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Category Archives: World War I
The Keidan Jewish Cemetery Project
By Ben-Tsiyon Klibansky July, 2021 The Initiative In 2016, I was invited to a seminar held in Vilna. At the end of the seminar, I took a train to Keidan, the hometown of my father and his mother, to visit … Continue reading
Posted in Cemeteries, Contemporary Kedainiai, Holocaust, World War I
Tagged cemeteries, Holocaust, World War I
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Another Day to Remember
Recently, Jews around the world commemorated Yom HaShoah. Yet even if the Holocaust had never happened, however, this would be a season for remembering the suffering, death and displacement inflicted on the Jews of Eastern Europe by war – World … Continue reading
Posted in History, World War I
Tagged Exile, History, Starr, Tsarist Russia, World War I, Yizkor Book
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Riva Starr’s Journey
Riva Starr (1904-1993), born Riva Schneider in Keidan, emigrated to the U.K. in the early 1920s. In 1991, her son, Monty Starr, recorded an interview with her in Birmingham, England. The following is a transcription of that interview. M. It’s … Continue reading
Posted in Emigrants, History, Memoir, Personalities, UK, World War I
Tagged Bloshtein, Cuba, Emigration, Family history, Oral history, Paris, Schneider, Starr, Totleben, UK, World War I
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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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From the Ministry for Jewish Affairs
Letter from the Ministry for Jewish Affairs, Division of Communal Matters No : 193/64 Kovno 13 January 1922 Document No:43736 To: The Congregational Committee in Keidan We are currently carrying out specific statistical investigation of the Jewish soldiers in our army, … Continue reading
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
Tagged badkhn, Holidays, Red Army, Siberia, Soviet Union, Tsarist Russia, USSR, Weddings, World War I, youth
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Fire in the Town, 1914
By Yitzhak Wolpe, as told to David Wolpe First published in the 1950 anniversary book, Keidan Sick Benefit & Benevolent Society of Johannesburg. 1. It was 1914, late spring, just a week after the holiday of Shavuot. The air in … Continue reading
Posted in History, Memoir, World War I, Zionism
Tagged Anniversary, Fire, History, Memoir, South Africa, Wolpe, World War I
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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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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
Tagged Emigration, Memoir, Tsarist Russia, World War I
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