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- Between 1887 and 1914, more than 2 million Jews, most of them desperately poor, emigrated to the United States and Canada from what later became the Soviet Bloc. Preceding them slightly was Abraham Cahan, who arrived in New York in 1882. (A convinced Socialist, he was forced to immigrate in order to avoid the roundup of dissidents that followed the assassination of Tsar Alexander II of Russia.) He settled on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and concerned himself with the welfare of the growing Jewish population. Cahan was the founding editor of The Jewish Daily Forward, a Yiddish-language newspaper that first appeared in 1897. (Now known simply as The Forward, it is still published each week, though with primarily English copy.) He was also a writer of fiction, and that is what brought him his widest audience: his stories and novels won the praise of the leading literary critics of the day.
- Paul Demel was born on 14 May 1903 in Brünn, Moravia, Austria-Hungary [now Brno, Czech Republic]. He was an actor, known for It Happened in Soho (1948), The Man from Morocco (1945) and The Great Manhunt (1950). He died on 31 August 1951 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.