Keywords: 1900s; 1910s; army; cantor; family background; family history; grandfather; Hammond, Indiana; heritage; rabbi; Riga, Latvia; roots

Keywords: 1930s; Chicago, Illinois; childhood; family; film; grandfather; grandmother; grandparents; Great Depression; motion picture; movie business; Yiddish language; Yiddish speakers

Keywords: children; family; father; grandfather; grandmother; grandparents; Judaism; kashres; kashrus; kashrut; kashruth; kosher; mother; New York City; parents; Passover; Pesach; peysekh; religion; religious observance; Yiddish language; Yiddish speakers

Keywords: 1950s; Alekh Shindler; Conservative congregation; grandfather; grandmother; grandparents; Jewish organizations; Jewish practice; Jewish services; Judaism; Prague, Czech Republic; Reform congregation; Reform movement; religious observance; Shabbat; Shabbos; shabes; summer camps; travel; volunteering

Keywords: adolescence; brothers; college; decorating business; education; family; father; film houses; Florida; jobs; meat cutter; movie houses; movie theaters; movie theatres; New York; Northwestern University; salesman; school; son; teenage years

Keywords: Boston, Massachusetts; courtship; dating; marriage; New York; Purim shpil; Purim-shpil; relationships; spouse; wife

Keywords: 1970s; art; Art Institute of Chicago; art shows; artists; ballerina; ballet; dancer; misogyny; painting; sculptor; sculpture; sexism; spouse; taxes; the Netherlands; wife

Keywords: "The Last of the Just"; art; artists; Auguste Rodin; sculpting; sculptor; social issues; social justice

Keywords: friendships; Holland; Netherlands; rabbi; Rabbi Awraham Soetendorp

Keywords: art; Holocaust; Jewish artist; Jewish identity; Judaism; religion; religious observance; sculpting; sculptor; teacher

Keywords: Jewish identity; Jewish texts; Judaism; religion; religious observance; Talmud; Torah; toyre; Zohar

Keywords: 1970s; children; grandchildren; healthcare; Holland; Netherlands; Prague, Czech Republic; tax systems

Keywords: George McGovern; New Hampshire, United States; political activism; politics

Keywords: 1990s; Fulbright fellowship; Massapequa, New York; Prague, Czech Republic; Reconstructionist congregation; Rosh Hashanah; rosheshone; Shabbat; Shabbos; shabes; shofar; wife

Keywords: High Holy Days; mogen Dovid; Old Spanish synagogue; Prague, Czech Republic; Rosh Hashanah; rosheshone; Star of David; Yom Kippur

Keywords: Holocaust survivors; Judaism; Rabbi Awraham Soetendorp

Keywords: Conservative synagogue; Jewish community; Judaism; Kaddish; Kol Nidre; Orthodox services; Reform Judaism; wife

Keywords: American culture; Barack Obama; grandchildren; social democracy; U.S.; United States politics; US

Keywords: Jewish congregation; Judaism; religious life

Keywords: advice; future generations