-
Recent blog posts
- 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
- A Century in Photographs
- The Problematic Hirsh Bloshtein
- Locating Lost Tribes
Categories
The Keidaner Network
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.
Tag Archives: Tsarist Russia
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
Leave a comment
Another Day to Remember
Recently, Jews around the world commemorated Yom HaShoah. Yet even if the Holocaust had never happened, however, this would be a season for remembering the suffering, death and displacement inflicted on the Jews of Eastern Europe by war – World … Continue reading
Posted in History, World War I
Tagged Exile, History, Starr, Tsarist Russia, World War I, Yizkor Book
Leave a comment
Tales of the Talmud Society
by Dr. Hyman J. Epstein Dr. Hyman (Chaim Yakov) Epstein (1881-1951) was an active participant in Jewish affairs in early 20th century New York, helping to organize the Bronx Jewish Hospital and the New York “kehillah” which for several years … Continue reading
Posted in Memoir, Music, Pre-WWI, Religious
Tagged kloyz, Military, rabbis, Religious, Tsarist Russia
Leave a comment
The Big Celebration
By Hirsh Bloshtein Originally published in the newspaper “Birobidzhaner Shtern,” October 1970. I once had a friend. We were born in the same town, on the same street and in the same year. We were together through our childhood years and … Continue reading
Posted in Literature, Memoir, Russia, Soviet Union, World War I
Tagged badkhn, Holidays, Red Army, Siberia, Soviet Union, Tsarist Russia, USSR, Weddings, World War I, youth
Leave a comment
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
Tagged Interwar, Memoir, Personalities, pre-WWI, Tsarist Russia
Leave a comment
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
Posted in History, Personalities, Pre-WWI, Russia
Tagged History, Personalities, Political, Tsarist Russia
Leave a comment
World War I Refugees in Exile
By Pesach Weitzer-Chittin (Beit Zera, Israel) Published in “The Past,” a quarterly chronicle of Jews and Judaism in Russia, vol. 13. Tel Aviv, Iyar 1966. 1. More than 50 years have passed since the event I describe here, which I … Continue reading
Posted in Emigrants, History, Memoir, Russia, Soviet Union, World War I
Tagged Emigration, Memoir, Tsarist Russia, World War I
Leave a comment
B. Cassel
Boruch Chaim Cassel – called Bernard in America, but known to his friends as Alter – was born in Keidan in 1877, the son of a tailor. He had a traditional Jewish cheder education, but also studied Russian and other secular … Continue reading
Posted in Emigrants, Personalities, USA
Tagged BCassel, Emigration / Immigration, Keidaner Association, landsmanshaft, music, Tsarist Russia, USA
Leave a comment