Keywords: "Der Tog"; Amherst, Massachusetts; JCA; Jewish Community of Amherst; Massachusetts Agricultural College; professor; Sidney Frederick Wexler; Sidney Wexler; Sonia Wexler; Spanish language; University of Massachusetts Amherst; Wexler family; Yiddish language; Yiddish newspapers

Keywords: Adyesa; Boston, Massachusetts; brothers; conscription; Cunard Line; father; genealogy; grandmother; grandparents; immigrants; immigration; Latvia; Liverpool, England; mother; nephew; New York City; Odesa; Odessa, Ukraine; parents; Rapaport family; Rappaport family; RMS Lucania; Russia; Russian Army; Russo-Japanese War; siblings; sister; sisters; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom

Keywords: aunts; banking; Boston, Massachusetts; Cambridge, Massachusetts; children; daughter; Dorchester, Boston; father; French language; grandparents; great-grandparents; Harvard University; mother; movies; New England Hospital for Women and Children; Oak Island, Revere; parents; Revere, Massachusetts; Roxbury, Boston; siblings; Simmons College; Simmons University; sisters; West End, Boston

Keywords: bobe; Boston, Massachusetts; Brunswick, Maine; bubbie; clothing store; farm; Filene's Basement; fruit store; grandfather; grandmother; grandparents; inn; mother; R.H. White; zaidie; zayde; zaydie; zeyde; zeydie

Keywords: American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee; Amherst, Massachusetts; bobe; Boston English High School; Boston Latin School; Boston, Massachusetts; bubbie; Central Relief Committee; chedar; cheder; chemistry; citizenship; college; elementary school; English language; father; Filene's; fundraising campaigns; German Jews; grandmother; grandparents; Hebrew school; heder; immigrants; immigration; International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union; JDC; Jewish communities; junior high school; kheyder; Labor Zionism; Latvia; Lincoln Kirstein; Louis Brandeis; Louis Kirstein; marriage; Massachusetts Agricultural College; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Medford, Massachusetts; middle school; MIT; mother; New York City; Orthodox Judaism; Pale of Settlement; parents; People's Relief Campaign; Po'ale Tsiyon; Poale Tsion; Poale Tzion; Poale Zion; primary school; rabbi; Russo-Japanese War; socialism; socialists; Somerville, Massachusetts; trade unions; traditional religious school; Tufts College; Tufts University; university; University of Massachusetts Amherst; World War 1; World War I; WW1; WWI; Yiddish language

Keywords: Bank of Commerce and Trust Company; banking; Boston, Massachusetts; correspondence; father; Grove Hall, Roxbury; Hebrew language; mother; parents; prayer book; Roxbury, Boston; siblings; siddur; sider; sister; Yiddish language

Keywords: aliyah; Boston, Massachusetts; Chanukah; father; Hanukkah; Israel; khanike; kibbutz; Labor Zionism; mother; parents; Po'ale Tsiyon; Poale Tsion; Poale Tzion; Poale Zion; Roxbury, Boston; siblings; sister; tutor; Yiddish language; Yiddish newspapers; Yiddish songs; YMHA; Young Men's Hebrew Association

Keywords: baking; Baltimore, Maryland; banking; bar mitzvah; bar-mitsve; Boston, Massachusetts; Chanukah; congregation; cooking; father; fundraising; Great Depression; Hanukkah; Hebrew Home for the Aged; Jewish holidays; Jewish identity; Jewish National Fund; Jewish observance; JNF; khanike; mother; Orthodox Judaism; parents; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Providence, Rhode Island; Rochester, New York; Roxbury, Boston; schul; secular Judaism; shul; socialism; synagogue; temple; yom tovim; yomim tobim; yomim tovim; yontef; yontev; yontoyvim

Keywords: baking; Boston Latin School; Boston, Massachusetts; children; Chol HaMoed; congregation; cooking; daughter; diplomatic service; embassies; food; foreign service; Jewish holidays; Jewish identity; Jewish observance; kashres; kashrus; kashrut; kashruth; kosher; matse; matzah; matzo; mother; not kosher; Passover; Pesach; peysekh; Reform Judaism; sandwiches; schul; secular Judaism; shul; siblings; sister; St. Louis, Missouri; synagogue; temple; treif; treyf; wife; winemaking; yom tovim; yomim tobim; yomim tovim; yontef; yontev; yontoyvim

