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0:00 - Introduction

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0:37 - Max's Family's Background and Life in a Ukrainian Shtetl

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Keywords: grandparents; Iaruga; Iaruha; Jaruga; Jaruha; shtetel; shtetl (small town in Eastern Europe with a Jewish community); Yara; Yare; Yaruga; Yaruha, Ukraine

4:05 - Max's Relationship with His Grandparents

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Keywords: 1980s; bar mitzvah; bar-mitsve; bobe (grandmother); death; father; loss; secular; Yiddish language; Yiddish theater; Yiddish theatre

6:13 - Max Describes the House and Community in Which He Grew Up

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Keywords: Camp Kinderland; childhood home; father; leftist; mother; parents; politics; secular; Yiddish language; Yiddish school; Yiddishists

11:43 - Max's Childhood Yiddish School and His Efforts to Start A Yiddish School

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Keywords: adolescence; childhood; Los Angeles, California; teenage years; Yiddish culture; Yiddish language; Yiddish learning; Yiddishkayt; Yiddishkeit; yidishkayt; yidishkeyt

16:50 - Learning Yiddish at Columbia University and at Yidish-Vokh

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Keywords: brothers; Columbia University; father; mother; Oxford Yiddish Programme; parents; Yiddish language; Yiddish learning; Yidish Vokh; Yidish-Vokh; YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

19:09 - Max Remembers Learning Yiddish While His Grandparents Were Alive

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Keywords: grandfather; grandmother; grandparents; Yiddish language; Yiddish learning; Yiddish speakers

20:44 - Max's Plans to Teach Yiddish to His Daughters

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Keywords: child-rearing; children; daughters; Los Angeles, California; parenthood; parenting; Yiddish language; Yiddish learning; Yiddish speakers

22:12 - Yiddish Language and Culture in Los Angeles, California

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Keywords: academics; accent; Los Angeles, California; teaching Yiddish; Yiddish language; Yiddish learning; Yiddish organizations; Yiddishkayt

26:28 - The Importance to Max of Transmitting Yiddish to Future Generations

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Keywords: cultural transmission; father; intergenerational transmission of culture; Jewish identity; Judaism; linguistic transmission; secular; Yiddish culture; Yiddish language

28:33 - Comparing Yiddish to "The Force" of "Star Wars"

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Keywords: film; grandmother; popular culture; Star Wars; Yiddish culture; Yiddish language; Yoda

30:39 - The Significance of Speaking Yiddish After the Holocaust

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Keywords: family; father; grandparents; Holocaust; Jewish culture; Jewish history; Yiddish culture

33:30 - Max's Thoughts on the Role of Yiddish in American Jewish Culture

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Keywords: American Jewish culture; boxing; future of Yiddish; Yiddish culture; Yiddish future; Yiddish language

37:04 - Max's Advice for People Interested in Learning Yiddish

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Keywords: advice; language learning; Yiddish learning; Yiddish students

38:46 - Max Reflects on the Tension Between Yiddish and Hebrew

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Keywords: 9/11; anti-Semitism; antisemitism; Hebrew language; Israel; Jewish stereotypes; parents; Yiddish language

41:56 - Max Reflects on the Strength He Derives from Being Jewish

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Keywords: American culture; brothers; childhood; father; Holocaust; Jewish identity; State of Israel