0:00 - Introduction
0:47 - Frieda's Family Background in Galicia and Vienna (in Yiddish)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Keywords: Jewish holidays; Pesach; peysekh; refugee camps; refugees; Shabbat; Shabbos; shabes; visas; Yom Kippur
28:25 - Frieda Talks About Feeling Like an Outsider in Geneva
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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
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Keywords: America; childhood; emigration; Genoa, Italy; Holocaust; immigration; ship travel; storms; U.S.; United States; US
43:52 - Arriving in America and Experiencing American Culture
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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
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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
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Keywords: davening (praying); Hebrew school; Hebrew Teacher's College; Jewish education; public school; yeshiva
57:44 - Frieda Talks About Her Teachers in Hebrew School
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Keywords: childhood; Hebrew school; Holocaust; Jewish education; refugees; survivors; teachers
60:18 - Frieda's Engagement with Both Yiddish and Hebrew
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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
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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
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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
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Keywords: David Roskies; Dovid Roskies; Rachel Broches; Rokhl Brokhes; women writers; Yiddish writers
78:42 - Frieda Discusses Her Translation Work and Her Feminism
83:01 - The Process of Publishing an Anthology of Yiddish Women Writers
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Keywords: multiculturalism; publishing; translations; translator; women poets; women writers; Yiddish language; Yiddish writers
88:49 - The Issues Frieda Encountered While Editing "Found Treasures"
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Keywords: "Found Treasures: Stories by Yiddish Women Writers"; Dovid Katz; Irena Klepfisz; publishing books; Yiddish writers
91:02 - Freida's Reflection on the Publishing Process and Some Reactions to the Book
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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
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Keywords: translating Yiddish; translation; Yiddish language; Yiddish literature; Yiddish writers
98:50 - Teaching Jews About Yiddish Women Writers
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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
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Keywords: "Found Treasures: Stories by Yiddish Women Writers"; anthology; women writers; Yiddish writers
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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Keywords: Kadia Molodowsky; Kadya Molodowsky; Kadye Molodovski; Molodowski, Kadia; women writers; Yiddish writers