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We wish you a zisn un freylekhn khanike! A sweet and happy Hanukkah, beginning the evening of December 25!
Over the next few weeks we will announce exciting new grants to young people from The Yiddish Culture Fund, and tell you about our plans for a Yiddish Culture Festival in 2025. Please open the emails you will receive from KlezCalifornia later this month and respond with your most generous year-end support.
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Grantee of The Yiddish Culture Fund and co-presented by KlezCalifornia
Sunday, December 8th, 12:30-3:30pm PT
Come to the JCC East Bay for the next installment of a monthly series celebrating “The Joy of Jewish Music and Dance.” Great for musicians, dancers, and other enthusiasts to meet, shmooze, or simply to take in the beauty of our rich traditions. This session will feature Sephardic music led by Dror Sinai and Jamie Barsimantov. Sephardic dance will be led by Miriam Peretz. Bring your instruments and dancing shoes. Tickets $25 - $54, sliding scale. No one turned away for lack of funds. Kids are free.
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Co-presented by KlezCalifornia
Wednesday, December 11th, 6:30pm PT, at JCC San Francisco
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Come to JCC San Francisco for a special screening of one of the most important and influential Jewish films of all time (1937, 99 mins., Yiddish withnew English subtitles). Filmed before WWII, The Dybbuk, based on S. Ansky’s seminal play, is a landmark Yiddish film blending Jewish mysticism and legend in a tale of a broken marriage vow that unleashes a haunting spirit into a 19th-century Hasidic shtetl. It is presented here in a new digital restoration with English subtitles, and with an original, live score by Yenne Velt, an ambient music group whose melodies are rooted in Eastern European Jewish folk music.
Tickets are $25. Use discount code Klez20 for 20% off!
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Lomir Zingen! (Let’s Sing!), with Cindy Paley’s Klezmer Quartet, in San Rafael
Co-presented by KlezCalifornia
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Join Cindy Paley’s Klezmer Quartet for a rich and rousing evening of Yiddish favorites old & new! Come ready to learn and sing along to the vibrant and colorful songbook of Eastern European Jewry’s unique cultural history. Guitarist/vocalist Cindy Paley will be joined by accordionist Zina Pozen, clarinetist Asaf Ophir, and violinist Nathan Ladyzhensky. Songsheets in transliteration with English translations will be provided.
Tuesday, December 17th at 1pm, Palo Alto JCC
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Wednesday, December 18th at 7pm, private home in San Rafael
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Thursday, December 19th at 7pm, private home in Oakland
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Co-presented by KlezCalifornia
Monday, December 23rd, 3-5pm PT, at Berkeley Public Library, South Branch
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Join us for a vibrant celebration of Jewish music and dance from around the world, led by Jewish dance master Bruce Bierman. Learn about the histories and cultural significance of these dances and, more importantly, participate in the joyous dancing.
At the Berkeley Public Library, South Branch, 1901 Russell Street. Event is wheelchair accessible.
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Listen to this performance of Loyb, a poem by Chava Rosenfarb, a survivor of the Lodz ghetto, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen, set to music by Alan Bern, and performed by Sveta Kundish, Alan Bern, Mark Kovnatskiy, and Martin Lillich. The full text of the poem is in the comments under the video. | |
In loving memory of my dear brother Oren M. Rubin, z"l | |
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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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