Keywords: grandparents; family background; book binder; printer; family occupations; family histories; family professions; ancestry; ancestors; heritage; roots; Švenčionys; Svencionys, Lithuania; gymnasiums; Old Country; parents; father; mother; shabes; Shabbat; Shabbos; Judaism; kashres; kosher; kashrut; kashrus; kashruth; grandmother; Zionism; Zionists; Yiddish speakers; Yiddish language; Chasidic; Chasidim; Chasidism; Chasids; Chassidic; Chassidim; Chassidism; Chassids; Hasidic; Hasidim; Hasidism; Hasids; Hassidic; Hassidim; Hassidism; Hassids; khosids; khasidizm; khsidizm; khsidish; merchants; Vilnius, Lithuania; Vilna; Vilne; Wilno; Vil'na; yeshiva; Bundist; Jewish Labour Bund; Bund; metalworkers; commerce; housing; family stories; labor camps; politics; political movements; Tsukunft; youth groups; Bundism

Keywords: father; political movements; WWII; WW2; Second World War; World War 2; World War II; Holocaust; Shoah; khurbn; khurbm; family histories; heritage; roots; family background; Old Country; mother; parents; Ponary; Ponar; Vilna; Vilnius, Lithuania; Vilne; Wilno; Vil'na; partisan fighters; Jewish partisans; Jewish Labor Committee; nurse; Avrom Sutzkever; Shmerke Kaczerginski; Yiddish poets; Eastern Europe; Narotsh forest; Narocz forest; United States; immigration and migration; 1940s; immigrants; Holocaust survivors; Brooklyn, New York, United States; Ponary massacre; Avrom Sutskever; Szmerke Kaczerginski

Keywords: childhood home; family; parents; mother; father; Brooklyn, New York, United States; New York City; childhood; upbringing; Yiddish language; Yiddish speakers; Bronx, New York, United States; the Bronx; Sholem Aleichem folkshul; Yiddish culture; Yiddish education; Yiddish school; Yiddish learning; Gella Schweid-Fishman; Sholem Aleichem Folk Institute; Jewish identity; Jewish community; Avrom Sutzkever; American Jewish culture; Jewish holidays; secular; Judaism; synagogue; Jewish observance; brother; Jewish education; Gella Fishman; Bainbridge Avenue; mitlshul (high school); Arbeter Ring; Arbeiter Ring; Workers Circle; Workmen's Circle; Yiddish teachers; Avrom Sutskever; Abraham Sutzkever; cultural pluralism; political activism; politics; Yiddish community; Schaechter family; Fishman family; Sholem Aleichem Folkshul Sistem

Keywords: childhood; childhood home; Yiddish speakers; Yiddish culture; Yiddish teachers; Sara Szweber; Bund; Bundist; Bundism; Jewish Labour Bund; music; mandolin; mentors; parents; visitors; Chaim Grade; Forverts; The Forward; The Jewish Daily Forward; The Yiddish Daily Forward; Yiddish community; family friends; mother; father; Jewish community

Keywords: Yiddish education; Jewish education; Yiddish language; Sholem Aleichem folkshul; Sholem Aleichem Folk Institute; Sholem Aleichem Folkshul Sistem; Yiddish school; Moyshe Goldshteyn; Yiddish teachers; Yiddish culture; Jewish culture; upbringing; childhood; Jewish identity; Chaim Shlome Kazdan; Leibush Lehrer; mentors; Shloyme Nobl; Shlomo Noble; Yudel Mark; Yudl Mark; Jewish history; pedagogy; Yiddish learning; teaching; students; children; university; sociology; college; Camp Hemshekh

Keywords: Camp Hemshekh; cultural pluralism; Black community; civil rights movement; Jewish community; political movements; politics; Jewish studies; colleges; Yiddish language; Yiddish education; Max Weinreich; Yiddish culture; Holocaust survivors; children of Holocaust survivors; Yiddish poetry; Holocaust memory; Jewish history; mental health; Uriel Weinreich; Jewish summer camps

Keywords: Holocaust survivors; parents; mother; father; childhood; Holocaust; Shoah; khurbm; khurbn; memory; family; American culture; Bundism; Bundist; Jewish Labour Bund; teenage years; upbringing; civil rights movement; activism; activist

Keywords: fatherhood; parenting; raising children; adulthood; family; spouse; wife; relationships; Yiddish language; mother; parents; cultural transmission; intergenerational transmission; Camp Hemshekh; marriage; divorce; Yiddish culture; Yiddish speakers; family values

Keywords: Yiddish language; Yiddish speakers; Yiddish culture; Haredi Jews; Jewish identity; Orthodox Judaism; Yiddish community; Ashkenazim; Ashkenazi Jews; Judaism; secular Jews; Israel; Jewish culture; Jewish languages; Yiddish scene; Yiddish revival; Poland; United States; Canada; Yiddish schools

Keywords: Yiddish language; Yiddish culture; Jewish immigrants; immigration and migrations; immigrant cultures; Yiddish speakers; assimilation; Jewish identity; Jewish community; The Forward; Forverts; The Jewish Daily Forward; The Yiddish Daily Forward; Yiddish schools; Jewish history; Jewish culture; cultural institutions; Holocaust; Shoah; khurbn; khurbm; Judaism; synagogues; Soviet Union; Soviet Jews; cultural pluralism; language; United States; Yiddishkayt; Yiddishkeit; yidishkayt; yidishkeyt