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0:00 - Introduction

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0:37 - Eli Discusses What He Knows and Doesn't Know about His Family Background

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Keywords: 1920s; America; ancestry; family background; family history; father; first-generation; genealogy; heritage; immigration; migration; mother; Old Country; roots; U.S.; United States; US

2:11 - Growing Up in a Non-Religious Home in Brooklyn's Jewish Community

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Keywords: bar mitzvah; bar-mitsve; Brooklyn, New York; childhood; father; New York City; non-religious; secular

4:16 - Eli Recalls Sitting Shiva for His Mother

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Keywords: Chanukah; childhood; Christmas; death; divorce; father; funeral; Hanukkah; Jewish identity; Jewishness; Judaism; Kaddish; khanike; loss; mother; parents; sitting shiva

7:55 - Eli Shares Memories of Brooklyn and Going to Synagogue as a Child

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Keywords: Brooklyn, New York; New York City; pushcart market; schul; shul; synagogue

11:01 - Eli Recalls His Friends and His Favorite Games During His Childhood

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Keywords: baseball; basketball; boxball; Brooklyn; childhood; football; friendships; games; handball; Jewish community; New York City; single parent; stickball

16:15 - Eli Remembers the Jewish Theater in the Lower East Side

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Keywords: bargaining; childhood; Evgeny Yuryevich Tomashevsky; father; Jewish culture; Jewish theater; Jewish theatre; Lower East Side; Molly Picon; siblings; wife; Yiddish culture; Yiddish language; Yiddish speakers; Yiddish theater; Yiddish theatre

21:20 - Eli Discusses the Aspects of Jewish Culture in His Upbringing

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Keywords: childhood; family customs; family traditions; Jewish culture; Jewish customs; Jewish traditions; Jewish values; Jewish-non-Jewish relations; kashres; kashrus; kashrut; kashruth; kosher

23:29 - The Political Atmosphere in Eli's Childhood Home

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Keywords: childhood; childhood home; communism; father; Jewish newspapers; politics; single parents; socialism; Yiddish newspapers

26:00 - Eli's Life Today as Part of the Jewish Community of Amherst, Massachusetts

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Keywords: Amherst, Massachusetts; business; JCA; Jewish community; Jewish Community of Amherst; Jewish services; Long Meadow, Massachusetts; marketing; traveling; volunteering

30:21 - Eli Describes the JCA and His Efforts to Form a Secular Chaverah

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Keywords: Amherst, Massachusetts; chaverah; diversity; JCA; Jewish Community of Amherst; Judaism; Reconstructionist; schul; secular Judaism; shul; synagogue

35:00 - Eli Reflects on Spirituality and What it Means to Be Jewish

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Keywords: JCA; Jewish identity; Jewishness; Judaism; prayer; spirituality

38:53 - Eli Reflects on Anonymity and Community in Large and Small Cities

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Keywords: Brooklyn, New York; JCA; Jewish Community of Amherst; Jewish identity; New England

41:08 - Eli's Experience Working with Volunteers and Speaking at Events in His Community

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Keywords: interfaith events; JCA; Jewish community; Jewish Community of Amherst; Jewish identity; Muslims; volunteers

45:40 - Eli Shares Stories and Reflections from His Travels in the Middle East

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Keywords: Islam; marketplace; Muslims; Saudi Arabia; traveling; travelling

51:45 - Eli's Personal Values and Worldview, and His Volunteer Work

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Keywords: low-income; nursing homes; poverty; privilege; socioeconomic status; values; volunteering

56:26 - Eli Shares a Story from His Trip to Kazakhstan

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Keywords: Jewish identity; Jewishness; Judaism; prayer; praying; rabbi; synagogues; tfilin

62:06 - Eli's Experience with Anti-Semitism in the US Army

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Keywords: 1940s; adolescence; anti-Semitism; antisemitism; G.I. Bill; GI Bill of Rights; teenage years; U.S. Army; United States Army; US Army; working class

65:53 - Eli's Discharge from the Army Right Before the Korean War

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Keywords: 1950s; Cold War; Korean War; paratrooper; Washington DC; Washington, D.C.

68:25 - Historical Events and Aspects of Personal Life that Impacted Eli's Identity

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Keywords: children; historical events; history; kids; Korean War; parenthood; working

70:55 - Eli on Raising His Kids with Judaism Despite Being Non-Religious

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Keywords: bar mitzvah; bar-mitsve; child-rearing; children; community; fatherhood; Hebrew school; High Holidays; Jewish education; Jewishness; Judaism; parenthood; religious services

75:25 - Eli's Connection to Eastern European Jewish History and Jewish Community

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Keywords: Eastern European Jewry; father; immigrants; JCA; Jewish community; Jewish Community of Amherst; Jewish history; MS; multiple sclerosis; Yiddish culture; Yiddish language; Yiddish newspapers

81:45 - Eli Reflects on Marc Chagall and Jewish Art

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Keywords: art; Chagall windows; Jewish culture; Marc Chagall

85:15 - Eli's Advice for Future Generations

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Keywords: advice; future generations