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- Searching for Tsemach Pick
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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: Personalities
Thinkers and Doers
From “Yahadut Lita” Vol. 3, Tel Aviv, 1967. Einhorn, Aharon (1884-1942) Journalist, born in Keidan. He studied Talmud until he was 17. Completed secondary school in Paris, afterwards studied at the Sorbonne. He began his career as a journalist in … Continue reading
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Tagged History, journalism, Literary, Personalities, Poetry
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Sages and Scholars
From “Yahadut Lita” Vol. 3, Tel Aviv, 1967. Dat, Rabbi Zalman-Aharon bar Dov (1859-1916) Born in Keidan, he studied in Ragole (Ariogala) and Eishyshok (Eišiškės). He was the rabbi in Pushelat (Pušalotas) for 16 years and thereafter in Smilg (Smilgiai) … Continue reading
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Tagged History, Literary, literature, Personalities, Religious
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Lilienblum’s Journey
Originally published in the “Hebrew Encyclopedia,” Vol. 21, p. 797. Moshe Leib Lilienblum: born Keidan 1843, died Odessa 1910. He was an author and publicist, one of the founders of Hibbat Tzion (Lovers of Zion), and in his youth had … Continue reading
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Tagged encyclopedia, Lilienblum, Literary, Personalities, Zionism
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Little Portraits
By Dr. Chaim Epstein and B. Cassel Originally published by the Keidaner Assn. of New York, 1930. Only the devil could stand it Reb Noach Reubens often suffered from toothaches. In those days there were no dentists in Keidan, and … Continue reading
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Tagged 1930 Zaml Bukh, BCassel, Personalities, pre-WWI
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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
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Tagged Memoir, Personalities, rabbis, Soviet Union
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My Vanished Keidan
By Pesach Weitzer-Chittin (Beit Zera, Israel) Writing down memories of the town where you were born and spent close to 40 years evokes strong longings and yearnings. It is many times more difficult to write about the town whose Jews, … Continue reading
Posted in Interwar, Israel, Memoir, Personalities, Soviet Union, Yizkor Book
Tagged cheder, Education, Holidays, Holocaust, Interwar, Memoir, Personalities, Poetry, rabbis
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The Doctor and the Chief
By Pesach Weitzer-Chittin (Beit Zera, Israel) This event in the life of Keidan, about which I wish to write, I heard of from my father, of blessed memory, when I was a child. Later, in about 1923, I heard the … Continue reading
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Tagged Interwar, Memoir, Personalities, pre-WWI, Tsarist Russia
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Stolypin in Keidan
By Berl Cohen (Durban, S. Africa) The name of Stolypin, once the second most powerful man in all Great Russia, was linked to Keidan, and also, it must be noted, to its Jewish community. Piotr Arkadjevich Stolypin began as “marshalik” … Continue reading
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Tagged History, Personalities, Political, Tsarist Russia
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The Keidan Yeshiva
By Adv. Shimon Shibolet-Zang As in every Jewish community, Keidan had its traditional cheder, which the children attended until about bar mitzvah age. Keidan always had many cheders and the various rebbes and melameds who taught Torah to children in … Continue reading
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Tagged cheder, Education, Personalities, rabbis, Religious, Yeshiva
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Preachers and tailors
By B.Y. Bialostotzky First published in “Lita” pp 1214-1217. I spent some time in Keidan in 1905, when I was about 12 years old. My father took me with him as he traveled as a maggid [preacher] among the towns … Continue reading
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Tagged maggid, Memoir, Personalities, pre-WWI, rabbis, Religious
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