Emma Morgenstern

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Keywords: 1980s; childhood; parents; sister; Westford, Massachusetts

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Keywords: bas-mitsve; bat mitzvah; bath mitzvah; childhood; college education; Congregation Shalom, Chelmsford, Massachusetts; general education; Hebrew school; high school; Jewish culture; Jewish education; Jewish identity; Jewish life; Judaism; public school; Reform synagogue; Reform temple; Sunday school; University of Pennsylvania; UPenn; youth groups

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Keywords: academia; academics; college; college courses; Hebrew language; Hillel; Jewish culture; Jewish education; Jewish history; Jewish identity; Judaism; Judeo-Spanish language; learning; Reconstructionist synagogue; religious observance; Sefardic Jews; Sefardim; Sephardic Jews; Sephardim; singing; song; University of Pennsylvania; UPenn

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Keywords: culture; English language; Hebrew language; Jewish education; Judeo-Spanish language; Ladino language; languages; linguistics; religious observance; Yiddish language

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Keywords: emigration; Greece; Greek language; Holocaust survivors; interviews; Jewish community; Judeo-Spanish language; Ladino language; Ladino speakers; minority languages; oral history; Sefardic Jews; Sefardim; Sephardic Jews; Sephardim; study abroad; travel

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Keywords: interviews; Jewish community; Judeo-Spanish language; Judeo-Spanish speakers; Ladino language; Ladino speakers; oral history; research; Thessaloniki, Greece

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Keywords: Judeo-Spanish language; Ladino language; professor; teacher; thesis

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Keywords: Aaron Lansky; grandparents; Jewish studies; Judeo-Spanish language; parents; Steiner Yiddish Summer Program; Yiddish Book Center; Yiddish culture; Yiddish language; Yiddish learning; Yiddish speakers; Yiddish stereotypes; Yiddish summer programs

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Keywords: interviewing; Jewish history; language learning; oral history; Steiner Yiddish Summer Program; Wexler Oral History Project; WOHP; Yiddish Book Center; Yiddish culture; Yiddish history; Yiddish learning; Yiddish literature; Yiddish summer programs

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Keywords: academia; education; interviewing; Jewish studies; pedagogy; Steiner Yiddish Summer Program; Wexler Oral History Project; WOHP; Yiddish Book Center

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Keywords: Jewish culture; Judeo-Spanish; professors; Rebecca Margolis; Steiner Yiddish Summer Program; teachers; Yiddish Book Center; Yiddish culture

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Keywords: nostalgia; Steiner Yiddish Summer Program; Yiddish Book Center; Yiddish language; Yiddish learning; Yiddish stereotypes; Yiddish students

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Keywords: Yiddish culture; Yiddish language; Yiddish revival; Yiddish speakers

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Keywords: graduate fellowship; historians; Jewish museum; museums; Samuel Kassow; Yiddish Book Center

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Keywords: favorite Yiddish words; Yiddish language; Yiddish learning

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