Keywords: 2nd Avenue, New York City; ancestors; ancestry; Austria, Vienna; barber shop; Boro Park; Borough Park, Brooklyn, New York; Chișinău, Moldova; concentration camps; family background; family histories; grandfather; grandmother; grandparents; great-grandparents; Holocaust; immigrants; immigration and migration; khurbm; khurbn; Kiev, Ukraine; Kishinev; Kyiv; Monasterishtche; Monasteriska; Monasteryska; Monasterzyska; Monastrishch; Monastrishtch; Monastrishtz; Monastyrisce; Monastyriska; Monastyrys'ka; Monastyryshche; Monastyryska, Ukraine; Odesa; Odessa, Ukraine; persecution; pogroms; Pokatilov; Pokatilovo; Pokotylove, Ukraine; roofer; Second Avenue, New York City; Shoah; shtetel; shtetl (small town in Eastern Europe with a Jewish community); United States

Keywords: childhood; childhood home; Democratic Party; family traditions; grandmother; grandparents; Jewish holidays; Judaism; Manhattan, New York; political atmosphere; Riverdale, New York; synagogue; upbringing; Yiddish language; Yiddish speakers

Keywords: "Der dibek" ("The dybbuk"); "Pippi Longstocking"; Astrid Lindgren; books; career and professional life; childhood; college; dialects; filmmaker; filmmaking; generational differences; German language; grandparents; heritage; Jewish culture; library; Old Country; S. An-Ski; S. Ansky; S. [Semen Akimovich] An-ski; Sh. Ansky; Shloyme Zaynvl Rapoport; writer; Yiddish culture; Yiddish learning

Keywords: "Der dibek" ("The dybbuk"); 1960s; 1970s; Boro Park; Borough Park, Brooklyn, New York; Chasidic; Chasidim; Chasidism; Chasids; Chassidic; Chassidim; Chassidism; Chassids; gay community; Hasidic; Hasidim; Hasidism; Hasids; Hassidic; Hassidim; Hassidism; Hassids; Jewish community; khasidizm; khosids; khsidish; khsidizm; LGBTQ+; New York City; Orthodox Jews; research; S. An-Ski; S. Ansky; S. [Semen Akimovich] An-ski; Sh. Ansky; Shloyme Zaynvl Rapoport; West Side, Manhattan, New York City; Yad Vashem

Keywords: archives; career and professional life; databases; digitization; epigenetics; family; filmmaker; filmmaking; Holocaust; Holocaust survivors; intergenerational trauma; khurbm; khurbn; Le Jardin du Luxembourg; Luftwaffe; Luxembourg Gardens; Nazis; Paris, France; research; Shoah; shtetl trauma

Keywords: alef-bet; alef-beys (Hebrew alphabet, Yiddish alphabet); aleph-bet; architect; architecture; Barnard College; children; college; education; graduate school; grandparents; Hebrew language; Jewish mysticism; kaddish; kadesh; parents; Yale University; Yiddish books; Yiddish classes; Yiddish humor; Yiddish language; Yiddish learning; Yiddish speakers; Yiddish studies

Keywords: bas mitzvah; bas-mitsve; bat mitzvah; bath mitzvah; children; epigenetics; family stories; grandparents; Haggada; Haggadah; hagode; Hebrew school; heritage; intergenerational trauma; Jewish community; Jewish education; Jewish humor; Jewish identity; Judaism; religious observance; religious practice; Shabbat; Shabbos; shabes; shtetl trauma; synagogue; Wall Street Journal

Keywords: "Directing Grandma"; career and professional life; family; film director; filmmaker; filmmaking; grandmother; Jewish professions; novel; Yiddish culture; Yiddish in the arts; Yiddish language; Yiddish speakers

Keywords: "365 Day Subway: Poems by New Yorkers"; arts; career and professional life; dialogical art; New York City; participatory art; poems; poetry; social art project; social practice; socially engaged practice

Keywords: "See Yourself X: Human Futures Expanded"; art installation; art show; arts; career and professional life; climate change; curator; ecological art; ecology; Jewish folk magic; Jewish mysticism; nostalgia; novel; Pratt Manhattan Gallery; science; speculative art; spirituality; technology; writer; Yiddish culture; Yiddish language; Yiddish learning

Keywords: "Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish"; arts; cultural transmission; filmmaker; filmmaking; Jewish culture; Jewish identity; mythology; The Forward; The Jewish Daily Forward; transmission of Yiddish; Yiddish Book Center; Yiddish culture; Yiddish future; Yiddish language; Yiddish learning

Keywords: advice; ancestors; ancestry; cultural transmission; family; family history; future generations; grandmother; heritage; intergenerational transmission; Jewish identity; reading; research; Yiddish humor; Yiddish language; Yiddish phrases; Yiddish speakers; Yiddish words