Abraham Cahan

Abraham Cahan (1860—1951) was a Lithuanian-born American socialist newspaper editor, novelist, and politician. Abraham Cahan was born July 7, 1860 in Podberezhye, Lithuania, into a Orthodox Jewish family. His grandfather was a rabbi in Vidz, Vitebsk, his father a teacher of Hebrew and the Talmud. The family, which was devoutly religious, moved in 1866 to Wilna (Vilnius) where the young Cahan received the usual Jewish preparatory education for the... more

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  • Jul 7, 1860

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  • 1951 (age 90 years)

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