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- ‘The Most Civic City’
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- 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: Religious
The Mir Yeshiva
By A. Simcha Hacohen Kaplan (Tzfat, Israel) The yeshiva at Mir, Poland, one of the greatest yeshivas in the world prior to the Second World War, was forced into exile. This great Torah stronghold had existed for more than 100 … Continue reading
Posted in Holocaust, Religious, Soviet Union, Yizkor Book
Tagged Education, Holocaust, rabbis, Religious, Yeshiva, Zionism
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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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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
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Tagged Beit Zera, Holocaust, Israel, rabbis, Red Army, Religious, Siberia, Soviet Union, USSR
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Reb Meishe Chone Shamesh, z”l
Translated by Bella Golubchik. Reb Meishe Chone Shamesh, of blessed memory, was one of the most significant Jews in Keidan. He was humble, modest and self-effacing. He was not very conspicuous outside of the cheder, where he taught the children, … Continue reading
Posted in Interwar, Memoir, Personalities, Religious, Yizkor Book
Tagged cheder, Interwar, Memoir, personality
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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
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Tagged emigrants, Israel, Personalities, rabbis, Religious, South Africa, USA
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Rabbi Shlomo Feinsilber
By Sheynke Chittin (Beit Zera, Israel) From the 1977 Keidan Memorial Book, p. 217. Translated by Bella Golubchik. If I shut my eyes I can conjure up in my memory a picture of our little town. The Smilga river we … Continue reading
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Tagged Holocaust, Personalities, rabbis
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Sages and Scholars
From “Yahadut Lita” Vol. 3, Tel Aviv, 1967. Dat, Rabbi Zalman-Aharon bar Dov (1859-1916) Born in Keidan, he studied in Ragole (Ariogala) and Eishyshok (Eišiškės). He was the rabbi in Pushelat (Pušalotas) for 16 years and thereafter in Smilg (Smilgiai) … Continue reading
Posted in History, Personalities, Religious, Yizkor Book
Tagged History, Literary, literature, Personalities, Religious
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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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The Keidan Yeshiva
By Adv. Shimon Shibolet-Zang As in every Jewish community, Keidan had its traditional cheder, which the children attended until about bar mitzvah age. Keidan always had many cheders and the various rebbes and melameds who taught Torah to children in … Continue reading
Posted in History, Personalities, Pre-WWI, Religious, Yizkor Book
Tagged cheder, Education, Personalities, rabbis, Religious, Yeshiva
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Synagogues in Keidan
By Yehezkel Rochin (Ramat Rachel, Israel) Published in the Sefer Zikaron (Keidan Memorial Book) 1977. Translated by Chaim Charutz There were seven synagogues in Keidan. Four of them were in the shulhoyf,; two more were in Smilga Street, and one … Continue reading
Posted in History, Interwar, Personalities, Religious, Yizkor Book
Tagged Holidays, rabbis, Religious, Synagogues
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