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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: Russia
Finding the Pick Family
Our earlier posts about Tsemach Pick raised questions about his life in the Soviet Union, his 1952 death and his descendants. We knew only that he was the younger brother of Aharon Pick and a friend of B. Cassel; that … Continue reading
Posted in History, Russia, Soviet Union, Uncategorized
Tagged Family history, Pick, Russia
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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
In Prison
Dr. Aharon Pick This recollection by Keidan native Dr. Aharon Pick, of his time as a poor yeshiva student in Kovno, was published in 1935 in HaOlam, the official Hebrew weekly organ of the World Zionist Organization. Edited by Nahum … Continue reading
Posted in Memoir, Personalities, Pre-WWI, Religious, Russia, Zionism
Tagged AharonPick, Memoir, Personalities, pre-WWI, Religious, Tsarist Russia, Yeshiva, youth, Zionism
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Worlds Gone By
Keidan at the end of the 19th century By Dr. Hyman J. Epstein Originally published in 1930 by the Keidaner Assn. of New York. Keidan was not just another Lithuanian shtetl; it was a city, with an important lineage. Proud … Continue reading
Posted in Memoir, Personalities, Pre-WWI, Russia, Yizkor Book
Tagged 1930 Zaml Bukh, cheder, Education, Holidays, Memoir, Military, pre-WWI, Synagogues
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The Big Celebration
By Hirsh Bloshtein Originally published in the newspaper “Birobidzhaner Shtern,” October 1970. I once had a friend. We were born in the same town, on the same street and in the same year. We were together through our childhood years and … Continue reading
Posted in Literature, Memoir, Russia, Soviet Union, World War I, Yizkor Book
Tagged badkhn, Holidays, Red Army, Siberia, Soviet Union, Tsarist Russia, USSR, Weddings, World War I, youth
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Stolypin in Keidan
By Berl Cohen (Durban, S. Africa) The name of Stolypin, once the second most powerful man in all Great Russia, was linked to Keidan, and also, it must be noted, to its Jewish community. Piotr Arkadjevich Stolypin began as “marshalik” … Continue reading
Posted in History, Personalities, Pre-WWI, Russia, Yizkor Book
Tagged History, Personalities, Political, Tsarist Russia
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World War I Refugees in Exile
By Pesach Weitzer-Chittin (Beit Zera, Israel) Published in “The Past,” a quarterly chronicle of Jews and Judaism in Russia, vol. 13. Tel Aviv, Iyar 1966. 1. More than 50 years have passed since the event I describe here, which I … Continue reading
Posted in Emigrants, History, Memoir, Russia, Soviet Union, World War I, Yizkor Book
Tagged Emigration, Memoir, Tsarist Russia, World War I
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