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0:00 - Introduction 0:35 - George's Family Background

Keywords: assimilation; Chicago, Illinois; cousins; Eastern Europe; Estonia; father; grandfather; grandmother; grandparents; immigrants; immigration; Jewish observance; Lithuania; mother; New York City, New York; Orthodox Jews; Orthodox Judaism; Poland; Radom, Poland; tailors

5:37 - George Describes His Childhood Home

Keywords: 1939 New York World's Fair; apartment; baseball; Brooklyn Dodgers; Brooklyn, New York City, New York; Crown Heights; Ebbets Field; father; home; house; Manhattan, New York City, New York; mother; New York City, New York; parents; siblings; sister; World War 2; World War II; WW2; WWII

9:47 - Jewish Observance in George's Childhood

Keywords: atheism; atheists; aunt; bar mitsve; bar mitzvah; bar-mitsve; chedar; cheder; Chinese food; Chinese restaurants; congregation; davening; davn; doven; father; grandfather; grandparents; Hebrew language; Hebrew school; heder; Jewish identity; Jewish observance; Jewish religion; Judaism; kashres; kashrus; kashrut; kashruth; kheyder; kosher; mother; not kosher; Orthodox Jews; Orthodox Judaism; parents; Passover; Pesach; peysekh; prayers; praying; Reform Jews; Reform Judaism; schul; shul; synagogue; temple; traditional religious school; treif; treyf; uncle

17:41 - George Talks More about His Childhood

Keywords: "Guys and Dolls"; "Oklahoma!"; African Americans; bar mitsve; bar mitzvah; bar-mitsve; Black Americans; Broadway musicals; Brooklyn Botanic Garden; Brooklyn Botanical Garden; Brooklyn, New York City, New York; cooking; criminal courts; Crown Heights; extended family; father; food; football; friends; Jewish community; junior high school; law enforcement; law school; mafia; maid; middle school; Milton Cross; mob; mother; neighborhood; opera; organized crime; parents; Passover; Pesach; peysekh; Prospect Park; school; speech therapists; speech therapy; stickball; street games; stuttering; stutters

24:50 - Languages George Heard as a Child

Keywords: aunts; cousins; English language; extended family; father; grandfather; grandparents; mother; parents; siblings; sister; uncles; Yiddish language

26:59 - George's Talks about Atheism

Keywords: atheism; atheists; brother in law; brother-in-law; congregation; cousins; father; Gentiles; goish; goyishe; grandfather; grandparents; Hebrew language; Jewish identity; Jewish observance; Jewish religion; Judaism; mother; non-Jews; Orthodox Jews; Orthodox Judaism; parents; schul; secular Jews; secular Judaism; shul; siblings; sister; synagogue; temple; uncle; wedding; wife

32:13 - George's Memories of Celebrating the Jewish Holidays

Keywords: atheism; atheists; bar mitsve; bar mitzvah; bar-mitsve; Chanukah; congregation; Hanukkah; High Holidays; High Holy Days; Jewish holidays; Jewish identity; Jewish observance; Jewish religion; Judaism; khanike; parents; school; schul; shul; siblings; sister; synagogue; temple; Yom Kippur; yom tovim; yomim tobim; yomim tovim; yontef; yontev; yontoyvim

34:34 - The Cultural and Political Atmosphere in George's Home

Keywords: 1948 Progressive National Convention; African Americans; baseball; Black Americans; Brooklyn Dodgers; Brooklyn, New York City, New York; chedar; cheder; civil rights movement; Democratic party; Ebbets Field; elections; F.D.R.; FDR; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Franklin Roosevelt; Harry S. Truman; Harry Truman; Hebrew school; heder; Henry A. Wallace; Henry Wallace; Holocaust; integration; Jackie Robinson; kheyder; khurbm; khurbn; Korean War; liberalism; liberals; maid; mother; music; parents; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; piano; president; racism; segregation; Shoah; siblings; sister; Thomas Dewey; Thomas E. Dewey; traditional religious school; uncle; World War 2; World War II; WW2; WWII

40:00 - George's Awareness of World War II

Keywords: father; Holocaust; Israel; khurbm; khurbn; Orthodox Jews; Orthodox Judaism; parents; school; Shoah; World War 2; World War II; WW2; WWII

