Keywords: bakers; brothers; congregation; farmers; farming; farms; father; Great War; Imperial Russian Army; Jewish community; mother; parents; Polish language; Polish Legions; Russian language; schul; shtetel; shtetl; shul; siblings; Slonim, Belarus; small towns; soliders; synagogue; temple; uncles; World War 1; World War I; WW1; WWI

Keywords: brothers; genocide; grandmother; grandparents; Holocaust; khurbm; khurbn; Kiev; Kiyev; Kyiv, Ukraine; Mensk; Miensk; Mińsk; Minsk, Belarus; Minskas; Nazis; parents; refugees; Samarkand, Uzbekistan; Shoah; shtetel; shtetl; siblings; Slonim, Belarus; small towns; uncles; World War 2; World War II; WW2; WWII

Keywords: aunts; bobe; bubbie; disease; genocide; grandmother; grandparents; Holocaust; illness; Jewish identity; Jewish observance; Jewish religion; Judaism; khurbm; khurbn; malaria; mame loshn; mame-loshn; mother tongue; parents; refugees; Samarkand, Uzbekistan; Shoah; typhus; uncles; World War 2; World War II; WW2; WWII; Yiddish language

Keywords: genocide; Holocaust; khurbm; khurbn; orphanages; refugees; Russian language; Samarkand, Uzbekistan; Shoah; World War 2; World War II; WW2; WWII

Keywords: Aliyah Bet; anti-Semitism; antisemitism; Chasidic; Chasidism; Chassidic; Chassidism; genocide; Halutsim; Halutzim; Hasidic; Hasidism; Hassidic; Hassidism; He Haluts; He-Haluts; Hebrew language; HeHaluts; Holocaust; immigrants; immigration; Israel; Jewish identity; Jewish observance; Jewish religion; Judaism; khurbm; khurbn; kibbutzim; Lodz; Lodzsh; Mandatory Palestine; Milan, Italy; refugees; Rome, Italy; secular Jews; secular Judaism; Shoah; Varshah; Varshava; Warsaw, Poland; Warszawa; World War 2; World War II; WW2; WWII; yeshibah; yeshiva; Yeshiva Meor HaGolah; yeshivah; Yeshivat Meor HaGolah; yeshive; Yiddish culture; Yiddish language; Yiddishkayt; Yiddishkeit; yidishkayt; yidishkeyt; Zionism; Zionist pioneering movement; Zionist pioneers; Łódź, Poland

Keywords: "Der morgen zhurnal"; "Der morgen-zhurnal"; "Der Tog"; "Forverts"; "The Day"; "The Forward"; "The Jewish Daily Forward"; "The Morning Journal"; "The Yiddish Daily Forward"; American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee; aunts; Brookline, Massachusetts; brothers; cousins; displaced persons camps; Dorchester, Boston, Massachusetts; DP camps; Emergency Identity Certificate; father; foster children; immigrants; immigration; Israel; JDC; Jewish Family Services; Montréal; Montreal, Quebec, Canada; mother; parents; Québec; refugees; Rome, Italy; siblings; Slonim, Belarus; spouse; uncles; visas; wedding; wife; yeshibah; yeshiva; Yeshiva Meor HaGolah; yeshivah; Yeshivat Meor HaGolah; yeshive; Yiddish language; Yiddish newspapers

Keywords: aunts; Brighton, Boston, Massachusetts; Brookline, Massachusetts; Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts; college; congregation; correspondence; cousins; father; foster children; garment industry; grandfather; grandparents; Hebrew College; Hebrew Teachers College; high school; Holocaust survivors; immigrants; immigration; Israel; JCC; Jewish community; Jewish Community Center; Manhattan, New York City, New York; Newton Centre, Massachusetts; North End, Boston, Massachusetts; orphanages; parents; refugees; schul; Shalom Aleichem; Shalom Rabinovitz; Sholem Aleichem; Sholem Aleykhem; Sholem Rabinovich; Sholem Rabinovitch; Sholem Rabinovitsh; Sholom Rabino; shtetel; shtetl; shul; small towns; sweatshops; synagogue; temple; Temple Emeth; uncles; university; Yeshiva University; Yiddish authors; Yiddish culture; Yiddish language; Yiddish writers; Yiddishkayt; Yiddishkeit; yidishkayt; yidishkeyt

Keywords: children; computers; daughter; Israel; Jewish identity; rabbis; son; spouse; Stanley Feldberg; TJX Companies; wife; Zayre

Keywords: chumash; Diaspora; Five Books of Moses; galut; galuth; genocide; goles; grandfather; grandparents; Hebrew language; Holocaust; Holocaust survivors; I. L. Peretz; Isaac Leib Peretz; Israel; Jewish identity; khumesh; khurbm; khurbn; Maimonides; Mendele Mokher Sefarim; Mendele Moykher Sforim; Mendele Moykher-Sforim; mother; parents; Pentateuch; pogroms; Polish language; Rambam; Rashi; Russian language; Shalom Aleichem; Shalom Jacob Abramowich; Shalom Rabinovitz; Shoah; Sholem Aleichem; Sholem Aleykhem; Sholem Rabinovich; Sholem Rabinovitch; Sholem Rabinovitsh; Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh; Sholom Rabino; shtetel; shtetl; small towns; talme toyre; talme-toyre; Talmud Torah; World War 2; World War II; WW2; WWII; Y. L. Peretz; yeshibah; yeshiva; Yeshiva Meor HaGolah; yeshivah; Yeshivat Meor HaGolah; yeshive; Yiddish authors; Yiddish culture; Yiddish language; Yiddish literature; Yiddish writers; Yiddishkayt; Yiddishkeit; yidishkayt; yidishkeyt; Yitzkhok Leybush Peretz; Yud Lamed Peretz

Keywords: "Fiddler on the Roof"; Chanukah; congregation; Dorchester, Boston, Massachusetts; genocide; ghettoes; ghettos; Haggada; Haggadah; hagode; Hanukkah; Holocaust; Holocaust survivors; Jewish holidays; Jewish identity; Jewish observance; Jewish religion; Judaism; khanike; khurbm; khurbn; mensch; mentsh; parents; Passover; Pesach; peysekh; schul; secular Jews; secular Judaism; seders; Shalom Aleichem; Shalom Rabinovitz; Shoah; Sholem Aleichem; Sholem Aleykhem; Sholem Rabinovich; Sholem Rabinovitch; Sholem Rabinovitsh; Sholom Rabino; shul; synagogue; temple; uncles; Yiddish culture; Yiddish language; Yiddishkayt; Yiddishkeit; yidishkayt; yidishkeyt; yom tovim; yomim tobim; yomim tovim; yontef; yontev; yontoyvim