Keywords: "Vilna" (off-Broadway play); 1950s; ancestors; ancestry; aunt; burial; cemetery; Donald Trump; family background; family histories; grandfather; grandmother; great-grandmother; heritage; Ira Fuchs; Menachem Mendel Schneerson; Montefiore Cemetery; Old Country; plays; playwright; Przedborz; Przedbórz, Poland; Pshedboz'; rabbi; the Lubavitcher Rebbe; theater; theatre; uncle; Woody Guthrie; Yiddishkayt; Yiddishkeit; yidishkayt; yidishkeyt

Keywords: "Der dibek" ("The Dybbuk"); 1920s; 1930s; 1940s; acting; actor; actress; aunt; Donald Rumsfeld; family diaries; grandmother; marriage; philosophy; rabbi; Shlomo Carlebach; Vil'na; Vilna; Vilna Troupe; Vilner Trupe; Vilnius, Lithuania; wedding; Wilno; Yiddish theater; Yiddish theatre

Keywords: 1920s; 1940s; British protectorate; education; father; folkshul (public/elementary school, Yiddish secular school); grandmother; gravestone; high school; immigration and migration; North Africa; Second World War; tales; talis; talit; talith; tallis; tallit; tallith; United States; Vietnam War; World War 2; World War II; WW2; WWII; Yiddish language; YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

Keywords: 1950s; 1960s; Cold War; Flushing, Queens; housing; housing discrimination; housing projects; Levittown, Long Island, New York; middle class; Pomonok Houses; Queens, New York City, New York; Russia; unions

Keywords: bar mitzvah; bar-mitsve; education; father; Hebrew school; Holocaust survivor; Jewish learning; Judaism; parents; religious observance; school; secret language; Sholem Aleichem Folkshul; the Four Questions; yeshiva; Yiddish language; Yiddish school

Keywords: "Prince of Poland"; climate change; cousin; El Alamein; El-Alamein, Egypt; family stories; father; Fillmore East; Fyvush Finkel; grandmother; military history; North Africa; Second World War; the Second Battle of El Alamein; Vil'na; Vilna Troupe; Vilner Trupe; Vilnius, Lithuania; Wilno; World War 2; World War II; WW2; WWII; Yiddish culture; Yiddish plays; Yiddish theater; Yiddish theatre

Keywords: family background; family history; farmer; farming; farms; garment industry; great uncle; Jewish culture; Jewish food; Katz's Deli; Katz's Delicatessen; Yiddish

Keywords: 1950s; climate change; Daoism; discrimination; environmentalism; Hebrew language; Holocaust; Israel; Judaism; khurbm; khurbn; Palestine; Palestinians; politics; Shoah; spirituality; Taoism; television; Woolworths; Zionism; Zionists

Keywords: bullying; childhood; demographics; Donald Trump; education; folkshul (public/elementary school, Yiddish secular school); high school; New York City; P.S. 200 Benson School; Parsons Community School; Parsons Junior High School; Pomonok Houses; Pomonok Nursery; public education; public schools; rabbi

Keywords: 1970s; 1980s; Bob Dylan; childhood; children; creativity; family; father; money; music; parents; rabbi; singer; songwriter; Spike Lee

Keywords: Cambodia; children; civil disobedience; Hebrew language; Long Island Expressway; police; political movements; political protests; politics; Queens College; social movements; war; world peace; youth

Keywords: Jewish identity; Jewishness; Shlomo Carlebach; spiritual identity; spiritual practices; spirituality; yoga

Keywords: Allen Ginsberg; assimilation; Bob Dylan; economic justice; Jewish history; Jewish identity; Jewishness; Judaism; Marianne Williamson; Oral Torah; Richie Havens; Shlomo Carlebach; social justice; spirituality; stories; Torah; Vil'na; Vilna; Vilnius, Lithuania; Wilno; Yiddish language

Keywords: children; death; estrangement; family; father; grandchildren; granddaughter; loss; sister

Keywords: 1930s; 1940s; diaries; family; family background; family history; family stories; grandmother; Henia Lewin; Henny Lewin; journals; Sol Zim; translating; translation; translators; Vilna Troupe; Vilner Trupe; Yiddish Book Center; Yiddish language