Keywords: 1900s; ancestors; ancestry; Canada; chedar; cheder; childhood; childhood neighborhood; Cuba; family background; family histories; father; Great Depression; heder; immigrants; immigration and migration; influenza epidemic; kheyder (traditional religious school/class); Middle Village, Queens, New York City; mother; names; parents; Poland; poverty; Queens, New York; shtetel; shtetl (small town in Eastern Europe with a Jewish community); siblings; United States

Keywords: "Remembrances and Other Thoughts"; author; bakery; baking; challah; childhood neighborhood; family; food; Great Depression; immigrants; Jewish community; Middle Village, Queens, New York City, New York; Sabbath; Shabbat; Shabbos; shabes; synagogue; writer; writing

Keywords: "Forverts"; "The Forward"; "The Jewish Daily Forward"; "The Yiddish Daily Forward"; childhood home; education; family; father; Great Depression; Hebrew school; Jewish culture; Jewish holidays; jobs; kashres; kashrus; kashrut; kashruth; kosher; law school; mother; movie theater; newspapers; Orthodox Judaism; parents; poverty; Purim play; radio; religion; religious observance; siddur; synagogue; WEVD; Yiddish culture; Yiddish language; Yiddish speakers

Keywords: "Remembrances and Other Thoughts"; author; factory work; family histories; hotels; mother; Saratoga Springs, New York; sewing; the American dream; writer; writing

Keywords: career and professional life; education; law school; lawyer

Keywords: bar mitzvah; bar-mitsve; berit; berith; bris; briss; brith; family; father; Hebrew language; Hebrew school; Israel; Jewish identity; mother; parents; prayer; synagogue; Yiddish language; Yiddish speakers

Keywords: burial; death; dietary laws; family; family stories; father; Jewish cemetery; Jewish identity; Jewish values; Judaism; kashres; kashrus; kashrut; kashruth; kosher; mother; Orthodox Judaism; religion; religious observance; religious practice; Riker's Island, New York; spirituality; synagogue

Keywords: Adolf Hitler; American Medallic Sculpture Association; art; artist; career and professional life; carpentry; Columbia University; concentration camps; family history; fine arts; Holocaust; Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County; Holocaust memorials; Holocaust memory; Holocaust museums; Jewish art; Jewish culture; khurbm; khurbn; memory; mother; Nazis; parents; poem; poetry; sculptor; sculpture; Shoah; son; synagogue; teenage years; visual arts; Wailing Wall; Western Wall; wife

Keywords: "Remembrance and Other Thoughts"; books; children; creative writing; family stories; Jewish identity; memoirs; New York Times; nonagenarian; old age; storytelling; writer

Keywords: advice; artists; carpentry; children; creativity; cultural transmission; family; family stories; fine arts; intergenerational transmission; sculptor; values; visual arts; woodshop

Keywords: "City for Sale: Ed Koch and the Betrayal of New York"; 1939 World's Fair; 1964 World's Fair; activism; architecture; Flushing Meadows Corona Park; Jack Newfield; law; Mike Bloomberg; New York City; newspapers; park activist; park design; park history; Philip Johnson; politicians; politics; public parks; shopping malls; urban design; urban planning; volunteering; Wayne Barrett

Keywords: career and professional life; Catskill Mountains; Catskills; Concord Resort Hotel; court case; Jamaica; lawyer; legal case; New York

Keywords: "Cyrano de Bergerac"; "Shtisel"; Charles Steinmetz; Chasidic; Chasidim; Chasidism; Chasids; Chassidic; Chassidim; Chassidism; Chassids; children; Donald Trump; Edmond Rostand; Ellis Island; family; future of Yiddish; Galicia; General Electric Company; Germany; Hasidic; Hasidim; Hasidism; Hasids; Hassidic; Hassidim; Hassidism; Hassids; Hebrew language; immigrants; immigration and migration; Jewish culture; Jewish television; khasidizm; khosids; khsidish; khsidizm; mother; New York; Poland; television shows; Yiddish culture; Yiddish language; Yiddish phrases; Yiddish play; Yiddish revival; Yiddish speakers; Yiddish theater; Yiddish theatre; Yiddish words

Keywords: "City for Sale: Ed Koch and the Betrayal of New York"; books; Flushing Meadows Corona Park; Jack Newfield; New York; park activism; public parks; Wayne Barrett