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- Documenting the Holocaust
- Tracing the Pick Family
- Aharon Pick, Holocaust Witness
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- ‘Good Morning, Lithuania’
- The Printed Version
- Another Day to Remember
- A Comment on Hirsh Bloshtein
- Yudel Ronder
- Coming Together for Passover
- A Century in Photographs
- The Problematic Hirsh Bloshtein
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Tag Archives: Economics
Coming Together for Passover
“Getting together for Passover” used to be one of those second-nature ideas, an assumption for families and groups of friends every year about this time. This year, of course, the phrase has become bitterly ironic. With everyone more or less … Continue reading
Posted in History, Interwar, Landsmanshaft, Religious
Tagged Economics, Holidays, Interwar, Keidaner Association, landsmanshaft, Passover, pesach, Religious
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1930s Status Report
By Ben-Alexander Written about 1937, and published in 1951 in “Lita” [Lithuania], pp. 1587-9[1]. The town now consists of some 9,000 souls, a third of them Jews. The economic situation of the Jews has become very hard. Commerce has completely … Continue reading
Posted in History, Interwar, Yizkor Book
Tagged 1930s, Diaspora, Economics, Interwar, Lithuania
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