Keywords: Ashkenazi Jews; father; genocide; grandfather; grandmother; grandparents; great-aunts; Holocaust survivors; interfaith marriages; intermarriages; Jewish ancestry; mass murders; mother; Orlando, Florida; parents; Polish Jews; Roman Catholics; Smith College

Keywords: "Tumbalalaika (Play the balalaika)"; archival materials; childhood memories; correspondence; cultural heritage; family artifacts; family heirlooms; genocide; great-great-grandfather; great-great-uncle; Holocaust; immigration; Jewish ancestry; Jewish history; Jewish immigrants; Jewish singers; Jewish songs; letters; mass murders; mother; Polish Jews; Polish language; Russian Jews; translating; translations; World War 2; World War II; WW2; WWII; Yiddish classes; Yiddish folk music; Yiddish folk songs; Yiddish journals; Yiddish language; Yiddish music; Yiddish songs; Yiddish writing

Keywords: bat mitzvahs; bat-mitsves; blessings; brothers; childhood memories; Hebrew day schools; Hebrew language; Hebrew schools; Jewish childhoods; Jewish community; Jewish culture; Jewish day schools; Jewish homes; Jewish identity; Jewish students; Judaism; kashres; kashrus; kashrut; kashruth; kosher foods; kosher observance; middle schools; Orlando, Florida; prayers; public schools; religious beliefs; religious education; religious observance; schuls; shuls; siblings; synagogue presidents; synagogues

Keywords: childhood friends; Jewish rituals; kashres; kashrus; kashrut; kashruth; kosher dishes; kosher foods; kosher kitchens; kosher observance; Passover; Pesach; peysekh; pork products; religious beliefs; religious observance; Smith College; treyf; unkosher foods

Keywords: bar mitzvahs; bar-mitsves; bat mitzvahs; bat-mitsves; BBYO; brothers; childhood friends; father; Hebrew day schools; Hebrew high school; Hebrew language; Hebrew schools; Jewish day schools; Jewish education; Jewish friends; Jewish identity; Jewish upbringings; Jewish youth groups; Jewish youth organizations; language learning; mother; parents; religious education; religious services; Shabbat dinners; Shabbos dinners; shabes dinners; siblings; sisters; USY; weekend trips

Keywords: Alzheimer's disease; bar mitzvahs; bar-mitsves; bat mitzvahs; bat-mitsves; blessings; board members; bobes; briskets; bubbies; Chanukah; congregations; Conservative Jews; cultural identity; family traditions; father; grandfather; grandmother; grandparents; haftarah; haftorah; haftoyre; Hanukkah; haphtarah; haphtorah; Jewish celebrations; Jewish community; Jewish culture; Jewish education; Jewish foods; Jewish holidays; Jewish identity; Jewish rituals; khanike; latkes; matse ball soup; matzah ball soup; matzo ball soup; mother; organized Jewish life; Orlando, Florida; parents; Passover; Pesach; peysekh; prayers; rites of passage; schuls; seders; Shabbat; Shabbos; shabes; shuls; synagogue presidents; synagogues; traditional foods; zeydes

Keywords: "The Circle of Life"; "The Lion King"; adolescence; Camp Ramah; Clayton, Georgia; davening; Hebrew language; Hebrew songs; Jewish identity; Jewish summer camps; Jewishness; kashres; kashrus; kashrut; kashruth; kosher homes; organized Jewish life; praying; teenage years; teenagers

Keywords: bobes; bubbies; community theater; concentration camps; cousins; family artifacts; family heirlooms; field trips; genocide; grandfather; grandmother; grandparents; great-aunts; great-great-grandparents; Holocaust history; Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center of Florida; Holocaust remembrance; Holocaust survivors; JCC; Jewish community; Jewish Community Center; Jewish education; Jewish history; Jewish holidays; Jewish preschool; Jewish traditions; mass murders; Old Country; Orlando Holocaust Center; Orlando, Florida; photographs; Polish Jews; religious education; Tess Wise; uncles; World War 2; World War II; WW2; WWII; zeydes

