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0:00 - Introduction

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0:38 - Talia's Family Background in Eastern Europe and Mexico (in Yiddish)

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Keywords: Belarus; Chasidic; Chasidim; Chasidism; Chassidic; Chassidim; Chassidism; family background; family history; France; grandparents; Hasidic; Hasidism; Hassidic; Hassidim; Hassidism; heritage; khasidizm; Lithuania; Poland; roots

5:31 - Talia's Memories of Her Maternal Grandmother (in Yiddish)

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Keywords: family background; grandfather; grandmother; grandparents; parents

9:03 - Talia Describes the City in Which She Grew Up (in Yiddish)

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Keywords: culture; family background; family history; Interlomas; Jewish community; Mexico City, Mexico

13:09 - Talia Describes the Personalities of Her Grandparents

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Keywords: family; grandfather; grandmother

20:36 - Talia Imagines Her Great-Grandparents' Life in Eastern Europe

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Keywords: anti-Semitism; antisemitism; Eastern Europe; family background; family history; great-grandparents; heritage; Jewish identity; Old Country; roots

24:15 - Talia Talks About Immigrant Jewish Life in Mexico

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Keywords: grandparents; Jewish community; Jewish culture; La Lagunilla; Mexican Jewry; Veracruz, Mexico; Yiddish culture; Yitzhok Berliner

30:00 - Talia Describes Her Childhood Home

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Keywords: childhood home; kitchen; neighborhood

34:00 - Talia on the Jewishness of Her Childhood Home

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Keywords: childhood home; Hebrew music; Judaism; mezuzah; mother; Shabbat; Shabbos; shabes

36:16 - Talia Describes Her Mother's Cooking

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Keywords: blintzes; challah; cooking; culinary traditions; food; honey cakes; Jewish food; kreplach; kugel; mother; parents; Rosh Hashanah; rosheshone; Shabbat; Shabbos; shabes; vegan; vegetarian; Yiddishkayt; Yiddishkeit; yidishkayt; yidishkeyt; Yom Kippur

39:56 - Talia Recalls How Different Languages Were Used in Her Childhood

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Keywords: childhood home; English language; father; grandmother; grandparents; Hebrew language; languages; mother; parents; Yiddish language

42:19 - Talia's Experience at the I.L. Peretz Folkshul in Mexico

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Keywords: Di Naye Yidishe Folkshul; education; Hebrew language; I.L. Peretz Folkshul; New Yiddish School; school; shule (secular Yiddish school); Spanish language; teachers; Yiddish culture; Yiddish language; Yiddish literature

51:12 - Talia on the History of the I.L. Peretz Folkshul

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Keywords: Di Naye Yidishe Folkshul; diversity; education; I.L. Peretz School; Jewish community; Jewish schools; New Yiddish School; shule (secular Yiddish school)

57:35 - Staying Connected to Yiddish After High School

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Keywords: Jewish identity; Mexican identity; Yiddish books; Yiddish culture; Yiddish language; Yiddish literature

63:06 - Talia Describes Organizing a Yiddish Library for Her Community

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Keywords: library; Yiddish books; Yiddish culture; Yiddish Farm; Yiddish language; Yiddish Vinkl; Yiddish Vokh; Yiddishe Shtub

70:05 - What Talia Learned While Organizing the Yiddish Vinkl (Yiddish Corner)

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Keywords: libraries; library; Old Yiddish; Sholem Asch; Sholem Ash; Yiddish books; Yiddish culture; Yiddish literature

73:45 - Taking Yiddish Classes from Vele Zabludovsky, Founder of the I.L. Peretz Folkshul

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Keywords: Di Naye Yidishe Folkshul; shule; The New Yiddish School; Vele Zabludovsky; Yiddish classes; Yiddish culture; Yiddish language; Yiddish learning; Yiddish literature

78:28 - Talia's Thoughts on the State of Yiddish in Mexico

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Keywords: heritage; Jewish Mexican culture; klezmer music; roots; Yiddish culture; Yiddish in Mexico; Yiddish language

85:10 - Talia Explains a Translation Project She is Working On

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Keywords: Joseph Rotenberg; poetry; teacher; Yiddish translations

88:15 - Talia Describes the Topic of Her Bachelor's Thesis

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Keywords: bachelor's degree; bachelor's thesis; Greek culture; Greek language; Yiddish culture; Yiddish language

89:20 - Talia Explains the Background and the Goals of the Yiddish Vinkl

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Keywords: Chasidic; Chasidim; Chasidism; Chassidic; Chassidim; Chassidism; Hasidic Yiddish; Hasidim; Hasidism; Hassidic; Hassidim; Hassidism; Holocaust; Jewish history; Jewish literature; khasidizm; khsidish; libraries; library; Mexican Jewish culture; Yiddish books; Yiddish literature; Yiddish Vinkl (Yiddish Corner)

95:47 - Talia Describes the Events at the Yiddish Vinkl

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Keywords: Abraham Sutzkever; Avrom Sutzkever; Holocaust survivors; Jewish history; Jewish partisans; Miriam Segal; Shane Baker; Yiddish community; Yiddish culture; Yiddish film; Yiddish language; Yiddish movies

99:17 - Talia on Using a Mexican Frame for Yiddish Content

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Keywords: 1980s; Jewish Mexican culture; Mexican culture; Yiddish culture