Keywords: academia; bookkeeper; bookkeeping; cabinet makers; Christian religion; Christianity; divorce; emigration; father; furniture makers; Germany; grandfather; grandmother; grandparents; immigrants; immigration; joiners; Lutheranism; mother; parents; professors; Protestantism; uncles

Keywords: air raids; apartments; Berlin, Germany; bombings; bombs; childhood; extended family; friends; mother; neighborhood; Neukolln; Neukölln; working class; World War 2; World War II; WW2; WWII

Keywords: Adolf Hitler; Berlin, Germany; elementary school; First People's Elementary School; Fuehrer; Fuhrer; Führer; Neukölln; Neukolln; prayer; primary school

Keywords: air raids; anti-Semitism; antisemitism; apartments; Berlin, Germany; bombings; bombs; childhood; college; communists; German Reich; grandmother; Holocaust; home; Jewish people; Jews; Judaism; mother; Nazi Germany; Neukölln; Neukolln; Shoah; university; World War 2; World War II; WW2; WWII

Keywords: "A Christmas Carol"; Charles Dickens; Christian religion; Christianity; Christmas; church; confirmation; Easter; English language; Holy Trinity; Lutheranism; Protestantism; religious observance; schools; stollen; students

Keywords: Cambridge, Massachusets; Detroit, Michigan; emigrants; emigration; Harvard University; immigrants; immigration; Liberty Island; Manhattan, New York City, New York; ship; SS George Washington; Statue of Liberty; steerage

Keywords: "Archie"; "Blondie"; "Forverts"; "The Detroit News"; "The Forward"; "The Jewish Daily Forward"; "The Yiddish Daily Forward"; American culture; boat; bookkeepers; bookkeeping; class systems; college; comic books; comics; cousins; Detroit, Michigan; Donald Duck; English classes; English language; extended family; Germany; great aunts; great-aunts; immigrants; immigration; meritocracy; mother; newspaper routes; newspapers; paper routes; SS George Washington; university; Wayne State University; WSU

Keywords: aeronautical engineering; assimilation; Cambridge, Massachusetts; Cass Technical High School; college; commutes; commuting; Detroit, Michigan; dictionary; education; high school; immigrants; immigration; junior high school; Leonhard Euler; majors; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; mathematics; middle school; MIT; schools; tutoring; university; Wayne State University; WSU

Keywords: "Neunzehn Briefe über Judenthum (Nineteen Letters on Judaism)"; "Neunzehn Briefe uber Judenthum"; American citizenship; Amherst, Massachusetts; Baruch Spinoza; bath house; bet din; beth din; Chelsea, Massachusetts; college; complicity; congregation; Conservative Judaism; conversion; converts; denominations of Judaism; Detroit, Michigan; German identity; German language; Hebrew language; Hillel House; Holocaust; JCA; Jew by choice; Jewish community; Jewish Community of Amherst; Jewish denominations; Jewish ethics; Jewish identity; Jewish morality; Jewish religion; Judaism; Lexington, Massachusetts; marriage; Max Kapustin; mikvah; mikve; mikveh; minyan; minyen; Nazi Germany; Nazi Party; Orthodox Judaism; Phyllis Herda; prayers; priests; rabbis; Reconstructionist Judaism; Reform Judaism; ritual bath; Samson Raphael Hirsch; schul; Shoah; shul; synagogue; temple; Temple Emunah; university; Virgin Mary; Wayne State University; wife; World War 2; World War II; WSU; WW2; WWII

Keywords: "Et Dieu... créa la femme (And God Created Woman)"; Boston, Massachusetts; Brigitte Bardot; Cambridge, Massachusetts; date; dating; extended family; father-in-law; German language; grocery store; Harvard University; marriage proposal; matchmaking; MFA; Museum of Fine Arts; Phyllis Herda; schatchen; shadchan; shadchen; shatkhn; supermarket; wife; Yiddish language

Keywords: Boston, Massachusetts; conversion; converts; extended family; grandfather; in-laws; Jew by choice; Jewish family; Jewish identity; mother; Nazi Party; Phyllis Herda; wife

Keywords: Acadia National Park, Maine; childhood; Chinese literature; Israel; Japan; mathematics; mother; Phyllis Herda; professor; sabbaticals; values; wife

Keywords: academic papers; Allied occupation of Japan; Boston University; Boston, Massachusetts; BU; committees; English language; geology; geometry; kashres; kashrus; kashrut; kashruth; kosher; Kyoto, Japan; mathematics; not kosher; Phyllis Herda; professors; research; sabbatical; teaching; treif; treyf; wife; World War 2; World War II; WW2; WWII

Keywords: Hebrew language; Jaffa riots; Jaffa, Israel; pogrom; professor; Rehovot, Israel; Russian immigrants; Shushana Gavrelow; Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel; suke; sukes; sukkah; Sukkos; Sukkot; ulpan; Weizmann Institute of Science

Keywords: "Bontshe Shvayg (Bontsche the Silent)"; "Gimpl tam (Gimpel the Fool)"; Amherst, Massachusetts; chedar; cheder; davening; davn; doven; German language; Hebrew language; Hebrew school; heder; Holocaust; I.B. Singer; I.L. Peretz; identity; Isaac Bashevis Singer; Isaac Leib Peretz; Itskhok Bashevis Zinger; Jewish culture; Jewish identity; Jewish observance; Jewish religion; Judaism; kheyder; prayers; Rehovot, Israel; Shoah; traditional religious school; Weizmann Institute of Science; Yiddish Book Center; Yiddish identity; Yiddish language; Yiddish literature; Yiddishkayt; Yiddishkeit; yidishkayt; yidishkeyt; Yitzkhok Leybush Peretz

Keywords: acceptance; American identity; Amherst, Massachusetts; anti-Semitism; antisemitism; children; conversion; converts; extended family; German Americans; German identity; grandchildren; Jew by choice; Jewish identity; Jewish observance; Jewish religion; Judaism; marriage; mother-in-law; Phyllis Herda; rabbis; volunteering; volunteers; wife; Yiddish Book Center; Yiddish language; Yiddish literature

Keywords: Amherst, Massachusetts; children; congregation; conversion; converts; daughter-in-law; daughters; davening; davn; divorce; doven; ethics; generational differences; grandchildren; grandsons; Jew by choice; Jewish identity; Jewish observance; Jewish religion; Jewish values; Judaism; kashres; kashrus; kashrut; kashruth; kosher; marriage; Phyllis Herda; prayers; schul; Shabbat; Shabbos; shabes; shul; sons; spouses; synagogue; temple; wife; Yiddish Book Center

Keywords: "Farfallen"; advice; Jewish culture; Jewish identity; Jewish observance; Jewish people; Jewish religion; Jews; Judaism; Yiddish language; Yiddish music