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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: music
A Call for Folksongs – 1898
B. Cassel (my zeyde) wrote this in his history of Keidan: In the beginning of 1898 S.M. Ginzburg and P.S. Marek of St. Petersburg published announcements in the journals “HaMelitz,” “Voskhod,” and “HaTzefira,” inviting Jewish intellectuals in Russia with close ties … Continue reading
I, the Keidaner
The song below was composed by “Yankele Moshe Yoneh’s, also known as Braverman” and appeared in the Keidan Association’s 1930 Anniversary book. A note says it is meant to be sung to the tune of a popular Yiddish marching song … Continue reading
Posted in Emigrants, Landsmanshaft, Music, Poetry
Tagged 1930 Zaml Bukh, Keidaner Association, music, Poetry
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B. Cassel
Boruch Chaim Cassel – called Bernard in America, but known to his friends as Alter – was born in Keidan in 1877, the son of a tailor. He had a traditional Jewish cheder education, but also studied Russian and other secular … Continue reading
Posted in Emigrants, Personalities, USA
Tagged BCassel, Emigration / Immigration, Keidaner Association, landsmanshaft, music, Tsarist Russia, USA
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