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- The Printed Version
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Tag Archives: pre-WWI
In Prison
Dr. Aharon Pick This recollection by Keidan native Dr. Aharon Pick, of his time as a poor yeshiva student in Kovno, was published in 1935 in HaOlam, the official Hebrew weekly organ of the World Zionist Organization. Edited by Nahum … Continue reading
Posted in Memoir, Personalities, Pre-WWI, Religious, Russia, Zionism
Tagged AharonPick, Memoir, Personalities, pre-WWI, Religious, Tsarist Russia, Yeshiva, youth, Zionism
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Worlds Gone By
Keidan at the end of the 19th century By Dr. Hyman J. Epstein Originally published in 1930 by the Keidaner Assn. of New York. Keidan was not just another Lithuanian shtetl; it was a city, with an important lineage. Proud … Continue reading
Posted in Memoir, Personalities, Pre-WWI, Russia
Tagged 1930 Zaml Bukh, cheder, Education, Holidays, Memoir, Military, pre-WWI, Synagogues
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Memories of My Teachers
By Meyer Yitzhak Edelman Originally published by the Keidaner Assn of New York, 1930. 1. My first rebbe was Noach Reubens, who taught the youngest children. He lived on the northwest corner of the marketplace by German Street. The cheder … Continue reading
Posted in Memoir, Personalities, Pre-WWI, Yizkor Book
Tagged 1930 Zaml Bukh, cheder, Education, pre-WWI, rabbis
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Reb Zvi the Cooper
(Memories of M.L. Lilienblum’s father) By Dr. Aharon Leib Pick (Šiauliai) Published (in Hebrew) by the Keidaner Assn. of NY, 1930. Translated by Nathaniel Stampfer. The area around the Lithuanian city of Keidan has been famous for its beauty since … Continue reading
Posted in History, Memoir, Personalities, Pre-WWI, Religious, Zionism
Tagged 1930 Zaml Bukh, AharonPick, Lilienblum, Personalities, pre-WWI, Religious, Zionism
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Three Memorable Characters
A regular feature of “The Keidaner,” the monthly bulletin of the Keidaner Assn. of New York, were short sketches of life back in the old hometown. Here are three: The Coachman / The Feldsher / Yosse-Itse’s Payos The Coachman By … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Memoir, Personalities, Pre-WWI, Religious
Tagged Characters, medicine, Personalities, pre-WWI, railroad, Sketches
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Shevuos in Keidan
by B. Cassel Published (in Yiddish) in “The Keidaner” monthly bulletin of the Keidaner Assn. of NY, June, 1941. After Pesach, Spring ruled our lives more and more each day. The days became warmer, lighter. From after cheder until bedtime … Continue reading
Keidan, My Town
By Nathan Berger (Meyer Yanusevers) Originally published (in Yiddish) in the 1950 anniversary booklet of the Keidaner Society of Johannesburg. Reprinted in the 1977 Keidan Yizkor Book. With simple words, in a few score lines I will set down, to … Continue reading
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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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
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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