ABSTRACT
CAHAN, Abraham 1860-1951. US Yiddish editor. Cahan arrived in New York from Vilna in 1882. For nearly fifty years he edited the famous Yiddish paper, Jewish Daily Forward, that at its height had a quarter-million circulation. It was the mouthpiece of the Jewish socialist working class. Cahan’s novel, The Rise of David Levinsky (1917), depicts the experience of the New York Jewish immigrants.
