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0:17 - Introduction 0:40 - Gerry Speaks About His Family Background (in Yiddish)

Keywords: 1900s; 1910s; America; Babrujsk; Babruysk, Belarus; Bobroisk; Bobruisk; Bobrujsk; Bobruysk; Bronx, New York; chicken farmers; Colomeea; communism; communists; family background; family history; father; grandfather; grandmother; grandparents; immigrants; immigration; Kholomya; Kiev, Ukraine; Kiyev, Russia; klezmer musicians; Kolimeya; Kolimia; Kolomai; Kolomea; Kolomey; Kolomïa; Kolomiyah; Kolomyia; Kolomyja; Kolomyya, Ukraine; Kolymea klezmorim; Minsk, Belarus; mother; New York City; parents; U.S.; uncles; United States; US; Yiddish language

4:28 - Gary's Family's Professions (in Yiddish and English)

Keywords: Bainbridge Avenue; Bainbridgivke; bakers; bakery; baking; Bronx, New York; Catskill Mountains, New York; Catskills; Coney Island; family background; family history; father; grandparents; klezmer music; musicians; New York City; Pocono Mountains, New York; Poconos; tumlers; vaudeville; vaudevillians

7:11 - Gerry Remembers the Neighborhood He Grew Up In

Keywords: Bronx, New York City; childhood home; Jewish community; neighborhood; public school; religious observance; schul; shul; synagogue

10:24 - Gerry Remembers Attending Hebrew School

Keywords: bar mitzvah; bar-mitsve; Hebrew education; Hebrew language; Hebrew pronunciation; Hebrew school; Jewish education; relationships; schul; shul; synagogue; Yiddish education; Yiddish pronunciation; Yiddish speaker; Zionism; Zionists

13:00 - Gerry Remembers His Favorite Jewish Holidays 14:14 - Remembering Family Vacations in the Catskill Mountains

Keywords: Catskill Mountains, New York; Eastern Catskills; family relationships; family vacations; New York; Phoenicia, New York; Western Catskills

15:21 - Gerry Considers the Political Leanings of His Family

Keywords: communism; communists; family relationships; politics; socialism; socialists; union members; workers unions; Zionism; Zionists

16:57 - Gerry Remembers His Grandfather's Chicken Farm 19:16 - Gerry Remembers Yiddish Phrases His Family Used

Keywords: bakery; baking; education; family relationships; labor unions; union workers; Yiddish language; Yiddish learning; Yiddish phrases

22:31 - Camp Kinderland, and Gerry's Childhood Relationship to Judaism

Keywords: 1950s; activists; bungalow colony; Camp Kinderland; childhood; civil rights movement; hekhere kursn; Jewish identity; Lake Mohegan, New York; leftist politics; Marxism; McCarthy era; political activism; political organizing; socialism; socialists; Yiddish culture; Yiddish language; Yiddish summer camp

34:29 - How Gerry Came to Be Involved with Yiddish

Keywords: Carnegie Hall; Holocaust; Jewish identity; Jewish Philharmonic Folk Chorus; Yiddish culture; Yiddish identity; Yiddish language; Yiddish singing; Yiddish songs

36:25 - Why Gerry Left New York City in the 1970s 37:44 - Gerry Sings a Yiddish Song 40:45 - Gerry Describes What It Was Like Living in Woodstock

Keywords: 1970s; bar mitzvah; bar-mitsve; communal living; commune; Jewish wedding; Passover; Pesach; peysekh; seder; Woodstock, New York

42:09 - Gerry's Move to California and the Rekindling of His Jewishness

Keywords: 1970s; activist community; bluegrass music; folk music; Jewish community; Jewish identity; Jewish songs; pintele yid; political community; SDS; Students for a Democratic Society; Yiddish identity; Yiddishkayt; Yiddishkeit; yidishkayt; yidishkeyt

47:23 - How Gerry Got Involved with Jewish Music

Keywords: 1980s; Cooperative Camps for Children; Jewish childrens songs; Jewish music; kinder shul; KlezKamp; klezmer music; klezmorim; music scene; preschool; Yiddish singing

53:10 - Musical Mentors and Gerry's Continued Involvement with Jewish Music

Keywords: Ethel Raim; Joel Rubin; klezmer music; klezmorim; musical mentors; musician; Yiddish community; Yiddish music; Yiddish singing

62:17 - Gerry's Current Musical Projects

Keywords: career; Itzik Manger; kinder shul; kindershul; KlezCalifornia; KlezKamp; music festival; musician; preschool; Tam project; Yiddish author; Yiddish music; Yiddish singing; Yiddish translation

67:42 - What Cultural Revival Means to Gerry

Keywords: Andy Statman; cultural history; cultural revival; cultural transmission; Dave Tarras; Jewish history; klezmer music; klezmer revival; multiculturalism; political activism; politics; Yiddish language; Yiddish revival

78:09 - Gerry Sings His Favorite Yiddish Song

Keywords: Beregovsky expeditions; duet; Moisei Iakovlevich Beregovskii; Moshe Beregovski; Yiddish singing; Yiddish song; Yiddish translation

90:49 - Gerry's Involvement with Radio

Keywords: Berkeley, California; Israel; Jewish Community Center Jewish Music Festival; klezmer music; KPFA; Palestine; Pete Seeger; politics; radio; Yiddish music; Yiddish radio show; Yiddish revival

94:27 - Gerry Shares Some Advice with Aspiring Musicians

Keywords: Aaron Lansky; KlezCalifornia; KlezKamp; KlezKanada; klezmer music; music camp; music festival; Yiddish Book Center; Yiddish music

96:10 - Gerry's Favorite Yiddish Authors

Keywords: Shalom Rabinovitz; Sholem Aleichem; Sholem Aleykhem; Sholem Rabinovich; Sholem Rabinovitch; Sholem Rabinovitsh; Yiddish authors; Yiddish literature; Yiddish poetry; Yiddish poets

98:07 - Why People Should Learn Yiddish
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