Keywords: Austria; barber shops; Cestohowa; Chechnohova, Poland; Czestochowa; Częstochowa, Poland; Ellis Island, New Jersey; Ellis Island, New York; English language; father; grandfather; great-uncles; immigrants; immigration; Manhattan, New York; New York City; rabbis; repair business; typewriters

Keywords: aunts; cousins; extended family; grandmother; grandparents; Great Neck, New York; great-grandmother; great-grandparents; New York City; Queens, New York; uncles; wife

Keywords: bar mitzvah; bar-mitsve; chedar; cheder; confirmation; congregation; Great Neck, New York; Hebrew language; Hebrew school; heder; Jewish community; kheyder; Long Island, New York; president; Reform Judaism; schul; shul; synagogue; temple; traditional religious school

Keywords: assimilation; English language; grandfather; grandmother; grandparents; great-grandmother; Jewish identity; mother; repair business; Yiddish language

Keywords: Canal Street; father; grandfather; Long Island City, Queens; Lower Manhattan; Manhattan, New York; New York City; Queens, New York; repair business; typewriters

Keywords: anti-Semitism; antisemitism; Burlington, Vermont; college; culture shock; Jewish identity; prejudice; roommates; university; University of Vermont; UVM

Keywords: anti-Semitism; antisemitism; children; ethnic slurs; father; New England; New Hampshire; Portland, Maine; religious slurs; repair business; stereotypes; typewriters; wife; Yankees

Keywords: Bangladesh; businesses; Central America; computers; East Asia; Far East; James Carter; Japan; Jewish communities; Jimmy Carter; Maine; Malaysia; New England; New Yorker; Pakistan; Panama Canal; Philippines; repair business; Singapore; South America; Spanish language; typewriters

Keywords: bar mitzvah; bar-mitsve; bas mitzvah; bas-mitsve; bat mitzvah; bath mitzvah; Carle Place, New York; chedar; cheder; Cherry Lane School; children; congregation; Conservative Judaism; daughers; elementary school; family; grandchildren; grandsons; Great Neck, New York; Hebrew school; heder; Jewish identity; kheyder; New Hampshire; primary school; schul; shul; sons; synagogue; temple; traditional religious school; wife

Keywords: Amherst, Massachusetts; community; friends; humor; Jerry Seinfeld; Jewish culture; Jewish identity; Yiddish Book Center; Yiddish language; Yiddishkayt; Yiddishkeit; yidishkayt; yidishkeyt

Keywords: Burlington, Vermont; childhood; college; Facebook; friendships; Great Neck, New York; high school; New York City; reunions; social media; university; University of Vermont; UVM; wife

Keywords: Amherst, Massachusetts; children; community; congregation; family; friendships; Jewish culture; Jewish identity; Northampton, Massachusetts; schul; shul; social media; synagogue; temple; values

Keywords: Aaron Lansky; Amherst, Massachusetts; development; employment; fundraising; Jewish culture; Jewish history; job; membership; Yiddish Book Center; Yiddish culture; Yiddish language

Keywords: Amherst, Massachusetts; anecdotes; development; fundraising; job; Paper Bridge Summer Arts Festival; Steiner Summer Yiddish Program; workshops; Yiddish Book Center; Yiddish language; Yiddish literature; Yiddishkayt; Yiddishkeit; yidishkayt; yidishkeyt

Keywords: big box stores; computers; dealers; family businesses; father; I.B.M.; IBM; Jericho, New York; middlemen; obsolescence; Office Solutions; parents; personal computers; photocopiers; repair business; retail outlets; typewriters; wholesale distributors; wholesalers; word processing

Keywords: Birthright Israel; children; Israel; sons