biography
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| lived:
| (1860–1951)
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| biography:
| Editor and writer, born in Podberezya, Russia. He continued his early revolutionary political activism after emigrating to the USA (1882), where he taught English to immigrants. He founded (1897) and for 50 years edited the influential Yiddish-language Jewish Daily Forward. He also wrote realistic novels of Jewish immigrant life, written variously in English and Yiddish; the best known in English are Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto (1896) and The Rise of David Levinsky (1917). |
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