Keywords: army brats; aunts; father; Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia; grandfather; grandmother; grandparents; Jewish identity; military brats; military service; mother; parents; Pawtucket, Rhode Island; portrait; Providence, Rhode Island; World War 2; World War II; WW2; WWII; Yiddish language

Keywords: Americanization; anti-Semitism; antisemitism; assimilation; aunts; father; grandfather; grandmother; grandparents; insurance agency; Jewish identity; Jewish observance; Jewish stereotypes; Judaism; kindergarten; military service; mother; New Haven, Connecticut; parents; Pembroke College in Brown University; Providence, Rhode Island; uncles; World War 2; World War II; WW2; WWII; Yale University; Yiddish identity; Yiddish language

Keywords: assimilation; Augusta, Georgia; aunts; Camp Gordon; Carlisle Barracks; Carlisle, Pennsylvania; father; Fort Gordon; Germany; homosexuality; lesbianism; LGBTQ; military police; military service; MP; New Haven, Connecticut; New York City, New York; OCS; officer candidate school; officers; uncles

Keywords: "Eavesdropping in Oberammergau"; "Oberammergau: The Troubling Story of the World's Most Famous Passion Play"; "The Diary of a Young Girl"; "The Diary of Anne Frank"; American identity; Anne Frank; anti-Semitism; antisemitism; bombings; Catholicism; diaries; Erlangen, Bavaria, Germany; father; German Jews; Germany; grandmother; great-grandmother; Holocaust; James Shapiro; Jewish identity; Jewish people; Jewish star; Jews; journals; Kristallnacht; magen David; Maryland; Max Peter Meyer; Max-Peter Meyer; military brats; military service; mother; München; Munich, Bavaria, Germany; Night of Broken Glass; novels; Oberammergau Passion Play; Oberammergau, Bavaria, Germany; Oberammergauer Passionsspiele; parents; Peter Max Meyer; religious conversion; religious converts; Shoah; Star of David; United States Armed Forces; USAF; World War 2; World War II; WW2; WWII; Yiddish identity; Yiddish language

Keywords: Athens, Georgia; Atlanta, Georgia; Augusta, Georgia; cancer; chedar; cheder; classmates; congregation; elementary school; Emory University; Enewetak Atoll, Marshall Islands; Eniewetok Atoll; Eniwetok Atoll; extended family; father; friends; H bomb tests; H-bomb tests; Hebrew alphabet; Hebrew school; heder; high school; hydrogen bomb tests; Ilene Ginsberg; Jewish communities; Jewish community; Jewish identity; junior high school; kheyder; Maryland; middle school; Missouri; mother; nuclear weapon tests; nuclear weapons tests; Orthodox Judaism; parents; Pawtucket, Rhode Island; Pembroke College in Brown University; Providence, Rhode Island; racial segregation; schul; segregated schools; shul; summer school; synagogue; temple; traditional religious school; UGA; University of Georgia

Keywords: Atlanta, Georgia; aunts; cousins; Emory University; feminism; feminists; grandfather; grandmother; grandparents; mother; Okinawa Prefecture, Japan; parents; Pawtucket, Rhode Island; Pembroke College in Brown University; Providence, Rhode Island; Russian language; uncles; Yiddish language; Yiddishkayt; Yiddishkeit; yidishkayt; yidishkeyt

Keywords: "Our Bodies, Ourselves"; BACE; Bedford, Massachusetts; Boston Association for Childbirth Education; Boston Women's Health Book Collective; Boston, Massachusetts; breastfeeding; childbirth; childbirth education; children; college; daughters; extended family; father; father-in-law; feminism; feminists; formula feeding; Hawaii; husband; in-laws; Jewish identity; Jewish values; Judaism; marriage; Norma Swenson; nursing; Our Bodies, Ourselves Collective; parents; Passover; Pawtucket, Rhode Island; Pesach; peysekh; repair the world; seders; sons; Texas; tikkun olam; tikun olam; university

Keywords: aunts; BACE; bar mitzvah; bar-mitsve; bas mitzvah; bas-mitsve; bat mitzvah; bath mitzvah; Bedford, Massachusetts; Boston Association for Childbirth Education; Boston Women's Health Book Collective; Boston, Massachusetts; Brown University; chedar; cheder; childbirth; children; chumash; congregation; Congregation Jeshuat Israel; counterculture; cousins; daughters; East Side, Providence, Rhode Island; extended family; father; feminism; feminists; Five Books of Moses; Friday School; grandmother; Hebrew school; heder; Hillel International; homebirth; husband; insurance industry; Jewish community; Jewish education; Jewish ethics; Jewish holidays; kheyder; khumesh; mother; Newport, Rhode Island; Our Bodies, Ourselves Collective; parents; Pentateuch; Providence, Rhode Island; Roger Williams; schul; Sefer Torah; Shabbat; Shabbos; shabes; shul; sons; suke; sukes; sukkah; Sukkos; Sukkot; synagogue; tales; talis; talit; talith; tallis; tallit; tallith; temple; Temple Beth El; Temple Beth-El; Torah; Torah scroll; Touro Synagogue; toyre; traditional religious school; Voluntown Peace Trust; Voluntown, Connecticut; yom tovim; yomim tobim; yomim tovim; yontef; yontev; yontoyvim

