Keywords: Brooklyn, New York City, New York; carpenter; childhood home; Elizabeth, New Jersey; family background; father; grandparents; immigration and migration; Kauen; Kaunas, Lithuania; Kovna; Kovne; Kovno; Kowno; mother; Old Country; parents; professions; shoemaker; Sierpc, Poland; United States; Yiddish language; Yiddish speakers

Keywords: childhood; Columbia University; father; grandmother; Jewish names; languages; linguistics; Mordkhe Schaechter; parents; Yiddish humor; Yiddish jokes; Yiddish language; Yiddish phrases; Yiddish speakers; Yiddish words

Keywords: childhood; delicatessen; East Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York City, New York; father; food; Great Depression; Hebrew school; Jewish community; shoe store; Yiddish class; Yiddish language; Yiddish newspapers

Keywords: baseball; Batman; books; Brooklyn Dodgers; childhood; cinema; college; comic books; Elizabeth, New Jersey; family; father; film; Hebrew Bible; Hebrew language; high school; literature; movies; New York; novels; parents; poetry; reading; shul; sports; Superman; synagogue; teenage years; Yiddish language

Keywords: Brooklyn College; childhood; college; coming back to Yiddish; English literature; film; Harvard University; high school; Hillel; Hollywood films; Jewish community; Menasha Skulnik; movies; New York; Old Country; rabbi; Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold; teenage years; U.S. Army; Western civilization; Yiddish cinema; Yiddish culture

Keywords: "Tevye the Dairyman"; Arkansas; Brooklyn College; communism; Henry Roth; I.B. Singer; Isaac Bashevis Singer; Itskhok Bashevis Zinger; Itzik Manger; Jewish community; Jewish literature; Judaism; McCarthyism; politics; rabbi; Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold; Rabbi Herman Pollack; Shalom Aleichem; Shalom Rabinovitz; Sholem Aleichem (Shalom Rabinovitz); Sholem Aleichem (Sholem Rabinovitz); Sholem Aleykhem; Sholem Rabinovich; Sholem Rabinovitch; Sholem Rabinovitsh; Yiddish language; Yiddish literature; Yiddish speaker

Keywords: American literature; English literature; Ethical Culture; Ethical Movement; Felix Adler; graduate degree; graduate school; Jewish American culture; Jewish American novels; Jewish identity; Jewish literature; Judaism; master's degree; New York; rabbi; United States

Keywords: "College Yiddish"; academia; academics; college; Columbia University; coming back to Yiddish; education; language acquisition; language learning; scholarship; teacher; teaching; university; Uriel Weinreich; Yiddish language; Yiddish learning; Yiddish studies

Keywords: Diaspora Jewry; Hebrew language; Israel; Sheva Zucker; United States; Yiddish in America; Zionism; Zionist

Keywords: academia; academics; Bund; career and professional life; Columbia University; coming back to Yiddish; Dina Abramovitch; Dina Abramowicz; Dina Abramowitz; education; H Leivick; H. Leivick; H. Leyvik; Haim Leivick; Jacob Gladstone; Jacob Glatstein; Jewish Labor Bund; language acquisition; language learning; Mani Leib; Mani Leib Brahinsky; Max Weinreich; Moshe Kulbak; Moshe Leib Halpern; Moyshe Kulbak; Moyshe Leyb Halpern; Moyshe-Leyb Halpern; Ruth Wisse; sabbatical; scholarship; teaching; Yaakov Glatstein; Yankev Glatshteyn; Yiddish classes; Yiddish language; Yiddish learning; Yiddish poets; Yiddish speakers; Yiddish teachers; Yiddish writers; YIVO Institute of Jewish Research

Keywords: Abraham Sutzkever; academia; Avrom Reyzen; Avrom Sutskever; Avrom Sutzkever; Ben Zion-Gold; career and professional life; H Leivick; H. Leivick; H. Leyvik; Haim Leivick; Jacob Gladstone; Jacob Glatstein; Moshe Leib Halpern; Moyshe-Leyb Halpern; photographs; poetry; Ruth Wisse; Shalom Aleichem; Shalom Rabinovitz; Sholem Aleichem (Shalom Rabinovitz); Sholem Aleichem (Sholem Rabinovitz); Sholem Aleykhem; Sholem Rabinovich; Sholem Rabinovitch; Sholem Rabinovitsh; Solomon Rabinowitz; teaching; translation; translator; Yaakov Glatstein; Yankev Glatshteyn; Yiddish literature; Yiddish poets; Yiddish writers

Keywords: career and professional life; translating Yiddish; translation; translator; Yiddish culture; Yiddish language; Yiddish poetry; Yiddish to English translation

Keywords: English literature; English poets; English to Yiddish translation; poetry; Robert Frost; Walt Whitman; Yiddish language

Keywords: American Jewry; Anna Margolin; coming back to Yiddish; Diaspora Jewry; family; Israel; Jewish comedians; Jewish comedy; Jewish identity; translation; Yiddish comedy; Yiddish culture; Yiddish humor; Yiddish jokes; Yiddish language

Keywords: "The Northeast Corridor"; "Yiddish Poets Speak to Me from the Grave"; coming back to Yiddish; poet; poetry; translation; translator; writer; Yiddish language; Yiddish writers

Keywords: family; grandmother; Saul Bellow; Yiddish culture; Yiddish language; Yiddish learning

Keywords: coming back to Yiddish; mentors; Rabbi Ben Zion-Gold; Ruth Wisse; Sheva Zucker; teachers; Yiddish language; Yiddish literature