Keywords: Ashkenazi Jews; blessings; college education; college tuition; davening; father; Florida State University; higher education; Hillel; Jewish community; Jewish culture; Jewish history; Jewish identity; Jewish peers; Jewish students; Jewish summer camps; Jewish traditions; Jewish values; Jewishness; mother; Orlando, Florida; parents; prayers; Smith College; Yiddish Book Center

Keywords: "Romeo and Juliet"; academic interests; college majors; early European history; French language; Hillel; history classes; history majors; improv troupes; language learning; Latin language; Shakespeare plays; Shakespeare troupes; Smith College; William Shakespeare; Yiddish language

Keywords: Aaron Lansky; history classes; January term; Jewish history; Justin Cammy; language learning; Smith College; Yiddish Book Center; Yiddish books; Yiddish classes; Yiddish culture; Yiddish history; Yiddish language; Yiddish literature; Yiddishland

Keywords: archival materials; childhood friends; childhood homes; father; internship projects; internships; Jewish books; Jewish identity; mother; parenting; parents; public schools; rare books; shelving; Yiddish Book Center; Yiddish books; Yiddish culture; Yiddish literature

Keywords: cultural education; cultural heritage; intensive classes; January term; Jewish immigrants; language learning; Yiddish Book Center; Yiddish books; Yiddish classes; Yiddish courses; Yiddish culture; Yiddish history; Yiddish language; Yiddish literature

Keywords: brothers; Camp Ramah; Eastern European Jews; extended family; family friends; father; French language; German language; grandfather; grandmother; grandparents; Jewish identity; Jewish summer camps; Jewishness; Judaism; kashres; kashrus; kashrut; kashruth; kosher observance; mother; Orlando Holocaust Center; parents; Polish Jews; religious beliefs; religious observance; Russian Jews; siblings; sisters; Spanish language; spoken Yiddish; Yiddish classes; Yiddish language; Yiddish speakers; Yiddish studies

Keywords: academic interests; college majors; cultural heritage; Eastern European Jewish history; Eastern European Jews; French language; fusion languages; German language; Hebrew language; January term; Jewish ancestry; Jewish studies; Justin Cammy; language learning; Latin language; special studies; spoken languages; Tel Aviv, Israel; Yiddish culture; Yiddish education; Yiddish language; Yiddish phrases; Yiddish studies; Yiddish summer programs; Yiddish vocabulary; Yiddish words

Keywords: "Yiddish with Dick and Jane"; advice; alef-beys; aleph-bet; classmates; extended family; father; French language; German language; Germanic languages; Hebrew alphabet; Hebrew language; Hebrew schools; language immersion; language learning; Latin language; mother; parents; Smith College; Yiddish alphabet; Yiddish classes; Yiddish education; Yiddish language; Yiddish phrases; Yiddish students; Yiddish vocabulary; Yiddish words; Yiddishland

Keywords: "Oyfn pripetshik (By the hearth)"; "Schindler's List"; "Tumbalalaika (Play the balalaika)"; CDs; music production; music recordings; singing; translating; translations; Yiddish classes; Yiddish folk culture; Yiddish folk music; Yiddish folk songs; Yiddish language; Yiddish music; Yiddish songs; Yuri Vedenyapin

Keywords: Ashkenazi Jews; childhood friends; childhood memories; Eastern European Jewish culture; Eastern European Jews; Hebrew language; Jewish ancestry; Jewish homes; Jewish identity; Jewish upbringing; Jewishness; language learning; linguistics; Polish Jews; Russian Jews; Sephardic Jews; Yiddish culture; Yiddish education; Yiddish heritage; Yiddish humor; Yiddish identity; Yiddish language; Yiddish music; Yiddish phrases; Yiddish songs; Yiddish vocabulary; Yiddish words; Zionism; Zionists