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0:00 - Introduction 0:46 - Betty's Parents' Background

Keywords: aunts; Belostok; Bialystok; Białystok, Poland; Byalistok; education; father; grandfather; grandmother; grandparents; mother; parents; uncles; Varshah; Varshava; Warsaw, Poland; Warszawa; Zionism; Zionists

8:10 - Betty's Family's Reasons for Leaving Poland

Keywords: anti-Semitism; antisemitism; aunts; Belostok; Bialystok; Białystok, Poland; Byalistok; education; extended family; father; grandchildren; grandfather; grandmother; grandparents; grandson; great grandmother; great grandparents; great uncle; great-grandmother; great-grandparents; great-uncle; immigrants; immigration; mother; parents; pogroms; uncles

21:21 - How Betty's Family Came to Live in Detroit

Keywords: Argentina; Detroit, Michigan; extended family; factory; father; grandparents; great grandmother; great grandparents; great uncle; great-grandmother; great-grandparents; great-uncle; immigrants; immigration; mother; parents

25:12 - Betty Remembers Her Great-Grandmother

Keywords: aunt; Detroit, Michigan; English language; extended family; grandfather; grandmother; grandparents; Great Depression; great grandmother; great grandparents; great uncle; great-grandmother; great-grandparents; great-uncle; Yiddish language

33:43 - Betty's Family's Involvement in the Sholem Aleichem Institute of Michigan

Keywords: Detroit, Michigan; father; Jewish community; mother; parents; secular Jews; secular Judaism; secular Yiddish school; Sholem Aleichem Institute of Michigan; shule; Yiddish culture; Yiddish language; Yiddish People’s School Organization; Yiddishkayt; Yiddishkeit; Yidishe Folkshule Farein; yidishkayt; yidishkeyt

37:27 - Betty Describes the Jewish Community of Her Childhood

Keywords: "Forverts"; "The Forward"; "The Jewish Daily Forward"; "The Yiddish Daily Forward"; b'nai mitzvah; bas mitsve; bas mitzvah; bas-mitsve; bat mitzvah; bath mitzvah; bnai mitzvah; Detroit, Michigan; East Detroit; Eastpointe, Michigan; Hebrew alphabet; Jewish community; Jewish holidays; Jewish observance; Jewish religion; Judaism; Moishe Haar; mother; parents; secular Yiddish school; Sholem Aleichem Institute of Michigan; shule; Yiddish langauge; Yiddish newspapers; Yiddish People’s School Organization; Yidishe Folkshule Farein; yom tovim; yomim tobim; yomim tovim; yontef; yontev; yontoyvim

45:47 - Betty Talks about the Jewish Holidays

Keywords: afikomen; afikoymen; children; Emmy Awards; Emmys; fir kashes; Four Questions; grandchildren; grandson; great grandchildren; great-grandchildren; Jewish holidays; Jewish observance; Jewish religion; Judaism; Passover; Pesach; peysekh; seders; yom tovim; yomim tobim; yomim tovim; yontef; yontev; yontoyvim

48:23 - Betty Talks about Yiddish Literature and Authors

Keywords: "Legends of our Time"; "Seussical"; "The Cat in the Hat (Di Kats Der Payats)"; "The Well"; Amherst, Massachusetts; Chaim Grade; Dr. Seuss; Eli Vizel; Eli Wiezel; Elie Weisel; Elie Wiesel; Eliezer Wiesel; father; grandchildren; granddaughter; I.L. Peretz; IL Peretz; Isaac Leib Peretz; mother; parents; Sol Liptzin; Theodore Geisel; Y.L. Peretz; Yiddish authors; Yiddish Book Center; Yiddish language; Yiddish literature; Yiddish writers; Yitzkhok Leybush Peretz; YL Peretz; Yud Lamed Peretz

56:40 - Betty Talks about Author Rokhl Korn

Keywords: Amherst, Massachusetts; Chaim Grade; Rachel H. Korn; Rachel Haring Korn; Rachel Häring Korn; Rokhl Korn; Yiddish authors; Yiddish Book Center; Yiddish language; Yiddish literature; Yiddish poems; Yiddish poetry; Yiddish writers

63:27 - Betty's Mother's Involvement in Yiddish Theater

Keywords: "Alice in Wonderland"; "Cat in the Hat"; "Seussical"; Detroit, Michigan; grandchildren; granddaughter; Littman's People's Theatre; mother; parents; Sarah Friedman; Sarah Weisman; Yiddish theater; Yiddish theatre

67:15 - Betty Talks about Her Parents' Support for Yiddish Education

Keywords: "Detroit Jewish News"; Aaron Lansky; Bar Ilan University; Bar-Ilan University; Detroit, Michigan; father; Hebrew language; Israel; Itch Goldberg; Itche Goldberg; Itshe Goldberg; Iṭshe Goldberg; Itzhak Goldberg; Morris Friedman; mother; parents; Ramat Gan, Israel; Sarah Friedman; Sarah Weisman; Teacher Education Program; teachers; teaching; Yiddish language; Yiddish Teacher Training Program; Zionism; Zionists

73:24 - Betty's Connection to Yiddish as an Adult

Keywords: Aaron Lansky; Chaim Grade; children; father; great grandchildren; great-grandchildren; mother; parents; secular Yiddish school; shule; Yiddish authors; Yiddish language; Yiddish writers

78:26 - Concluding Thoughts

Keywords: "Pakn Treger"; "The Joy of the Yiddish Word"; Amherst, Massachusetts; Bar Ilan University; Bar-Ilan University; children; father; grandmother; grandparents; Jacob Gladstone; Jacob Glatstein; mother; parents; Ramat Gan, Israel; Yaakov Glatstein; Yankev Glatshteyn; Yiddish Book Center; Yiddish language

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