Abraham Cahan
By Abraham Cahan
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Life ‘A Provincial Town’: When Abraham Cahan Visited Jerusalem’s Synagogues In 1925
In 1925, Abraham Cahan, founding editor of the Forverts, embarked on a journey to Palestine. Long before ElAl started flying daily out of JFK, this was the closest that the average American Jew got to the Holy Land. This editorial appeared on October 24, 1925 in the English supplement of the Forverts. We have reproduced…
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Culture The Incredible, Mysterious, And Sometimes Even Erotic Dream Diary Of Ab Cahan
Abraham Cahan’s many kholoymes, his dreams, can be checked off his proverbial bucket list. His life’s work of a Yiddish paper is still going strong 120 years later. His desire to literally have that paper’s presence dominate Manhattan’s Lower East Side, the muse behind our historic building at 175 East Broadway, shapes the neighborhood’s skyline…
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News The Lesson of the Triangle Trial
Originally published in the Forverts, December 29, 1911 Even a child could understand the lesson of the Triangle trial. It’s so clear—clearly detailed from top to bottom. It’s this: the workers under current conditions cannot be helped other than through their unions, meaning, through their own means. The city, in the Triangle case, went as…
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News The Blood of the Victims Calls to Us
Originally published in the Forverts, March 27, 1911 The entire neighborhood is sitting shiva. Every heart is torn in mourning. The human heart is drowning in tears. What a catastrophe! What a dark misfortune! The depth of the pain, the bitter ripping of the heart, for the first time the soul is overflowing such that…
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News ‘I Go Among The Public To Study How To Write for It.’
I wanted to know what sort of impression the new “Forverts” was making on the public; how they reacted to the various articles; what was good, what had to be changed, and what sort of other news it would be advisable to introduce. For this purpose, at the beginning, I often spent two or three…
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News ‘A Bintel Brief’ Is Born
I had always wished that the Forverts would receive stories from “daily life” — dramas, comedies or truly curious events that weren’t written at a desk but rather in the tenements and factories and cafés — everywhere that life was the author of the drama.… How to do this? Not an easy task — much…
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News ‘The World is Burning’
The fire has begun. The Angel of Death is executing his entire program — the program that Hitler and his fellow dictators have laid out in the depth of the night. The fire began with the bombing of cities. This war is not like any prior one. Battlefields used to be far away. Now the…
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News ‘Police Headquarters With Jacob Riis’
Police Headquarters was then on Mulberry Street, near Houston. The daily newspapers had special offices there — in a few old buildings located opposite the police. The head reporter for the “Evening Sun” was at that time an immigrant from Denmark named Jacob Riis, known as a brilliant writer in the world of journalism. Several…
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