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0:00 - Introduction 0:39 - Itay's Family Background

Keywords: 1920s; Adyesa; agricultural studies; aliyah; Barnard College; Bedzin; Będzin, Poland; Bendin; Bendzin; biologist; Bundism; Chasidic; Chasidism; Chassidic; Chassidism; college; Columbia University; communism; Cracow; father; grandfather; grandmother; grandparents; great-aunts; great-grandfather; great-grandmother; great-grandparents; Hasidic; Hasidism; Hassidic; Hassidism; Hebrew language; Holocaust; humanities; Jewish identity; Jewish observance; Judaism; Krakau; Krako; Krakow; Kraków, Poland; Manhattan, New York; mother; New York City; Odesa; Odessa, Ukraine; parents; Parkchester, The Bronx; Polish language; prison; Rehovot, Israel; Russian Revolution; scientists; seamstress; secular Judaism; shibah; shiva; shivah; shive; Shoah; shtetel; shtetl; small town; socialism; The Bronx, New York; uncle; university; Vil'na; Vilna; Vilnius, Lithuania; Wilno; yeshiva bocher; yeshive-bokher; Yiddish language; Yiddishists; Zionist socialism

6:22 - Itay Talks about His Maternal Grandparents

Keywords: "Battleship Potemkin"; "Forverts"; "The Forward"; "The Jewish Daily Forward"; "The Yiddish Daily Forward"; aliyah; Arbeter Ring; bar mitzvah; bar-mitsve; Bieraście; Borscht Belt; Brasta; Brest, Belarus; Brest-Litovsk; Brisk de-Lita; Brisk Dlita; Brzesc; Brześć Litewski; Brześć nad Bugiem; Brzesc nad Bugiem; Bzheshch nad Bugyem; Catskill Mountains, New York; Catskill Resorts; Catskills; Chasidic; Chasidism; Chassidic; Chassidism; chedar; cheder; City College of New York; City University of New York; college; Columbia University; CUNY; doctor; doctorate; elementary school; English language; French literature; grandfather; grandmother; grandparents; great-grandfather; great-grandmother; great-grandparents; Hamilton Heights, Manhattan; Hasidic; Hasidism; Hassidic; Hassidism; Hebraicist movement; Hebrew language; Hebrew school; heder; Herzliya Teachers Seminary; Hunter College; Israel; Jewish quotas; Jewish Theological Seminary; JTS; kheyder; Kobrin; Kobryń; Kobryn, Belarus; labor movement; labor union movement; Lithuania; Litvish Yiddish language; Manhattan, New York; medical school; melamed; middle class; misnagdim; misnaged; misnagid; mitnagdim; mitnagged; mitnaggedim; New York City; Parkchester, The Bronx; Ph.D.; PhD; primary; principal; public schools; revolutionaries; school; science teacher; Scotland; secular Judaism; secular Yiddish school; Sergei Eisenstein; shule; socialism; teacher; The Bronx, New York; traditional religious school; U.K.; U.S.A.; UK; United Kingdom; United States of America; university; USA; William Shakespeare; Workers Circle; Workmen’s Circle; Yiddish language; Yiddish language dialects; Zionism

12:55 - How Itay's Grandfather Influenced His Decision to Become a Yiddish Scholar

Keywords: "Modern English-Yiddish, Yiddish-English Dictionary"; 1940s; American identity; Arabic language; college; French language; grandfather; grandmother; grandparents; Hebrew language; Hebrew University of Jerusalem; high school; Holocaust; Israel; Israeli identity; Jack Teller; Jerusalem; Jewish identity; Judah Leib Teller; Judaism; Litvish Yiddish language; military intelligence; modern Hebrew literature; Shalom Aleichem; Shalom Rabinovitz; Shoah; Sholem Aleichem; Sholem Aleykhem; Sholem Rabinovich; Sholem Rabinovitch; Sholem Rabinovitsh; Sholom Rabino; translation; university; Uriel Weinreich; Yehuda Leib Teller; Yiddish language; Yiddish literature; Zionism

17:37 - Itay Describes the Home Where He Grew Up

Keywords: bar mitzvah; bar-mitsve; congregation; davening; davn; doven; father; grandfather; grandmother; grandparents; Ha-Shomer ha-Tsa'ir; Hashomer Hatsair; Hashomer Hatzair; Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Israel; Israeli identity; Jerusalem; Jewish holidays; Jewish identity; Judaic studies; kashres; kashrus; kashrut; kashruth; kiddish; kiddush; kiddush cup; kidesh; kippah; kosher; leftism; mother; non-observant; non-religious; parents; schul; secular Judaism; Shabbat; Shabbos; shabes; shul; socialism; synagogue; temple; yarmelke; yarmlke; yarmulke; yom tovim; yomim tobim; yomim tovim; yontef; yontev; yontoyvim; Zionism

21:11 - Itay Talks about Attitudes Toward Yiddish When He was Growing Up in Israel

