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- The Printed Version
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Tag Archives: Yizkor Book
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
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An Old and New World
By Bernard Gershon Richards (Reprinted by permission of Paula Eisenstein Baker, Houston) Bernard Gershon Richards (1877-1971), U.S- journalist, widely active in Jewish affairs. Born Dov-Gershon Rabinovich in Keidan (Kėdainiai), Lithuania, Richards was taken to the U.S. in 1886. He began … Continue reading
Posted in Emigrants, History, Memoir, Personalities, USA, Yizkor Book
Tagged Agriculture, BGRichards, Cucumbers, Emigration / Immigration, Memoir, Yizkor Book
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Preface
The preface to the 1977 Keidan “sefer zikaron” or Yizkor (Memorial) Book. At first glance this book is like all the other hundreds of books published since the end of World War II in memory of the Jewish shtetl in … Continue reading
Posted in History, Landsmanshaft, Literature, Memoir
Tagged Introduction, Israel, preface, Yizkor Book
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