[T1S1] family history; maternal grandfather a rabbi in Russia and Lithuania; maternal uncles, scholars and rabbis; family moves to Rockaway, NY, in 1922 and 1923; father serves as rabbi in Rockaway until his death in 1954; education, Yeshiva High School, prep school, Columbia University, Johns Hopkins, and Dropsie University of Hebrew and Cognate Learning; rabbinical degree from Yeshiva; oriental studies at Johns Hopkins; home life; more family history; discussion of Lithuania after WWI; a story of the Holocaust; settling in Rockaway, NY; individuals who influenced his life; teaching "Religion and Culture of the Jews" at the University of Pittsburgh (UP); discussion of his teaching practices at UP.
