Subjects: family background; family history; family tree; father; grandparents; great-grandfather; heritage; Jewish names; letters; mother; parents; roots; Russia

Keywords: challah; childhood; Fort Lauderdale, Florida; Fran Drescher; friends; grandmother; Jewish day school; Jewish identity; Jewish upbringing; mother; The Nanny; United States

Keywords: Boston, Massachusetts; family; friendships; high school; Jewish neighborhood; mother; Newton, Massachusetts; Noam Chomsky; public school; theater; theatre

Keywords: adolescence; childhood; high school; Jerusalem; Jewish identity; Jewish values; Jewishness; Judaism; political identity; politics; Reform synagogue; teenage years; Zionism; Zionist

Keywords: American Jews; Birthright Israel; conflict resolution; Hebrew school; high school; Israel; Israeli Jews; Israeli-Palestinian conflict; Jerusalem; Jewish identity; Jewishness; Palestinians; Reform Jewish education; Seeds of Peace; violence

Keywords: childhood home; Jewish immigrants; Yiddish language; Yiddish phrases

Keywords: brisket; Chanukah; cookbooks; cooking; cousins; culinary traditions; Hanukkah; Jewish cuisine; Jewish food; khanike; mother; Shabbat; Shabbos; shabes

Keywords: anti-Zionists; Hampshire College; Israel; Israeli-Palestinian conflict; Jewish anti-Zionism; Jewish community; Palestine; politics

Keywords: anti-nationalism; Eastern European Jews; Hannah Arendt; Hebrew language; Israel; Jewish anti-Zionism; nationalism; Palestine; Western Jews; Yiddish language

Keywords: Diaspora language; Hebrew language; Jewish folk culture; Jewish identity; learning Yiddish; Yiddish culture; Yiddish language

Keywords: Arabic language; language learning

Keywords: intergenerational transmission; Yiddish language

Keywords: BDS; Birthright Israel; Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions; political views

Keywords: anti-Zionism; artists; burlesque; feminists; performance; performing arts; political art

Keywords: Jewish rituals; Jewish traditions; Judaism; Purim-shpil

Keywords: Jewish music; klezmer; Yiddish music

Keywords: Jewish identity; Wexler Oral History Project; Yiddish Book Center

Keywords: Holocaust; Wexler Oral History Project; Yiddish Book Center

Keywords: "Fiddler on the Roof"; "Sunrise, Sunset"; mother; wedding

Keywords: conflict resolution; interviews; Israeli-Palestinian conflict; Jewish anti-Zionism; oral history; politics; thesis

Keywords: Jewish identity; Lebanon; Middle East; travel; Zionism

Keywords: advice; favorite Yiddish word; future generations; Jewish identity; schmaltz