Abraham Cahan

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1860-07-07 – 1951-08-31

Abraham Cahan was a Jewish-American newspaper editor, novelist, and political activist. He is known for leading the Yiddish daily Forverts and for his fiction about immigrant life.

Quotes by Abraham Cahan

Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.
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You must never tire fighting Satan.
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If it be true that our people represent a high percentage of mental vigor, the distinction is probably due, in some measure, to the extremely important part which Talmud studies have played in the spiritual life of the race.
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At one time he was employed on one of the Yiddish dailies, but lost his job during a political campaign, when he refused to write two editorials advocating the election of two opposing candidates, both to appear in the same issue of the newspaper.
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To say this sacred prayer [the Kaddish, prayer for the dead] for a Gentile is a most uncommon proceeding, but so unanimous and ardent is the feeling of the people of the New York ghetto in the present instance that Pres. William McKinley is spoken of in that quarter as the loving brother of all of us, as one who died a martyr to the freedom of Jew and Gentile.
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