Part of the Jewish Encounters series
The first general-interest biography of the legendary editor of the
"Jewish Daily Forward," the newspaper of Yiddish-speaking
immigrants that inspired, educated, and entertained millions of
readers; helped redefine journalism during its golden age; and
transformed American culture.
Already a noted journalist writing for both English-language and
Yiddish newspapers, Abraham Cahan founded the Yiddish daily in New
York City in 1897. Over the next fifty years he turned it into a
national newspaper that changed American politics and earned him
the adulation of millions of Jewish immigrants and the friendship
of the greatest newspapermen of his day, from Lincoln Steffens to
H. L. Mencken. Cahan did more than cover the news. He led
revolutionary reforms--spreading social democracy, organizing labor
unions, battling communism, and assimilating immigrant Jews into
American society, most notably via his groundbreaking advice
column, "A Bintel Brief." Cahan was also a celebrated novelist
whose works are read and studied to this day as brilliant examples
of fiction that turned the immigrant narrative into an art
form.
Acclaimed journalist Seth Lipsky gives us the fascinating story of
a man of profound contradictions: an avowed socialist who wrote
fiction with transcendent sympathy for a wealthy manufacturer, an
internationalist who turned against the anti-Zionism of the left,
an assimilationist whose final battle was against religious
apostasy. Lipsky's Cahan is a prism through which to understand the
paradoxes and transformations of the American Jewish experience. A
towering newspaperman in the manner of Horace Greeley and Joseph
Pulitzer, Abraham Cahan revolutionized our idea of what newspapers
could accomplish.
(With 16 pages of black-and-white illustrations.)
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