Radin Community in Lithuania Collection circa 1930-2005

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Radin Community in Lithuania Collection circa 1930-2005

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Photographic prints, slides, audio cassette tapes, research files, correspondence, news clippings, periodicals and collected publications document the Jewish community in Radin prior to World War II and during the Nazi occupation and decimation of the town.

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Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

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Israel Meir, ha-Kohen, 1838-1933

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Radin Community in Lithuania

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Prior to World War II, Radin, Poland was a farming village with a sizeable population of Yiddish-speaking Jews. The town was widely known for its Yeshiva, founded in 1869 by Rabbi Israel Meir ha-Kohen, the Chofetz Chaim. In 1941, the Nazis occupied the town and established a Jewish ghetto. A slaughter of the Jewish community took place in 1942. The Jewish community of Radin was not reconstituted after the war. In the 1970’s, Dr. Frank Kasman obtained a set of glass lante...