criticism from fellow Jewish journalists because he didn’t limit the Forward to Jewish topics, but wrote on a variety of themes and was one of the more temperate voices in the Socialist Party of America, respecting his readers' religious beliefs and preaching an increasingly moderate and reformist form of socialist politics as time progressed. Fiction writing Cahan distinguished himself through not only Yiddish literature but also his English fiction that dealt with the sociological and historical process of immigrants becoming Americans. By 1896, Cahan had published his first short story, “A Providential Match”, and just a year later he published his first novel, Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto (later filmed as Hester Street). By 1901, Cahan had published six of his stories in a variety of popular magazines. Cahan’s most popular novel was The Rise of David Levinsky, a semi-autobiographical account that mirrored Cahan’s own experiences of immigration, describing a Jewish immigrant's process of Americanization and showcasing the Jewish-socialist cultural establishments in New York. Death and legacy Cahan died of congestive heart failure on August 31, 1951, at the age of 91, in Beth Israel Hospital in New York City. He was buried in Mount Carmel Cemetery in Queens, New York. Cahan’s education of immigrants, his work through the Jewish Daily Forward, and his commitment to socialism influenced the Jewish immigrants in New York who came into contact with his work. In addition to influencing American Jewish culture, his works were published in Russia, leaving a mark on the Russian Jewish workers' movement. Works "A Dream No Longer," New York Call, vol. 11, no. 129 (May 31, 1918), pg. 6. The Rise of David Levinsky. Harper Torch Books (1917; 1945; 1960) "The Education of Abraham Cahan." Translation of Bleter Fun Mein Leben, Volumes I and II by Leon Stein, Abraham Conan, and Lynn Davison. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1969. "Bleter Fun Mein Leben" The Imported Bridegroom, and Other Stories of the New York Ghetto, 1898, Boston, New York, Houghton, Mifflin and company. "Yekl. A Tale of the New York Ghetto". New York D. Appleton and Company 1896. Further reading Jules Chametzky, From the Ghetto: The Fiction of Abraham Cahan. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1977. Melech Epstein, Profiles of Eleven. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1965. Irving Howe, World of Our Fathers. New York: Harcourt, 1989. Seth Lipsky, "The Rise of Abraham Cahan." New