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The first general-interest biography of the famous editor of The Jewish Daily Forwards, the iconic Yiddish-language publication of the laboring masses that inspired, educated, and entertained an incredible number of readers, helped redefine journalism during its fantastic age, and altered American culture. Yiddish Socialist Daily in NEW YORK in 1902 and over another 50 years turned it into a countrywide newspaper that changed American politics and attained him the adulation of an incredible number of Jewish immigrants and the friendship of the best newspapermen of his day, from Lincoln Steffens to H. L. Mencken. Cahan - whose tenure at the Forwards spanned the Russian Trend, the First World Battle, the rise of politics Zionism, the Second World Battle, the Holocaust, and the creation of the State of Israel - did more than cover the news. He led innovative reforms - dispersing social democracy, arranging labor unions, battling communism, and assimilating immigrant Jews into American society, especially via his groundbreaking advice column, "A Bintel Brief". Cahan was also a famous novelist whose works are read and analyzed to this day as brilliant types of fiction that turned the immigrant narrative into an art. Acclaimed journalist Seth Lipsky, creator of the English-language successor to Cahan's Forwards, offers us the interesting story of a man of profound contradictions: an avowed socialist who had written fiction with transcendent sympathy for a rich maker; an internationalist who turned from the anti-Zionism of the departed; an assimilationist whose final fight was against spiritual apostasy. Lipsky's Cahan is a prism through which to comprehend the paradoxes and transformations of American Judaism itself. A towering newspaperman in the manner of Horace Greeley and Joseph Pulitzer, Abraham Cahan revolutionized our idea of what newspapers could accomplish.
