Abraham Cahan
Yiddish socialist or proto-neoconservative?
March 1 2024 12:01AM
In many ways, Abraham Cahan was a stereotypically rationalist Lithuanian Jew, able to rein in his emotions and do what he felt right.
Feb. 26 2024 3:37AM
Abraham Cahan was one of America’s first great Jewish newspapermen, and set an example of independent thinking that the nation could sorely use today.
Feb. 5 2024 12:01AM
From necessity to laughingstock.
Jenna Weissman Joselit
Feb. 19 2018 12:01AM
Some things haven’t changed in 70 years.
Jan. 31 2018 12:01AM
The custom of parents giving their children coins on Hanukkah—known as Hanukkah gelt—is well-known today, but goes almost unmentioned in pre-20th-century sources. It seems that. . .
David Golinkin
Dec. 22 2014 12:01AM
Seth Lipsky’s new biography of Abraham Cahan, founder of the Forverts, sheds light on his break with Marxist orthodoxy and anti-Zionism to form a new,. . .
Oct. 8 2013 12:00AM