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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: BGRichards
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 Art, Emigrants, Landsmanshaft, Personalities, Pre-WWI, USA
Tagged American Jewry, art, BCassel, BGRichards, USA
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