Keywords: ancestors; Arthur Schnitzler; Austrian writers; California; dentist; Eastern Europe; family background; family histories; family history; father; furniture industry; grandfather; grandmother; grandparents; High Holidays; High Holy Days; Hungary; Jewish intellectuals; Judaism; Karl Kraus; Kindertransport; lawyer; mother; parents; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; pogroms; secular; Stefan Zweig; Ukraine; United States; Vienna, Austria; Viennese coffee house culture; writer

Keywords: 1960s; 1970s; ballet dancer; books; Chanukah; childhood; clarinet; classical music; father; Hanukkah; High Holidays; High Holy Days; Jewish holidays; Jewish humor; Jewish jokes; Judaism; khanike; klezmer; klezmer revival; Martin Buber; mother; music; musician; Passover; Pesach; peysekh; piano; San Leandro, California; Seattle, Washington; secular; Temple Beth Sholom; the Bay Area, California; Vienna State Opera Ballet; Yom Kippur; Zen Buddhism

Keywords: 1960s; Boston University; classical music; college; creative writing; education; elementary school; Hankus Netsky; high school; jazz music; Klezmer Conservatory Band; klezmer music; master's degree; musical composer; musician; New England Conservatory of Music; poetry; San Fransisco State University; St. Louis Conservatory of Music; Third Stream Department; trumpet

Keywords: Alan Bern; career and professional life; clarinet; Cracow; father; Hebrew language; jazz music; Jewish culture; Jewish Culture Festival; Jewish music; Judaism; klezmer; Krako; Kraków, Poland; music; music festivals; musical improvisation; secular; trumpet; Yiddish music; Yiddish scene

Keywords: Alan Bern; Hankus Netsky; Jewish community; Jewish culture; Jewish diaspora; Jewish music; klezmer; Klezmer Conservatory Band; musical community; musician; New England Conservatory of Music; trumpet; Yiddish culture; Yiddishkayt; Yiddishkeit; yidishkayt; yidishkeyt

Keywords: Berlin Arts Council; career and professional life; composer; jazz music; John Zorn; klezmer; music; musical composition; musician; Paul Brody's Sadawi; Sephardic culture; Sephardic music

Keywords: Berlin, Germany; blues music; career and professional life; composer; klezmer music; music theory; musical composition; musician; trumpet; Turkish culture

Keywords: career and professional life; Charles Ives; Charles Mingus; humanism; humanist philosophy; jazz music; Jewish philosophers; klezmer; Martin Buber; music; musician; storytelling; writers

Keywords: art; Berlin, Germany; career and professional life; Charles Ives; Jewish culture; Jewish Museum Berlin; Jewish music; John Cage; Jüdisches Museum Berlin; museum exhibits; museums; music theory; musical composer; musician; oral history; radio; sound installations; trumpet

Keywords: "The Other Europeans"; Alan Bern; archives; career and professional life; Germany; heritage; Jewish culture; Jewish history; Jewish Museum Berlin; Jewish musicians; musical composer; musical performance; musician; nostalgia; Nuremberg trials; Roma culture; Roma musicians; trumpet; United States; weddings

Keywords: childhood; Cracow; father; German language; grandparents; Jewish culture; Jewish music; Krako; Kraków, Poland; Michael Alpert; mother; music; musician; Sejny, Poland; The Borderland Foundation; trumpet; Vienna, Austria; Yiddish culture; Yiddish language; Yiddish music; Yiddish phrases

Keywords: Frank London; John Zorn; klezmer revival; musician; rebirth

Keywords: Alan Bern; career and professional life; Jewish music; John Zorn; klezmer; Lorin Sklamberg; Münchner Kammerspiele; Munich Kammerspiele; musical composer; musical performance; musician; opera; performing arts; radio; theater; theatre; touring; trumpet; Yiddish scene; Yiddish Summer Weimar

Keywords: Berlin, Germany; concerts; jazz music; Judaism; klezmer; musician; trumpet