Keywords: "Death at an Early Age"; "Life"; "The Making of the President"; "Time"; African Americans; aunts; Beacon Hill, Boston; Boston Latin School; Boston, Massachusetts; Cambridge, Massachusetts; church; college; elementary school; elevated train; films; George Washington; Harvard University; Hebrew College; Hebrew language; Hebrew Teachers College; Henry Luce; high school; Jewish education; Jonathan Kozol; junior high school; kindergarten; Leonard Bernstein; Louis Hurwich; Lutheranism; Massachusetts State House; Massachusetts Statehouse; middle school; movies; Myrtle Street School; pageant; primary school; Roxbury, Boston; Scollay Square, Boston; Sharon, Massachusetts; Sheldon Fellowship; streetcars; students; subway stations; teachers; Teddy White; Theodore H. White; university; William Lloyd Garrison School; Williams School; Yiddish education

Keywords: "Forverts"; "The Forward"; "The Jewish Daily Forward"; "The Yiddish Daily Forward"; Aaron Lansky; books; Boston, Massachusetts; English language; father; Great Depression; Hebrew Home for the Aged; I.L. Peretz; immigrants; Isaac Leib Peretz; Jacob Abramovitsh; Jewish culture; Jewish identity; Mendele Mokher Sefarim; Mendele Moykher Sforim; Mendele Moykher-Sforim; novels; parents; Roxbury, Boston; Shalom Jacob Abramowich; Sholem Asch; Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh; Yiddish culture; Yiddish Culture Club of Boston; Yiddish Culture Society of the United States and Canada; Yiddish Kultur Club of Boston; Yiddish Kultur Klub of Boston; Yiddish language; Yiddish literature; Yiddish poetry; Yiddish poets; Yitzkhok Leybush Peretz; YMHA; Young Men's Hebrew Association; Yud Lamed Peretz

Keywords: "The All-American Front"; Boston Latin School; Boston, Massachusetts; Cambridge, Massachusetts; college; College Board exams; Duncan Aikman; French history; French language; grand auto-da-fé; Harvard University; high school; history; Inquisition; Ladino language; Latin American history; mathematics; Munich Agreement; Munich Crisis; Peru; pogroms; Portuguese language; professors; senior thesis; Spanish language; Teddy White; Theodore H. White; university; University Prints; valedictorian; Widener Library, Harvard University; World War 2; World War II; WW2; WWII; Yiddish language

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Keywords: Constantinople; genealogy; grandmother; intermarriage; Istanbul, Turkey; Italian Jews; Jewish identity; Ladino language; Latin American history; mixed marriage; nephew; Portuguese Jews; Sephardic Jews; Sephardim; Spanish expulsion; Spanish history; Spanish language

Keywords: "The Brandeis Avukah Annual"; Avukah; Cambridge, Massachusetts; father; Harvard University; Hillel; Jewish community; Louis Brandeis; Zionism

Keywords: American Jewish Congress; Arbeter Ring; Bob Hope; Calvin Coolidge; Cunard Line; delegates; father; Geneva, Switzerland; H.V. Kaltenborn; Hans von Kaltenborn; Immigration Act of 1924; Johnson–Reed Act; labor movements; Labor Zionism; mother; parents; Po'ale Tsiyon; Poale Tsion; Poale Tzion; Poale Zion; President Coolidge; RMS Queen Mary; siblings; sister; WJC; Workers Circle; Workmen’s Circle; World Jewish Congress; World War 2; World War II; World Zionist Congress; WW2; WWII

Keywords: Burlington, Vermont; Cambridge, Massachusetts; Clarence H. Haring; Clarence Haring; college; Harvard University; Latin American history; Mexican history; Morelia, Mexico; Portuguese language; Sheldon Fellowship; Spanish language; university; University of Vermont; UVM

