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- Searching for Tsemach Pick
- Recalling those who survived the Keidan massacre
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- The Printed Version
- Another Day to Remember
- A Comment on Hirsh Bloshtein
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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: Memoir
Pranks on the Bridge
By B. Cassel From 1935 until his death in 1941, Boruch Chaim Cassel served as editor of The Keidaner, the monthly bulletin of the Keidaner Association of New York. Besides announcing meetings and recording the happy and sad events in … Continue reading
Posted in History, Memoir, Pre-WWI
Tagged BCassel, Memoir, pre-WWI, The Keidaner bulletin, Totleben, youth
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Summer Bathing
By B. Cassel From 1935 until his death in 1941, Boruch Chaim Cassel served as editor of The Keidaner, the monthly bulletin of the Keidaner Association of New York. Besides announcing meetings and recording the happy and sad events in … Continue reading
Founding the Keidaner Association
From the 1930 “zamel bukh” of the Keidaner Assn. of New York. By William Einhorn In the 1890’s, the gathering place for Keidaners was at the corner of Bayard and Forsythe Streets [in New York]. Later they gathered on Market … Continue reading
Posted in Emigrants, Landsmanshaft, Memoir, Pre-WWI, USA
Tagged 1930 Zaml Bukh, Diaspora, Keidaner Association, landsmanshaft, Memoir, New York, USA
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After the Slaughter
By Mordechai Karnovsky Spring. Early morning. Only our footsteps can be heard in the street. Here, in front of Rabinovich’s store, is the haberdashery. Above it the Friedlands’ apartment. Looking left – Gurvich’s pharmacy and Wolpert’s shop. Another turn and … Continue reading
Posted in Holocaust, Memoir, Yizkor Book
Tagged Beitar, ghetto, Holocaust, Memoir, Ronder, Soviet Union
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With the Red Army
By Ze’ev Ronder (Jerusalem) We felt the first explosions of bombs dropped from German planes on June 22, 1941. At that time the general situation at the front was not clear, because, as everyone knows, Radio Moscow was silent until … Continue reading
Posted in Holocaust, Memoir, Soviet Union, Yizkor Book
Tagged escape, Holocaust, Memoir, Red Army, Soviet Union
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Reb Meishe Chone Shamesh, z”l
Translated by Bella Golubchik. Reb Meishe Chone Shamesh, of blessed memory, was one of the most significant Jews in Keidan. He was humble, modest and self-effacing. He was not very conspicuous outside of the cheder, where he taught the children, … Continue reading
Posted in Interwar, Memoir, Personalities, Religious, Yizkor Book
Tagged cheder, Interwar, Memoir, personality
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Looking Back
By Sholem Dat (Johannesburg) First published in “Lita,” (p. 1475) by the Jewish-Lithuanian Cultural Society Inc. 1951. Keidan is one of the oldest cities in Lithuania, and her Jewish community was also one of the first. Keidan was originally a … Continue reading
Posted in History, Memoir, Pre-WWI, South Africa, Yizkor Book
Tagged encyclopedia, History, Memoir, pre-WWI, South Africa
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My Birthplace, Keidan
By Shmuel Goldblatt (Kfar Giladi, Israel) My memories of the town of my birth, Keidan, begin at the end of the First World War, when the first refugees began returning to their town. Our family was among the refugees who … Continue reading
Posted in Emigrants, Interwar, Memoir, Yizkor Book
Tagged cheder, Interwar, Israel, Memoir
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A Town’s Special Character
By Daniel Ben-Nachum (Prochovnik). (Beit Zera, Israel) Based on their frequent descriptions in our literature, the towns and villages of Lithuania were apparently alike in appearance and character. The market square in the center, filled with noisy trade and bargaining, … Continue reading
Posted in History, Memoir, Yizkor Book, Zionism
Tagged Beit Zera, Hashomer Hatzair, History, Memoir
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Of Wood and Medicine
By Mordechai Muller (Moscow) An excerpt from a letter, written on November 28, 1965, to Yehuda Ronder, Kovno, by Mordechai Muller, a Moscow resident. The writer (the son of Alter the badkhn, or wedding-jester) ended up in Moscow after the … Continue reading
Posted in Interwar, Memoir, Pre-WWI, Soviet Union, Yizkor Book
Tagged Memoir, Personalities, rabbis, Soviet Union
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