Abraham Cahan, a stalwart advocate for Socialist principles, felt an overwhelming sense of urgency to flee his homeland in 1882, as the Russian Empire's brutal suppression of dissenting voices was poised to intensify in the aftermath of Tsar Alexander II's assassination.
The period prior to Abraham Cahan's emergence on the scene was distinguished by a substantial and widespread exodus of Jewish individuals, predominantly defined by abject poverty, who fled their ancestral homelands in search of a more prosperous and promising existence in the United States and Canada between the years of 1887 and 1914, a tumultuous era marked by significant social, economic, and cultural upheaval.
