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Category Archives: USA
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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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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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
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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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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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
Posted in Emigrants, Interwar, Israel, Personalities, Religious, USA, World War I
Tagged emigrants, Israel, Personalities, rabbis, Religious, South Africa, USA
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An Old and New World
By Bernard Gershon Richards (Reprinted by permission of Paula Eisenstein Baker, Houston) Bernard Gershon Richards (1877-1971), U.S- journalist, widely active in Jewish affairs. Born Dov-Gershon Rabinovich in Keidan (Kėdainiai), Lithuania, Richards was taken to the U.S. in 1886. He began … Continue reading
Posted in Emigrants, History, Memoir, Personalities, USA, Yizkor Book
Tagged Agriculture, BGRichards, Cucumbers, Emigration / Immigration, Memoir, Yizkor Book
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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 Emigrants, Landsmanshaft, Personalities, Pre-WWI, USA
Tagged American Jewry, art, BCassel, BGRichards, USA
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B. Cassel
Boruch Chaim Cassel – called Bernard in America, but known to his friends as Alter – was born in Keidan in 1877, the son of a tailor. He had a traditional Jewish cheder education, but also studied Russian and other secular … Continue reading
Posted in Emigrants, Personalities, USA
Tagged BCassel, Emigration / Immigration, Keidaner Association, landsmanshaft, music, Tsarist Russia, USA
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