Mapping Urban Cafés and Modern Jewish CultureMain MenuAbout the ProjectSholem Aleichem and Menakhem Mendel travelsThe "Demolished Literature" of Karl Kraus' ViennaSeeing into the Lower East Side CafésOdessa CafesOdessaZoë Wilkinson Saldaña6beb73a90c38e77367b9737ee8e808917759a78eIsabella Buzynski4c5090420af98824ad786b6dac1f314b9e9f95a8
Abraham Cahan
12018-03-27T17:51:10-07:00Zoë Wilkinson Saldaña6beb73a90c38e77367b9737ee8e808917759a78e1974910plain2018-07-26T19:54:26-07:00Podberezhie, BelarusJuly 7, 1860August 31, 1951175New York City, United StatesIsabella Buzynski4c5090420af98824ad786b6dac1f314b9e9f95a8Abraham Cahan (1860-1951) was a Lithuanian-born American author. At 37 years old, Cahan was the first editor of the pro-working class Yiddish newspaper, Forverts, which appeared on the streets of New York in April 1897.