"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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About Abraham Cahan

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.

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