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0:00 - Introduction 0:17 - Norman's Father's Immigration from Russia to America in Search of His Father

Keywords: 1910s; academics; America; English language; immigration; migration; Odessa; professors; Russian Empire; Russian Jews; Russian Revolution; socioeconomic status; Ukrainian Jews; United States

3:36 - Norman's Father's Involvement in the Russian Revolution and His Second Immigration to America

Keywords: 1910s; 1920s; 1960s; America; communism; communist Jews; Holocaust; immigration; Jewish communists; migration; Moscow University; Red Army; Russia; Russian Empire; Russian Revolution; soldiers; Soviet Union; United States; USSR; World War 2; World War II; WW2; WWII

6:17 - Norman's Relationship with His Father and Mother Growing Up

Keywords: child-rearing; childhood; Der Tog; education; family; fathers; gender roles; Jewish mothers; parenting; poets; raising children; The Day; values; writers

12:00 - Norman's Studies in Yiddish in Translation at CUNY

Keywords: 1960s; City University of New York; college; CUNY; H. Leivick; H. Leyvik; Haim Leivick; Hayyim Nahman Bialik; higher education; Leon Feinberg; Leonard Landes; New York City; poets; Shalom Rabinovitz; Sholem Aleichem; Sholem Asch; theses; thesis; undergraduate studies; university; writers; Yiddish education; Yiddish in translation; Yiddish language; Yiddish literature; Yiddish poetry

14:45 - Norman's Memories of Bob Dylan Performing in Greenwich Village 17:21 - "It'll Never Die": Norman's Experiences of Yiddish in Academia and Yiddish Literature

Keywords: 1970s; City University of New York; CUNY; dying languages; Holocaust; Yiddish language; Yiddish literature; Yiddish poetry

19:23 - Norman's Memories of His Parents' Social Circle While Growing Up

Keywords: 1950s; Abba Edan; childhood; Coney Island; Eddie Cantor; Golda Meir; Holocaust; Itsik Manger; Itzik Manger; journalists; Kinderwelt; Maurice Schwartz; mental illness; Moishe Nadir; Molly Goldberg; Molly Picon; New York City; poets; social life; Unser Camp; writers; Yiddish language; Yiddish literature; Yiddish speakers; Yiddish theater; Yiddish theatre

28:29 - Norman's Father's Involvement in Politics

Keywords: 1950s; Adolf Hitler; Cuban Missile Crisis; Holocaust; Joseph Stalin; journalism; Nazi Germany; politics; Soviet Union; USSR; writers

31:45 - Celebrating Passover as a Child and Norman's Father's Religious Observance

Keywords: atheist Jews; bar mitzvah; bar-mitsve; childhood; Conservative Judaism; family; Hebrew language; Hebrew school; Judaism; Orthodox Jews; Orthodox Judaism; Passover; Pesach; peysekh; religious observance; synagogue; temple; Yiddish language; Yiddish school; Yiddish speakers

38:05 - Norman Discusses His Father's Influence on Him 40:51 - Norman Reads His Poem, "A Promise Unfulfilled, Yet Magical"

Keywords: 1940s; Albert Einstein; Gary Feinberg; Gerald Feinberg; poetry; poets; writers; Yiddish language; Yiddish speakers

48:12 - Norman's Relationship with His Brother and Gary's Brilliance

Keywords: 1930s; Bronx; brothers; Gary Feinberg; Gerald Feinberg; New York Times; Nobel Prize; physicists; theoretical physicists

53:49 - Norman's Father's Relationship with Marc Chagall and Paul Muni

Keywords: 1930s; 1940s; actors; artists; Marc Chagall; Odessa; Paul Muni; Russia; Russian Empire; Russian Jews; Ukraine; Ukrainian Jews

56:29 - Norman's Brother's Experience Interviewing for a Job at Westinghouse

Keywords: 1950s; Cold War; Columbia University; Gary Feinberg; Gerald Feinberg; socioeconomic status; Soviet Union; space race; USSR; Westinghouse

59:24 - The Almost Tragic Results of Gary's Friend's Practical Joke

Keywords: 1950s; childhood; death; Manhattan; New York City; parenting; Passover; practical joke; telegrams; Yiddish language; Yiddish speakers

70:06 - Norman's Father's Correspondence with Boris Pasternak

Keywords: 1950s; 1960s; Boris Pasternak; communism; Doctor Zhivago; journalists; letter-writing; pogroms; Russian language; Stalinism; writers; Yiddish writers

72:26 - Norman's Father's Break with Isaac Bashevis Singer

Keywords: 1960s; Der Tog; I.B. Singer; Isaac Bashevis Singer; Itskhok Bashevis Zinger; journalists; representations; shtetl; The Day; Yiddish literature; Yiddish writers

76:52 - "I Am My Father's Son": Norman's Memories of Playing Football with His Father and the Nature of Their Relationship

Keywords: 1960s; child-rearing; family; father-son relationship; fatherhood; fathers; football; parenting; poetry; poets; raising children; sons; sports; teachers; Vietnam War

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