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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
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Preface to the 1930 “zaml bukh” of the Keidaner Assn. of New York
Category Archives: Landsmanshaft
Keidan Memorial Book: Preface
The preface to the 1977 Keidan “sefer zikaron” or Yizkor (Memorial) Book. At first glance this book is like all the other hundreds of books published since the end of World War II in memory of the Jewish shtetl in … Continue reading
Posted in History, Landsmanshaft, Literature, Memoir, Yizkor Book
Tagged Introduction, Israel, preface, Yizkor Book
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I, the Keidaner
The song below was composed by “Yankele Moshe Yoneh’s, also known as Braverman” and appeared in the Keidan Association’s 1930 Anniversary book. A note says it is meant to be sung to the tune of a popular Yiddish marching song … Continue reading
Posted in Emigrants, Landsmanshaft, Music, Poetry
Tagged 1930 Zaml Bukh, Keidaner Association, music, Poetry
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Preface
Preface to the 1930 “zaml bukh” of the Keidaner Assn. of New York From the issuers When one generation passes, a multitude of memories from several preceding generations are lost as well, if they are not written down for those … Continue reading
Posted in History, Landsmanshaft, USA
Tagged 1930 Zaml Bukh, History, Keidaner Association, landsmanshaft, preface, USA
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Coming Together for Passover
“Getting together for Passover” used to be one of those second-nature ideas, an assumption for families and groups of friends every year about this time. This year, of course, the phrase has become bitterly ironic. With everyone more or less … Continue reading
Posted in History, Interwar, Landsmanshaft, Religious
Tagged Economics, Holidays, Interwar, Keidaner Association, landsmanshaft, Passover, pesach, Religious
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A Greeting From Home, 1939
This unsigned article appeared in “The Keidaner” bulletin of the Keidaner Association of NY, September 1939. Never have our landsleit come to hear such an interesting report about Keidan as that which took place at the last meeting. The report … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Emigrants, History, Interwar, Landsmanshaft
Tagged Economy, Holidays, Interwar, Keidaner Association, landsmanshaft
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Locating Lost Tribes
On the “Roots in Keidan” Facebook group, Bruce Patt asks if there is any documentation about a Keidaner organization in Chicago. The answer is … yes! In the 1930s, the Keidaner Association of New York published a monthly bulletin, filled … Continue reading
Posted in Emigrants, Landsmanshaft, USA
Tagged chicago, Interwar, Keidaner Association, landsmanshaft
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A Golden Jubilee in Johannesburg
Published in the 50th anniversary booklet of the Keidan Sick Benefit and Benevolent Society. Jewish emigration from Keidan to South Africa began as far back as before the Boer War, and at the turn of the century several immigrants from … Continue reading
Posted in Emigrants, History, Landsmanshaft, South Africa
Tagged Anniversary, Diaspora, Johannesburg, landsmanshaft, South Africa
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The Emigrants Look Back
From the 1930 zaml bukh of the Keidaner Assn. of New York. A Thirty-Year Anniversary Thirty years in a person’s life flies by unnoticed. Old age sneaks up on us stealthily. We run about, we work, we strive and fail … Continue reading
Posted in Emigrants, Landsmanshaft, Memoir, Personalities, Pre-WWI, USA
Tagged Anniversary, Keidaner Association, New York, Personalities, USA
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The Keidaner Association in the U.S.
By Charles Lipshitz[1] I left Keidan in 1907, shortly after my Bar Mitzvah as a student in the Keidan yeshiva. A short time after my arrival in the United States, I learned that there is a Keidaner organization in existence. … Continue reading
Posted in Emigrants, Interwar, Landsmanshaft, USA, Yizkor Book
Tagged emigrants, Keidaner Association, landsmanshaft, USA
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Keidan’s Mutual Aid Societies
By Aryeh Leonard Shcherbakov and Andrew Cassel Jews have always been absorbed with problems of ethics and morality. Both before and during the diaspora, proper behavior and relations within the family and community have been major concerns, particularly concerning treatment … Continue reading
Posted in Emigrants, Israel, Landsmanshaft, South Africa, USA, Zionism
Tagged Beit Zera, emigrants, landsmanshaft, South Africa, Zionism
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