Abraham Cahan

Film Hester Street based on Yekl (1896). Novel, other stories among first about Jewish immigrants on New York's East Side.

Seth Lipsky is the founding editor of the Forward, the English-language successor to the Jewish Daily Forward. He edited the newspaper for ten years and is now a contributing editor of The Wall Street Journal. He lives in Brooklyn.

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