With a circulation of more than a quarter of a million copies, at the end of the 1920s Forverts was the largest and most influential Yiddish daily newspaper in the world. Its moderate socialist standpoint was impressed upon the thoughts and ideals of generations of Jewish immigrants to the United States. Its success was largely thanks to the work of the American journalist Abraham Cahan (1860-1951). Cahan promoted numerous young Yiddish writers, making Forverts a forum for modern Yiddish literature.

Initially financially supported by the American Socialist Workers Party…