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“A Certain Caché”: Why My Family Identified As Austrian
EX440_2682 Howard Nenner, retired professor of legal and political history, talks about identifying as Austrian as a child, despite where his family was in fact from.More from this narrator: Howard...
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Discovery In The Map Room: Finding My Family’s Shtetl
EX440_2683 Howard Nenner, retired professor of legal and political history, recalls discovering - with the help of a librarian at the British Museum - the lost Shtetl from which his father's family...
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Laundry in an East Bronx Kitchen
EX440_2685 Howard Nenner, retired professor of legal and political history, describes his childhood apartment, a fourth-floor walk-up in the East Bronx, where he lived with his parents and...
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"If You're Sleeping, You're Cheating!": How My Grandfather Observed Yom Kippur
EX440_2686 Howard Nenner, retired professor of legal and political history, describes his grandfather's uncompromising approach to Yom Kippur.More from this narrator: Howard Nenner
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"Creative Kashres"
EX440_2687 Howard Nenner, retired professor of legal and political history, describes his parents' "idiosyncratic" way of approaching observance, and the first time he ate treyf (non-kosher).More from...
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A Code Language: Yiddish in My American Home
EX440_2688 Howard Nenner, retired professor of legal and political history, reflects on his parents' use of Yiddish in the home.More from this narrator: Howard Nenner
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Parade, Automat, and A Movie: Thanksgiving Day in Manhattan with Izzy and Mama
EX440_2689 Howard Nenner, retired professor of legal and political history, remembers childhood Thanksgivings, on which he, his grandmother, and his cognitively disabled cousin Izzy would have a...
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"The Worst Christmas Present"
EX440_2690 Howard Nenner, retired professor of legal and political history, remembers desperately wanting a Christmas present as a child, and the one year that his wish was granted.More from this...
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Leftist But Cautious: My Father's Political Attitude During The McCarthy Era
EX440_2691 Howard Nenner, retired professor of legal and political history, talks about his family's political affiliations, and the many newspapers that were fixtures in his childhood home.More from...
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Kheyder? I Hated Every Moment of It
EX440_2693 Howard Nenner, retired professor of legal and political history, remembers his brief childhood tenure at a kheyder (traditional religious primary school) where the teacher lay in wait to...
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Education, a Good Job, and a Fear of the World: Values My Jewish Parents...
EX440_2694 Howard Nenner, retired professor of legal and political history, reflects on the values he feels his parents tried to impart upon him.More from this narrator: Howard Nenner
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"No More Religious, But A Lot More Jewish": How My First Trip To Israel...
EX440_2695 Howard Nenner, retired professor of legal and political history, talks about going to the Western Wall for the first time, and his epiphany about his identity as a Jew.More from this...
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"The Biggest Mistake of My Life": Reflections on Child-rearing, Cultural...
EX440_2697 Howard Nenner retired professor of legal and political history, relates his discovery that heritage isn't transmissible purely by osmosis, and talks about the complicated realities of...
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Connecting to the Jewish World: Why I Subscribe to the Jewish Daily Forward
EX440_2701 Howard Nenner, a retired professor of legal and political history, explains why he reads a Jewish newspaper.More from this narrator: Howard Nenner
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"It's Not the Hebrew That's Important to Me, It's the Yiddish": Visiting the...
EX440_3719 Howard Nenner, a retired professor of legal and political history, recalls his first visit to the Yiddish Book Center.More from this narrator: Howard Nenner
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