Keywords: Ann Arbor, Michigan; Army Specialized Training Program; ASTP; Ayer, Massachusetts; basic training; Blackstone, Virginia; boot camp; Cambridge, Massachusetts; Camp Devens; Camp Pickett; Champaign, Illinois; clerk school; clerk training; conscription; corporal; draft; Durham, New Hampshire; Farsi language; Fort Devens; Fort Pickett; French language; German language; graduate school; Harvard University; medics; Officer Candidate School; Ole Miss; Palmer Throop; Persian language; Portuguese language; sergeant; Shirley, Massachusetts; U.S. Army; UNH; United States Army; University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign; University of Michigan; University of Mississippi; University of New Hampshire; University, Mississippi; Urbana, Illinois; US Army; wife; World War 2; World War II; WW2; WWII; Yiddish language

Keywords: "H.M.S. Pinafore"; "Show Boat"; Aaron Yalow; Abram L. Sachar; Abram Sachar; Army Specialized Training Program; ASTP; Avukah; Camp Shomria; Catskill Mountains, New York; Catskills; Champaign, Illinois; Chanukah; chorus; Evanston, Illinois; Ha-Shomer ha-Tsa'ir; Handel's Messiah; Hanukkah; Hashomer Hatsair; Hashomer Hatzair; Hillel; infantrymen; khanike; Leonard Bernstein; Liberty, New York; Muny; Northwestern University; Ole Miss; Passover; Pesach; peysekh; president; Rosalyn Sussman Yalow; Rosalyn Yalow; singing; St. Louis Municipal Opera Theatre; St. Louis, Missouri; U.S. Army; United States Army; University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign; University of Mississippi; University, Mississippi; Urbana, Illinois; US Army; wife; World War 2; World War II; WW2; WWII; Zionism; Zionist socialism

Keywords: "The Army and Politics in Argentina, 1928-1945: Yrigoyen to Peron"; battle intelligence; Camp Ritchie; Cascade, Maryland; DOS; Fort Ritchie; German language; Henry Kissinger; Japanese language; Latin American history; military intelligence; Military Intelligence Training Center; MITC; order of battle; photo interpretation; PI; State Department; U.S. Army; United States Army; United States Department of State; US Army; World War 2; World War II; WW2; WWII

Keywords: "Le Monde"; ambassador residence; Argentina; Argentine newspapers; book tours; Bulgarian newspapers; children; daughters; diplomatic service; father; foreign languages; foreign service; French language; French newspapers; George Romney; German language; Jewish community; Jewish culture; Jewish identity; Jewish observance; Mitt Romney; mother; multilingualism; parents; Portuguese language; public schools; secular Judaism; Spanish language; Yiddish language

Keywords: Alexandria, Virginia; Amherst, Massachusetts; assimilation; Brazil; Camp Ramah; chedar; cheder; children; congregation; Congregation B'nai Israel; Conservative Judaism; daughters; davening; davn; doven; father; Ford Foundation; foreign languages; Hebrew school; heder; High Holidays; JCA; Jewish community; Jewish Community of Amherst; Jewish education; Jewish holidays; Jewish identiy; kheyder; Lander-Grinspoon Academy; Mexico; Northampton, Massachusetts; praying; schul; Shabbat; Shabbos; shabes; shul; Sonia Wexler; synagogue; temple; traditional religious school; wife; yom tovim; yomim tobim; yomim tovim; yontef; yontev; yontoyvim

Keywords: "Pakn Treger"; Aaron Lansky; Amherst, Massachusetts; father; German language; Hampshire College; Hebrew language; Israel; Jewish identity; Jules Piccus; Massachusetts Agricultural College; parents; University of Massachusetts Amherst; Yiddish Book Center; Yiddish books; Yiddish language; Yiddish literature

Keywords: Andrews Sisters; Avukah; Boston, Massachusetts; Cambridge, Massachusetts; Chanukah; chorus; fate; father; genealogy; grandfather; Hanukkah; khanike; nephew; songs; uncle; West Roxbury, Boston; Yiddish language; Yiddish songs