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 KlezCalifornia will present our first course this Fall, entitled:
 Yiddish Culture in American Jewish Life
Yiddishania: The Gantzeh Cholent"
We hope you will sign up for this participatory exploration of Yiddish culture in American Jewish life today, including songs, klezmer music, family origins, religious practices, Yiddish phrases, and historical debates of what languages Jews "should" speak. No Yiddish knowledge required, although it doesn't hurt! Offered through Lehrhaus Judaica.
Classes will be held at the JCC East Bay on Thursdays, October 19 & 26, and November 2 & 9, 7 - 8:30pm. Teachers will be Ken Blady, Reb Tsvi Bar-David, and Gerry Tenney. Tuition $60 - $75.
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Save the Dates!
TWO KlezCalifornia Cabarets by the Bay
Klezmer music, Yiddish song performance, spoken word, humor, and a dance party
Sunday, October 22, Addison-Penzak JCC, in Los Gatos
AND
Sunday, November 5, JCC East Bay, Berkeley
Performers, times, prices announced in the September newsletter.
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Yiddish Conversation
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Sunday, August 6, 2 - 4pm
Monthly conversation and a nosh for fluent Yiddish speakers
RSVP at least several days in advance or call 415.789.7679
At a private home, OAKLAND
Free
Mir veln shmuesn vegn de temes:
-- Nayeh vitsn
-- Vos hot ir lib tsu ton in ayer frayeh tsayt?
-- Dertseylt an interesanteh mayseh vegn dayn mishpokheh
-- Un oyb s'vet zayn tsayt, veln mir zingen a yidish lid!
Oyb ir kent, brengt epes tsu nashn.
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KlezCalifornia Klezmer Workshops and Jams
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Join us for one (or more!) of three more summertime KlezCalifornia Klezmer Workshops & Jams. Each will be taught by a terrific musician and teacher and includes learning tunes with authentic klezmer style, and a traditional jam. The balance of learning by ear vs. with charts is chosen by each teacher. For all instruments; no klezmer experience needed (but it doesn't hurt!). Must be at least intermediate level on your instrument. Mute required if you are a brass player. Optional: bring recording device. To get a head start, check out sheet music and/or sound files in advance.
Registration: $25 sliding scale, for participants. Pay on site with cash or check. Refreshments included. Listeners welcome; donation requested. More info: 415.789.7679, [email protected].
Sunday, August 13, 2 - 5pm, with Dmitri Gaskin
Private home, Palo Alto
Sunday, August 27, 2 - 5pm, with Dmitri Gaskin
Sunday, September 17, 1- 4pm, with Joshua Horowitz
Images of 2017-07-16 workshop in Berkeley led by Jeanette Lewicki, by Judy Kunofsky, improved by Jim Rebhan.
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Beginning Yiddish, in San Francisco, an ongoing class with Rochelle Goldman
Every other Friday, 3 - 5pm
Presented by Arbeter Ring/Workmen's Circle
No tuition; textbook required
More info: 925.482.0294
San Francisco Public Library Main Branch, San Francisco
Yiddish 101, Elementary Yiddish, at U.C. Berkeley, with Danny Luzon
Mondays - Fridays, 11am - noon, beginning August 23 for fifteen weeks
Tuition TBD
More info:
510.643.2004,
U.C. Berkeley Department of German
U.C. Berkeley, Berkeley
Sholem Aleichem's Inner Child: "Motl, the Cantor's Son," at U.C. Berkeley, with Yael Chaver
Tuesdays & Thursdays, 11am - 12:30pm, beginning August 24 for fifteen weeks
Tuition TBD
More info: 510.643.2004, U.C. Berkeley Department of German
U.C. Berkeley, Berkeley
Introductory Yiddish, in Santa Cruz, with Yankl Levitow
Tuesdays, 5:30 - 7pm, beginning September 12, for ten weeks
Suggested tuition $250, plus $20 textbook; no one turned away; all welcome to visit first class for free.
More info: [email protected]
Congregation Kol Tefilah, Santa Cruz
Intermediate Yiddish in Santa Cruz, with Yankl Levitow
Tuesdays, 7:15 - 9:15pm, beginning September 12, for ten weeks
Suggested tuition $300; no one turned away; all welcome to visit first class for free.
Yiddish Literature Reading Group, in Palo Alto, with Yankl Levitow
Mondays, 7 - 9pm, beginning September 18, for ten weeks
Read Yiddish literature in the original, with discussion in a mixture of Yiddish and English.
Suggested tuition $300; no one turned away; all welcome to visit first class for free.
