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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: Landsmanshaft
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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Keidan in the Time of Troubles
By Shabtiel Deitsh (Haifa) Even though I wasn’t born, didn’t grow up and didn’t study in Keidan, it seems to me that I have the right to write about it, as well as a lot to say. Not only am … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, History, Interwar, Landsmanshaft, Memoir, Personalities, World War I, Yizkor Book
Tagged Agriculture, JDC, Lithuania, Totleben, World War I
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The Keidan Memorial Books, and More
If someone met a Jew from Keidan on a journey and asked, “Where are you from?” he would answer proudly, “Me? I’m a Keidaner!” And on the word “me” he would thump his finger into his chest. Envious, other Lithuanian … Continue reading
Posted in History, Landsmanshaft, Literature, Yizkor Book
Tagged Contents, Index, memorial books
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‘The Society of Jewish Art’
This is about a mystery. While searching through digitized newspapers from the early 1900s, I discovered B. Cassel’s name mentioned in an article, announcing the formation of this society at an event in one of Manhattan’s most prestigious synagogues.
Posted in Art, Emigrants, Landsmanshaft, Personalities, Pre-WWI, USA
Tagged American Jewry, art, BCassel, BGRichards, USA
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