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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: pre-WWI
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
Posted in Memoir, Personalities, Pre-WWI, Yizkor Book
Tagged 1930 Zaml Bukh, BCassel, Personalities, pre-WWI
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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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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
Posted in Interwar, Memoir, Personalities, Pre-WWI, Yizkor Book
Tagged Interwar, Memoir, Personalities, pre-WWI, Tsarist Russia
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Theater in Keidan
By Julius Lee Originally published in “The Keidaner” bulletin of the Keidaner Assn. of New York, No. 19, 1936. Of all the old memories that are engraved on my mind I want to share one episode. This was in that … Continue reading
Posted in Emigrants, Memoir, Pre-WWI, Yizkor Book
Tagged Holidays, Keidaner Association, pre-WWI, Theater
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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
Posted in Memoir, Personalities, Pre-WWI, Religious, Yizkor Book
Tagged maggid, Memoir, Personalities, pre-WWI, rabbis, Religious
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