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Recent blog posts
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- A Call for Folksongs – 1898
- ‘The Most Civic City’
- Aharon Pick’s Memoir
- Documenting the Holocaust
- Tracing the Pick Family
- Aharon Pick, Holocaust Witness
- Searching for Tsemach Pick
- Recalling those who survived the Keidan massacre
- ‘Good Morning, Lithuania’
- The Printed Version
- Another Day to Remember
- A Comment on Hirsh Bloshtein
- Yudel Ronder
- Coming Together for Passover
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Recent blog posts
- Finding the Pick Family
- A Call for Folksongs – 1898
- ‘The Most Civic City’
- Aharon Pick’s Memoir
- Documenting the Holocaust
- Tracing the Pick Family
- Aharon Pick, Holocaust Witness
- Searching for Tsemach Pick
- Recalling those who survived the Keidan massacre
- ‘Good Morning, Lithuania’
- The Printed Version
- Another Day to Remember
- A Comment on Hirsh Bloshtein
- Yudel Ronder
- Coming Together for Passover
From the Keidan Archives
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Preface to the 1930 “zaml bukh” of the Keidaner Assn. of New York
Category Archives: Emigrants
The Keidaner Association in South Africa
Published, in English, in the 1977 Keidan “Sefer Zikaron” (memorial or yizkor book) By Max Rochin After World War I, immediately after the liberation of Lithuania, the Lithuanian government granted the Jews a certain autonomy. A Jewish National Council was … Continue reading
Posted in Emigrants, Interwar, Landsmanshaft, Memoir, South Africa, UK, Yizkor Book
Tagged emigrants, landsmanshaft, South Africa, UK
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Founding the Keidaner Association
From the 1930 “zamel bukh” of the Keidaner Assn. of New York. By William Einhorn In the 1890’s, the gathering place for Keidaners was at the corner of Bayard and Forsythe Streets [in New York]. Later they gathered on Market … Continue reading
Posted in Emigrants, Landsmanshaft, Memoir, Pre-WWI, USA
Tagged 1930 Zaml Bukh, Diaspora, Keidaner Association, landsmanshaft, Memoir, New York, USA
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Young Refugees in Keidan
By Moshe Domb (Kfar Menachem, Israel) After many hardships and torments, we gathered in Keidan, in Lithuania, to continue the training as Kibbutz Manof that began in Włocławek [Poland]. We were all graduates of the Hashomer Hatzair movement, preparing for … Continue reading
Posted in Emigrants, Holocaust, Israel, Memoir, Personalities, Soviet Union, Yizkor Book, Zionism
Tagged Hashomer Hatzair, Holocaust, Lithuania, Red Army, Soviet Union, Youth movements
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A Jewish Woman in the Russian North
By Y. L. Ushpiz Written for the first anniversary of the death of Mrs. Sheyne Rachel Klibansky[1] Last year we learned the sad news of the passing of one of our most outstanding women, Mrs Sheyne Rachel Klibansky, of blessed … Continue reading
Posted in Emigrants, Holocaust, Personalities, Religious, Soviet Union, Yizkor Book
Tagged Agudat Israel, Holocaust, Religious, Siberia, Soviet Union, USSR
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Survival in Siberia
By Menachem Klibansky I was born in Keidan, Lithuania. During the First World War, we were exiled to Russia and settled temporarily in the city of Tsaritsyn (later renamed Stalingrad). In 1921 we returned to our home at Number 5 … Continue reading
Posted in Emigrants, Holocaust, Israel, Memoir, Soviet Union, Yizkor Book
Tagged cheder, Holocaust, Interwar, Red Army, Siberia, Soviet Union, USSR
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The Russian Exile
By Bella Adler (Basel, Switz.) I was born and raised in Keidan. Our Jewish life was very well developed. We had Tarbut and progymnasium Hebrew schools. Most young people were Zionists. We had Hashomer Hatzair, Beitar and other organizations. We … Continue reading
Posted in Emigrants, Holocaust, Memoir, Religious, Soviet Union, Yizkor Book, Zionism
Tagged Beit Zera, Holocaust, Israel, rabbis, Red Army, Religious, Siberia, Soviet Union, USSR
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Mass Graves
By Chaya Gel (Jerusalem) I was born in Keidan, where I lived in 16 Gedimino Street. When the Russians conquered Lithuania the first time in 1940, they nationalized our business and seized our house. I went to live with my … Continue reading
Posted in Emigrants, Holocaust, Israel, Memoir, Yizkor Book, Zionism
Tagged Holocaust, massacre, rabbis
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Rabbi Avraham Halevy Sochen
By Dr. Mordechai Sochen (Minneapolis) My father, Rabbi Avraham Halevy Sochen (may he rest in peace) came to Keidan at the end of the last [19th] century, and married my mother (may she rest in peace), Feyge, daughter of Reb … Continue reading
Posted in Emigrants, Interwar, Israel, Personalities, Religious, USA, World War I, Yizkor Book
Tagged emigrants, Israel, Personalities, rabbis, Religious, South Africa, USA
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Avraham Tzoref, Zionist Pioneer
From the “Encyclopedia of the Builders and Pioneers of the Yishuv.” Avraham Shlomo Zalman Tzoref: Born in Keidan, Lithuania on 1 Kislev, November 3, 1785 — or as he himself wrote later, in the year “TaKuM”[1], thereby hinting at his … Continue reading
Posted in Emigrants, History, Israel, Religious, Yizkor Book, Zionism
Tagged Emigration, Goldsmith, Israel, Religious, Zionism
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My Birthplace, Keidan
By Shmuel Goldblatt (Kfar Giladi, Israel) My memories of the town of my birth, Keidan, begin at the end of the First World War, when the first refugees began returning to their town. Our family was among the refugees who … Continue reading
Posted in Emigrants, Interwar, Memoir, Yizkor Book
Tagged cheder, Interwar, Israel, Memoir
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