Keywords: activists; African American identity; African Americans; Baptist education; Baptists; bas mitzvah; bas-mitsve; bat mitzvah; bath mitzvah; Black Americans; Black identity; chedar; cheder; Christianity; civil rights movement; d'var Torah; filmmaker; Friday School; grandchildren; granddaughters; grandfather; grandmothers; Hebrew language; Hebrew school; Hebrew tutor; heder; High Holidays; Holocaust; Holocaust survivors; interracial; Jewish culture; Jewish education; Jewish holidays; Jewish identity; kheyder; Lea Eliash; Leah Eliash; Lithuania; Manhattan, New York City, New York; March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom; multiracial; New York University; NYU; political activism; Providence, Rhode Island; racial identity; rites of passage; Rosh Hashanah; rosheshone; Sandra Bornstein Holocaust Education Center; Shoah; sons; The Great March on Washington; traditional religious school; Vil'na; Vilna; Vilna Ghetto; Vilnius, Lithuania; Wilno; World War 2; World War II; WW2; WWII; yom tovim; yomim tobim; yomim tovim; yontef; yontev; yontoyvim

Keywords: Allied-occupied Germany; American identity; American occupation zone; anti-war movements; Center for Jewish History; Chabad; chedar; cheder; children; Chumash; congregation; daughters; displaced persons camps; DP camps; Dwight D. Eisenhower; extended family; father; Hawaii; Hebrew school; heder; Honolulu, Hawaii; husband; Jewish burial customs; Jewish funeral customs; Jewish identity; Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam; kheyder; Lea Eliash; Leah Eliash; Lubavitch; Manhattan, New York City, New York; mikvah; mikve; mikveh; military service; mother; Naval Station Pearl Harbor; parents; peace movements; Pentateuch; rechitzah; ritual bath; schul; shul; sons; Sunday school; synagogue; taharah; temple; Torah; traditional religious school; Vietnam War; World War 2; World War II; WW2; WWII

Keywords: abortion rights movement; abortion-rights movement; activists; anti-nuclear movements; Arbeter Ring; Barry Commoner; Boston Women's Health Book Collective; breast cancer; campaign platforms; Catholic religion; Catholicism; childbirth; Citizens Party; congregation; daughter; environmentalism; environmentalists; Eugene Debs; Eugene V. Debs; governor; granddaughters; grandfather; Greens/Green Party USA; gubernatorial candidates; home birth; husband; Jewish culture; Jewish identity; Jewish religion; John Joseph Garrahy; Judaism; labor movements; labor union movements; midwifery; midwives; mother; Our Bodies, Ourselves Collective; peace movements; political activism; political campaigns; political candidacy; political candidates; political debates; political parties; politics; presidential candidates; pro-choice movement; Providence, Rhode Island; real estate; Rhode Island; Rhode Island Women's Health Collective; Richard Walton; RIWHC; schul; shul; social causes; social justice issues; socialism; socialists; synagogue; temple; Women and Infants Hospital of Rhode Island; Women for a Non-Nuclear Future; Workers Circle; Workmen’s Circle; Yiddish language

Keywords: American Jews; BIPOC; Brooklyn, New York City, New York; children; communism; communists; conference; congregation; Eleanor Leff Jewish Women's Resource Center; feminism; feminists; Jewish Americans; Jewish community; Jewish culture; Jewish observance; Jewish religion; Judaism; mother; National Council of Jewish Women; people of color; schul; shul; Simchas Torah; simkhes toyre; synagogue; temple; Union Temple of Brooklyn; Zeva Greendale Roschko

Keywords: "Eavesdropping in Oberammergau"; American Jewish authors; American Jewish writers; anti-Semitism; antisemitism; author; Bavaria, Germany; book groups; books; Catholic religion; Catholocism; concentration camps; Dachau concentration camp; feminism; feminists; Holocaust; Jewish American authors; Jewish American writers; Jewish identity; Jewish literature; Jewish religion; Judaism; Kristallnacht; literature; Max Peter Meyer; Max-Peter Meyer; mothers; Night of Broken Glass; novelist; novels; Oberammergau, Bavaria, Germany; Peter Max Meyer; reading; Shoah; women authors; women writers; World War 2; World War II; writer; WW2; WWII

Keywords: "Eavesdropping in Oberammergau"; African American identity; assimilation; aunts; Black identity; Brooklyn, New York City, New York; college; daughter; extended family; father; granddaughters; grandfathers; grandmothers; grandparents; High Holidays; Hispanic identity; husband; interracial; Ivy League; Jewish holidays; Jewish identity; mother; New Haven, Connecticut; novel; Oberammergau, Bavaria, Germany; parents; Pawtucket, Rhode Island; Pembroke College in Brown University; photographs; photos; portrait; Providence, Rhode Island; racial identity; Rosh Hashanah; rosheshone; son; university; Yale University; yom tovim; yomim tobim; yomim tovim; yontef; yontev; yontoyvim

Keywords: "A Rabbi's Impressions of the Oberammergau Passion Play"; "Eavesdropping in Oberammergau"; "Oberammergau: The Troubling Story of the World's Most Famous Passion Play"; actors; Adolf Hitler; anti-Semitism; antisemitism; blood libel; Congregation Jeshuat Israel; freedom of religion; George Washington; Gospels; Holocaust; James Shapiro; Jesus Christ; Jewish stereotypes; Joseph Krauskopf; Judas Iscariot; New Testament; Newport, Rhode Island; novel; Oberammergau Passion Play; Oberammergau, Bavaria, Germany; Oberammergauer Passionsspiele; Otto Huber; religious liberty; Shoah; theater; theatre; Touro Synagogue; World War 2; World War II; WW2; WWII

Keywords: grandfather; Jewish culture; Jewish identity; Yiddish culture; Yiddish language