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0:00 - Introduction 0:41 - Nora's Family Background 1:50 - Nora's Time with CBS News

Keywords: "48 Hours on Crack Street"; "48 Hours"; Beijing, China; Berlin, Germany; Brooklyn, New York; CBS News; children; college; directing; Fall of the Berlin Wall; father; Howard Stringer; internships; New Jersey; New York City; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; soap operas; son; SONY Corporation; suburbs; Temple University; Tiananmen Square protests; typists; university

5:40 - Nora's Relocation to Western Massachusetts

Keywords: CBS News; children; Holyoke, Massachusetts; husband; New York City; Pioneer Valley; son; Springfield, Massachusetts; Western Massachusetts

6:25 - Nora's Path to Working at the Yiddish Book Center

Keywords: 92nd Street Y; Aaron Lansky; Amherst, Massachusetts; children; communications; Community Music School of Springfield; congregation; director of programs; Gail Lansky; grandparents; Hatikvah Holocaust Education Center; Holocaust Lecture Series; Holocaust Studies; JCC; Jewish Community Center; Jewish identity; journalism; Manhattan, New York; marketing; Nashville, Tennessee; New York City; PR; programming; Public Relations; schul; Shoah; shul; son; Springfield, Massachusetts; synagogue; temple; Upper East Side, Manhattan; Vanderbilt University; World War 2; World War II; WW2; WWII; Yiddish Book Center

11:57 - Nora Discusses Programs at the Yiddish Book Center

Keywords: Amherst, Massachusetts; concerts; director of programs; filmmakers; Gypsy culture; Gypsy music; Jewish culture; klezmer music; logistics; Paper Bridge Summer Arts Festival; programming; Romani culture; Romani music; Romany culture; Romany music; The Other Europeans; Yiddish Book Center

15:19 - Nora's Favorite Types of Programming at the Yiddish Book Center

Keywords: Amherst, Massachusetts; authors; concerts; documentaries; filmmakers; films; lectures; movies; music; Netflix; programming; Yiddish Book Center

18:42 - Nora's Jewish Summer Camp Experiences

Keywords: day camps; father; Jewish identity; Jewish summer camps; mother; NFTY; North American Federation for Temple Youth; only child; overnight camps; parents; Reform Jewish Youth Movement; Reform Judaism; Shabbat; Shabbos; shabes; siblings; sleepover camps; UAHC; Union for Reform Judaism; Union of American Hebrew Congregations; URJ

20:32 - Nora's Son's Jewish Education

Keywords: a cappella; Barnard College; children; choirs; Hebrew langauge; high school; Hillel International; JCC; Jewish Community Center; Jewish day school; Jewish holidays; Jewish identity; Jewish Theological Seminary of America; JTS; kindergarten; mathematics; nursery school; physics; preschool; son; University of Maryland; yom tovim; yomim tobim; yomim tovim; yontef; yontev; yontoyvim

23:02 - What Nora Has Learned about Yiddish While Working at the Yiddish Book Center

Keywords: Amherst, Massachusetts; assimilation; aunts; father; grandparents; Jewish culture; Jewish identity; mother; oral history; parents; uncles; untranslatability; Wexler Oral History Project; Yiddish Book Center; Yiddish culture; Yiddish language

25:43 - Concluding Thoughts
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