Keywords: ancestors; Bellingham, Washington; childhood; family background; father; Ger; Germany; Góra Kalwaria, Poland; grandmother; Gur; heritage; immigration and migration; Kalamata, Greece; Kauen; Kaunas, Lithuania; Kovna; Kovne; Kovno; Kowno; mother; names; parents; Santa Cruz, California; siblings; Wales

Keywords: "Forverts"; "The Jewish Daily Forward"; "The Yiddish Daily Forward"; activism; activist; ancestors; Arbeiter Ring; Chicago, Illinois; coming back to Yiddish; Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.; family; family background; family histories; grandfather; grandmother; great-grandmother; heritage; immigration and migration; Judaism; kashres; kashrus; kashrut; kashruth; keeping kosher; lawyer; name changes; names; New York; newspapers; pogroms; women's rights; Workers Circle (Arbeter Ring); Workmen's Circle; Yiddish culture; Yiddish language

Keywords: books; candles; childhood; cooking; Egypt; food; grandmother; Jewish holidays; matse; matza; matzah; matzo ball soup; Morocco; Shabbat; Shabbes; Shabbos; shabes; travel

Keywords: books; Chanukah; childhood home; Christmas; family traditions; father; Hanukkah; High Holidays; High Holy Days; holidays; Jewish culture; Jewish holidays; journalism; journalist; Judaism; kashres; kashrus; kashrut; kashruth; keeping kosher; khanike; kugel; kugl; latkes; marriage; matse; matza; matzah; matzo ball soup; mother; parents; Passover; Pesach; peysekh; religion; religious observance; Tibetan Buddhism

Keywords: "All-of-a-Kind Family" books; "Passover as I Remember It" by Toby Fluek; family background; father; Greek culture; Greek festivals; Greek food; Holocaust; interfaith family; intermarriage; intermarried family; Jewish culture; khurbm; khurbn; mother; Passover; Pesach; peysekh; Shoah; Sydney Taylor; Yiddishkayt; Yiddishkeit; yidishkayt; yidishkeyt

Keywords: anti-Semitism; antisemitism; books; childhood; Holocaust; Holocaust education; khurbm; khurbn; middle school; Nazis; school; Shoah

Keywords: Bellingham, Washington; Birthright Israel; Chabad; college; family; Hillel; Israel; Jewish community; Jewish identity; Judaism; khabad; parents; travel; Western Washington University; Whatcom Community College

Keywords: "What the Chelm"; childhood; German language; grandmother; high school; Holocaust studies; Jewish culture; Jewish history; Jewish studies; klezmer; mother; New York; Tel Aviv University; Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel; The Naomi Prawer Kadar International Yiddish Summer Program; Yiddish concerts; Yiddish culture; Yiddish language; Yiddish music; Yiddish words; Yiddishkayt; Yiddishkeit; yidishkayt; yidishkeyt

Keywords: Daniel Birnbaum; education; hostel; Tel Aviv University; Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel; The Naomi Prawer Kadar International Yiddish Summer Program; Yiddish language programs; Yiddish learning; Yiddish summer programs; Yuri Vedenyapin

Keywords: academia; academic; college; cultural diversity; education; Jewish history; Jewish studies; Mendy Cahan; school; Western Washington University; Yiddish community; Yiddish culture; Yiddish language; Yiddish learning; Yiddish speakers; Yung Yidish

Keywords: "Indecent"; academia; education; oral history; Steiner Summer Yiddish Program; Wexler Oral History Project; Yiddish Book Center; Yiddish language; Yiddish learning; Yiddish songs

Keywords: grandmother; Jewish identity; Judaism; mentors; parents; professors; teachers; Western Washington University

Keywords: American Sign Language; ASL; Deaf community; sign language; Yiddish language

Keywords: 1940s; family histories; family stories; grandmother

Keywords: "Jewish Partisan Song"; "Partizaner lid" ("Partisan song"); "Tumbalalaika"; "Zog nit keyn mol" ("Never say"); "Zog nit keynmol"; academia; academics; advice; Hebrew language; heritage; Israel; Jewish diaspora; music; prayer; singing; vernacular Yiddish; Yiddish language; Yiddish learning; Yiddish songs; Yiddish speakers

Keywords: family; great-grandmother; parents; photograph

Keywords: 1900s; ancestors; Chicago, Illinois; family history; Ger, Poland; Góra Kalwaria, Poland; great-grandfather; immigration and migration; Old Country; Otwock, Poland; pogroms; Russia; secular; Seymour Barab

Keywords: academia; academics; Eastern European history; heritage; Holocaust studies; Jewish history; Jewish identity; Jewish studies; research; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; Yad Vashem

Keywords: academics; graduate school; Yiddish Book Center; Yiddish language; Yiddish learning; Yiddish summer programs