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Recent blog posts
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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
Tag Archives: Anniversary
A Golden Jubilee in Johannesburg
Published in the 50th anniversary booklet of the Keidan Sick Benefit and Benevolent Society. Jewish emigration from Keidan to South Africa began as far back as before the Boer War, and at the turn of the century several immigrants from … Continue reading
Posted in Emigrants, History, Landsmanshaft, South Africa
Tagged Anniversary, Diaspora, Johannesburg, landsmanshaft, South Africa
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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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Echoes of a Vanished World
By B. Cassel Originally published Nov. 17, 1940, in the 40th anniversary edition of The Keidaner, the bulletin of the Keidaner Assn. of New York. The original Yiddish text is here. Keidan’s Great Synagogue was packed. From all the small … Continue reading
Posted in History, Memoir, Music, Personalities, Pre-WWI, Religious
Tagged Anniversary, BCassel, landsmanshaft, Memoir, Personalities, pre-WWI, Simchat Torah, Synagogues
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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, Yizkor Book, Zionism
Tagged Anniversary, Fire, History, Memoir, South Africa, Wolpe, World War I
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