Keywords: American Museum of Natural History; AMNH; Barnard College of Columbia University; brother; Cathedral of St. John the Divine; Cleveland, Ohio; Columbia University; congregation; Jewish identity; Jewish Theological Seminary; JTS; Manhattan, New York City, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art; museums; parents; Riverside Park; schul; shul; siblings; synagogue; temple; the Met; Upper West Side; urban culture; urban life

Keywords: Abraham Joshua Heschel School; AJHS; Brookline, Massachusetts; brother; congregation; Conservative Judaism; father; Jewish identity; Jewish summer camps; Jewish Theological Seminary; JTS; kashres; kashrus; kashrut; kashruth; kosher; Manhattan, New York City, New York; mother; parents; pluralism; Reform Judaism; schul; Shabbat; Shabbos; shabes; shul; siblings; synagogue; temple

Keywords: Amherst, Massachusetts; Birthright Israel; college; egalitarianism; Hampshire College; Hebrew language; Jewish identity; Jewish observance; kashres; kashrus; kashrut; kashruth; kiddish; kiddush; kidesh; kosher; parents; phylacteries; pluralism; Shabbat; Shabbos; shabes; Taglit-Birthright Israel; tales; talis; talit; talith; tallis; tallit; tallith; Talmud; tefillin; tephillin; tfillin; tfiln; university

Keywords: "Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto"; Abraham Cahan; Abraham Joshua Heschel School; AJHS; Amherst, Massachusetts; brother; father; Haskalah; haskole; Holocaust; immigrants; immigration; January term intensive; Jewish history; junior high school; khurbm; khurbn; klezmer music; middle school; mother; parents; Shoah; siblings; simcha; simchas; simchot; simchoth; simhah; simhas; simhot; simhoth; simkhe; simkhes; Yiddish Book Center; Yiddish classes; Yiddish culture; Yiddish language; Yiddish literature; Yiddishkayt; Yiddishkeit; yidishkayt; yidishkeyt; Zionism; Zionists

Keywords: "College Yiddish : An Introduction to the Yiddish Language and to Jewish Life and Culture"; "Words on Fire: The Unfinished Story of Yiddish"; Abraham Joshua Heschel School; Amherst, Massachusetts; Ashkenazi Jews; Ashkenazim; brother; Div 3; Div III; Division 3; Division III; Dovid Katz; father; grandmother; grandparents; Hampshire College; Hebrew alphabet; Hebrew language; independent studies project; January term intensive; Jewish identity; libraries; library; Manhattan, New York City, New York; mother; parents; siblings; Uriel Weinreich; Yiddish Book Center; Yiddish classes; Yiddish culture; Yiddish identity; Yiddish language; Yiddish literature; Yiddishkayt; Yiddishkeit; yidishkayt; yidishkeyt

Keywords: acculturation; Americanization; Ashkenazi Jews; Ashkenazim; assimilation; aunts; extended family; grandfather; grandmother; grandparents; great grandfather; great grandmother; great grandparents; great-grandfather; great-grandmother; great-grandparents; Hebrew language; Israel; Jewish summer camps; mother; Orthodox Judaism; parents; Russia; Safed, Israel; Sephardic Jews; Sephardim; socialism; socialists; Tsfat, Israel; Tzfat, Israel; Vienna, Austria; Yiddish language

Keywords: "Beth Din (In My Father's Court)"; "The Paris Review"; Amherst, Massachusetts; Ester Kreytman; Esther Kreitman; Esther Singer Kreitman; Hebrew language; Hinde Esther Kreitman; I.B. Singer; Isaac Bashevis Singer; Itskhok Bashevis Zinger; January term intensive; Jewish identity; Jewish literature; poems; poetry; writers; writing; Yiddish authors; Yiddish Book Center; Yiddish classes; Yiddish identity; Yiddish language; Yiddish literature

Keywords: Amherst, Massachusetts; Balkan music; Hampshire College; klezmer music; Yiddish language