Keywords: Argentina; Canada; Delancey Street; father; Galicia; grandfather; grandmother; grandparents; Kauen; Kaunas, Lithuania; Kovna; Kovne; Kovno; Kowno; Latvia; Lithuania; Lower East Side, Manhattan, New York City, New York; mother; New York; parents; Yiddish language

Keywords: Americanization; assimilation; aunts; Bay Ridge; Bay Ridge Jewish Center; Brooklyn, New York City, New York; brother; congregation; father; grandfather; grandparents; High Holidays; High Holy Days; hotels; Jewish community; Jewish holidays; Kol Nidre; Maimonides Medical Center; mother; Murray Hill Hotel; Murray Hill, Manhattan, New York City, New York; not kosher; parents; schul; shul; siblings; sister; synagogue; temple; treif; treyf; uncles; Verrazzano Bridge; Verrazzano Narrows Bridge; Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge; yisker; yizkor; Yom Kippur; yom tovim; yomim tobim; yomim tovim; yontef; yontev; yontoyvim

Keywords: afikomen; afikoymen; anti-Semitism; antisemitism; Chanukah; chedar; cheder; Christian holidays; Christmas; churches; Easter; extended family; father; fir kashes; Four Questions; Halloween; Hanukkah; Hebrew school; heder; High Holiays; High Holy Days; Jewish holidays; Jewish observance; Jewish religion; Judaism; khanike; kheyder; matse; matza; matzah; matzo; mother; parents; Passover; pejoratives; Pesach; peysekh; Rosh Hashanah; rosheshone; school; seders; Shabbat; Shabbos; shabes; slurs; sukes; Sukkos; Sukkot; traditional religious school; yom tovim; yomim tobim; yomim tovim; yontef; yontev; yontoyvim

Keywords: American Jews; assimilation; chedar; cheder; Hebrew school; heder; Jewish Americans; Jewish identity; kheyder; mother; parents; rabbi; traditional religious school

Keywords: Amherst, Massachusetts; bar mitsve; bar mitzvah; bar-mitsve; bas mitsve; bas mitzvah; bas-mitsve; bat mitzvah; bath mitzvah; brother; chedar; cheder; children; confirmation; congregation; English language; grandfather; grandmother; grandparents; great uncles; great-uncles; haftarah; haftorah; haftoyre; haphtarah; haphtorah; Hebrew school; heder; Holocaust; immigration; Jewish culture; Jewish observance; Jewish religion; Judaism; kashres; kashrus; kashrut; kashruth; kheyder; khurbm; khurbn; kosher; Lithuania; parents; Passover; Pesach; peysekh; prayers; rabbi; schul; Shoah; shul; siblings; sister; son; synagogue; temple; Theodore Bikel; Theodore Meir Bikel; traditional religious school; Wexler Oral History Project; Yiddish Book Center; Yiddish culture; Yiddish language; Yiddish music; Yiddish songs; Yiddishkayt; Yiddishkeit; yidishkayt; yidishkeyt

Keywords: Adirondack Mountains, New York; Bay Ridge; Brooklyn, New York City, New York; Chanukah; grandfather; grandmother; grandparents; Hanukkah; hanukkiah; Jewish summer camps; khanike; Long Lake, New York; menorah; New York City, New York; parents; Raquette Lake Boys Camp; Raquette Lake Camps; Raquette Lake Girls Camp; Verrazzano Bridge; Verrazzano Narrows Bridge; Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge

Keywords: elementary school; father; friends; Little Red School House and Elisabeth Irwin High School; Manhattan, New York City, New York; mother; parents; private school; values

Keywords: "Al Chet"; "Al Cheyt"; "Al Het"; activism; anti-Semitism; antisemitism; author; Cambridge, Massachusetts; chedar; cheder; children; civil rights movement; college; elementary school; Harvard University; Hebrew school; heder; High Holidays; High Holy Days; high school; Hillel; history; Holocaust; husband; Jewish community; Jewish history; Jewish holidays; Jewish identity; Jewish observance; Jewish religion; Jewish Studies; Judaism; kheyder; khurbm; khurbn; Kol Nidre; Little Red School House and Elisabeth Irwin High School; Manhattan, New York City, New York; Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance; Marxism; Marxists; Mary Bunting; Moses; pejoratives; public school; Radcliffe College; Shoah; slurs; son; Ten Commandments; theater; theatre; traditional religious school; university; writer; writing; Yom Kippur; yom tovim; yomim tobim; yomim tovim; yontef; yontev; yontoyvim; Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi; Yosef Yerushalmi

Keywords: "Tikkun"; adoption; Albert Thaler; children; congregation; Conservative Judaism; conversion; converts; egalitarian movement; egalitarianism; father; feminism; feminists; Flushing, Queens, New York City, New York; husband; Jew by choice; Jewish identity; Jewish observance; Jewish religion; Jewish Renewal movement; Judaism; Maimonides; Michael Lerner; mikvah; mikveh; minyan; minyen; miscarriage; mother; Northampton, Masachusetts; parents; pool for ritual immersion; prayer; praying; rabbi; Reform Judaism; schul; Shabbat; Shabbos; shabes; shul; Smith College; synagogue; temple; Temple Gates of Prayer

Keywords: Adam Whiteman; Alicia Svigals; b'nai mitzvah; bnai mitzvah; children; folk dancing; folksinging; folksongs; Leonard Nimoy; paper cutting; Paula Teitelbaum; translation; Yiddish authors; Yiddish culture; Yiddish language; Yiddish literature; Yiddish music; Yiddish Radio Project; Yiddish revival; Yiddish songs; Yiddish writers; Yiddishkayt; Yiddishkeit; yidishkayt; yidishkeyt

Keywords: "Eva: A Novel of the Holocaust"; anti-Semitism; antisemitism; assimilation; brother; children; civil rights movement; cousins; displaced persons camps; DP camps; extended family; grandfather; grandparents; high school; Holocaust; Holocaust survivors; Jewish holidays; Jewish identity; Jewish religion; Judaism; Kauen; Kaunas, Lithuania; khurbm; khurbn; Kovna; Kovne; Kovno; Kovno Ghetto; Kowno; Kristallnacht; Munich, Germany; Nazi Germany; Northampton, Massachusetts; pejoratives; Shoah; siblings; slurs; suke; sukes; sukkah; Sukkos; Sukkot; World War 2; World War II; WW2; WWII; yom tovim; yomim tobim; yomim tovim; yontef; yontev; yontoyvim

Keywords: acting; actors; Albert Thaler; Amherst, Massachusetts; cousins; Hebrew language; Israel; Johann Sebastian Bach; Josh Waletzky; Klezmatics; klezmer music; Manhattan, New York City, New York; Netanya, Israel; New York University; NYU; paper cutting; rabbi; screenwriting; teaching; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; writing; Yiddish Book Center; Yiddish culture; Yiddish language; Yiddish literature; Yiddish music; Yiddish songs; Yiddish theater; Yiddish theatre; Yiddishkayt; Yiddishkeit; yidishkayt; yidishkeyt

Keywords: Amherst, Massachusetts; Bethlehem, New Hampshire; congregation; faith; husband; Jewish community; Jewish identity; Jewish observance; Jewish religion; Judaism; Northampton, Massachusetts; parents; prayer; schul; shul; synagogue; temple; Yiddish Book Center