Zalman Libin

Zalman Libin (1872–1945) came to the United States in the 1880s, just after a series of pogroms hit his native Ukraine, and settled on the Lower East Side of New York City, whose community was the spirit of his short fiction. Shortly afterward, in 1892, he was chosen by Abraham Cahan, the founding editor of the Socialist newspaper Life on the Lower East Side, to write anecdotes and stores for the Arbeter Tsaytung (The Workers Paper), an organ of Jewish unionism, and then became a regular contributor to Dahan’s Forverts (Forward), which, as the Forward Association, published his complete stories in 1915.