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Announcing the call of applications for the next round of grants from KlezCalifornia's Yiddish Culture Fund, which is creating a new generation of Yiddish cultural leaders by supporting programs they produce. Read about past grants and check the details for this round. Proposals for grants of $300 - $3000 are due by Monday, September 29.
Also, tickets are now available for the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, through August 3, and for a new production of Sholem Asch's Indecent, September 7 - 28 (more information below).
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| SAN FRANCISCO JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL | | The 45th San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, now thorugh August 3, bringing more than 65 dynamic independent films to the Bay Area. KlezCalifornia is a community partner for the following two films. | | KlezCalifornia is a Community Partner | | Saturday, August 2, 8:30 pm, Piedmont Theatre, Oakland | | |
Twenty years after her mother’s death, journalist Marisa Fox unearths a family secret. She knew her mom as Tamar, the infamous redheaded freedom fighter in British mandate Palestine—not as Hela, a Polish-born survivor of a Jewish women’s forced labor camp in Nazi-occupied Sudetenland. As Marisa delves deeper, she discovers her mother’s entries in a journal written by the camp’s teenage prisoners and proceeds to track down those former prisoners across the globe. Includes Yiddish songs, letters, and more.
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In The Stage is Ours, a nine-minute short, nearly fifty Jewish actors, playwrights and directors gather at Broadway’s Lyceum Theatre to reflect on the history and meaning of Jewish theater. This wonderful short will be shown as part of A Dose of Reality: Documentary Shorts.
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| | KlezCalifornia is a Community Partner | Sunday, August 17, 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm, Online | | |
This multimedia program takes audiences on a journey – via music, visuals, and storytelling – tracing klezmer’s evolution and development from Old World shtetls to New World nightclubs and concert stages. Presented by New Lehrhaus, the program includes insights into the sound and shape of klezmer and introduces many of the great heroes who helped transform Eastern European Yiddish wedding music into the vital form of world music it is today.
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| | UC Berkeley, Fall Semester, Online | | Two exciting Yiddish courses are being offered this fall at UC Berkeley: Elementary Yiddish and Jewish Humor. Learn more about these classes by clicking the short video above. Both classes will be taught online beginning the last week in August and are available to members of the community via U.C. Extension's Concurrent Enrollment program. Tuition and fees come to $3,750 for each of these 4-unit courses! Check out numerous less expensive Yiddish language courses on KlezCalifornia's website. | | | | Baymele ("little tree" in Yiddish) is a klezmer band rooted in the San Francisco Bay Area. Their debut album, Sapling, embodies the idea of new growth from old roots and is a celebration of diasporic Jewish folk music, and features Matthew Stein on upper strings, Misha Khalikulov on lower strings, and KlezCalifornia's own Dmitri Gaskin on accordion. They have also released a video. | | September 7 - 28, 2025, CenterREP, Walnut Creek | | |
Yiddish Theatre Ensemble (YTE) is a co-presenter of this exciting production of Indecent at CenterREP, located at the Lesher Center in Walnut Creek. Paula Vogel’s powerful, Tony Award-winning play is based on the history of Sholem Asch's provocative 1906 play, God of Vengeance. The show previews September 7 and runs through September 28.
20% discount on tickets for September 11-21. Read more »
| | View more events and classes on our website: | | In memory of Gil Rosoff, who served on KlezCalifornia's Board of Directors 2010-2018, volunteering for numerous projects including creating klezmer cabarets at Tannourine Restaurant in San Mateo and advising on our insurance needs. We have missed his insights, volunteering, and sweet presence since he went off the Board. Our condolences to his widow, Carolyn Levy. | | In honor of Adam, celebrating birthday #1. Parents: Shayna and Ben | | View KlezCalifornia's Honor Wall. Become a donor to post your tribute. | | | | |
Support the renewal of Yiddish culture through KlezCalifornia's Yiddish Culture Fund.
You may also mail a check payable to KlezCalifornia, with TYCF on the comment line, to the address below.
A sheynem dank!
Thank you very much!
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