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Keywords: advanced placement classes; college courses; college education; high school cliques; high school education; homework assignments; marching band; misfits; public schools; school friends; Virginia

Keywords: "Hey Arnold"; "Rugrats"; "The Nanny"; American Jews; bagels; Chanukah; college education; cultural education; grandmother; grandparents; Hanukkah; higher education; Jewish community; Jewish culture; Jewish foods; Jewish friends; Jewish holidays; Jewish identity; Jewishness; Judaism; khanike; Passover; Pesach; peysekh; Roanoke, Virginia; schuls; secular Jews; shuls; synagogues; television programs; television shows; traditional foods; University of Virginia; Virginians

Keywords: "The Nanny"; alef-beys; aleph-bet; college education; college majors; cousins; cultural references; Hebrew alphabet; Hebrew language; Jewish culture; Jewish friends; Jewish humor; Jewish languages; language classes; language learning; television programs; television shows; University of Virginia; UVA; Yiddish alphabet; Yiddish language; Yiddish phrases; Yiddish vocabulary; Yiddish words

Keywords: Charlottesville, Virginia; college education; family; father; higher education; Jewish languages; language learning; mother; parents; Roanoke, Virginia; schuls; shuls; synagogues; Yiddish Book Center; Yiddish classes; Yiddish education; Yiddish language; Yiddish studies; Yiddish summer programs

Keywords: American authors; American writers; Chabad; Charlottesville, Virginia; college degrees; college education; Edgar Allan Poe; English language; English literature; English majors; Flannery O'Connor; Hebrew language; high school friends; higher education; Hillel; Jewish campus life; Jewish community; Jewish friends; Jewish organizations; Jewish students; Mark Twain; Southern American literature; University of Virginia; UVA; William Faulkner

Keywords: alef-beys; aleph-bet; college credits; college education; German ancestry; German language; grandmother; grandparents; great-grandparents; Hebrew alphabet; Hebrew language; higher education; Italian language; Jewish background; Jewish campus life; Jewish identity; Jewish languages; Jewish students; language learning; non-Jewish students; Swahili language; Yiddish alphabet; Yiddish culture; Yiddish language; Yiddish revival; Yiddishists

Keywords: Chabad; Charlottesville, Virginia; cultural education; cultural expos; cultural heritage; cultural knowledge; German language; Hebrew classes; Hebrew language; Jewish ancestry; Jewish students; Jewish studies; language classes; non-Jewish students; Swahili language; University of Virginia; UVA; Yiddish classes; Yiddish culture; Yiddish language; Yiddish teachers

Keywords: Allison Posner; conversational Yiddish; immersion programs; intensive programs; language programs; lashon kodesh; loshn-koydesh; professors; reading comprehension; spoken Yiddish; teaching faculty; University of Virginia; UVA; Yiddish Book Center; Yiddish classes; Yiddish education; Yiddish speakers; Yiddish students; Yiddish studies; Yiddish summer programs; Yiddish vocabulary; Yinglish; Yuri Vedenyapin

Keywords: "Leaves of Grass"; "Members of the Tribe: Native America in the Jewish Imagination"; "Schriften"; "Shriftn"; American poetry; American poets; Americanization; assimilation; dissertation research; English literature; Hampshire College; indigenous literature; L. Miller; literary journals; Louis Miller; Native American folk tales; Rachel Rubinstein; Rebecca Margolis; research projects; research proposals; Steiner Summer Yiddish Program; translating; University of Virginia; UVA; Walt Whitman; Yiddish authors; Yiddish Book Center; Yiddish education; Yiddish professors; Yiddish speakers; Yiddish summer programs; Yiddish teachers; Yiddish translations; Yiddish translators; Yiddish writers

Keywords: conferences; continuing education; graduate education; graduate school; graduate studies; research projects; Steiner Summer Yiddish Program; Walt Whitman; Yiddish Book Center; Yiddish education; Yiddish language; Yiddish studies; Yiddish summer programs

Keywords: advanced classes; communal living; dormitories; immersion programs; intensive programs; Shalom Aleichem; Sholem Aleichem; Sholem Aleykhem; spoken Yiddish; Steiner Summer Yiddish Program; Yiddish authors; Yiddish Book Center; Yiddish books; Yiddish grammar; Yiddish language; Yiddish literature; Yiddish speakers; Yiddish students; Yiddish writers

Keywords: academic Yiddish; Jewish identity; language preservation; language revival; personal identity; Yiddish education; Yiddish identity; Yiddish language; Yiddish phrases; Yiddish revival; Yiddish students; Yiddish studies; Yiddish vocabulary; Yiddishism; Yiddishists

Keywords: advice; cultural education; cultural heritage; David Shneer; Jewish background; Jewish culture; Jewish religion; Yiddish classes; Yiddish culture; Yiddish education; Yiddish language; Yiddish students; Yiddish summer programs; Yiddish vocabulary

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Keywords: "Oyfn pripetshik (By the hearth)"; "Tumbalalaika (Play the balalaika)"; classrooms; Michael Winograd; Yiddish classes; Yiddish concerts; Yiddish culture; Yiddish education; Yiddish language; Yiddish music; Yiddish phrases; Yiddish Princess; Yiddish songs; Yiddish students; Yiddish vocabulary; Yiddish words; Yuri Vedenyapin