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Tag Archives: Totleben
A Visit to a Lithuanian Town
This was published in “The Keidaner” bulletin in three parts, from October to December, 1938. It was exerpted from the Warsaw Yiddish newspaper “Haynt” (“Today”), which carried the author’s account of travel through Lithuania. By Chaim Vital “When you are … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Interwar, Memoir
Tagged Agriculture, Czapski, Economy, Folksbank, Gaon, History, Synagogues, Totleben
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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
Posted in History, Memoir, Pre-WWI
Tagged BCassel, Memoir, pre-WWI, The Keidaner bulletin, Totleben, youth
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Riva Starr’s Journey
Riva Starr (1904-1993), born Riva Schneider in Keidan, emigrated to the U.K. in the early 1920s. In 1991, her son, Monty Starr, recorded an interview with her in Birmingham, England. The following is a transcription of that interview. M. It’s … Continue reading
Posted in Emigrants, History, Memoir, Personalities, UK, World War I
Tagged Bloshtein, Cuba, Emigration, Family history, Oral history, Paris, Schneider, Starr, Totleben, UK, World War I
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Keidan in the Time of Troubles
By Shabtiel Deitsh (Haifa) Even though I wasn’t born, didn’t grow up and didn’t study in Keidan, it seems to me that I have the right to write about it, as well as a lot to say. Not only am … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, History, Interwar, Landsmanshaft, Memoir, Personalities, World War I, Yizkor Book
Tagged Agriculture, JDC, Lithuania, Totleben, World War I
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