Reading Yiddish Texts, in Berkeley, an ongoing class with Yael Chaver
Mondays, 7:15 - 9:15pm, September 18 - December 18
Tuition: $195 - $205
Co-presented by KlezCalifornia
Register through Lehrhaus Judaica
JCC East Bay, Berkeley
Intermediate Yiddish, in Berkeley, with Ken Blady
Wednesdays, 7 - 8:30pm, September 27 - December 13
Tuition: $160 - $175
Co-presented by KlezCalifornia
Register through Lehrhaus Judaica
JCC East Bay, Berkeley
Introduction to Yiddish, at Stanford, with Yankl Levitow
Wednesdays, 7 - 8:50pm, beginning September 27 for ten weeks
Tuition: $460
Beginning Yiddish, in Berkeley, with Ken Blady
Mondays, 7:00 - 8:30pm, October 2 - December 4
Tuition: $160 - $175
Co-presented by KlezCalifornia
Register through Lehrhaus Judaica
JCC East Bay, Berkeley
Beginning Yiddish, in Lafayette, with Ken Blady
Tuesdays, noon -1:30pm, October 3 - December 5
Tuition: $160 - $175
Co-presented by KlezCalifornia
Register through Lehrhaus Judaica
Temple Isaiah, Lafayette
Beginning Yiddish, in San Rafael, with Ken Blady
Thursdays, noon -1:30pm, October 12 - December 21
Tuition: $160 - $175
Co-presented by KlezCalifornia
Register through Lehrhaus Judaica
Osher Marin JCC, San Rafael
Yiddish Culture in American Jewish Life - Yiddishania: the
Gantzeh Cholent, with Ken Blady, Reb Tsvi Bar-David, Gerry Tenney
Thursdays, 7 - 8:30pm, October 19 & 26, and November 2 & 9
Tuition $60 - $75
Presented by KlezCalifornia
Register through Lehrhaus Judaica
JCC East Bay, Berkeley
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Yiddish Culture in August
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Majorly Minor
Friday, August 4, 8-11pm
Klezmer and Israeli music for Stanford International Folk Dancers . Dancing led by Donna Frankel.
First Baptist Church, Palo Alto
$12; no-one turned away
Sunday, August 6, 2 - 5pm,
Private home, Oakland
Details in a box above
Free!
Menashe (film, 2017, 1 hr 22 mins., Yiddish with English subtitles)
Beginning August 11, times TBD
Set within the New York Hasidic community in Borough Park, Brooklyn, Menashe follows a kind but hapless grocery store clerk trying to maintain custody of his son Rieven after his wife, Lea, passes away.
Embarcadero Cinema, San Francisco
KlezCalifornia Klezmer Workshop & Jam, with Dmitri Gaskin
Sunday, August 13, 2 - 5pm
Tuesday, August 15, 1 - 2pm.
The accordion's history and its role in klezmer music. Traditional pieces spanning
Europe and the United States over the past 100 years, plus original pieces
KlezCalifornia Klezmer Workshop & Jam, with Dmitri Gaskin
Sunday, August 27, 2 - 5pm
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Farshidns (This 'n That)
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Oy, vey, mameleh!
Roaring Twenties Yiddish Theater Sex Ed, combining a Yiddish theater song (with English subtitles) with cute animation.
(thanks to Tamar Zaken)
Do you know Yiddish pick up lines? YIVO offers an enjoyable
quiz to test whether you are ready for some Yiddish romance!
Yiddish Sex Manual for 1930s Jewish Girls in Warsaw, or at least an article about it
(thanks to Rivka Greenberg).
"Dos Elnteh Kind," a song written by Shmerkeh Kaczerginski, from a documentary in production about "The Lonely Child," written in the Vilna Ghetto in 1943. With performances in Yiddish by Book of J. (Jewlia Eisenberg and Jeremiah Lockwood) and Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell, accompanied by Joshua Horowitz.
(thanks to Mike Perlmutter)
Great Songs of the American Yiddish Stage - A New Virtual Exhibit, Part 3:
Joseph Rumshinsky, part of the Milken Archive of Jewish Music
(thanks to Steveanne Auerbach)
Proverb of the month:
Don't rely on miracles.
(Oyf keyn nisim tor men zikh nit farlozn)
אױף קײן נסים טאָר מען זיך ניט פֿאַרלאָזן
(from "Words Like Arrows," compiled by Shirley Kumove)
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Honor Wall
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Interactive Resources: In gratitude to Edward Anisman, whom we've had the honor to work with for four decades. Thank you Ed for your dedication, excellence and friendship.
Lea Delson: My donation is in memory of Allen Stross. He was an intrepid and spirited person with tons of personality, a warm and kind person and was a fascinating storyteller. He was a dedicated photographer for the Jewish Music Festival, the Berkeley Historical Society, and for the Yiddish Culture Festival. He was the organizer of a photography contest sponsored by the Berkeley Historical Society in 2005, for photo essays about Berkeley's history. I was thrilled to be one of the winners of this contest. Thanks, Allen, for all you did.
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Preview of Yiddish Culture in September
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KlezCalifornia Semi-Annual Party for Donors
Sunday, September 10, 2 - 5pm
415.789.7679, [email protected]
Private home, Palo Alto
KlezCalifornia Klezmer Workshop & Jam, with Joshua Horowitz
Sunday, September 17, 1 - 4pm
$25 sliding scale. Includes refreshments. Listeners welcome; donation requested.
415.789.7679, [email protected]
Jewish Community Library, San Francisco
KlezCalifornia Flisik Yidish Salon
Sunday, September 17, 2 - 4pm
For fluent speakers
415.789.7679, [email protected]
Private home, Walnut Creek
Free!
Monday, September 25, 1:15-2:15pm
JCC San Francisco, San Francisco
Free!
"Jewish Folktales Retold: Artist as Maggid" (exhibit)
September 28 - January 28, 2018
The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco
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Support KlezCalifornia
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Donate to KlezCalifornia and receive:
- Invites to exclusive parties [next September 10, Palo Alto]
- Yiddish-themed thank you gifts
- Posting on our Honor Wall
- Our undying gratitude!
Your donations help KlezCalifornia keep Bay Area Yiddish culture and community vibrant and thriving. Read more about donor benefits here.
Donate by credit card
here or mail a check to
KlezCalifornia, 1728 Allston Way, Berkeley 94703.
A sheynem dank! Thank you very much!
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