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JEWISH WESTERN BULLETIN
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THE EDUCATION OF ABRAHAM CAHAN
; A translation of Volumes I and II 1 of Cahan's Yiddish memoirs titled I Bleter Fun Mein Leben by Leon Stein, Abraham P. Conan and Lynn Davison, with an
Introduction by Leon Stein. Philadelphia. The Jewish Publication Society of America. 468 pages. Illustrated. $7.50
Reviewed by MILTON HINDUS
Professor of History, Brandeis University
THE PRINCE DI LAMPE-DUSA once said: "There are no memoirs; even those written by insignificant people, which do not include social arid graphic details of first-rate importance."; If this is indeed true, how much more valuable still must be the mem-pirs written by-leading fig-ores of a given historical period, especially, one might add, when these figures are endowed with sparkling literary talents!
Abraham Cahan is surely one of the irjst interesting and gifted Jewish immigrants ever to have come to the United States. Born in Russia in 1860, he came to Am-
erica in 1882 in the great exodus of Jews from the Czarist Empire which followed in the wake of the pogroms of 1881.
Cahan was a Nihilist in Russia. In his new homeland, he evolved from revolutionary anarchism, through moderate socalism, to liberal democracy. He was a great newspaperman and editor, bbth in the Yiddish and the English languages^ a contributor to Lincoln Steffens' "Commercial Advertiser" and for more than fifty years the most powerful figure on "The Jewish Daily Forward".
But he was something more as wella belle-lettris and stylist of sufficient distinction to win the admiration of William Dean Howells, who compared his fiction fav<;jrably with that of Stephen Crane. He was the author of three, novels: "Yekl", "The White Terror and the Red", and "The Rise of David Levinsky", and a book of short stories, "The Imported Bridegroom". The last and greatest of his works of fiction, "The Rise of David Levin-sky", which was favorably reviewed on the front page of The
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It is not generally realized perhaps just how compulsive and prolific a writer Cahan was. His bibliography is extensive enough j to be printed in a separate little i book, and it cohtains niimerous items in three different languages: Russian, Yiddish and English.^
One of the..most lasting contributions to literature andtpJjish^ tory which he made is to Se foimd in his five sturdy volumes (2,600 pages in length) of memoirs, hitherto available only in Yiddish. It s a translation of the opening sections of this fascinating work (dealing with his life in Russia and his early years in America) that we have iii translation in "The Education of Abraham' Cahan". The book is an account of the growth of the very individual mind and heart of a truly representative man of almost Emersonian proportions and is hardly less of a contribution to American history than it is to American-Jewish history.
Its portrait gallery brings to life men whose names we have never heard but should perhaps have liked to know like Michael Bokal and William Frey and Michael Heilprin; men whose names we have heard before but know little about—like Felix Adler, the founder of the. Ethical Culture Movement, and Edward King, the old English Chartist who helped to educate a generation of Russian j;ewish immigrants to America; and men whose names have entered the pages of New York and American history—like Henry George (whom Cahan supported f o r | mayor of the city in 1886 and who received a surprising total of 68,000 votes!)
Cahan gives us some captivating glimpses and close-ups of all these men and enables us, as he does so, to achieve- a fuUer knowledge not only of the Americans of an earlier era but of the country in which they lived.
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Contents will consist of: short! stories from the old Yiddish classics as well as contemporary] Jewish writers, grahmiar and vocabulary lessons, poetry, Jewish folklore and folk tales, humor, j Yddish music with words, what's new in the Yiddish theatre, book and record reviews, articles by well-known masters of Yiddisli, and Yiddish of My Childhood by J. I. Rodale, publisher of the] magazine.
This is Rodale's sixth magazine,] others being Prevention, Organic] Gardening, Fitness for Living,] Theatre Arts, and Quinto Lingo,] the latter a five-language maga-| zine in English, Spanish, French, German and Italian reaching its 100,000th subscription. Rodale, whose language books. Word] Finder, Synonym Finder, . and Phrase Finder, are being reconi-J mended by schools and colleges,] deemed the need foi: Yiddish in| this form.
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