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0:00 - Introduction 0:43 - Ruth's Family Background [in Yiddish]

Keywords: 1920s; 1930s; ancestors; Athens, Greece; David Ben-Gurion; family background; family histories; grandparents; Hebrew language; Holocaust; immigrants; immigration and migration; Israel; Israeli politics; khurbm; khurbn; Lebanon; malaria; Mandate Palestine; marriage; Menachem Begin; Palestine; parents; political movements; political parties; relationships; Second World War; Shoah; Tel Aviv, Israel; Varshah; Varshava; Warsaw Ghetto; Warsaw ghetto; Warsaw, Poland; Warszawa; World War 2; World War II; WW2; WWII; Zionism; Zionists

12:57 - The Languages Ruth Encountered During Her Childhood [in Yiddish]

Keywords: childhood; family; father; Hebrew language; heritage; languages; library; mother; poet; Polish language; Shalom Aleichem; Shalom Rabinovitz; Sholem Aleichem; Sholem Aleichem (Shalom Rabinovitz); Sholem Aleichem (Sholem Rabinovitz); Sholem Aleykhem; Sholem Rabinovich; Sholem Rabinovitch; Sholem Rabinovitsh; writer; Yiddish books; Yiddish language; Yiddish learning; Yiddish literature

17:26 - Ruth's Family's Experience in Tel Aviv in 1948 [partly in Yiddish]

Keywords: 1940s; 1948 Palestine War; Arab-Israeli conflict; Britain; British military; childhood; childhood home; England; family; father; Israeli War of Independence; Israeli-Palestinian conflict; Jaffa, Israel; mother; Palestine; Tel Aviv, Israel; Tel Aviv-Yafo; the British Army; war; Yafa; Yafo

23:14 - Ruth Recalls More Aspects of Her Childhood in Tel Aviv

Keywords: business; childhood; childhood home; co-op; cooperative organization; family; father; Friends of Israel Scouts; ha-Shomer ha-Tsa'ir; Hamahanot Ha'olim; HaMahanot HaOlim; Hashomer Hatsair; Hashomer Hatza'ir; Hashomer Hatzair; International Workers' Day; Israeli youth groups; Labour Day; leftist organizations; Mahanot ha-'Olim; May Day; mother; parents; poetry; political movements; political organizations; politics; recycling; Tel Aviv, Israel; Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel; Tzofim; youth movements; Zionist youth group

30:03 - The Attitudes Towards Yiddish in Israel During Ruth's Childhood [in Yiddish]

Keywords: childhood; children of Holocaust survivors; Dzigan and Schumacher; Holocaust; Israeli attitudes towards Yiddish; Jewish comedy; khurbm; khurbn; parents; sabras; Shimen Dzigan; Shoah; Szymon Dzigan; Yiddish comedy; Yiddish dialects; Yiddish language; Yisroel Shumacher

33:13 - Ruth Describes the Culture of Independence She Grew Up With [partly in Yiddish] 35:47 - Ruth's Experience Working at the 1958 Brussels World's Fair [in Yiddish]

Keywords: 1950s; 1958 Brussels World's Fair; Brussels, Belgium; education; Expo 58; French language; Paris, France; studying; travel; World's Fair

40:43 - Ruth Shares the Story of How She Met Her Husband

Keywords: "My Fair Lady"; 1958 Brussels World's Fair; Broadway theater; Broadway theatre; Brussels, Belgium; courtship; dating; Garmisch, Germany; Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany; Hebrew school; Hebrew speakers; husband; Los Angeles, California; love; marriage; New York; Paris, France; relationships; Switzerland; Tel Aviv, Israel; Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel; U.S. Air Force; United States Air Force; United States military; University of Minnesota; Winter Olympic Games

50:53 - Ruth Recalls Moving from Israel to Minneapolis, Minnesota

Keywords: Canada; husband; immigration and migration; in-laws; marriage; Minneapolis, Minnesota; parents-in-law; relationships; United States

53:41 - Ruth Describes Her Wedding in Paris

Keywords: aunt; Boy Scouts of America; chupah; chuppa; chuppah; Eagle Scouts; huppah; husband; Jewish wedding; khupe; languages; love; marriage; mother; Paris, France; relationships; wedding

61:15 - Ruth Talks about Adjusting to Living in Minnesota

Keywords: cities; education; English language; immigration and migration; literature; Minneapolis, Minnesota; schools; Tel Aviv; Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel; United States

64:20 - Reconnecting to Yiddish by Joining a Group of Yiddish Learners

Keywords: "Death of a Salesman"; Arthur Miller; Chava Alberstein; coming back to Yiddish; Hebrew words; husband; JCC; Jewish actors; Jewish community center; Lev Mailer; Yiddish community; Yiddish groups; Yiddish language; Yiddish speakers

71:04 - Ruth's Relationship to Yiddish as Her Father's Language

Keywords: books; family; father; heritage; husband; in-laws; library; parents; parents-in-law; poet; poetry; relationships; siblings; writer; Yiddish language; Yiddish speakers

74:27 - Ruth's Perspective on the Yiddish Revival in Israel

Keywords: Holocaust; Israel; Israeli attitudes towards Yiddish; Jewish culture; Jewish Diaspora; khurbm; khurbn; sabras; Shoah; Tel Aviv; Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel; The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; United States; Yiddish language; Yiddish revival; Yiddish speakers; Yiddish theater; Yiddish theatre

80:11 - Ruth Highlights Two Aspects of Israel that Impress Her

Keywords: Eliezer Ben-Yehuda; Hebrew language; immigrants; immigration and migration; Israel; Israeli Air Force; Jewish languages; kibbutz

84:41 - Ruth's Thoughts on the Future of Yiddish

Keywords: Orthodox Jews; universities; university; Yiddish culture; Yiddish language; Yiddish revival; Yiddish speakers; Yiddish theater; Yiddish theatre

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