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0:00 - Introduction 0:41 - Saul's Parents' Background

Keywords: Ann Arbor, Michigan; brothers; Case Western Reserve University; Chicago, Illinois; Christian religion; Christianity; Cleveland, Ohio; conversion; converts; Detroit, Michigan; father; Jew by choice; med school; medical school; Michigan Medicine; mother; parents; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Presbyterianism; Reform Judaism; residencies; residency; Rochester, New York; siblings; University of Michigan; University of Michigan Health System; University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry

1:47 - Saul's Jewish Upbringing

Keywords: Ann Arbor, Michigan; anniversary of death; bar mitsve; bar mitzvah; Bar-mitsve; bas mitsve; bas mitzvah; bas-mitsve; bat mitzvah; bath mitzvah; brothers; congregation; diversity; father; High Holidays; jahrzeit; Jewish holidays; Jewish observance; Jewish summer camps; Jewish youth groups; Judaism; kashres; kashrus; kashrut; kashruth; kipa; kippah; kosher; mezuza; mezuzah; mezuze; mezuzot; mother; parents; public schools; Reform Judaism; Rosh Hashanah; rosheshone; schul; Shabbat; Shabbos; shabes; shul; siblings; sukes; sukkah; Sukkos; Sukkot; synagogue; temple; yahrzeit; yarmelke; yarmlke; yarmulke; Yom Kippur; yom tovim; yomim tobim; yomim tovim; yontef; yontev; yontoyvim; yortsayt

4:56 - Shabbos Observance in Saul's Childhood Home

Keywords: Ann Arbor, Michigan; bar mitsve; bar mitzvah; Bar-mitsve; bas mitsve; bas mitzvah; bas-mitsve; bat mitzvah; bath mitzvah; Chabad House at the University of Michigan; Chabad House of Ann Arbor; congregation; food; grandmother; grandparents; mother; parents; Passover; Pesach; peysekh; schul; services; Shabbat; Shabbos; shabes; shul; synagogue; temple

6:26 - The Importance of Religion to Saul

Keywords: chedar; cheder; congregation; Hebrew school; heder; Jewish holidays; Jewish observance; Jewish religion; Jewish youth groups; kashres; kashrus; kashrut; kashruth; kheyder; kosher; parents; schul; Shabbat; Shabbos; shabes; shul; synagogue; temple; traditional religious school; yom tovim; yomim tobim; yomim tovim; yontef; yontev; yontoyvim

7:27 - Saul's Family's Involvement in Jewish Organizations

Keywords: Ann Arbor, Michigan; Argentina; brothers; Chabad House at the University of Michigan; Chabad House of Ann Arbor; choir; congregation; father; Hebrew language; High Holidays; Jewish holidays; Jewish observance; Jewish summer camps; Jewish youth groups; Ladino language; mother; music; NFTY: The Reform Jewish Youth Movement; North American Federation for Temple Youth; Ortonville, Michigan; parents; Prague, Czech Republic; Reform Judaism; Rosh Hashanah; rosheshone; schul; Shabbat; Shabbos; shabes; shul; siblings; social action programs; songs; synagogue; Tamarack Adventure and Retreat Center; temple; Yiddish language; Yom Kippur; yom tovim; yomim tobim; yomim tovim; yontef; yontev; yontoyvim

11:43 - Politics and News in the Hankin Household

Keywords: "Ann Arbor News"; "Forverts"; "New York Times"; "New Yorker"; "The Forward"; "The Jewish Daily Forward"; "The Yiddish Daily Forward"; "Washtenaw Jewish News"; college; Democratic Party; father; history; liberalism; liberals; mother; parents; politics; university; Yiddish class; Yiddish language

13:56 - How Saul Came to Study Yiddish

Keywords: brothers; college; English language; extended family; father; Hebrew language; history; mother; parents; siblings; university; Yiddish language

15:26 - Saul's Family Background

Keywords: Canada; extended family; father; great grandfather; great grandparents; great-grandfather; great-grandparents; Holland; Lithuania; mother; Netherlands; parents; Scotland, United Kingdom; Sweden; Ukraine; Yiddish language

16:55 - Saul Talks More About His Introduction to Yiddish

Keywords: "Ṭevye der milkhiker (Tevye the dairyman)"; Abraham Sutzkever; Alexandra Hoffman; Anita Norich; Ann Arbor, Michigan; Avrom Sutskever; Avrom Sutzkever; chedar; cheder; college; German language; Hebrew language; Hebrew school; heder; high school; Jewish Federation; Jewish history; Judaic Studies; kheyder; Mikhail Krutikov; Scott Spector; Shalom Aleichem; Shalom Rabinovitz; Sholem Aleichem; Sholem Aleykhem; Sholem Rabinovich; Sholem Rabinovitch; Sholem Rabinovitsh; Sholom Rabino; traditional religious school; university; University of Michigan; Yiddish classes; Yiddish instructors; Yiddish language; Yiddish literature; Yiddish music; Yiddish newspapers; Yiddish poetry; Yiddish teachers; Yiddishists

