Keidan Memorial Book — Contents

 “Sefer Zichron” / Yizkor Book

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Published by the Keidan Association in Israel, with the participation of the Committees in SouthAfrica and in the United States of America.
Tel Aviv 1977

(Original in Hebrew unless otherwise noted; links to translated material)
Page	Title
7	Forward
9	Forward (Yiddish)
13	The City of Keidan
15	Keidan and the Jews
16	Keidan in the 17th century
19	The Jewish Settlement in Keidan by Boruch Chaim Cassel
43	An Old and New World (Keidan at the turn of the century) by B.G. Richards
65	Worlds Gone By by Dr. Chaim Yaakov Epstein
71	Keidan in the year 1905 by B.Y.Bialistotsky
73	BETWEEN TWO WORLD WARS
75	Youth and Sports Organizations: Sports in Keidan by Chaim Landsberg
79	Memories of the Hashomer Hatzair Chapter in Keidan by Aba Jonah Golden
84	The Founding and First Years of Betar in Keidan by Gershon Shlapobersky
88	‘Young Pioneers’ and ‘Poale’ in Keidan by Pesakh Shlapobersky
89	Education & Culture – Schools in Keidan by Zipporah Kaplan
92	Memories of the Pro-gymnasium in Keidan by Dr. Mordechai Sochen (Minneapolis)
94	The Library and Theater Clubs by Habiba Ruchin-Carmeli
95	Theater in Keidan by Julius Lee (The Keidaner Bulletin, No. 19)
96	The Hebrew Print Shop in Keidan by Sh. Shebolet, Esq.
97	Hebrew Books Printed in Keidan
105	Religious Life: Synagogues in Keidan by Yechezkel Rukhin
111	The Yeshiva in Keidan by Shimon Shibolet-Zang, Esq.
114	Memories of my Teachers by Meir Yitzkhak Edelman (Velvel Nemi’s)
119	Agriculture, Industry and Commerce in Keidan by Yisroel Libenson
124	The Volunteer Firefighters in Keidan by Chaim Landsberg
129	Memoirs: Refugees in Lithuania and Where they Settled by Pesekh Chitin
135	Keidan in the Time of Troubles by Shabetiel Daitch (Haifa)
141	Keidan by Ben-Alexander
142	Stolypin in Keidan by Berel Kahan (Durban)
144	Fire in the Town by Yitzkhak Wolpe
149	The Doctor and the Chief by Pesekh Weitzer-Chitin
154	Vanished Keidan by Pesekh Weitzer-Chitin (partial translation)
161	Of Trees and Medicine by Mordechai Muller (Moscow)
164	Rendezvous in a Vanished Town by Daniel Ben-Nahum (Prokhovnik) (Beit-Zera)
167	My Birthplace Keidan by Shmuel Goldberg (Kfar Giladi)
169	Memories by Sholom Dat (Johannesburg)
171	The Big Holiday by Hirsh Bloshtein
177	Jan. 13, 1922 Letter from the Lithuanian Ministry of Jewish Affairs to the Keidan Kehilah [Yiddish]
178	Little Portraits (from “Keidan” 1930, N.Y.)
181	Rabbis of Keidan by Shmuel Hadari and Joseph Chrust
191	The Vilna Gaon
198	Avrohom Shlomo Zalman Goldsmith
200	Moshe Leib Lilienblum
203	Reb Zvi the Cooper by Dr. Aaron Pick
209	Torah Scholars Born in Keidan
213	Accomplished Thinkers and Doers
217	A Tribute to Rabbi Sh. Feinsilber z”l by Sheynke Chitin
218	Rabbi Abraham Halevy Sochen by Dr. Mordechai Sochen (Minneapolis)
219	Reb Meishe Khone Shames z”l
220	The Human Landscape [Profiles of Chana Landsberg, Chaim Ronder, Zodek Shlapobersky] by Pesekh Chitin:
225	Zvi Lipshitz (martyred) by Ben-Moshe (Johannesburg)
227	THE HOLOCAUST
229	The Destruction of Keidan by Dovid Wolpe
234	Mass Slaughter by Yehuda Ronder
235	Ghetto, Resistance and Loss of the Jews in Keidan by Yehuda Ronder
237	The “Via Dolorosa” by Rachel Shlapobersky-Ratner
241	The Mass Graves by Chaya Gil (Jerusalem)
243	The Road of Suffering and Resistance – The Russian Exile by Bella Adler (Basel)
252	In the Northern Wastes by Menachem Klibansky
255	Jewishness in the Far North
258	In the Red Army by Ze’ev Ronder
266	In the Lithuanian Division by Eliezer Lipman (Tel Aviv)
272	The Mir Yeshiva by A. Simkha HaCohen Kaplan
276	Hashomer Hatzair in Keidan by Eliyahu Kenig
277	Kibbutz “Manof” of the Hashomer Hatzair in Keidan by Moshe Domb (Kfar Menachem)
279	Members of Hashomer Hatzair among the Jews of Keidan by Pinkhas Handelsman (Kfar Menachem)
281	Saved from the Fire: Two Meetings in the Town by Mordechai Karnovsky
286	In the Ruins by Chaim Ronder
290	Torah Scrolls by Chaim Ronder
291	Destruction of Keidan by Rabbi Y.M. Fishlider
294	Many Murderers Still Walk Free by Yehuda Ronder
	Yiddish section
297	The Song of Keidan (Dos Lid fun Keidan)
299	My town of Keidan (Mayn Shtetl Keidan) by Nathan Berger
307	My Youth in Keidan (Keidaner Yugnt Mayne) by Hirsh Bloshtein
308	Mama (Mame) by D. Wolpe
309	My Brother (Mayn Bruder) by H. Bloshtein
	English Section
iii	Preface
v	An Old and New World by Bernard Richards
xxxvi	A Flag Comes Home After 16 Years
xxxv	The Keidaner Association in the United States by Charles Lipshitz
xxxvii	The Keidaner Association in South Africa by Max Rochin

 

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