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0:00 - Introduction 0:47 - Frieda's Family Background in Galicia and Vienna (in Yiddish)

Keywords: 1930s; brother; family background; family history; Galicia; Galician Jews; Galitsyaners; Galitzianers; grandparents; heritage; Judaism; Kolomay; parents; Poland; religious observance; roots; Shabbat; Shabbos; shabes; Vienna, Austria

5:00 - Frieda Discusses Her Grandmother's Life and Personality (in Yiddish) 7:59 - Frieda Describes Life in the Shtetl for Her Family

Keywords: aunt; family background; family history; heritage; roots; shtetel; shtetl (small town in Eastern Europe with a Jewish community); uncle; Vienna, Austria

10:52 - Frieda Talks About Her Mother's Life and Personality

Keywords: "Der Forverts"; "The Forward"; "The Jewish Daily Forward"; "The Yiddish Daily Forward"; aunt; family background; family stories; father; mother; parents; Yiddish newspapers

13:25 - Escaping from Austria and Settling in France

Keywords: 1930s; Adolf Hitler; aunt; brother; Brussels, Belgium; childhood; family history; father; Gestapo; infancy; Lyon, France; mother; Vienna, Austria; World War 2; World War II; WW2; WWII

17:07 - A Precarious Life in Lyon, France, During Frieda's Childhood

Keywords: childhood; father; French language; labor camp; Lyon, France; mother; parents; refugees; Yiddish language; Yiddish speakers

20:17 - Frieda Remembers Crossing the Swiss Border and Living in Geneva

Keywords: 1940s; Bais Yaakov; Beys Yankev; border crossing; border patrol; childhood; family; France; French language; Geneva, Switzerland; Hebrew language; languages; refugee camps; refugees; school; Swiss policy; Yiddish language; Yiddish speakers

24:28 - Celebrating Shabbat and Holidays in the Refugee Camps 28:25 - Frieda Talks About Feeling Like an Outsider in Geneva

Keywords: alienation; childhood; French language; Hebrew school; Jewish identity; mother; ostracization; otherness; parents; Yiddish language

29:45 - Frieda Shares the Songs She Learned in the Refugee Camp 32:05 - Frieda Discusses Her Awareness of the Holocaust During the 1940s 36:13 - Frieda's Family from Toulouse Who Perished in the Holocaust 39:09 - Immigrating to America, Staying in Genoa, and Listening to Holocaust Stories 43:52 - Arriving in America and Experiencing American Culture

Keywords: adolescence; Boston, Massachusetts; cars; childhood; English language; immigrants; immigration; teenage years; U.S.; United States; US

49:00 - Frieda's Experience of Being Singled Out as a Jewish Refugee

Keywords: accents; childhood; English as second language; French language; identity; languages; learning English; linguistics; multilingualism; polylingualism; refugee; school; Yiddish language

52:18 - Frieda's Jewish Education in Boston 57:44 - Frieda Talks About Her Teachers in Hebrew School 60:18 - Frieda's Engagement with Both Yiddish and Hebrew

Keywords: "Forverts"; "The Forward"; "The Jewish Daily Forward"; "The Yiddish Daily Forward"; 1960s; 1970s; Canada; children; family; Hebrew language; Hebrew teacher; Irena Klepfisz; Israel; New York; Uriel Weinreich; Yiddish language; Yiddish newspaper

63:36 - Teaching in Canada and Returning to Yiddish

Keywords: 1970s; Canada; children; New York; OISE (Ontario Institute for Studies and Education); Oxford University; teachers; teaching; Toronto, Canada; women's research; women's studies; Yiddish speakers; Yiddish studies

66:17 - Frieda on Her Yiddish Studies at Oxford and Her Jewish Feminism

Keywords: Dovid Katz; feminism; feminist; Israel; Oxford University; Oxford Yiddish Programme; women writers; Yiddish speakers; Yiddish studies; Yiddish teachers; Yitskhok Niborski

72:48 - Discovering the Yiddish Writer Rokhl Brokhes 78:42 - Frieda Discusses Her Translation Work and Her Feminism 83:01 - The Process of Publishing an Anthology of Yiddish Women Writers

Keywords: multiculturalism; publishing; translations; translator; women poets; women writers; Yiddish language; Yiddish writers

88:49 - The Issues Frieda Encountered While Editing "Found Treasures" 91:02 - Freida's Reflection on the Publishing Process and Some Reactions to the Book

Keywords: "Found Treasures: Stories by Yiddish Women Writers"; anthologies; books; editing; publishing; translating Yiddish; translation theory; Yiddish culture; Yiddish language

94:23 - The Changes in Frieda's Jewish Identity During the Publishing Process 96:26 - Frieda's Use of Yiddish Today 97:40 - Frieda's Evolving Thoughts on Yiddish Translation 98:50 - Teaching Jews About Yiddish Women Writers

Keywords: Der Arbeter Ring; Jewish culture; Judaism; New York; teachers; teaching; women writers; Worker's Circle; Workmen's Circle; Yiddish culture; Yiddish literature; Yiddish writers

105:37 - Frieda Explains "Found Treasures", Her Anthology of Women Writers in Yiddish 110:48 - Frieda Explains "The Exile Book of Yiddish Women Writers" 115:16 - Frieda Shows More Books and Journals of Yiddish Women Writers
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