Keywords: Afghanistan; family background; family crests; family history; father; grandfather; grandmother; immigration; Ireland; Irish ancestry; Irish immigrants; Jewish ancestry; maternal grandparents; mother; Oxford, Ohio; parents; paternal grandparents; refugees; Soviet occupation; USSR

Keywords: childhood homes; childhood memories; English language; father; Hebrew language; higher education; I.L. Peretz; Isaac Leib Peretz; klezmer music; mother; oral traditions; Oxford, Ohio; professors; siblings; sister; Sydney, Australia; university education; University of Sydney; Yiddish authors; Yiddish books; Yiddish classes; Yiddish culture; Yiddish education; Yiddish educators; Yiddish language; Yiddish literature; Yiddish music; Yiddish pronunciation; Yiddish stories; Yiddish writers; Yitzkhok Leybush Peretz; Yud Lamed Peretz

Keywords: Ashkenazi Jews; blessings; brachas; brochas; broches; brokhes; brukhas; brukhes; family meals; family recipes; family traditions; habdalah; hamantaschen; Havdalah; Havdale; havdole; High Holidays; High Holy Days; homentashn; Jewish culture; Jewish foods; Jewish holidays; Jewish homes; Jewish households; Jewish traditions; kosher homes; kosher observance; kugel; Passover; Pesach; peysekh; prayers; Purim; religious services; ritual fasting; schuls; Shabbat; Shabbos; shabes; shuls; synagogues; traditional foods; treyf; Yiddish language; Yiddish music; Yiddish songs; Yom Kippur

Keywords: Chanukah; chanukiahs; childhood homes; Columbus, Ohio; communal living; converted apartments; family artifacts; family friends; family heirlooms; father; Hanukkah; hanukkiahs; Jewish holidays; khanike; menorahs; menoyrehs; mother; Oxford, Ohio; Oxford, United Kingdom; parents; professors; Sydney, Australia; University of Oxford; Yiddish books; Yiddish literature

Keywords: "Australian Jewish News"; conservative politics; conservatives; family friends; father; Jewish newspapers; Jewish publications; left-wing politics; liberal politics; liberalism; liberals; mother; newspaper columnists; newspaper columns; parents; political atmosphere; political beliefs; political ideology; progressive politics; social issues; storytellers; Yiddish books; Yiddish education; Yiddish language; Yiddish literature; Yiddish professors; Yiddish reading groups; Yiddish students

Keywords: Afghanistan; blessings; cultural heritage; family connection; family traditions; grandfather; grandmother; grandparents; Jewish ancestry; Jewish heritage; Jewish traditions; melodies; mother; niggunim; nigguns; nigunim; niguns; parents; prayers; religious observance; Shabbat; Shabbos; shabes; Soviet occupation; USSR

Keywords: Ashkenazi Jews; concentration camps; Eastern European Jews; genocide; Holocaust; Jewish community; Jewish day schools; Karaite Jews; kashres; kashrus; kashrut; kashruth; Lithuanian Jews; Melbourne, Australia; Mizrahi Jews; religious beliefs; religious interpretations; religious observance; Sephardic Jews; South African Jews; Sydney, Australia; Talmud; Tanakh; Torah; toyre; World War 2; World War II; WW2; WWII; Yiddish community; Yiddish language

Keywords: Australian Jews; childhood friends; Conservative Jews; elementary schools; high school education; Jewish community; Jewish education; Jewish educators; Jewish students; Jewish teachers; Jewish values; morals; Orthodox Jews; rabbis; religious education; religious studies; religious tolerance; schuls; secular Jews; shuls; synagogues

Keywords: anthropologists; anthropology; ba'al teshuvah; baal teshuva; bal-tshuve; baltshuve; Buddhism; childhood memories; faith; family teachings; family traditions; father; global religions; individual beliefs; Jewish community; Jewish culture; Jewish education; Jewish knowledge; Jewish values; Judaism; mother; Nepalese culture; philosophy; refugees; religious beliefs; religious observance; religious practices; religious tolerance; Steiner Summer Yiddish Program; Tibetan culture; Yiddish summer programs

Keywords: "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"; authors; college education; college majors; comparative literature; higher education; international literature; Jewish Diaspora; literary studies; Neal Stephenson; research interests; research projects; Sydney, Australia; University of Sydney; writers

