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0:17 - Introduction
0:36 - Sue Speaks About Her Family Background
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Keywords: career; Chasidic; Chasidism; Chassidic; Chassidism; child labor; East 12th Street, Manhattan; family background; garment industry; Hasidic; Hasidism; Hassidic; Hassidism; immigration; Kamenents-Podolsk; Kamenets, Ukraine; Kamyanets; Kamyanyets; New York City; NYC; old country; shtetl; tie manufacturing; underage labor; Yiddish speaking
7:23 - Sue Describes Her Childhood Growing Up in Manhattan
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Keywords: "Forverts"; "The Forward"; "The Jewish Daily Forward"; "The Yiddish Daily Forward"; career; childhood; East Village; East Village, Manhattan; family background; grocery store; Hebrew school; Jewish cusine; Jewish food; Lower East Side Hebrew Institute; Manhattan, New York; painting; religious observance; Tompkins Square Park, Manhattan; Yiddish newspapers
11:08 - Sue Describes the Neighborhood She Grew Up In
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Keywords: boxing; childhood; East Village; family relationships; Hebrew school; Jewish community; Manhattan, New York; Prohibition; settlement houses; Stillman's gym; Tompkins Square Park, Manhattan
13:46 - Sue Remembers Her Grandfather and Her Childhood Homes
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Keywords: bookies; Chasidic; Chasidism; Chassidic; Chassidism; childhood; family relationships; Hasidic; Hasidism; Hassidic; Hassidism; Jewish artist; Jewish holidays; New York City, New York; socialism; socialists
20:45 - Sue's Family's Troubles With Finding Work
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Keywords: American Dream card; anti-Semitism; antisemitism; career; Civil Service examinations; diseases; Fiorello La Guardia; grocery store; milk stations; New York City, New York; prejudice; syphillis; tuberculosis; World War 2; World War II; WW2; WWII
25:50 - The Various Jewish Organizations with Which Sue’s Family Members Were Involved
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Keywords: Arbeter Ring; Camp Kinder Ring; Camp Kinder-Ring; Hebrew school; landsmanshaft; summer camp; Workers Circle; Workmen's Circle; Yiddish language; Yiddish learning; Yiddish speaker
29:11 - Sue Remembers Her Favorite Yiddish Actors and Comedians
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Keywords: childhood; Ludwig Satz; Maurice Schwartz; Menasha Skulnik; Yiddish actors; Yiddish comedians; Yiddish theater; Yiddish theatre
30:54 - Avoiding Conscription to the United States Army
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Keywords: conscription; draft; Hoppers; kosher food; religious observance; the Fixers; trayf; tref; treif; treyf; U.S. Army; United States Army; US Army; World War One; WW1; WWI
33:02 - Sue's Contact With Yiddish Culture Throughout Her Life
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Keywords: cantorial music; family relationships; Jewish food; Nahum Stuchkoff; Shabbat; Shabbos; shabes; singing; WEVD; Yiddish culture; Yiddish radio; Yiddish songs
36:44 - How Sue Met Her Late Husband, and a Description of Her New Parents-in-Law
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Keywords: Chava Adelman; Green Mansions Resort; Habimah; immigration; Israel; Jewish community; Jewish Information Bureau; Jewish resorts; Joseph Barondess; Justice Louis Brandeis; love; marriage; Palestine; politics; relationships; Sadler's Wells Ballet; Shoshana Kamin; Stanislavski's Moscow Art Theatre; The Dybbuk; Yiddish folksongs; Yiddish language; Yiddishists; Zionism; Zionists
43:52 - Sue Speaks About Her Children and Grandchildren
46:03 - Sue's Career Path
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Keywords: "The New Yorker"; ACE Program; art teacher; career; education; family relationships; Jewish Community Center of Staten Island; ping pong; ping-pong; Queens College; suitors; Yiddish song; Yiddish teaching
50:54 - Sue's Jewish Identity as an Adult
52:23 - Sue Shares Her Thoughts on Transmitting Jewish Culture to Her Children
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Keywords: children; cultural transmission; Hebrew school; Jewish community; motherhood; parenthood; politics; Yiddish language; Yiddish learning
54:36 - Sue Explains the Importance of Yiddish to Her
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Keywords: cultural transmission; heritage; Jewish identity; Yiddish culture; Yiddish identity; Yiddish language; Yiddish songs
56:12 - How Sue's Relationship to Yiddish Has Changed Throughout Her Life
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Keywords: cultural transmission; Isaac Bashevis Singer; Israel; Lake Success Jewish Center; opera singer; Sholem Asch; Sidor Belarsky; Theo Bikel; Theodore Bikel; WEVD; Yiddish club; Yiddish community; Yiddish culture; Yiddish language; Yiddish radio; Yiddish singing; Yiddish song
60:47 - Sue Speaks About the Future of Yiddish and Remembers Her Favorite Yiddish Stories
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Keywords: Aaron Lansky; cultural transmission; Jewish history; literature; Pale of Settlement; Royte Pomeransten Yiddish transliterated stories; Röyte Pomerantsen; Yiddish Book Center; Yiddish books; Yiddish language; Yiddish stories
66:09 - The Connection Between Sue's Art and Her Ancestral Identity
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Keywords: anscestry; archeology; art exhibit; art exhibition; art review; heritage; Jewish artist; Silk Road
70:17 - Sue's Interest in Japanese Art
71:47 - Sue Sings Yiddish Songs
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Keywords: family relationships; Russian melody; Sidor Belarsky; wedding song; Yiddish singing; Yiddish song; Yiddish speaker; Yiddish speaking