Keywords: ancestors; ancestry; Belorussia; Catholicism; childhood home; Cracow; family background; family histories; family history; farmers; father; grandmother; heritage; Krakau; Krako; Kraków, Poland; mother; peasants; Poland; Polish language; teenage years

Keywords: childhood; Cracow; Jewish Culture Festival in Kraków; Krakau; Krako; Krakow Jewish Culture Festival; Kraków, Poland; languages; linguistics; Polish culture; Polish history; Polish Jewish history; Polish society; Yiddish culture; Yiddish in Poland; Yiddish language

Keywords: Catholicism; education; Jewish culture; Jewish history; Polish culture; Polish history; Polish Jewish history; Polish society

Keywords: Auschwitz concentration camp; Auschwitz-Birkenau; Catholic; Catholic church; Catholicism; childhood; conservative politics; education; family; grandmother; Holocaust; Holocaust memory; Jewish culture; Jewish life in Poland; khurbm; khurbn; Kraków, Poland; mother; parents; Polish Jewish history; political beliefs; politics; primary school; religion; school; secondary school; Shoah; Yiddish culture

Keywords: education; German language; Jewish Culture Festival in Kraków; Kraków Jewish Culture Festival; Kraków, Poland; language acquisition; language courses; language learning; languages; learning languages; multilingualism; polyglot; secondary school; Yiddish education; Yiddish language; Yiddish learning; Yiddish Summer Weimar; YouTube

Keywords: "Forverts"; "The Forward"; "The Jewish Daily Forward"; "The Yiddish Daily Forward"; alef-beys; ASSIMIL; Hebrew alphabet; Hebrew language; klal yidish; klal-yidish; language acquisition; language learning; multilingualism; polyglot; standard Yiddish; standardized Yiddish; Yiddish language; Yiddish learning; YIVO Yiddish; YouTube

Keywords: education; Itsik Manger; Itzik Manger; language acquisition; language learning; Mordecai Gebirtig; Mordechai Gebirtig; Mordkhe Gebirtig; multilingualism; polyglot; Weimar, Germany; Yiddish community; Yiddish language; Yiddish learning; Yiddish literature; Yiddish poems; Yiddish poetry; Yiddish songs; Yiddish speakers; Yiddish Summer Weimar

Keywords: folk music; identity; language acquisition; language learning; languages; literature; multilingualism; polyglot; Yiddish culture; Yiddish folk songs; Yiddish language; Yiddish learning; Yiddish music; Yiddish speakers

Keywords: academia; Arabic studies; bachelor's degree; career; college; education; humanities; interdisciplinary studies; languages; master's degree; social sciences; student; teaching; translating; translation; translator; university

Keywords: conferences; language learning; languages; multilingualism; polyglot; Polyglot Conference; Polyglot Gathering

Keywords: activism; Jewish life in Poland

Keywords: future of Yiddish; Jewish culture; Judaism; Yiddish culture; Yiddish future; Yiddish language; Yiddish revival; Yiddish speakers

Keywords: language learning; languages; Yiddish idioms; Yiddish language; Yiddish phrases; Yiddish words