Keywords: 1910s; 1920s; 1930s; ancestors; ancestry; childbirth; death; family background; family histories; father; garment industry; Great Depression; Hamburg, Germany; illness; immigration and migration; Lower East Side; marriage; mother; New York; orphans; Polish Army; Polish–Soviet War; poverty; ship travel; typhoid fever; United States

Keywords: 160th Street, Bronx, New York; 1930s; apartments; banks; Bronx, New York City, New York; brother; Cernăuţi; Chernivtsi, Ukraine; Chernovtsy; childhood; childhood home; Czernowitz, Ukraine; family background; father; Great Depression; grocery store; heritage; housing; Jewish holidays; Judaism; Lower East Side; mother; New York City; Orthodox Jews; Orthodox Judaism; parents; public schools; religious observance; religious practice; schul; shul; siblings; synagogue; Third Avenue, Bronx, New York; Ukraine

Keywords: 1930s; 1940s; Arabic Jews; Cauldwell Avenue, Bronx, New York; childhood; childhood neighborhood; college; dances; dancing; high school; home economics; husband; immigrants; Jewish neighborhood; mother; prejudice; public schools; Sephardic Jews; Sephardim; The City College of New York

Keywords: college; Communism; Communist Party; courtship; dances; dancing; dating; husband; International Workers Order; IWO; Jewish People's Fraternal Order; Jewish Young Fraternalists; JPFO; Labor Youth League; love; marriage; McCarthy era; McCarthyism; political movements; political organizations; relationships; student organizations; The City College of New York; Yiddish language; Yiddish speakers; youth movements

Keywords: childhood; father; husband; Jewish People's Philharmonic Chorus; Jewish Young Folk Singers; Jewish Young Fraternalists; mame-loshn (mother tongue language); marriage; mother; parents; political movements; political organizations; relationships; singing; teenage years; Yiddish language; Yiddish speakers

Keywords: 1950s; Buffalo, New York; children; daughter; factories; family; gender equality; gender roles; husband; jobs; labor; Labor Youth League; Lackawanna, New York; marriage; McCarthy era; McCarthyism; moving; pregnancy; relationships; sociology; son; steel industry; steel mills; strikes; working

Keywords: 1950s; 1957; 1960s; 5th Amendment; anti-war movement; Buffalo, New York; career; chemistry; children; Communism; FBI; Federal Bureau of Investigation; Fifth Amendment; folk singing; folk songs; House Un-American Activities Committee; HUAC; husband; jobs; Lackawanna, New York; McCarthy era; McCarthyism; paper mill; politics; pregnancy; school; spies; steel mill; steelworkers union; teacher; United Steelworkers; University of Buffalo; West Nyack, New York; Women's International League for Peace and Freedom; working

Keywords: children; Jack Spivak; Jewish education; Jewish identity; Jewish learning; parenting; Rockland County, New York; shule (secular Yiddish school); son; Yiddish language; Yiddishkayt; Yiddishkeit; yidishkayt; yidishkeyt

Keywords: 1960s; career and professional life; Catholic school; children; college; daughter; education; environmental pollution; husband; jobs; Madison, Wisconsin; moving; nuns; paper mill; retirement; Rumford, Maine; school; son; special education; St. Thomas Aquinas College; student; teacher; teaching; The City of College of New York; Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources; Yonkers, New York

Keywords: 1990s; children; JCC; Jewish community center; Mexican Jews; Mexico; moving; retirement; San Diego, California; sons; UC San Diego; UCSD; University of California San Diego; Yiddish language; Yiddish speakers; Yiddish teacher

Keywords: choir; chorus; counseling; death; grieving; health; husband; illness; JCC; loss; medical care; moving; music; San Francisco Bay Area; San Francisco, California; singer; singing; therapy; Yiddish culture; Yiddish language; Yiddish speakers

Keywords: archives; aunts; Auschwitz concentration camp; Camenecia; Camenita; Chernivtsi, Ukraine; children; Czernowitz; family background; family histories; family research; father; genealogy; grandfather; grandmother; grandparents; heritage; hospital; Jewish history; Jewish museums; Jewish music; Kam'yanets'-Podil's'kyy; Kamanets Podolskiy; Kamanets-Podol’skiy; Kamenec-Podol'skij; Kamenets Podilski; Kamenets Podolsk; Kamenets Podolski; Kamenez Podolsk; Kamieniec Podolski; Kamyanets Podilskyy, Ukraine; Komenetz; Komenitz Podolsk; Kraków, Poland; Kumenetz-Podolsk; last names; Lomza; Lomzah; Lomze; Lomzha; Lomzhe; Lomzshe; Lviv, Ukraine; Lvov; Monument to the Ghetto Heroes; mother; Old Country; Oskar Schindler's Enamel Factory; parents; Poland; son; surnames; typhoid fever; Ukraine; uncles; Varshah; Varshava; Warsaw ghetto; Warsaw Uprising Museum; Warsaw, Poland; Warszawa; Yiddish music; Łomża, Poland

Keywords: Auschwitz; Chasidic; Chasidim; Chasidism; Chasids; Chassidic; Chassidim; Chassidism; Chassids; children; coming back to Yiddish; cousins; extended family; family; future of Yiddish; grandchildren; granddaughter; Hasidic; Hasidim; Hasidism; Hasids; Hassidic; Hassidim; Hassidism; Hassids; Hebrew language; Holocaust survivors; husband; immigrants; interfaith marriages; intergenerational transmission; Israel; Israeli-Palestinian conflict; Jewish community; Jewish identity; Jewish Voice for Peace; Judaism; JVP; khasidizm; khosids; khsidish; khsidizm; LGBTQ; marriage; parents; religion; religious observance; religious practice; San Francisco Bay Area, California; Satmar Jews; Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York; Yiddish community; Yiddish language; Yiddish learning; Yiddish speakers

Keywords: "Der zinger fun noyt" ("The singer of need"); "Lomir ale freylekh zayn" ("Let's all be happy"); "Unter dayne vayse shtern" ("Under your white stars"); Aaron Lebedeff; Aaron Lebedoff; Abraham Sutzkever; Avrom Sutskever; Avrom Sutzkever; childhood; family; Maurice Schwartz; Michael Tilson Thomas; Mordecai Gebirtig; Mordechai Gebirtig; Mordkhe Gebirtig; parents; singing; Yiddish culture; Yiddish language; Yiddish songs; Yiddish theater; Yiddish theatre

Keywords: Chasidic; Chasidim; Chasidism; Chasids; Chassidic; Chassidim; Chassidism; Chassids; coming back to Yiddish; future of Yiddish; Hasidic; Hasidim; Hasidism; Hasids; Hassidic; Hassidim; Hassidism; Hassids; khasidizm; khosids; khsidish; khsidizm; mother; parents; Yiddish dialects; Yiddish idioms; Yiddish language; Yiddish phrases; Yiddish revival; Yiddish sayings; Yiddish speakers

Keywords: advice; cultural transmission; culture; family history; heritage; intergenerational transmission; Jewish culture; Judaism; justice; language; literature; peace; religion