levinsky, by Abraham Cahan, pp. v-xii. New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1960.

Presents Cahan's novel in the context of its author's life and times.

Howells, W. D. "American Literary Centres." In Literature and Life, p. 178. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1902.

Brief appreciation of Cahan's contribution to American ethnic literature.

Kahn, Lothar. "The Rise of David Levinsky: Fifty Years After." Chicago Jewish Forum 26, No. 1 (Fall 1967): 2-5.

Examines themes of morality and cultural dislocation in Cahan's novel.

Levenberg, Diane. "David Levinsky and His Women." Midstream: A Monthly Jewish Review 26, No. 7 (August-September 1980): 51-53.

Discusses the subconscious motivations of the protagonist of The Rise of David Levinsky.

Marovitz, Sanford E. "Yekl: The Ghetto Realism of Abraham Cahan." American Literary Realism 2, No. 3 (Fall 1969): 271-73.

Underlines Yekl's significance as an unusually realistic depiction of the Lower East Side slum life of its era.

"Glimpses of Reality." Nation 105, No. 2729 (18 October 1917): 431-32.

Brief review of The Rise of David Levinsky, noting its harsh realism.

Pinsker, Sanford. "Sixty Years of David Levinsky: An Abiding Presence." Reconstructionist 43, No. 8 (November 1977): 13-20.

An appreciation of Cahan's novel.

Rosenfeld, Isaac. "America, Land of the Sad Millionaire: Abraham Cahan's Legend Succeeds Horatio Alger's." Commentary 14, No. 1 (July 1952): 131-35.

Commends The Rise of David Levinsky as a neglected classic.

Weinstein, Bernard. "Cahan's David Levinsky: An Inner Profile." Melus: The Journal of the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States 10, No. 3 (Fall 1983): 47-53.

Perspectives on Levinsky's character and motivations.

Zanger, Jules. "David Levinsky: Master of Pulpil." Papers on Language and Literature 13, No. 3 (Summer 1977): 283-94.

Relates Levinsky's behavior and psychology to his Orthodox Jewish origins.

Zlotnick, Joan. "Abraham Cahan, A Neglected Realist." American Jewish Archives 23, No. 1 (April 1971): 33-46.

Surveys Cahan's achievements as a social realist.

Additional coverage of Cahan's life and career is contained in the following sources published by Gale Research: Contemporary Authors, Vols 108 and 154; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vols. 9, 25, and 28.