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- 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
- A Century in Photographs
- The Problematic Hirsh Bloshtein
- Locating Lost Tribes
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Tag Archives: landsmanshaft
Preface
Preface to the 1930 “zaml bukh” of the Keidaner Assn. of New York From the issuers When one generation passes, a multitude of memories from several preceding generations are lost as well, if they are not written down for those … Continue reading
Posted in History, Landsmanshaft, USA
Tagged 1930 Zaml Bukh, History, Keidaner Association, landsmanshaft, preface, USA
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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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A Greeting From Home, 1939
This unsigned article appeared in “The Keidaner” bulletin of the Keidaner Association of NY, September 1939. Never have our landsleit come to hear such an interesting report about Keidan as that which took place at the last meeting. The report … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Emigrants, History, Interwar, Landsmanshaft
Tagged Economy, Holidays, Interwar, Keidaner Association, landsmanshaft
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Locating Lost Tribes
On the “Roots in Keidan” Facebook group, Bruce Patt asks if there is any documentation about a Keidaner organization in Chicago. The answer is … yes! In the 1930s, the Keidaner Association of New York published a monthly bulletin, filled … Continue reading
Posted in Emigrants, Landsmanshaft, USA
Tagged chicago, Interwar, Keidaner Association, landsmanshaft
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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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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. Keidan’s Great Synagogue was packed. From all the small prayer-houses and minyans, people had come … Continue reading
Posted in History, Memoir, Music, Personalities, Pre-WWI, Religious
Tagged Anniversary, Cassel, landsmanshaft, Memoir, Personalities, pre-WWI, Simchat Torah, Synagogues
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A Hometown Wedding
By Philip Greenblatt Philip Greenblatt was president of the Keidaner Association of New York in the 1940s. Before and during his tenure, he contributed numerous occasional memoirs to the association’s monthly bulletin. This one, published in “The Keidaner” November 17, … Continue reading
The Keidaner Association in the U.S.
By Charles Lipshitz[1] I left Keidan in 1907, shortly after my Bar Mitzvah as a student in the Keidan yeshiva. A short time after my arrival in the United States, I learned that there is a Keidaner organization in existence. … Continue reading
Posted in Emigrants, Interwar, Landsmanshaft, USA
Tagged emigrants, Keidaner Association, landsmanshaft, USA
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Keidan’s Mutual Aid Societies
By Aryeh Leonard Shcherbakov and Andrew Cassel Jews have always been absorbed with problems of ethics and morality. Both before and during the diaspora, proper behavior and relations within the family and community have been major concerns, particularly concerning treatment … Continue reading
Posted in Emigrants, Israel, Landsmanshaft, South Africa, USA, Zionism
Tagged Beit Zera, emigrants, landsmanshaft, South Africa, Zionism
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The Keidaner Association in South Africa
Published, in English, in the 1977 Keidan “Sefer Zikaron” (memorial or yizkor book) By Max Rochin After World War I, immediately after the liberation of Lithuania, the Lithuanian government granted the Jews a certain autonomy. A Jewish National Council was … Continue reading
Posted in Emigrants, Interwar, Landsmanshaft, Memoir, South Africa, UK
Tagged emigrants, landsmanshaft, South Africa, UK
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