Article: Lost and found; the discovery of Lithuania in American fiction.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

Article: Abraham Cahan
Encyclopedia of World Biography;      636 words ...Abraham Cahan The Jewish author and journalist Abraham Cahan (1860-1951) was a prominent ... immigrants in the United States. Abraham Cahan was born in Podberezhie, near Vilna, Lithuania. His father was a storekeeper ...

Article: The Down-Home Voice of the 'Proletarishker Maggid': How ...
Forward;  May 16, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... Home Voice of the `Proletarishker Maggid': How Abraham Cahan Created a Newspaper for the People When the new Yiddish ... socialist Arbeiter Zeitung was born on March 6, 1890, Abraham Cahan, who had undoubtedly hoped for the editorship, reluctantly ...

Article: Cahan's 'Yekl.'.(Abraham Cahan's novel)
The Explicator;  January 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ...Yekl, the novel that Abraham Cahan published with William Dean Howells's help in 1896, records "the whimsical metamorphoses wrought upon the children of Israel ...

Article: Cahan, Abraham 1860-1951
American Decades;      700+ words ... ... and novelist An Exiled Russian Radical Born in Lithuania, Abraham Cahan immigrated to New York in 1882 to escape persecution ... Jules Chametzky, From the Ghetto: The Fiction of Abraham Cahan (Amtierst: University of Massachusetts Press ...

Article: For Jews, news they could use.
Newsday (Melville, NY);  May 24, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... the United States. The Forward was run for almost half a century by a single editor, Abraham Cahan, who had arrived in America in 1882 from Vilna, Lithuania. He helped found the paper in 1897 after stints in cigar and tin factories, and he ...

Article: America's Real Model Minority: It's white people, but don't tell ...
Chicago Sun-Times;  April 23, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... discover your homeland" packages in Ireland, Italy or Lithuania. And the government itself became engaged in the construction ... sensibility. After languishing in neglect for some decades, Abraham Cahan's novels of the immigrant ghetto, The Rise of David Levinsky ...

Article: NOVICE FILMMAKER TO PREMIERE WORK
The Boston Globe;  March 8, 1990 ;     700+ words ... ... was shot primarily in Boston, was taken from a story by Abraham Cahan, who may be best known as author of the story that was adapted ... Since my Jewish grandparents were immigrants from Odessa and Lithuania," Berger says, "I felt particularly close to the theme ...