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0:00 - Introduction

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0:40 - Sara's Family Background

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Keywords: Belarus; family background; family history; father; grandparents; heritage; mother; parents; Poland; Romania; roots; Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

4:00 - Sara Describes Winnipeg and Its Jewish Community

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Keywords: family; father; Jewish culture; Manitoba, Canada; parents; religious observance; Winnipeg, Manitoba

7:30 - The Jewish Community in Newton, Massachusetts

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Keywords: childhood; Conservative; family; Jewish community; Jewish holidays; Judaism; neighborhood; Newton, Massachusetts; Orthodox; Reform; suburban; synagogues

11:57 - Sara Describes Her Relationship with Her Family

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Keywords: brother; childhood; family; father; Judaism; mother; parents

13:16 - Growing Up in a Jewish Home and Celebrating Jewish Holidays

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Keywords: chicken soup; childhood; cooking; gefilte fish; grandmother; Jewish food; Jewish holidays; Jewish home; Judaism; matzah balls; mother; Passover; Pesach; peysekh; religious observance; schul; Shabbat; Shabbos; shabes; shul; synagogue

17:33 - Singing in a Yiddish Choir and Becoming Interested in Yiddish

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Keywords: chorus; Der Arbeter Ring; English language; grandmother; labor songs; languages; learning Yiddish; mother; singer; singing; Worker's Circle; Workmen's Circle; Yiddish choir; Yiddish culture; Yiddish language; Yiddish phrases

22:23 - Connecting to Judaism Through Traditional Music

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Keywords: cantors; Hebrew school; Jewish music; rabbi; Reform Judaism; Reform synagogue; Reform temple; religious observance; traditional music

25:31 - Sara Discusses Hebrew School and Her Bat Mitzvah

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Keywords: adolescence; bas mitzvah; bas-mitzve; bat mitzvah; bath mitzvah; childhood; family; grandmother; Hebrew language; Hebrew school; Judaism; teenage years

27:25 - The Values and Jewish Culture with Which Sara Grew Up

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Keywords: father; Jewish books; Jewish culture; Jewish literature; Judaism; mother; parents; tradition; values

31:30 - Moving to Montreal and Transitioning to Independent Life

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Keywords: Canada; college; education; McGill University; Montréal, Québec; Montreal, Quebec; undergraduate; Yiddish classes

36:34 - Studying Yiddish at McGill University

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Keywords: Abraham Sutzkever; Anna Fishman Gonshor; Avrom Sutzkever; education; Jewish studies; professors; Rachel Häring Korn; Rokhl Korn; studying Yiddish; teachers; translation; Yiddish culture; Yiddish language; Yiddish poetry; Yiddish poets

42:54 - Sara's Experience at the Yiddish Book Center's Steiner Summer Program

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Keywords: cooking; Steiner Summer Program; teachers; Yiddish Book Center; Yiddish language; Yiddish learning

45:11 - The Role of Yiddish in Sara's Jewish Identity

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Keywords: education; Holocaust; Israel; Jewish culture; Jewish identity; Jewishness; Yiddish culture; Yiddish language; Yiddishkayt; Yiddishkeit; yidishkayt; yidishkeyt

48:35 - Sara's Thoughts on Her Work as a Yiddish Book Center Fellow

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Keywords: Yiddish culture; Yiddish language; Yiddish translation

51:35 - Sara Recounts Her Travels in Eastern Europe

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Keywords: Eastern Europe; graveyards; Jewish museums; Odesa; Odessa, Ukraine; Paris, France; Prague, Czech Republic; travel; Vil'na; Vilna; Vilnius, Lithuania; Wilno

61:10 - Sara's Future Plans and Reflections on Jewish Identity

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Keywords: children's books; Yiddish language

64:16 - Sara Shares Her Favorite Yiddish Word and Sings Part of the "Youth Hymn"

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Keywords: favorite Yiddish word; singing; Youth Hymn; Yugnt Himn