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0:00 - Introduction 0:45 - Meyer Describes His Family Background and Growing Up Jewish in Wisconsin

Keywords: ancestors; ancestry; Berkeley, California; childhood; childhood home; childhood house; childhood neighborhood; Conservative Judaism; Conservative synagogue; Eastern European Jews; family; family background; family histories; family history; father; friends; friendships; German Americans; Green Bay, Wisconsin; heritage; Jewish holidays; Jewish identity; Jewish life; Judaism; kashres; kashrus; kashrut; kashruth; kosher diet; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; mother; parents; Passover; Pesach; peysekh; religion; religious observance; religious practice; school; schul; Shabbat; Shabbos; shabes; shul; suburbs; upbringing

7:09 - Discovering Yiddish Literature in Graduate School

Keywords: academia; academics; Anita Norich; career and professional life; Celia Dropkin; childhood; father; graduate school; I.B. Singer; Isaac Bashevis Singer; Itskhok Bashevis Zinger; Jewish American authors; Jewish culture; Jewish literature; Kadia Molodowski; Kadia Molodowsky; Kadya Molodowsky; Kathryn Hellerstein; linguistics; Mendele Mokher Sefarim; Mendele Moykher Sforim; professor; Rachel H. Korn; Rachel Häring Korn; Rachel Korn; Rokhl Korn; scholars; Shalom Jacob Abramowich; Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh (Mendele Moykher-Sforim); teacher; teaching; translators; Yiddish authors; Yiddish children's literature; Yiddish culture; Yiddish language; Yiddish literature; Yiddish poetry; Yiddish poets; Yiddish translations; Yiddish writers

11:31 - Meyer's General and Jewish Education

Keywords: academia; academics; Austrian studies; Berlin, Germany; career and professional life; Catholic high school; childhood; college; divorce; family; general education; German language; German studies; high school; history; Jewish education; languages; Macalester College; master's degree; parents; private high school; professor; Saint Paul, Minnesota; scholars; siblings; study abroad; Sunday school; teaching; triplets; undergraduate degree; university; University of Vienna; upbringing; Vienna, Austria; Yiddish language; Yiddish literature; YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

13:39 - Meyer's Path to Learning Yiddish and Later Teaching Yiddish

Keywords: "In eynem: The New Yiddish Textbook"; academia; academics; Brukhe Lang; Cecile Esther Kuznitz; education; family; German Jewish studies; German language; German studies; graduate school; graduate student; heritage; Jewish culture; Jewish studies; language learning; language pedagogy; Marc Caplan; New York; Paula Teitelbaum; professors; scholars; Shane Baker; Sheva Zucker; teachers; teaching; Yiddish Book Center; Yiddish language; Yiddish learning; Yiddish studies; Yiddish summer programs; Yiddish teachers; Yiddish textbooks; YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

21:56 - Meyer's Experience Traveling to Israel for Yiddish Archival Work

Keywords: academia; academics; archival research; archives; career and professional life; cousins; family; family history; Haifa, Israel; Hebrew language; Israel; Jerusalem, Israel; Jewish studies; languages; Naomi Prawer Kadar International Yiddish Summer Program; National Library of Israel; Palestine; politics; study abroad; Tel Aviv, Israel; travel; Yiddish in Israel; Yiddish language; Yiddish studies

26:45 - Meyer Reflects on the Accessibility of Yiddish Learning Today

Keywords: academia; Chasidic; Chasidim; Chasidism; Chasids; Chassidic; Chassidim; Chassidism; Chassids; Hasidic; Hasidim; Hasidism; Hasids; Hassidic; Hassidim; Hassidism; Hassids; Jeffrey Shandler; khasidizm; khosids; khsidish; khsidizm; languages; post-vernacular Yiddish; teaching; Yiddish in the academy; Yiddish language; Yiddish learning; Yiddish studies

34:46 - The Benefits of Online Yiddish Classes

Keywords: Abraham Sutzkever; academia; academics; Arbeiter Ring; Arbeter Ring; Avrom Sutskever; Avrom Sutzkever; education; language learning; online classes; professors; remote classes; teaching; virtual classes; Workers Circle; Workmen's Circle; Yiddish language; Yiddish learning; Yiddish studies; Yiddish teachers

38:03 - Meyer's Current Position in Academia and the Topic of His Dissertation

Keywords: academia; academics; career and professional life; dissertation; German literature; German poetry; graduate school; graduate studies; Mishna; Mishnah; mishne; professors; reading groups; scholars; teachers; translation studies; Yiddish culture; Yiddish language; Yiddish literature; Yiddish studies; Yiddish translation

41:30 - Meyer's Favorite Writers and His Project of Translating Blume Lempel's Work

Keywords: Alexander Spiegelblatt; Austrian poets; Blume Lempel; Blume Lempl; Ezra Korman; Georg Trakl; German language; German language writers; Itsik Manger; Itzik Manger; Melech Ravitch; Rainer Maria Rilke; translation; translators; Yiddish language; Yiddish poets; Yiddish translators; Yiddish writers; Zekharye Khone Bergner

44:53 - Meyer Reflects on Yiddish Studies after the Holocaust

Keywords: academia; Holocaust; Holocaust memory; Holocaust studies; Holocaust survivors; Jewish studies; khurbm; khurbn; scholarship; Shoah; Yiddish language; Yiddish studies

47:07 - Meyer's Future in Academia and the Role of Academics in Cultural Transmission

Keywords: academia; academics; archival work; archives; archiving; career and professional life; cultural studies; cultural transmission; institutional power; Jewish studies; professors; scholars; scholarship; teachers; teaching

51:23 - Meyer's Thoughts on the Future of Yiddish 52:36 - Meyer's Family Connection to Yiddish Actor Howard Weinshel

Keywords: 1920s; ancestors; ancestry; family; family background; family documents; family history; heritage; Howard Weinshel; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; relatives; theatre troupe; Yiddish actors; Yiddish culture; Yiddish language; Yiddish theater; Yiddish theatre; YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

55:55 - Meyer Describes His Yiddishist Haggadah

Keywords: Abraham Sutzkever; Avrom Sutskever; Avrom Sutzkever; Haggada; hagode; Passover; Pesach; peysekh; Yiddish Haggadah; Yiddish language; Yiddish poetry; Yiddish words; Yiddishist Haggadah; Yiddishists

57:59 - Meyer's Advice for Yiddish Students

Keywords: advice; archives; language learning; language pedagogy; professors; teachers; teaching; Yiddish Book Center; Yiddish documents; Yiddish language; Yiddish learning; Yiddish students; Yiddish studies

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