Keywords: ancestors; ancestry; Belorussia; Eastern Europe; Eastern European Jews; family background; family histories; family history; family occupations; family professions; family tree; genealogy; grandfather; grandmother; grandparents; Hebrew language; heritage; Jewish history; librarian; lineage; Litvak Jews; miller; Mogilev Governorate; Mogilev gubernia; Mogilev, Belarus; Moscow, Russia; Podilia; Podolia Governorate; Podolia region; relatives; Ukraine

Keywords: "Oyfn pripetchik" ("On the hearth"); anti-Semitism; antisemitism; banned books; childhood; destroying books; Eastern Europe; education; family; grandmother; heritage; Jewish culture; Jewish encyclopedia; Jewish history; Jewish identity; Jewish studies; Joseph Stalin; Judaism; librarian; singing; Stalin regime; Stalinism; Yiddish songs

Keywords: childhood; Easter; family; family tradition; Jewish holidays; Judaism; matse; matza; matzah; matzo; Passover; Pesach; peysekh

Keywords: 1970s; bilingual school; bilingualism; childhood; childhood neighborhood; education; French language; Jewish identity; languages; Moscow, Russia; multilingualism; Russian language; school

Keywords: 1980s; anti-Semitism; antisemitism; discrimination; higher education; mathematics; Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology; Moscow Physical Technical Institute; Moscow, Russia; PhD; physics; school; science; theoretical physics

Keywords: "Origins of Yiddish Dialects"; "Russian Surnames"; 1990s; Ashkenazi names; author; Boris Ottokar Unbegaun; career and professional life; childhood; etymology; first names; France; given names; grandmother; higher education; Jewish history; Jewish names; Jewish surnames; last names; linguistics; migration; PhD; place names; research; Russia; scholarship; Soviet Union; study; Yiddish dialects; Yiddish history; Yiddish language

Keywords: childhood; etymology; family; grandmother; linguistics; native Yiddish speakers; Russian language; Slavic Yiddish words; Yiddish expressions; Yiddish idioms; Yiddish language; Yiddish phrases; Yiddish sayings; Yiddish songs; Yiddish words

Keywords: academia; career and professional life; education; German language; Jewish studies; research; scholarship; study; Uriel Weinreich; Yiddish language; Yiddish learning; Yiddish studies

Keywords: academia; Arabic language; Ashkenazi Jews; Ashkenazi names; author; career and professional life; Eastern European Jews; etymology; Jewish first names; Jewish genealogy; Jewish history; Jewish names; Jewish surnames; linguistics; North African Jews; research; scholars; scholarship; Yiddish studies

Keywords: ancestry; author; books; career and professional life; English language; family backgrounds; family histories; genealogists; genealogy; Israel; Jewish genealogy; Jewish history; research; United States

Keywords: academia; author; career and professional life; Jewish diaspora; Jewish first names; Jewish history; Jewish languages; Jewish names; Jewish surnames; linguistics; Mediterranean Jews; migration; Ottoman Empire; research; scholarship

Keywords: Jewish culture; Jewish identity; Jewish life; Jewish traditions; lighting candles; religion; scholarship; secular Jews; secular Judaism; spouse; wife

Keywords: etymology; Jewish history; Jewish names; Jewish surnames; research; scholarship