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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: Music
A Call for Folksongs – 1898
B. Cassel (my zeyde) wrote this in his history of Keidan: In the beginning of 1898 S.M. Ginzburg and P.S. Marek of St. Petersburg published announcements in the journals “HaMelitz,” “Voskhod,” and “HaTzefira,” inviting Jewish intellectuals in Russia with close ties … Continue reading
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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Searching for Tsemach Pick
Last month I received the following email: From: Ilya Shneyveys Subject: Dr Aharon-Leyb Pick Dear Andrew, Congratulations on this fascinating project! I just came across this blog today and am finding a lot of interesting information here.
Posted in History, Music, Soviet Union
Tagged AharonPick, BCassel, Holocaust, medicine, Soviet Union, World War II
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Echoes of a Vanished World
By B. Cassel Originally published Nov. 17, 1940, in the 40th anniversary edition of The Keidaner, the bulletin of the Keidaner Assn. of New York. The original Yiddish text is here. Keidan’s Great Synagogue was packed. From all the small … Continue reading
Posted in History, Memoir, Music, Personalities, Pre-WWI, Religious
Tagged Anniversary, BCassel, landsmanshaft, Memoir, Personalities, pre-WWI, Simchat Torah, Synagogues
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Tales of the Talmud Society
by Dr. Hyman J. Epstein Dr. Hyman (Chaim Yakov) Epstein (1881-1951) was an active participant in Jewish affairs in early 20th century New York, helping to organize the Bronx Jewish Hospital and the New York “kehillah” which for several years … Continue reading
Posted in Memoir, Music, Pre-WWI, Religious
Tagged kloyz, Military, rabbis, Religious, Tsarist Russia
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The Badkhn of Keidan
Beginning in the 1870s, a Keidan badkhn named David Lindy compiled his wedding material into a beautifully handwritten book, which was later brought to America. Continue reading