THE IMPORTED BRIDEGROOM AND OTHER STORIES.
NY, Houghton Mifflin, 1898. Item #39589
1st edition. Original Cloth.12mo, 256 pages. Singerman 5318. Wright III:875. Now a classic of Jewish immigrant fiction from the longtime editor of the leading immigrant Jewish newspaper, the Forverts. Abraham "Abe" Cahan (1860 – 1951) was a "Belarusian-born Jewish-American socialist newspaper editor, novelist, and politician....[He] arrived by steamboat in Philadelphia on June 6 of 1882 at the age of 21 and immediately traveled to New York, where he would live for the remainder of his life.....Cahan was the progenitor of Yiddish language publishing and production in America....Cahan is most famous for his journalism and his role in the production of the renowned The Jewish Daily Forward (ForvertsCahan founded the Forward with its first issue coming out in 1887, while he was still juggling several newspaper jobs....Cahan took absolute control of the paper in 1903 and ran it full-time until 1946. In his years working at the Forward Cahan transformed the self-identified socialist newspaper from an obscure paper with only six thousand readers to the forefront of Yiddish journalism. The Jewish Daily Forward became a symbol of American socialism and Jewish immigration, and assumed the role of an Americanizing agent instructing its readers in the social, economic, political, and cultural aspects of the United States. Cahan received criticism from fellow Jewish journalists because he didn’t limit the Forward to Jewish topics, but wrote on a variety of themes and was one of the more temperate voices in the Socialist Party of America, respecting his readers' religious beliefs and preaching an increasingly moderate version of the socialist gospel as time progressed....Cahan not only distinguished himself through Yiddish literature, which mostly centered around socialist propaganda, but also through his English novels that dealt with the social historical process of immigrants becoming Americans....By 1901 Cahan had six of his stories published in a variety of popular magazines" (WIkipedia, 2018). SUBJECT(S): Radicalism -- Fiction. Jews -- Radicalisme -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. Juifs -- Jewish fiction. OCLC: 6459799. Sunned spine, otherwise Very Good Condition (KH-8-25-D).
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