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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

(Original in Hebrew unless otherwise noted; links to translated material)

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 Yaakov Epstein 

71 

Keidan in the year 1905 by B.Y.Bialistotsky

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 

''Hechalutz Hatzair' and 'Hapoel' in Keidan by Pesach Shlapobersky 

89 

Education & Culture - Schools in Keidan by Zipporah Kaplan 

92 

Memories of the Progymnasium 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 Leibenson 

124 

Volunteer Firefighters in Keidan by Chaim Landsberg 

127 MEMOIRS

129 

Refugees in Lithuania and Where they Settled by Pesach Chitin 

135 

Keidan in the Time of Troubles by Shabetiel Daitch (Haifa

141 

Keidan Between the Wars by Ben-Alexander 

142 

Stolypin in Keidan by Berel Kahan (Durban

144 

Fire in the Town by Yitzkhak Wolpe 

149 

The Doctor and the Constable by Pesach Weitzer-Chitin 

154 

Vanished Keidan by Pesekh Weitzer-Chitin (partial translation) 

161 

On Wood and Medicine by Mordechai Muller (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 

Avraham Shlomo Zalman Tzoref 

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 

The Massacre by Yehuda Ronder 

235 

Ghetto, Resistance and Destruction of  the Jews in Keidan by Yehuda Ronder 

237 

The "Via Dolorosa" by Rachel Shlapobersky-Ratner 

241 

The Mass Graves 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

iii

Preface

v

An Old and New World by Bernard Richards

xxxvi

A Flag Comes Home After 16 Years

xxxv

The Keidaner Association in the States by Charles Lipshitz

xxxvii

The Keidaner Association in South Africa by Max Rochin

 


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