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0:17 - Introduction 0:41 - Joel's Family Background

Keywords: Ashkenazi Jews; Ashkenazim; Austria-Hungary; Austro-Hungarian Empire; autobiography; extended family; father; Galicia, Eastern Europe; grandparents; innkeepers; innkeeping; laborers; Lithuania; mother; Old Country; Pale of Settlement; parents

3:41 - Joel's Childhood Neighborhood

Keywords: 1930s; apartments; Bronx Botanical Gardens; Bronx Park; Bronx Zoo; childhood; father; Fleetwood, Mount Vernon, New York; grandmother; Great Depression; Manhattan, New York City, New York; mother; neighborhood; New York Botanical Garden; parents; school; The Bronx, New York City, New York

6:50 - Joel Describes His Childhood Nanny

Keywords: Arctic; childhood; factories; factory manager; father; Gaelic language; immigrants; immigration; Irish Americans; Irish history; Irish language; mother; nanny; parents; teachers; World War 1; World War I; WW1; WWI; Yiddish language

8:33 - Yiddish Culture in Joel's Family

Keywords: "Forverts"; "The Forward"; "The Jewish Daily Forward"; "The Yiddish Daily Forward"; assimilation; bar mitsve; bar mitzvah; bar-mitsve; Columbia University; concerts; English language; father; German language; grandfather; grandparents; Hebrew language; immigrants; Manhattan, New York City, New York; Marian Anderson; mother; newspapers; parents; Paul Robeson; uncles; Yiddish culture; Yiddish language; Yiddish theater; Yiddish theatre; Yiddishkayt; Yiddishkeit; yidishkayt; yidishkeyt

11:47 - Family Holiday Rituals in Joel's Childhood Home

Keywords: Adolf Hitler; Ashkenazi Jews; Ashkenazim; bar mitsve; bar mitzvah; bar-mitsve; Catholic religion; Catholicism; Chanukah; childhood; Christmas tree; congregation; cousins; fasting; German Jews; gifts; grandmother; grandparents; Hanukkah; hanukkiah; High Holidays; Jewish Germans; Jewish holidays; Jewish religion; Judaism; khanike; menorah; nanny; parents; Passover; Pesach; peysekh; presents; religious observance; Rosh Hashanah; rosheshone; schul; secular Judaism; seders; shul; synagogue; temple; uncles; Yom Kippur; yom tovim; yomim tobim; yomim tovim; yontef; yontev; yontoyvim

15:04 - Yiddish Speaking in Joel's Childhood Home

Keywords: "Forverts"; "The Forward"; "The Jewish Daily Forward"; "The Yiddish Daily Forward"; grandfather; grandparents; parents; Yiddish culture; Yiddish language; Yiddish literature; Yiddish newspapers; Yiddishkayt; Yiddishkeit; yidishkayt; yidishkeyt

16:07 - The Political Environment of Joel's Childhood Home

Keywords: 1930s; auto industry; automobile industry; business; childhood; Christian religion; Christianity; Christmas; Detroit, Michigan; F.D.R.; factories; father; FDR; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Franklin Roosevelt; nanny; parents; presents; Rochester, New York; train sets; travel

18:07 - Joel Remembers His Childhood Friendships

Keywords: 1930s; Adolf Hitler; anti-Semitism; antisemitism; Armour and Company; Bronxville, New York; Brooklyn Navy Yard; Brooklyn, New York City, New York; childhood; Dorothy Thompson; father; fighting; Fleetwood, Mount Vernon, New York; football; friends; friendships; Holocaust; immigrants; Italian Americans; Jerome Kern; Jewish community; kashres; kashrus; kashrut; kashruth; kosher; meat packing industry; mother; neighborhoods; neighbors; parents; police; Shoah; Sinclair Lewis

26:53 - Joel Describes His Childhood Home and Upbringing

Keywords: childhood; executives; extended family; factory; father; Great Depression; horseback riding lessons; household help; Manhattan, New York City, New York; McMillin Theater, Columbia University; Miller Theatre; mother; nanny; opera; parents; privilege; Radio City Music Hall; swimming lessons; upper middle class

30:53 - Joel's Father's Factory Work

Keywords: automobile manufacturing; car manufacturing; factory workers; father; Fisher Body; General Motors Company; GM; segregation

34:07 - Joel's Educational Background

Keywords: 1940s; Ann Arbor, Michigan; anthropology; college; education; father; Fayetteville, Arkansas; G.I. Bill; GI Bill; high school; history; New York University; NYU; public schools; UM; UMich; university; University of Arkansas; University of Michigan; veterans; White Plains, New York; World War 2; World War II; WW2; WWII

36:56 - Joel's Bar Mitzvah Education

Keywords: Adolf Hitler; bar mitsve; bar mitzvah; bar-mitsve; chedar; cheder; congregation; cruises; father; Five Books of Moses; grandparents; Hebrew school; heder; Holocaust; immigrants; Jewish teacher; kheyder; melamed; middle class; mother; parents; Pentateuch; rabbis; refugees; schul; Shoah; shul; synagogue; temple; Torah; toyre; traditional religious school; uncles; World War 2; World War II; WW2; WWII