Keywords: "A Traveler Disguised"; "Shablool"; "Shablul"; Arab Israelis; Arabic language; Arik Einstein; Ashkenazi Jews; Ashkenazim; baal teshuvah; Bagrut exams; bal-tshuve; Chone Shmeruk; Dan Miron; Diaspora; French language; galut; galuth; goles; H.N. Bialik; Hanan Bordin; Hayim Nachman Bialik; Ḥayim Naḥman Bialik; Hayim Nahman Bialik; Hayyim Nahman Bialik; Hebrew language; Hebrew literature; Hebrew poetry; Hebrew University of Jerusalem; high school; Holocaust; Ḥayem Naḥmen Bialiḳ; Israel; Israeli national poet; Jack Teller; Jerusalem; Jewish folklore; Judah Leib Teller; Khanan Bordin; Khone Shmeruk; observant Jew; Poylish Yiddish language; Sephardic Jews; Sephardim; Shmuel Yosef Agnon; Shoah; Uri Tsevi Grinberg; Uri Zohar; Uriel Weinreich; Vilna Summer Program; Vilnius Yiddish Summer Program; Yehuda Leib Teller; Yiddish language; Yiddish literature; Yiddish poetry; Yiddish stereotypes

29:37 - Itay's Decision to Study Yiddish Following a Suggestion from a Professor

Keywords: A. Glanz-Leyeless; Aaron Glantz-Leieles; Aaron Glanz Leyeles; Aaron Glanz-Leyeles; Arabic language; Avraham Novershtern; Avrom Novershtern; Benjamin Harshav; Dan Miron; dissertation; French language; Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Israel; Jack Teller; Jacob Glatstein; Jerusalem; Judah Leib Teller; M.A.; MA; master of arts; modern Hebrew literature; modernist Hebrew poetry; modernist Yiddish poetry; poets; Tel Aviv University; Tel Aviv, Israel; Uri Zvi Greenberg; Yaakov Glatstein; Yehuda Leib Teller; Yiddish learning; Yiddish literature

33:04 - Itay's Experience at the Summer Program at the Vilnius Yiddish Institute

Keywords: Abraham Lichtenbaum; Abraham Sutzkever; Avrom Lichtenbaum; Avrom Sutzkever; Hanan Bordin; Israeli culture; Lithuanian language; Vil'na; Vilna; Vilne; Vilnius, Lithuania; Wilno; Yiddish learning; Yiddish summer programs; Yiddish teachers; Yitzkhok Niborski

35:51 - Itay on How Yiddish is Viewed in Israeli and American Societies

Keywords: academia; academic community; American students; college; Israeli poetry; Israeli society; Israeli Yiddishists

37:34 - Exploring Modernist Yiddish Literature with Dovid Roskies and Dan Miron

Keywords: A. Glanz-Leyeless; Aaron Glantz-Leieles; Aaron Glanz Leyeles; Aaron Glanz-Leyeles; academia; academics; Dan Miron; David Roskies; Dovid Roskies; Jacob Glatshteyn; Jacob Glatstein; Mani Leyb; modernist poetry; Morris Rosenfeld; Moyshe Leyb Halpern; professors; scholars; teachers; Yaakov Glatstein; Yankev Glatshteyn; Yiddish literature; Yiddish poetry

42:05 - Itay's Experience Meeting Yirmiye Hesheles

Keywords: "Der morgen-zhurnal"; "Der Tog"; "The Day"; "The Morning Journal"; Galicia; Itzik Gottesman; Jeremiah Hesheles; journalism; klezmer; Lubavitcher rebbe; Mordkhe Schaechter; Morgen-zhurnal; musician; Queens, New York; Yiddish newspapers; Yiddish poets; Yirmiye Hescheles

47:10 - Itay Remembers Meeting Avrom Sutzkever 49:59 - Itay's Observations on and Involvement in the Yiddish Scene in New York

Keywords: linguistics; New York; post-vernacular language; post-vernacularity; postvernacular; Yiddish culture; Yiddish language; Yiddish scene; Yiddishism; Yiddishists; Zionism; zionists

54:19 - Itay Elaborates on Some Tensions Within Academic Yiddish Studies 57:50 - The Role of the Academic in the Transmission of Yiddish Culture

Keywords: academia; academics; cultural transmission; Dan Miron; David Roskies; Dovid Roskies; Ruth Wisse; transmission of culture; Yiddish culture; Yiddish langauge

61:40 - Itay's Thoughts on the Relationship Between Hebrew and Yiddish

Keywords: assimilation; Chasidic; Chasidim; Chasidism; Chassidic; Chassidim; Chassidism; Hasidic Yiddish; Hasidim; Hasidism; Hassidic; Hassidim; Hassidism; Hebrew language; Holocaust; Israel; khasidizm; khsidizm; language wars; Yiddish language; Yiddishists; Zionism; zionists

69:51 - Itay's Advice for Potential Yiddish Students

Keywords: advice; internships; spirituality; storytelling; Yiddish Book Center; Yiddish language; Yiddish students; Yiddish summer programs

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