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Recent blog posts
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- 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
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Keidaner descendents reside all over the world. Keep in touch, share memories and materials about the community and its diaspora, via the Facebook group “Roots in Keidan.” Click the link to join.
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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: rabbis
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 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
Posted in History, Personalities, Pre-WWI, Religious, Yizkor Book
Tagged cheder, Education, Personalities, rabbis, Religious, Yeshiva
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Synagogues in Keidan
By Yehezkel Rochin (Ramat Rachel, Israel) Published in the Sefer Zikaron (Keidan Memorial Book) 1977. Translated by Chaim Charutz There were seven synagogues in Keidan. Four of them were in the shulhoyf,; two more were in Smilga Street, and one … Continue reading
Posted in History, Interwar, Personalities, Religious, Yizkor Book
Tagged Holidays, rabbis, Religious, Synagogues
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Hebrew Books Printed in Keidan
1923 “Beit Israel,” Innovations on tractate Shabbat by scholars of Beit Hamidrash, edited by Sh. Berlin, Keidan, 1923, 1924, 1925 (72 pages, 72 pages and 149 pages). 1924 “Le Plagot Reuven.” On rabbinic divisions and connections from the end of … Continue reading
Posted in History, Literature, Religious, Yizkor Book
Tagged literature, Publishing, rabbis, Religious
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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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Keidan and its Jews
from “Yahadut Lita, its history in pictures” p.123. Keidan, an administrative center for its district, was one of Lithuania’s ancient cities. The history of the Jewish community in Keidan begins in the 15th century. In 1495, in the time of … Continue reading