Keywords: adopted family; adoptive siblings; American Jews; anti-Semitism; antisemitism; assimilation; bat mitzvahs; bat-mitsves; brothers; Catholic Church; Eastern European Jews; family history; family myths; family stories; father; foster care system; foster children; grandfather; grandmother; grandparents; great-grandparents; Hebrew language; immigration; Jewish ancestry; Jewish community; Jewish education; Jewish immigrants; Jewish languages; Latvia; Memphis, Tennessee; mother; Native Americans; Old Country; Olympia, Washington; Oregon Trail; parents; physical violence; pogroms; Portland, Oregon; religious conversions; Seattle, Washington; sisters; Torah portions; toyre portions; Ukraine; Vancouver, British Columbia; Yiddish language; Yiddish speakers

Keywords: adoptions; Alzheimer's disease; American South; Catholics; dairy dishes; father; grandfather; grandmother; grandparents; Jewish culture; Jewish holidays; Jewish homes; Jewish rituals; Jewish traditions; kosher dishes; kosher homes; kosher observance; meat dishes; Modern Orthodox Jews; mother; parents; religious beliefs; religious conversion; religious observance; religious services; schuls; secular Jews; shuls; synagogues; temples

Keywords: Auschwitz; childhood memories; concentration camps; father; German language; grandfather; grandmother; grandparents; heart attacks; Holocaust survivors; Jewish community; Jewish culture; Jewish holidays; Jewish identity; Jewish music; Jewish songs; mother; nursing homes; older generations; parents; Purim festivals; Seattle, Washington; strokes; World War 2; World War II; WW2; WWII; Yiddish culture; Yiddish language; Yinglish

Keywords: aleph-bet; anti-Semitism; antisemitism; brothers; childhood memories; Hebrew alphabet; Hebrew education; Hebrew language; Jewish community; Jewish education; Jewish educators; Jewish history; Jewish identity; mentors; Olympia, Washington; religious education; siblings; sisters; stereotypes; Sunday schools; teachers; Torah; toyre

Keywords: bat mitzvahs; bat-mitsves; cantors; coming of age; feminism; Jewish community; Jewish education; rabbis; religious education; schuls; shuls; stage fright; synagogues; temples; theater performances; Torah portions; toyre portions

Keywords: anti-Semitism; antisemitism; Baal Shem Tov; Chasidim; Chassidim; Cossacks; Hasidim; Hassidim; Jewish education; Jewish history; Jewish identity; Jewish mystics; Jewish myths; Jewish summer camps; physical violence; public lectures; rabbis; rag peddlers; secular Jews; secular Judaism

Keywords: cultural heritage; family traditions; Jewish community; Jewish culture; Jewish education; Jewish history; Jewish identity; Jewish religion; Jewish traditions; religious beliefs; religious education; religious practices; secular Jews; secular Judaism; Yiddish language

Keywords: "A Serious Man"; "The Big Lebowski"; brothers; Chaim Grade; Coen Brothers; cultural heritage; father; I.B. Singer; Isaac Bashevis Singer; Itskhok Bashevis Zinger; Jewish culture; Jewish folk tales; Jewish history; Jewish holidays; Jewish stories; parents; Shalom Aleichem; Sholem Aleichem; Sholem Aleykhem; siblings; sisters; Sunday schools; Yiddish authors; Yiddish culture; Yiddish folk tales; Yiddish language; Yiddish literature; Yiddish stories; Yiddish translation; Yiddish writers

Keywords: Chinese literature; foreign languages; French language; Japanese literature; multicultural bookstores; nonprofits; Russian literature; schuls; shuls; Spanish language; Spanish literature; synagogues; volunteer work; volunteering

Keywords: Aachen, Germany; anti-Semitism; antisemitism; concentration camps; exchange students; father; genocide; George W. Bush; German history; German identity; German Jews; German language; German politics; grandfather; grandmother; grandparents; high school education; Holocaust history; host families; Jewish history; Jewish identity; Jewish refugees; language fluency; language immersion; language learning; mass murder; mother; Nazis; parents; political beliefs; political rallies; study abroad programs; studying abroad; veterans; World War 1; World War 2; World War I; World War II; WW1; WW2; WWI; WWII

Keywords: Aachen, Germany; bombings; Buchenwald; concentration camps; Dachau; death camps; genocide; German Jews; high school education; high school students; Holocaust education; Holocaust history; Jewish community; Jewish friends; Jewish heritage sites; Jewish historical sites; Jewish tourism; Jewish tourist sites; mass murder; Orthodox Jews; schuls; shuls; study abroad programs; studying abroad; Swiss Jews; synagogues; Theresienstadt; World War 2; World War II; WW2; WWII

Keywords: academic interests; Armenian genocide; Clark University; college majors; comparative literature; Eastern European Jews; genocide studies; genocides; German languages; German literature; German-Jewish literature; Holocaust history; Holocaust literature; Holocaust studies; Jewish cultural life; Jewish languages; language fluency; language immersion; Yiddish language; Yiddish literature; Yiddish summer programs

Keywords: alef-beys; aleph-bet; Chaim Grade; cultural heritage; father; fusion languages; German language; Germanic languages; Hebrew alphabet; Inna Grade; internship programs; internships; Jewish identity; Slavic languages; Steiner Summer Yiddish Program; unpublished works; Yiddish alphabet; Yiddish authors; Yiddish Book Center; Yiddish books; Yiddish culture; Yiddish education; Yiddish language; Yiddish literature; Yiddish poems; Yiddish poetry; Yiddish vocabulary; Yiddish words; Yiddish writers

Keywords: alef-beys; cultural education; Cynthia Ozick; David Bergelson; Dovid Bergelson; fusion languages; German language; Germanic languages; Jewish languages; Jewish studies; language immersion; language learning; Naomi Seidman; Steiner Summer Yiddish Program; Yiddish alphabet; Yiddish authors; Yiddish Book Center; Yiddish culture; Yiddish education; Yiddish language; Yiddish literature; Yiddish students; Yiddish summer programs; Yiddish writers

Keywords: German literature; Heidelberg University; Jewish literature; Jewish studies; Judaic studies; study abroad programs; studying abroad; Yiddish Book Center; Yiddish education; Yiddish language; Yiddish phrases; Yiddish plays; Yiddish stories; Yiddish studies; Yiddish translations; Yiddish translators; Yiddish words; YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

Keywords: Clark University; European universities; EuroScholars; German language; German literature; Germany; Heidelberg, Germany; linguistic theory; linguistics; pedagogical programs; research papers; research projects; study abroad programs; studying abroad; Western Europe

Keywords: academic influences; academic research; Clark University; Eastern European literature; German occupation; Holocaust history; Holocaust scholars; Jewish culture; Jewish history; mentors; modern Jewish history; Nazi occupation; Nazis; Polish Jews; research interests; Third Reich

Keywords: "Margaritkelekh (Little daisies)"; "Tumbalalaika (Play the balalaika)"; language learning; Steiner Summer Yiddish Program; Yiddish books; Yiddish education; Yiddish language; Yiddish literature; Yiddish phrases; Yiddish songs; Yiddish students; Yiddish studies; Yiddish vocabulary