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"A Hole in the Heart"

Keidan Memorial Book

"Sefer Zichron" / Yizkor Book

Published by the Keidan Association in Israel,
with the participation of the Committees in South Africa and in the United States of America
Tel Aviv 1977


Contents

(in Hebrew unless otherwise noted)

Page 

Title

Forward 
Forward (Yiddish) 
13  The City of Keidan 
15  Keidan and the Jews 
16  Keidan in the 17th century 
19  The Jewish Settlement in Keidan by Boruch Chaim Cassel 
43  An Old and New World (Keidan at the turn of the century) by B.G. Richards 
65  Worlds Gone By by Dr. Chaim Yakov Epstein 
71  Keidan in the year 1905 by B.Y.Bialostotski 
73  BETWEEN TWO WORLD WARS 
75  Youth and Sports Organizations: Sports in Keidan by Chaim Landsberg 
79  Memories of the Hashomer Hatzair Chapter in Keidan by Aba Jonah Golden 
84  The Founding and First Years of Betar in Keidan by Gershon Shlapobersky 
88  'Young Pioneers' and 'Poale' in Keidan by Pesakh Shlapobersky 
89  Education & Culture - Schools in Keidan by Zipporah Kaplan 
92  Memories of the Pro-gymnasium in Keidan by Dr. Mordechai Suchin (Minneapolis) 
94  The Library and Theater Clubs by Habiba Ruchin-Carmeli 
95  Theater in Keidan by Julius Lee (The Keidaner Bulletin, No. 19) 
96  The Hebrew Print Shop in Keidan by Sh. Shebolet, Esq. 
97  Hebrew Books Printed in Keidan 
105  Religious Life: Synagogues in Keidan by Yechezkel Rukhin 
111  The Yeshiva in Keidan by Shimon Shibolet-Zang, Esq
114  Memories of my Teachers by Meir Yitzkhak Edelman (Velvel Nemi's) 
119  Agriculture, Industry and Commerce in Keidan by Yisroel Libenson 
124  The Volunteer Firefighters in Keidan by Chaim Landsberg 
129  Memoirs: Refugees in Lithuania and Where they Settled by Pesekh Chitin 
135  Keidan in the Time of Troubles by Shabetiel Daitch (Haifa) 
141  Keidan by Ben-Alexander 
142  Stolypin in Keidan by Berel Kahan (Durban) 
144  Fire in the Town by Yitzkhak Wolpe 
149  A Story of a Doctor and a Constable by Pesekh Weitzer-Chitin 
154  Vanished Keidan by Pesekh Weitzer-Chitin 
161  Of Trees and Medicine by Mordechai Moler (Moscow) 
164  Rendezvous in a Vanished Town by Daniel Ben-Nahum (Prokhovnik) (Beit-Zera) 
167  My Birthplace Keidan by Shmuel Goldberg (Kfar Giladi) 
169  Memories by Sholom Dat (Johannesburg) 
171  The Big Holiday by Hirsh Blustein 
177  Jan. 13, 1922 Letter from the Lithuanian Ministry of Jewish Affairs to the Keidan Kehilah [Yiddish] 
178  Little Portraits (from "Keidan" 1930, N.Y.) 
181  Rabbis of Keidan by Shmuel Hadari and Joseph Chrust 
191  The Vilna Gaon 
198  Avrohom Shlomo Zalman Goldsmith 
200  Moshe Leib Lilienblum 
203  Reb Zvi the Cooper by Dr. Aaron Pick 
209  Torah Scholars Born in Keidan 
213  Accomplished Thinkers and Doers 
217  A Tribute to Rabbi Sh. Feinsilber z"l by Sheynke Chitin 
218  Rabbi Abraham Halevy Suchin by Dr. Mordechai Suchin (Minneapolis) 
219  Reb Meishe Khone Shames z"l 
220  The Human Landscape [Profiles of Chana Landsberg, Chaim Ronder, Zodek Shlapobersky] by Pesekh Chitin: 
225  Zvi Lipshitz (martyred) by Ben-Moshe (Johannesburg) 
227  THE HOLOCAUST 
229  The Destruction of Keidan by Dovid Wolpe 
234  Mass Slaughter by Yehuda Ronder 
235  Ghetto, Resistance and Loss of the Jews in Keidan by Yehuda Ronder 
237  The "Via Dolorosa" by Rachel Shlapobersky-Ratner 
241  The Mass Grave by Chaya Gil (Jerusalem) 
243  The Road of Suffering and Resistance - The Russian Exile by Bella Adler (Basel) 
252  In the Northern Wastes by Menachem Klibansky 
255  Jewishness in the Far North 
258  In the Red Army by Ze'ev Ronder 
266  In the Lithuanian Division by Eliezer Lipman (Tel Aviv) 
272  The Mir Yeshiva by A. Simkha HaCohen Kaplan 
276  Hashomer Hatzair in Keidan by Eliyahu Kenig 
277  Kibbutz "Manof" of the Hashomer Hatzair in Keidan by Moshe Domb (Kfar Menachem) 
279  Members of Hashomer Hatzair among the Jews of Keidan by Pinkhas Handelsman (Kfar Menachem) 
281  Saved from the Fire: Two Meetings in the Town by Mordechai Karnovsky 
286  In the Ruins by Chaim Ronder 
290  Torah Scrolls by Chaim Ronder 
291  Destruction of Keidan by Rabbi Y.M. Fishlider 
294  Many Murderers Still Walk Free by Yehuda Ronder 
  Yiddish section
297 
The Song of Keidan (Dos Lid fun Keidan)
299 
My town of Keidan (Mayn Shtetl Keidan) by Nathan Berger
307 
My Youth in Keidan (Keidaner Yugnt Mayne) by Hirsh Blomshteyn
308 
Mama (Mame) by D. Wolpe
309 
My Brother (Mayn Bruder) by H. Blomshteyn
  English Section
iiiPreface
vAn Old and New World by Bernard Richards
xxxviA Flag Comes Home After 16 Years
xxxvThe Keidaner Association in the States by Charles Lipshitz
xxxviiThe Keidaner Association in South Africa by Max Rochin


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