Keywords: "Anna Karenina"; "Grine felder (Green fields)"; "Yidl mitn fidl (Yidl with his fiddle)"; college education; cultural languages; David Bergelson; Dovid Bergelson; expressionism; folkloric literature; German language; high school education; higher education; Jewish culture; Jewish folklore; Marcel Proust; minority languages; mother; short stories; translations; Yiddish books; Yiddish cinema; Yiddish culture; Yiddish education; Yiddish educators; Yiddish film; Yiddish folklore; Yiddish language; Yiddish literature; Yiddish professors; Yiddish stories; Yiddish students; Yiddish studies; Yiddish teachers

Keywords: Chasidim; Chassidim; contemporary relevance; Hasidim; Hassidim; I.B. Singer; Isaac Bashevis Singer; Itskhok Bashevis Zinger; literary themes; spoken Yiddish; Yiddish Book Center; Yiddish books; Yiddish community; Yiddish language; Yiddish literature; Yiddish speakers; Yiddishists

Keywords: Ashkenazi Jewish culture; communicating; communication; English language; Hebrew language; Itsik Manger; Itzik Manger; Jewish languages; poeticism; religious language; spirituality; spoken Yiddish; symbolics; vernacular English; Yiddish authors; Yiddish books; Yiddish grammar; Yiddish language; Yiddish literature; Yiddish poems; Yiddish poetry; Yiddish speakers; Yiddish writers

Keywords: Aramaic language; Australian Union of Jewish Students; Biblical Hebrew; college education; donors; endowed programs; funding sources; higher education; Israeli history; Israeli-Palestinian conflict; Jewish campus life; Jewish culture; Jewish history; Jewish studies; Judaic studies; kosher foods; kosher kitchens; language classes; language programs; modern Hebrew; religious services; residential colleges; Shabbat; Shabbos; shabes; student organizations; University of Sydney; Yiddish language; Yiddish programs

Keywords: Australian Friends of Yiddish; donors; funding sources; fundraisers; fundraising; international conferences; Jewish community; Jewish nursing homes; Jewish organizations; mother; spoken Yiddish; Sydney, Australia; Yiddish bands; Yiddish books; Yiddish community; Yiddish cultural life; Yiddish culture; Yiddish educators; Yiddish films; Yiddish language; Yiddish libraries; Yiddish literature; Yiddish music; Yiddish musicians; Yiddish organizations; Yiddish speakers; Yiddish students; Yiddish theater troupes; Yiddish theatre troupes

Keywords: communal living; David Shneer; dormitories; language immersion; language learning; mother; Rebecca Margolis; spoken Yiddish; Steiner Summer Yiddish Program; Yiddish Book Center; Yiddish books; Yiddish classes; Yiddish education; Yiddish educators; Yiddish language; Yiddish literature; Yiddish speakers; Yiddish students; Yiddish summer programs; Yiddish teachers; YIVO Institute for Jewish Research; Yuri Vedenyapin

Keywords: Berlin, Germany; David Bergelson; Dovid Bergelson; executions; expressionism; expressionist writing; Joseph Stalin; literary styles; literary themes; mass murders; research interests; research projects; Soviet Union; translations; translators; USSR; Yiddish authors; Yiddish history; Yiddish short stories; Yiddish writers

Keywords: Chanukah; Christmas carols; communal living; cultural identity; family traditions; Hanukkah; Jewish community; Jewish culture; Jewish holidays; Jewish identity; Jewish traditions; Jewishness; khanike; kosher foods; Passover; Pesach; peysekh; religious beliefs; religious identity; residential community; seders; shtetels; shtetls; Steiner Summer Yiddish Program; Yiddish students; Yiddish summer programs

Keywords: "Pakn Treger"; Aaron Lansky; academia; academic careers; academic interests; academic professions; David Bergelson; Dovid Bergelson; language learning; language revival; mother; Steiner Summer Yiddish Program; Sydney, Australia; translating; translation workshops; University of Sydney; Yiddish Book Center; Yiddish books; Yiddish educators; Yiddish language; Yiddish libraries; Yiddish literature; Yiddish revival; Yiddish students; Yiddish summer programs; Yiddish teachers

Keywords: "Afn veg shteyt a boym (By the road stands a tree)"; "Amol iz geven a mayse (Once upon a time)"; "Margaritkelekh (Little daisies)"; advice; eytse; language learning; Yiddish community; Yiddish language; Yiddish music; Yiddish phrases; Yiddish songs; Yiddish students; Yiddish words; Yiddishism; Yiddishists