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Sholem Aleykhem (Contact First Name),
Peysekh begins the evening of Friday, March 30.
Check out the Farshidns section below for links to get you in the holiday spirit.
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 KlezCalifornia's Spring Donor Party
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Sunday, April 8,
Oakland
(donate and we'll tell you where)
Good food, music and song, shmoozing, and more!
If you are already a Contributing Member, you should have received your invitation.
If not yet a donor,
contribute any amount by April 3 and you'll be invited. Email KlezCalifornia or call 415.789.7679,
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Flisik Yidish Salon
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Fluent in Yiddish?
Come to KlezCalifornia's free
monthly conversation salon.
Sunday, April 15, 2-4pm
Oakland
Mir veln shmuesn vegn di temes:
- Vos iz di vikhtiksteh zakh vos ir hot a mol zikh gelernt in dayn lebn?
- Vos iz geven a vikhtikeh iberlebung in dayn lebn?
- Tsvantsik shayles
- Zing a lid oder tsvey.
Email us or call 415.789.7679
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Klezmer Dance Band:
Adding the Lift to Dance Tunes
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Sunday, April 15, 1-4pm
Jewish Community Library, SF
Playing in a band for a klezmer dance party is a fun collaboration between dance leader, dancers and musicians. Yet it's rare when dancers, leader and musicians seem in sync. We will cover the main dance rhythms, and explore rhythmic techniques to put the necessary lift in the music, to facilitate a lively dance party.
All ages & all acoustic instruments welcome.
For intermediate level players or above.
Tickets at the door. $25 (or whatever you can pay)
, cash or check only
. Light refreshments included.
Please RSVP (tell us what instrument you play).
Free Tickets! Bring someone who has never come before, and you get a ticket for a free future workshop. Such a deal - a real metsieh!
KlezCalifornia hosts monthly klezmer workshops. Save the dates!
May 6, with Dmitri Gaskin, Piedmont June 3, The Nign: A Subway to Heaven with Jeanette Lewicki, Piedmont
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Bergelson's
Judgment: Imagining the Russian Revolution
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Lecture with translator Sasha Senderovich
Sunday, April 22, 1:30pm
Jewish Community Library, SF
David Bergelson's Yiddish-language novel, Judgment, first published in 1929, has been rendered into English for the first time. Translator Sasha Senderovich will discuss the powerful novel, written in Berlin in the late 1920s and set in a Jewish shtetl in the aftermath of the Bolshevik Revolution, and its context.
Bergelson, one of the most intricate masters of Yiddish prose and the author of The End of Everything and Descent, was murdered on Stalin's orders in 1952.
Co-presented by KlezCalifornia
Free
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When Jesus Spoke Yiddish
Translating the Gospel for Jews
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The Gospel According to Matthew
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Sunday, April 29, 1:30pm
Jewish Community Library, SF
Dr. Seidman traces the 400-year history of the Yiddish translation of the New Testament. While early translators, typically Jewish converts to Christianity, kept close to Luther's German, in the 20th century Yiddish translations moved toward a more idiomatic, Jewish, and "juicy" Yiddish.
Dr. Seidman will explore how and why translators changed their approach, and what this move says about broader trends in Jewish culture, Yiddish literary style, and Jewish-Christian relations.
Co-presented by KlezCalifornia
Free
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Farshidns
Tidbits of Yiddish culture from around the world
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Passover links!
Other tidbits
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Yiddish Culture, Dance & Music
April
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Community Seder with klezmer music by members of Jubilee Klezmer Ensemble
Friday, April 6, 5pm
Monte Rio Community Center, Monte Rio
707.632.5545 for reservations
16th annual City of Berkeley Holocaust Remembrance Day
Sunday, April 8,11:30 am
Includes klezmer music and Yiddish song
The Magnes, Berkeley
Sunday, April 8, 2-5pm
Private home in Oakland
Sunday, April 8, 7pm
Steven Zipperstein and LaDoris Cordell, moderated by Rabbi Sydney Mintz
JCCSF, San Francisco
Sunday, April 15, 1-4pm
Sunday, April 15, 2-4pm
Lecture with Sasha Senderovich
Sunday, April 22, 1:30pm
Jewish Community Library, San Francisco
Also same lecture Monday, April 23, 4:30pm, Stanford University, Stanford, RSVP requested
Ellis Island Old World Folk Band
Wednesday, April 25, 7-9pm
Le Bateau Ivre, Berkeley
Saturday, April 28, 7:30pm
Jewish feminist a cappella group includes Yiddish songs
JCC East Bay, Berkeley
When Jesus Spoke Yiddish
: Translating the Gospels for Jews
Lecture with Naomi Seidman
Sunday, April 29, 1:30pm
Jewish Community Library, San Francisco
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Lecture with Daniel Kupfert Heller
Sunday, May 6, 1:30pm
Jewish Community Library, SF
Monday, May 14, 6pm
Taube Center for Jewish Studies, Stanford University
IN YIDDISH!
Subject TBD
Lecture with Justin Cammy
Tuesday, May 15, 12noon
Taube Center for Jewish Studies, Stanford University
Immigrant Girl, Radical Woman,
with Robbin Legere Henderson
Thursday, May 17, 7pm
Sunday May 20, 2-4pm
Private home in San Francisco
Thursday, May 31, 7pm
Jewish Community Library, San Francisco
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Judy Kunofsky:
In memory of my parents, Pauline (Levine) Kunofsky and Israel Kunofsky.
Visit the KlezCalifornia Honor Wall for more tributes. Become a donor to post your tribute.
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Donate
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Help us continue our exciting mission to connect people and communities around the Bay Area with Yiddish culture. Donate $18, $36 or $54
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If you prefer to mail a check, use the address below.
A sheynem dank! (Thank you very much!)
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