Morris: I echo everything Andy says. I've been to Keidan, Regina was my guide and I met and spent time with Rimantas who is a scholar and a gentleman. If you...
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A. Cassel
awcassel
May 29, 2005 7:19 pm
I received this today. Can anyone help these folks? Andy Cassel ... From: Walden Books [mailto:waldenbooks@...] Sent: Sunday, May 29, 2005 11:55 AM To:...
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Olga Zabludoff
ozabludoff
May 30, 2005 12:55 am
Andy, It might be worth forwarding the message to Saul Issroff in the UK. He is so knowledgeable and might know something about this. saul@... Olga "A....
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Ben-Tsion
bentsion100
May 30, 2005 3:17 pm
Shalom, This booklet ("Or Hatzofon") contains some Mussar (moral) speeches of Rabbi Nattan Zvi Finkel, the head of the famous SLabodka Yeshiva in Lithuania....
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E. Allon
eallon
Jun 1, 2005 12:03 pm
Ohr Tzafon is still in print today, in one volume (I have a copy). This book of ethical discourses, based on the weekly Torah reading, is still studied in...
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ozabludoff
Jun 25, 2005 12:20 pm
The first vital records to be translated and released by the LitvakSIG Vital Records Indexing Project have now been distributed to qualified contributors to...
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ozabludoff
Jun 25, 2005 12:20 pm
Cecil: I came across a Zlotnick birth record in 1907. Same father and mother as below--but not your father. Must have been your father's sibling. Olga...
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ozabludoff
Jul 5, 2005 3:42 am
Dear Group Members, I received an email from Margery Cohen which I would like to share with this list since I cannot answer her question. From: "margerycohen"...
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A. Cassel
awcassel
Jul 6, 2005 12:06 am
Thanks, Olga, for passing that note along. I hope Margery will follow up by joining the Keidan email group herself. Lazarus Cohen's name does appear on the...
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margerycohen
Jul 6, 2005 12:37 am
Hi. I joined the group! My grandfather was Lazarus Cohen, a bookbinder who lived in the Bronx. He's buried at the Brooklyn cemetary. He was a very sweet man...
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ozabludoff
Jul 6, 2005 2:07 am
Thanks, Andy, for your reply re. Margery Cohen's question. She has joined the group. Best regards, Olga...
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A. Cassel
awcassel
Jul 6, 2005 4:49 pm
Welcome Margery! It's good to hear from you. Descendents of Keidaners are all over the place, from New York to Johannesburg to Australia to Argentina. In fact,...
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lynn lubamersky
llubame
Jul 7, 2005 2:31 pm
Dear Jewish Keidan group, I am seeking information on the Keidan ghetto during the Shoah. I have seen it mentioned in the Yizkor book and also in an...
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A. Cassel
awcassel
Jul 8, 2005 2:57 am
Dear Lynn, Thanks so much for your complimentary note. I'm delighted the website is proving useful in your research. The short answer to your question...
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EK207@...
ek2072000
Jul 11, 2005 12:27 pm
Hello, I received this email along with the other Keidan yahoo group members and if you're looking for more information about former Keidaner Association...
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EK207@...
ek2072000
Jul 11, 2005 1:21 pm
Dear Andy, Do you or anyone else you know read Yiddish? I have a letter from my great grandfather to his cousin in Israel from 1937 and have no way of reading...
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awcassel
Jul 11, 2005 1:37 pm
Emily, Thanks for your notes, and welcome to the list. I have seen your great- grandfather's name on the list of Keidaner Assn. members, and would be very...
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Harvey
rvkaplan
Jul 12, 2005 4:34 pm
Andy At long last I am going to Lithuania! I will fly Glasgow-London Gatwick- Vilnius on 17 September, returning on 25th Sept. I hope to visit: Vilnius,...
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awcassel
Jul 12, 2005 5:20 pm
Harvey, Congratulations. I know you'll have a wonderful time. Be sure to look in on the restored synagogue and bes-midrash buildings in Keidan, and if you have...
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lynn lubamersky
llubame
Jul 12, 2005 5:58 pm
Hi Harvey, You might already know this, but when I go to Lithuania I look at the "In Your Pocket" guide website and buy a copy of the guide at the newstand...
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Ben-Tsion
bentsion100
Jul 15, 2005 11:51 am
Shalom, I have just returned from a three weeks stay in Lithuania, during which I also visited Keidan. I want to inform you about the changes I found there ...
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lynn lubamersky
llubame
Jul 15, 2005 1:34 pm
Dear Ben-Tsion Klibansky, If you had been able to go into the big synagogue, you would have found the building to be very nicely renovated (not restored. I...
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Ben-Tsion
bentsion100
Jul 15, 2005 3:25 pm
Dear Lynn, You asked about the directions to the mass grave site. So, you have to climb by Dotnuva street ("Dotnuva gatve" in Lithuanian) till you come to the...
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awcassel
Jul 15, 2005 8:22 pm
Just to clarify a point in Ben-Tsion Klibansky's earlier post: the photos he took in Keidan can be seen at the Yahoo Keidan list website. Click on...
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david gladstone
davidgladsto...
Jul 24, 2005 11:31 pm
Dear members, We are looking for any information about our family,if possible pictures of the Gladstein-Amoilsky families.Most of the members of the family...
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m jv
mildajv
Aug 1, 2005 3:33 pm
Dear David, My name is Milda Jakulyte-Vasil, I'm an historian and am currently doing research on Jewish Kedainiai. Kedainiai is my hometown, but I'm a...
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david gladstone
davidgladsto...
Aug 3, 2005 2:19 am
Dear Milda Many thanks for the information.It seems that the name you have found is my grandfather whom I am named after.If you can get me more information it...
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Zlotniks
cz746
Aug 4, 2005 2:04 am
Dear Milda I saw your answer to David maybe you can find something on the name Zlotnick. My father's name was Alya Chaim born 1902 and grandfather was...
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Gus Levy
w2lap@...
Aug 7, 2005 2:45 am
Does anyone have any info on ABRAHAM and BRINA MERYASH,who settled in New York City in the late 1880's or 90's? They had relatives in Regullah named Perlstein?...
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cohenfaigen
Aug 10, 2005 12:46 am
We are celebrating the descendants of Isaac Cohen and Leah Drura Kotzen and their children David, Maurice, Mary, Cecilia and Tilly. There will be 160 family...
