Keywords: ancestors; ancestry; Brooklyn, New York City, New York; clothing industry; Connecticut; Czechoslovakia; Eastern Europe; England; family background; family histories; father; grandmother; grandparents; great-grandmother; heritage; immigrants; immigration and migration; Judaism; mother; Old Country; parents; poverty; rabbi; religion; religious observance; Russia; schul; seamstress; Shabbat; Shabbos; shabes; shul; synagogue; tailor; uncle; United States; Vienna, Austria; Woodmere, New York; Young Israel of Woodmere

Keywords: Ashkenazi cuisine; candles; childhood home; cooking; English language; extended family; family; family traditions; father; food; grandmother; Jewish community; Jewish food; Jewish holidays; Jewish neighborhood; Judaism; mother; Orthodox Judaism; Passover; Pesach; peysekh; religion; religious observance; religious practice; rituals; Rosh Hashanah; rosheshone; schul; seder; Shabbat; Shabbos; shabes; shul; sports; synagogue; uncle; Yiddish language; Yiddish speakers; Yom Kippur

Keywords: 1950s; childhood; conservatism; Conservative Judaism; Democratic Party; Democrats; family; father; grandmother; Jewish neighborhood; liberal politics; mother; newspapers; Orthodox Judaism; Orthodox neighborhood; parents; political atmosphere; politics; schul; shul; sports; synagogue; The Jewish Post; The Jewish Week; Yiddish language; Yiddish speakers

Keywords: death; family traditions; father; Forverts; grieving; Jewish culture; Judaism; loss; mother; mourning; parents; Passover; Pesach; peysekh; The Forward; The Jewish Daily Forward; The Yiddish Daily Forward; Yiddish culture; Yiddish language; Yiddish learning; Yiddish speakers

Keywords: childhood neighborhood; family; friends; Holocaust; Israel; Jewish community; khurbm; khurbn; loss; Shoah; travel

Keywords: childhood; education; family; family stories; father; Hebrew school; Holocaust; Jewish learning; Jewish values; Judaism; khurbm; khurbn; mother; parents; public school; religion; religious education; religious observance; Shabbat; Shabbos; shabes; Shoah; values; Yiddish language

Keywords: activism; activist; Black Lives Matter; Bronx, New York City, New York; daughter; gentrification; healthcare; Jews For Racial & Economic Justice; Jews of color; JFREJ; political movements; protests; racial justice; social justice; strikes; teachers; teaching; the Bronx; The Bronx is Not for Sale; unions

Keywords: daughter; family; Jewish identity; Jewish traditions; Kohenet; mother; Orthodox Judaism; Reconstructionist Judaism; religion; religious observance; religious practice

Keywords: art teacher; arts education; Bronx, New York City, New York; career and professional life; children; Long Island University; special education; teaching

Keywords: family; grandparents; Hebrew language; heritage; Jewish identity; Jewish languages; mother; Old World; parents; Yiddish language; Yiddish learning; Yiddish speakers

Keywords: African dance; Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS); childhood; children; Conservative Judaism; dancing; daughter; Entering the Holy of Holies; Jewish education; Jewish identity; Jewish learning; Jews of color; Judaism; Kohenet; meditation; mother; Orthodox Judaism; parenting; Reform Judaism; religion; religious education; religious observance; religious practice; Reverend Nafisa Sharriff; spiritual organizations; volunteering; yeshiva

Keywords: advice; father; Sholem Aleichem Cultural Center; Sholem Aleichem Folk School; Yiddish Book Center; Yiddish language; Yiddish speakers