22:47 - Saul's Evolving Relationship to Yiddish

Keywords: "Jewish Short Stories from Eastern Europe and Beyond"; "Ṭevye der milkhiker (Tevye the dairyman)"; "Tumbalalaika"; Amherst, Massachusetts; Ashkenazi Jews; Ashkenazim; Bundism; Bundists; Chanukah; Der Algemeyner Yidisher Arbeter Bund in Lite, Poyln, un Rusland; Hanukkah; I.L. Peretz; Isaac Leib Peretz; Jewish identity; khanike; mother; parents; Shalom Aleichem; Shalom Rabinovitz; Sholem Aleichem; Sholem Aleykhem; Sholem Asch; Sholem Rabinovich; Sholem Rabinovitch; Sholem Rabinovitsh; Sholom Rabino; socialism; socialists; Yiddish Book Center; Yiddish identity; Yiddish language; Yiddish newspapers; Yitzkhok Leybush Peretz

26:06 - Saul Talks About His Interest in History

Keywords: Ann Arbor, Michigan; Bundism; Bundists; college; Der Algemeyner Yidisher Arbeter Bund in Lite, Poyln, un Rusland; Eastern Europe; Eastern European history; European history; history; Jewish history; Joseph Stalin; Jozef Pilsudski; Józef Piłsudski; Judaic Studies; Karl Marx; majors; Maximilien Robespierre; Polish history; Ronald Suny; Russian history; socialism; socialists; university; University of Michigan; Western Europe; Western European history; Zionism; Zionists

36:59 - Saul Considers Becoming a Historian

Keywords: archival work; archives; Ashkenazi Jews; Ashkenazim; college; curating; curators; Hebrew langauge; historians; history; Jewish history; Judaica; libraries; library; research; senior thesis; teachers; teaching; university; Yiddish language

38:18 - Saul Talks about His Senior Thesis

Keywords: "Unzer tsayt (Our times)"; Bolsheviks; Boshevism; Bundism; Bundists; communism; communists; Der Algemeyner Yidisher Arbeter Bund in Lite, Poyln, un Rusland; historiography; Jewish people; Jews; newspapers; propaganda; senior thesis; socialism; socialists; Stalinism; Stalinists; World War 2; World War II; WW2; WWII; Yiddish newspapers; Zionism; Zionists

42:28 - Saul's Interview with the "Forverts (The Yiddish Daily Forward)"

Keywords: "Forverts"; "The Forward"; "The Jewish Daily Forward"; "The Yiddish Daily Forward"; Ann Arbor, Michigan; English language; instructors; interviews; students; teachers; University of Michigan; Yiddish language; Yiddish newspapers

43:43 - Saul's Introduction to Hebrew

Keywords: aliyahs; aliyot; Ann Arbor, Michigan; bar mitsve; bar mitzvah; bar-mitsve; bas mitsve; bas mitzvah; bas-mitsve; bat mitzvah; bath mitzvah; chedar; cheder; college; congregation; haftarah; haftorah; haftoyre; haphtarah; haphtorah; Hebrew alphabet; Hebrew language; Hebrew school; heder; high school; instructors; Israeli Palestinian conflict; Israeli-Palestinian conflict; Jewish Federation of Greater Ann Arbor; Jewish religion; Judaism; kheyder; prayers; school; schul; shul; synagogue; teachers; temple; Torah; toyre; traditional religious school; university; University of Michigan; Yiddish langauge

47:06 - Saul Prepares for His Bar Mitzvah

Keywords: bar mitsve; bar mitzvah; Bar-mitsve; Bechukotai; chedar; cheder; father; Hebrew language; Hebrew school; heder; kheyder; mother; parashah; parents; parshah; parshe; prayers; rabbis; Torah portion; traditional religious school

51:35 - More About Hebrew and Yiddish and Their Uses

Keywords: German language; Hebrew language; Israel; Israeli Palestinian conflict; Israeli-Palestinian conflict; Jewish culture; Jewish holidays; Jewish identity; Polish language; prayers; Taglit Birthright Israel; Taglit-Birthright Israel; Yiddish language; Yiddish newspapers; yom tovim; yomim tobim; yomim tovim; yontef; yontev; yontoyvim

60:09 - Saul Talks About Taglit-Birthright Israel 61:41 - Saul's Thoughts on the State of Yiddish Today

Keywords: "Waiting for Godot (Vartn Af Godot)"; Amherst, Massachusetts; Chasidic; Chasidism; Chassidic; Chassidism; Hasidic; Hasidism; Hassidic; Hassidism; Yiddish Book Center; Yiddish language; Yiddish literature; Yiddish revival

65:29 - Saul's Work as Yiddish Book Center Fellow

Keywords: Aaron Lansky; Amherst, Massachusetts; archives; college; digitization; English language; Northampton, Massachusetts; translation; university; Yiddish Book Center; Yiddish Book Center Fellowship Program; Yiddish language; Yiddish literature

70:11 - Saul Talks About His Jewish Identity

Keywords: Anita Norich; Ann Arbor, Michigan; anti-Semitism; antisemitism; bar mitsve; bar mitzvah; bar-mitsve; father; Holocaust; Jewish history; Jewish identity; Jewish observance; Jewish religion; Jewish values; Judaism; mother; parents; prayers; rabbis; senior thesis; Shoah; tales; talis; talit; talith; tallis; tallit; tallith; Torah; toyre; Yiddish culture; Yiddish language; Yiddish literature; Yiddish music; Yiddish poetry; Yiddishkayt; Yiddishkeit; yidishkayt; yidishkeyt

75:41 - Concluding Thoughts

Keywords: "Oyfn veg shteyt a boym (On the path stands a tree)"; Alexandra Hoffman; Ann Arbor, Michigan; Itzik Manger; Jewish culture; University of Michigan; Yiddish culture; Yiddish language; Yiddish songs; Yiddishkayt; Yiddishkeit; yidishkayt; yidishkeyt

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