42:18 - George's Education

Keywords: Barbra Streisand; Boston, Massachusetts; Brooklyn Technical High School; Brooklyn, New York City, New York; Cambridge, Massachusetts; Carnegie Mellon University; Cincinnati, Ohio; college; engineering; Erasmus Hall High School; folk dancing; grad school; graduate school; high school; M.I.T.; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; MIT; New York University; NYU; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Poland; Procter and Gamble; refugees; roommate; square dancing; subway; The Bronx, New York City, New York; university

49:17 - George's Changing Relationship to Judaism

Keywords: college; congregation; Jewish holidays; Jewish identity; Jewish observance; Jewish religion; Judaism; New York University; NYU; parents; schul; shul; synagogue; temple; The Bronx, New York City, New York; university; yom tovim; yomim tobim; yomim tovim; yontef; yontev; yontoyvim

50:29 - George's First Impressions of California

Keywords: Berkeley, California; blacklisted; blacklisting; California; Cambridge, Massachusetts; capital punishment; college; communism; communists; graduate school; graduate studies; L.A.; LA; left wing; leftism; leftists; Los Angeles, California; M.I.T.; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; McCarthy Era; McCarthyism; Minneapolis, Minnesota; MIT; nightclubs; Norman Thomas; political activism; San Francisco, California; San Quentin State Prison; San Quentin, California; socialism; socialists; student council; The Purple Onion; UC Berkeley; uncle; United States National Student Association; university; University of California, Berkeley

57:07 - The Early Years of George's Marriage to His Wife, Anne

Keywords: Berkeley, California; cars; children; college; dating; driving; extended family; folk dancing; Headquarters of the United Nations; Jewish identity; Manhattan, New York City, New York; New York City, New York; parents; sister in law; sister-in-law; U.N.; UN; university; wedding; wife

63:54 - George's Involvement in Fair Play for Cuba

Keywords: Berkeley, California; Cuban Revolution; Fair Play for Cuba Committee; leftism; leftists; Richard Currier; UC Berkeley; University of California, Berkeley

65:50 - George on Living in an Interfaith Household

Keywords: children; Christian observance; Christian religion; Christianity; culture; family; Hillel; holidays; interfaith families; interfaith family; Jewish holidays; Jewish observance; Jewish religion; Judaism; matse; matza; matzah; matzo; Passover; Pesach; peysekh; wife; Yiddish language; yom tovim; yomim tobim; yomim tovim; yontef; yontev; yontoyvim

67:21 - George's Interest in Yiddishkayt

Keywords: "1812 Overture"; classical music; folk music; folktales; Hillel; Jewish culture; Jewish literature; klezmer music; Manhattan, New York City, New York; parents; Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky; Radio City Music Hall; retirement; violin; wife; Yiddish culture; Yiddish language; Yiddish literature; Yiddishkayt; Yiddishkeit; yidishkayt; yidishkeyt

71:55 - George Talks about His Jewish Identity

Keywords: "Shoah"; "The Destruction of the European Jews"; "Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt"; Adolf Eichmann; atheism; atheists; books; cancer; chemotherapy; children; Eichmann trial; family; genocide; Hannah Arendt; history; Holocaust; Israel; Jewish history; Jewish holidays; Jewish identity; Judenrat; khurbm; khurbn; klezmer music; literature; Nazis; Raul Hilberg; Shoah; wife; World War 2; World War II; WW2; WWII; yom tovim; yomim tobim; yomim tovim; yontef; yontev; yontoyvim

80:34 - The Values George Wants to Pass On to His Children

Keywords: adoptees; adoption; children; classical music; daughters; divorce; folk dancing; Korean Americans; polio; sons; suicide; values

82:27 - Memorable Events of George's Younger Adulthood

Keywords: 1978 California Proposition 13; children; daughter; debate; family; father in law; father-in-law; Howard Jarvis; Jarvis-Gann Amendment; newspapers; parents; Paul Gann; People's Initiative to Limit Property Taxation; Sacramento, California; siblings; sister; wife

87:13 - Concluding Thoughts

Keywords: Ashkenazi Jews; Ashkenazim; Hebrew language; Israel; klezmer music; Yiddish culture; Yiddish language; Yiddishkayt; Yiddishkeit; yidishkayt; yidishkeyt

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