Ernest Poole
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Ernest Cook Poole was an American journalist, novelist, and playwright. Poole is best remembered for his sympathetic first-hand reportage of revolutionary Russia during and immediately after the Revolution of 1905 and Revolution of 1917 and as a popular writer of proletarian-tinged fiction during the era of World War I and the 1920s.
Poole began his journalistic career writing freelance articles for the muckraking monthly McClure's Magazine.
Margaret Ann Witherbotham Poole, to whom Ernest Poole was married in 1907. The couple raised three children.
Poole credited erudite lawyer and party leader Morris Hillquit with winning him to membership in the Socialist Party.
Abraham Cahan
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Abraham "Abe" Cahan was a Lithuanian-born Jewish American socialist newspaper editor, novelist, and politician. Cahan was one of the founders of The Forward, an American Yiddish publication, and was its editor-in-chief for 43 years. During his stewardship of the Forward, it became a prominent voice in the Jewish community and in the Socialist Party of America, voicing a relatively moderate stance within the realm of American socialist politics.
Abraham Cahan in his later years.