42:10 - Joel's Interest in Anthropology

Keywords: Alaska; Ann Arbor, Michigan; anthropology; archaeology; archeological digs; chemistry; college; Columbia University; doctoral dissertation; excavations; fieldwork; Franz Boas; geology; graduate school; Jewish anthropologists; Lapland, Sweden; Lappland; Manhattan, New York City, New York; Margaret Mead; Ph.D.; PhD; Sami people; university; University of Michigan

44:45 - Joel's Exposure to Anti-Semitism and Racism in Archaeology

Keywords: African Americans; American Indians; American Museum of Natural History; AMNH; anti-Semitism; antisemitism; archaeologists; archaeology; archeological digs; bigotry; Black Americans; Cold War; colonialism; Columbia University; communism; Communist Party; communists; Copenhagen, Denmark; Deering, Alaska; Democratic Party; excavations; Fairbanks, Alaska; father; fieldwork; George Gustav Heye; graduate school; graduate students; Heye Foundation; Indigenous Americans; Ipnatchiaq; leftists; Manhattan, New York City, New York; McCarthyism; mother; Museum of the American Indian; museums; National Mall; National Museum of Denmark; National Museum of the American Indian; Nationalmuseet; Native Americans; parents; Penn Museum; pow wow; pow-wow; powwow; prejudice; racism; Seward Peninsula, Alaska; Shinnecock Indian Nation; slurs; Smith Act trials; Smithsonian Institution; socio-cultural anthropology; sociocultural anthropology; tribes; University of Alaska Fairbanks; University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology; Washington, D.C.

51:51 - Joel's Research in Kotzebue, Alaska

Keywords: 1950s; American Indians; anthropologists; archaeologists; Columbia University; communism; Communist Party USA; communists; CPUSA; culture; English language; Eskimo culture; Eskimo people; French language; Gaelic language; graduate students; hunting; Indigenous Americans; Inuit culture; Inuit people; Inuktitut language; Irish language; Jewish Eskimo; Jewish identity; Kotzebue, Alaska; Manhattan, New York City, New York; Native Americans; photographs; priest; research; Seward Peninsula, Alaska; socio-cultural anthropology; sociocultural anthropology; textbooks; whale hunting

58:23 - Joel Discusses Changes in the Field of Anthropology

Keywords: academic literature; American Indians; anthropologists; articles; bias; bigotry; communism; Communist Party; communists; comparative literature; Eskimo people; ethnography; fieldwork; Indigenous Americans; monographs; Native Americans; Smith Act trials; socio-cultural anthropology; sociocultural anthropology

62:38 - Joel Talks about Manufacturing Memory and "Fiddler on the Roof"

Keywords: "Fiddler on the Roof"; Agram; anthropologists; communism; Communist Party; communists; Croatian language; Croatian State Archives; English language; ethnography; fascism; fascists; fieldwork; films; former Yugoslavia; German language; Grad Zagreb; Holocaust; Holocaust survivors; Jewish identity; Josip Broz Tito; Lekenik, Croatia; movies; Orašac, Croatia; Orosac; Serbia; Shoah; shtetel; shtetl; socio-cultural anthropology; sociocultural anthropology; Ukraine; wife; World War 2; World War II; WW2; WWII; Zagabria; Zagrab; Zágráb; Zagreb City; Zagreb, Croatia

73:42 - Joel Retells Stoies about Jewish Serbian Survivors of World War II

Keywords: 1940s; 1950s; Agram; Albany, New York; Croatia; Croatian Jews; Croatian language; English language; father; fieldwork; former Yugoslavia; German occupation; Holocaust survivors; Invasion of Yugoslavia; Israel; Jewish Croatians; Jewish Serbians; Jewish Yugoslavians; manual labor; parents; peasants; research; Serbia; Serbian Jews; Serbian language; Shoah; socio-cultural anthropology; sociocultural anthropology; wife; World War 2; World War II; WW2; WWII; Yugoslavian Jews; Zagabria; Zágráb; Zagrab; Zagreb City; Zagreb, Croatia

80:37 - Joel's Jewish Identity Today

Keywords: American Muslims; American Palestinians; Amherst, Massachusetts; bar mitsve; bar mitzvah; bar-mitsve; children; daughter; former Yugoslavia; George Shultz; grandchildren; grandsons; IDF; interviews; Islamic Americans; Israel; Israel Defense Forces; Israeli government; Israeli politics; J Street; Jewish communities; Jewish identity; Judaic Studies; Manhattan, New York City, New York; Middle East; Muslim Americans; Muslim communities; National Coalition Supporting Soviet Jewry; National Conference Supporting Soviet Jewry; oral histories; Palestinian Americans; photography; Ronald Reagan; UMass Amherst; United States Army; University of Massachusetts Amherst; World War 2; World War II; WW2; WWII; Yiddish Book Center

85:54 - Concluding Thoughts

Keywords: American Muslims; Amherst, Massachusetts; children; daughter; family; interviews; Islamic Americans; Jewish identity; Muslim Americans; Muslim communities; oral histories; restaurant; Yiddish Book Center; Yiddish identity; Yiddish language; Yiddishkayt; Yiddishkeit; yidishkayt; yidishkeyt

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