Category: Keidan
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More book promotion
We seem to have had some success getting coverage from local TV and print news outlets. Here’s a front-page story in the Charlottesville Daily Progress. And here’s a short piece from Philadelphia’s Jewish Exponent. Local TV news outlets also produced short spots: Here’s one from Philadelphia’s 6ABC and a second from Charlottesville’s NBC29.
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Unburying the past
From 1935 until his death in 1941, my grandfather, Boruch Chaim Cassel, edited a monthly bulletin called “The Keidaner,” a publication of his landsmanshaft, or immigrants’ club. The Keidaner Association of New York began in 1900, like all such groups, as a mutual-aid society. Its members, recently arrived in the U.S., helped each other find housing, jobs…
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The Keidaner Blog, v3.0
This is another shot at setting up a blog to accompany the Keidan website. Or rather, it was. I’ve now consolidated the site at keidaner.com . Please click or browse there to learn more. Thanks.
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Kedainiai
I came to Lithuania for two reasons. One was to revive my flagging Yiddish language skills. The other was to revisit Kedainiai, which I did this weekend. As some know, I have been obsessed with this place since about 1990, when I discovered my grandfather’s memoirs about his home town, called Keidan in Yiddish. As…
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