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- 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
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Tag Archives: youth
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
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Shevuot in Keidan
by B. Cassel Published (in Yiddish) in “The Keidaner” monthly bulletin of the Keidaner Assn. of NY, June, 1941. After Pesach, Spring ruled our lives more and more each day. The days became warmer, lighter. From after cheder until bedtime … Continue reading
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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Summer Bathing
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
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
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Sport in Keidan
By Chaim Landsberg In the early 1920’s, a branch of “Maccabi” was set up in Keidan. The impetus for this organization came from a committee of Zionist activists from various political parties, such as the General Zionists, Poalei Zion, Socialist … Continue reading
Posted in History, Interwar, Israel, Memoir, Zionism
Tagged Beitar, Education, Hashomer Hatzair, Landsberg, Sport, yiddish, youth, Youth movements, Zionism
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