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Abraham Cahan
Abraham Cahan
  • Born: July 7, 1860
  • Died: August 31, 1951
  • Nationality: Lithuanian
  • Profession: Newspaper Editor, Writer

Abraham "Abe" Cahan was a Lithuanian-born Jewish American socialist newspaper editor, novelist, and politician. Cahan was one of the founders of The Forward (Yiddish: פֿאָרווערטס‎, romanized: Forverts, lit. 'Forward!'), an American Yiddish publication, and was its editor-in-chief for 43 years. During his stewardship of the Forward, it became a prominent voice in the Jewish community and in the Socialist Party of America, voicing a relatively moderate stance within the realm of American socialist politics.