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0:00 - Introduction 0:43 - Lynn's Childhood

Keywords: brother; Buddhism; California; Christian religion; Christianity; Confucianism; congregation; Daoism; father; grandparents; handball; Hinduism; Jewish observance; Jewish religion; Judaism; Liberal Religious Youth; LRY; mother; New Jersey; parents; Purim; religious education; schul; shul; siblings; sister; synagogue; Taoism; temple; The Bronx, New York City, New York; Unitarian church; Unitarianism; YWHA

7:42 - Lynn's Observance of the Jewish Holidays as a Child

Keywords: aunts; cultural relativism; extended family; father; grandfather; grandmother; grandparents; High Holidays; High Holy Days; Jewish holidays; Jewish observance; Jewish religion; Judaism; mother; parents; Passover; Pesach; peysekh; Thanksgiving; uncles; Unitarian church; Unitarianism; Upper West Side, Manhattan, New York City, New York; Yom Kippur; yom tovim; yomim tobim; yomim tovim; yontef; yontev; yontoyvim

13:10 - Memories of Food

Keywords: baking; dairy delivery; Dellwood Dairy; father; food; grandfather; grandmother; grandparents; ice cream; kugel; kugl; Liberal Religious Youth; LRY; milk delivery; mother; parents; siblings; sister; smoked fish; tongue; U.S. Army; Unitarian church; Unitarianism; United States Army; US Army

19:42 - Lynn's Exposure to Yiddish and Her Family Background

Keywords: anti-Semitism; antisemitism; assimilation; convent; dialects; extended family; France; French language; German language; grandfathers; grandmothers; grandparents; great grandparents; great-grandparents; Holocaust; Italian language; Jewish observance; Jewish religion; Judaism; khurbm; khurbn; mezuza; mezuzah; mezuze; Poland; Polish language; resistance; Russian language; Shoah; World War 2; World War II; WW2; WWII; Yiddish culture; Yiddish language; Yiddishkayt; Yiddishkeit; yidishkayt; yidishkeyt

27:14 - Yiddish Nicknames in Lynn's Family

Keywords: drug use; elementary school; extended family; high school; Jewish students; junior high school; middle school; mother; parents; public school; siblings; sister; Yiddish language

32:06 - Higher Education in Lynn's Family

Keywords: African Americans; Amherst, Massachusetts; Barnard College of Columbia University; Black Americans; carpenter; carpentry; college; Columbia University; conversion; converts; engineer; engineering; father; Five College Consortium; Five Colleges; graduate school; I.B. Singer; Isaac Bashevis Singer; Itskhok Bashevis Zinger; Jew by choice; Jewish identity; Judaic studies; Jules Chametzky; Julius Lester; Manhattan, New York City, New York; mother; New Haven, Connecticut; parents; Paterson, New Jersey; Puerto Rico; religious identity; SATs; UMass Amherst; university; University of Massachusetts Amherst; Yale University

39:29 - Lynn's Emerging Jewish and Political Identities

Keywords: alliance; allyship; Amherst, Massachusetts; BIPOC; Black Indigenous People of Color; Black, Indigenous, People of Color; feminism; feminists; Jewish identity; liberalism; oppression; People of Color; POC; politics; progressive movement; racism; Reconstructionist Judaism; social justice; UMass Amherst; University of Massachusetts Amherst; women

45:49 - Lynn Talks about Yiddish Theater

Keywords: "The Dybbuk"; actors; drama school; grandfather; grandparents; I.B. Singer; identity politics; Isaac Bashevis Singer; Itskhok Bashevis Zinger; Manhattan, New York City, New York; New York City, New York; Stella Adler; Stella Adler Conservatory; Stella Adler Studio of Acting; theater school; theatre school; Yiddish literature; Yiddish theater; Yiddish theatre

49:04 - Lynn's Extended Family in Israel

Keywords: anti-Semitism; antisemitism; aunts; Baltimore, Maryland; boyfriend; children; communism; communists; cousins; daughters; Dellwood Dairy; Ein Hod, Israel; extended family; grandfather; grandmother; grandparents; Habonim Dror; Hebrew language; high school; Holocaust; Iranian Jews; Israel; Jewish identity; Kibbutz Na'an; Kibbutz Naan; Kibbutz Ulpan; kibbutzes; kibbutzim; kugel; kugl; Labor Zionism; moshavim; moshavs; mother; New Jersey; parents; Persian Jews; Scarsdale, New York; Sephardic Jews; Sephardim; Shoah; socialism; socialists; Tel Aviv, Israel; ulpan; uncles; Unitarian church; Unitarianism; Yom Kippur War; Zionism; Zionists

65:52 - Lynn's Time in Puerto Rico

Keywords: Ashkenazi Jews; Ashkenazim; children; college; daughter; English language; girlfriend; husband; Jewish diversity; Jewish identity; New Haven, Connecticut; Passover; Pesach; peysekh; Puerto Rico; seders; university; Yale University

68:46 - Lynn's Return to Western Massachusetts

Keywords: brother in law; brother-in-law; children; college; Connecticut River Valley; graduate school; Hadley, Massachusetts; nephews; New Haven, Connecticut; New York City, New York; nieces; Passaic County Community College; Paterson, New Jersey; Pioneer Valley; siblings; sister; Springfield Public Schools; Springfield, Massachusetts; teaching; university; West Massachusetts; Western Massachusetts; writing; Yale University

71:58 - Lynn's Family and Jewish Identity Today

Keywords: "The Loudest Voice"; anti-religion; antireligion; assimilation; bas mitsve; bas mitzvah; bas-mitsve; bat mitzvah; bath mitzvah; brother; Chanukah; chedar; cheder; Chicago, Illinois; children; Christian religion; Christianity; Christmas; Christmas trees; congregation; conversion; converts; daughter; extended family; family; father; Grace Paley; grandfather; grandmother; grandparents; Hanukkah; Hebrew language; Hebrew school; heder; High Holidays; High Holy Days; husband; in laws; in-laws; interfaith marriages; Israel; Jew by choice; Jewish culture; Jewish holidays; Jewish identity; Jewish observance; Jewish religion; Judaism; khanike; kheyder; kibbutzes; kibbutzim; kugel; kugl; mixed marriages; mother; parents; parents in law; parents-in-law; Passover; Pesach; peysekh; poem; poetry; Purim; religious observance; Rosh Hashanah; rosheshone; Russia; schul; seders; shul; siblings; sister in law; sister-in-law; synagogue; temple; traditional religious school; Wisconsin; yom tovim; yomim tobim; yomim tovim; yontef; yontev; yontoyvim

89:00 - Concluding Thoughts
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