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Keywords: assimilation; bigotry; childhood; cooking; cousins; diaspora; discrimination; family; fish market; food; grandparents; great aunt; great uncle; immigrant community; immigration and migration; Jewish community; Jewish culture; Katz's Delicatessen; multicultural neighborhood; New York; Old Country; parents; Second World War; World War 2; World War II; WW2; WWII; Yiddish books; Yiddish language; Yiddish newspapers; Yiddish speaker; Yiddish words

Keywords: 1930s; 1940s; Auschwitz concentration camp; concentration camps; education; family; great aunt; Holocaust; Jewish history; khurbm; khurbn; Passover; persecution; Pesach; peysekh; school; Shoah; Volkswagen

Keywords: Bible; family; Israel; Jerusalem; Judaism; kibbutz; Palestine; Zionism

Keywords: Boston, Massachusetts; education; English literature; English major; high school; learning; Long Island, New York; medical school; Middlebury College; New York; political movements; politicians; politics; presidential election; Robert Kennedy; San Francisco, California; school; teacher; teaching; U.S. politics; United States politics; University of Vermont

Keywords: 1980s; activism; AIDS epidemic; career and professional life; dating; doctor; education; gay history; gay liberation; gay rights movement; HIV/AIDS; husband; LGBTQ history; love; medical school; physician; politics; psychiatry; relationships; residency; San Francisco, California

Keywords: 1980s; adoption; Boston, Massachusetts; children; family; foster care; gay rights movement; husband; interracial adoption; Jewish Family Service; lesbian; LGBTQ rights; parents; politics; relationships; social worker; son

Keywords: adoption; bar mitzvah; bar-mitsve; children; Christmas tree; circumcision; family; gay identity; Hebrew school; holidays; homophobia; husband; interracial adoption; Jewish identity; Jewish upbringing; Judaism; LGBTQ identity; parenting; parents; partner; rabbi; relationships; religious observance; religious practice; son; synagogue; Yiddish language; Yiddish phrases; Yiddish speakers

Keywords: children; community; family; intergenerational transmission; Jewish culture; Jewish holidays; Jewish identity; Jewish values; Judaism; Passover; Pesach; peysekh; religion; religious observance; religious practice; son; theology; tikkun olam

Keywords: future of Yiddish; languages; Yiddish culture; Yiddish future; Yiddish language; Yiddish revival

Keywords: advice; education; future generations; global hunger; morality