Steve Pieczenik - TEODORA: A Yiddish Mother Aired: 2016-02-16 Duration: 00:31 [00:00:03] There were three truisms about Theodora. [00:00:06] She loved her two sons. [00:00:08] She had loved her husband, Saul, and she adored America the Beautiful. [00:00:13] She represented the only things that were worth living for, freedom and love. [00:00:26] For that, survival was the only way to lead a life of a wandering refugee.