Keywords: brothers; Ethel Rosenberg; extended family; garment industry; Julius Rosenberg; Kovel, Ukraine; Leo Tolstoy; mother; namesakes; parents; pogroms; Rosenbergs; siblings; unions; utopian socialism; utopian socialists

Keywords: American Jews; assimilation; birth control movement; brothers; Democratic Party; father; Fred L. Lavanburg; Fred Lavanburg; garment industry; Jewish Americans; Lavanburg Homes; Lower East Side, Manhattan, New York City, New York; mother; parents; precinct captains; siblings; sisters

Keywords: dancer; dancing; department store; Easter; Fred L. Lavanburg; Fred Lavanburg; housing projects; immigrants; immigration; Italian Americans; Jewish holidays; Jewish neighborhood; Jewish observance; Jewish religion; Judaism; Lavanburg Homes; Lower East Side, Manhattan, New York City, New York; Macy's; P.S. 188; PS 188; public schools; settlement house movement; settlement houses; settlement movement; Stern Brothers; Stern's; tenants council; tenants' council; utopianism; utopians; yom tovim; yomim tobim; yomim tovim; yontef; yontev; yontoyvim

Keywords: English language; extended family; father; grandmother; grandparents; Jewish identity; mother; parents; Yiddish language

Keywords: aunts; bankruptcy; bard; brothers; congregation; Delancey Street; delicatessen; father; Garden Cafeteria; grandfather; grandparents; Lower East Side, Manhattan, New York City, New York; matchmaking; mother; parents; poetry; poets; prison; schul; sexton; shamas; shamash; shames; shammas; shammes; shammos; shamus; shul; siblings; sisters; synagogue; temple

Keywords: anniversary of death; cemeteries; cemetery; congregation; grandfather; grandmother; grandparents; Great Depression; Hebrew language; High Holidays; High Holy Days; jahrzeit; Jewish holidays; mechitza; mekhitse; mother; parents; partition; Russia; schul; sexton; Shabbat; Shabbos; shabes; shamas; shamash; shames; shammas; shammes; shammos; shamus; shul; synagogue; tales; talis; talit; talith; tallis; tallit; tallith; teacher; temple; women's balcony; yahrzeit; yom tovim; yomim tobim; yomim tovim; yontef; yontev; yontoyvim; yortsayt

Keywords: Arbeter Ring; bobe; bubbie; Democratic Pary; father; fellow countrymen; grandmother; grandparents; Great Depression; Kovel, Ukraine; Kovlers; landslayt; landsleit; landsmen; Manhattan, New York City, New York; mother; Nicholas II of Russia; parents; precinct captains; school; Second Avenue; songs; Workers Circle; Workmen’s Circle; Yiddish language; Yiddish theater; Yiddish theatre

Keywords: "Grine felder" ("Green fields"); "The Dybbuk"; "Yankl der schmid" ("The singing blacksmith"); 2nd Avenue; Arbeter Ring; comedians; comedy; Jewish identity; Lincoln Perry; Manhattan, New York City, New York; Moishe Oysher; mother; parents; Second Avenue; Shalom Aleichem; Shalom Rabinovitz; Sholem Aleichem; Sholem Aleykhem; Sholem Rabinovich; Sholem Rabinovitch; Sholem Rabinovitsh; Sholom Rabino; Stepin Fetchit; Workers Circle; Workmen’s Circle; Yiddish film festival; Yiddish films; Yiddish movies; Yiddish theater; Yiddish theatre

Keywords: American Photoplay; American Theater; American Theatre; Cannon Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan, New York City, New York; Lower East Side, Manhattan, New York City, New York; mother; movie houses; movie theaters; movie theatres; Palestine Theater; Palestine Theatre; parents; Passover; Pesach; peysekh; Romani people; Romany people; Yiddish films; Yiddish language; Yiddish movies

Keywords: bar mitsve; bar mitzvah; Bar-mitsve; Black Hand; brother; chedar; cheder; grandmother; grandparents; Hebrew language; Hebrew school; heder; Jewish Center; kheyder; mother; parents; siblings; sister; teachers; traditional religious school

Keywords: "Mizele mayzele"; grandmother; grandparents; mother; parents; Yiddish language; Yiddish poems; Yiddish rhymes

Keywords: "Forverts"; "The Forward"; "The Jewish Daily Forward"; "The Yiddish Daily Forward"; father; I.L. Peretz; Isaac Leib Peretz; Jewish identity; parents; Shalom Aleichem; Shalom Rabinovitz; Sholem Aleichem; Sholem Aleykhem; Sholem Rabinovich; Sholem Rabinovitch; Sholem Rabinovitsh; Sholom Rabino; Yiddish authors; Yiddish literature; Yiddish newspapers; Yiddish writers; Yitzkhok Leybush Peretz

Keywords: Borscht Belt; bungalow colonies; bungalow colony; bungalows; cabins; casino; Catskill Mountains, New York; Catskill Resorts; Catskills; cottages; Danny Kaye; farms; garment industry; Great Depression; Jewish identity; kokh-aleyns; kuch aleyns; kuch-aleyns; kuchalayns; kucheleins; kukh-aleyns; Lower East Side, Manhattan, New York City, New York; mother; Orchard Street; parents; radio stations; S. Klein; siblings; sisters; songs; TB; tuberculosis; Ukrainian language; WEVD; Yiddish language

Keywords: brother; cafeterias; father; FDR; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Franklin Roosevelt; Garment District; garment industry; Great Depression; ice boxes; iceboxes; jobs; Lavanburg Homes; Lower East Side, Manhattan, New York City, New York; Manhattan, New York City, New York; parents; porter; settlement house movement; settlement houses; settlement movement; siblings; Work Projects Administration; Works Progress Administration; World War 2; World War II; WPA; WW2; WWII

Keywords: " Encyclopædia Britannica"; "Encyclopedia Britannica"; "Scientific American"; 9/11; artists; bar mitsve; bar mitzvah; bar-mitsve; brothers; children; dance; daughter; Fiorello La Guardia; garment industry; GI Bill; Gotham Writers' Workshop; Henry Street Settlement; husband; Jewish culture; Jewish identity; Knitting Factory; lofts; Lower East Side, Manhattan, New York City, New York; memoirs; modeling; musicians; nephews; nieces; Public Health Research Institute; September 11 attacks; settlement house movement; settlement houses; settlement movement; Seward Park High School; siblings; sister; sisters; theater; theatre; UN; United Nations; Works Progress Administration; Works Projects Administration; WPA; writers; writing