We wish you a happy secular new year. We have some exciting programs coming up in January that we look forward to sharing with you. Thanks to those of you who contributed to our year-end campaign. If you meant to donate at the end of 2025 but didn’t get around to it, don’t worry! It’s never too late to contribute towards our wonderful programs, click to donate now. |
| Presented by the Jewish Community Library | | Co-presented by KlezCalifornia | | Sunday, January 11, 2 pm, online | | |
Vivi Lachs will introduce her new book with a lively presentation featuring performed readings and a couple of Cockney Yiddish songs. East End Jews is a book of sketches from the London Yiddish press. It offers an unparalleled view into the life, labor, politics, and joys of London’s Jewish East End from its heyday in the 1890s until the 1950s.
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Presented by KlezCalifornia
Sunday, January 18, 2 - 3 pm, online
| | This free, monthly online conversation Salon is for fluent (flisik) Yiddish speakers. | | װאָס פֿאַר אַ זאַך האָט איר געהאַלטן צוליב סענטימענטאַלע סיבות? פֿאַר װאָס? קענט איר אונדז װײַזן אַ בילד פֿון דעם? | | |
Di teme far yanuar vet zayn: Vos far a zakh hot ir gehaltn tsulib sentimentale sibes? Far vos? Kent ir undz vayzn a bild fun dem?
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Sunday, January 25, 2 - 5 pm
Congregation Netivot Shalom, 1316 University Avenue, Berkeley
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Join the October-May monthly series celebrating The Joy of Jewish Music and Dance! Great for musicians, dancers, and enthusiasts to meet, learn, play, shmooze, or simply to take in the beauty of these rich traditions. Bring your instruments and dancing shoes. For the January session, music will be taught by Qadim, whose repertoire includes Sephardic, Yemenite, and Mizrahi music. Dance will be led by Miriam Peretz.
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Abe Elenkrieg or Elenkrig (1878 - 1965) was a trumpeter, barber and bandleader of "Abe Elenkrig's Yiddishe Orchestra" and the “Hebrew Bulgarian Orchestra.” Connoisseurs consider his klezmer records the great neglected treasures of klezmer music. One of the first recordings of klezmer music was made by Abe in 1913.
Note: Illustration of a klezmer band from YIVO archives, but not Elenkrig or his band.
| | | | Jewish student and Yiddishist at The University of Sheffield in the UK, Torin Menzies, is researching whether and how political beliefs influence individuals' motivations to engage with Yiddish (including klezmer and other cultural elements). Participants will be interviewed online for about 45 minutes. All personal data will be anonymized. He is not seeking to interview Haredim or current residents of Israel. If you are interested, contact Torin at tmenzies1@sheffield.ac.uk. | | View more events and classes on our website: | | In honor of Marianne Tatom, for enriching & strengthening Yiddishkayt for so many - a hartsik dank! | | In memory of my father, Dr. Richard Brewer. | | In honor of KlezCalifornia's Flisik Yiddish Conversation Salon. | | In memory of Rose and Ernie Wezelman. | | In honor of Judy Kunofsky. | | In honor of Dr. Jon Levitow, with my deepest appreciation for being an outstanding teacher. | | In memory of Arnold Kronfeld, my late dad, who used quite a few Yiddish expressions, and who went dancing every night for many years. | | In honor of Judy Kunofsky. Judy’s love for Yiddish culture is infectious, and her enthusiasm and organizational skills are priceless. | | In blessed memory of my dear cousins, Rose & Harvey Lash. The last of my Yiddish-speaking family. | | | | The Simon & Schoenfeld Family | | In memory of Ann Kositsky Haiman. | | In memory of Max Pincus & Gerrie M. Pincus. | | In memory of Chaya Adler. | | In memory of Willam Samuel Levin, the son I never got to know. I will always remember the light from his first smile. | | In honor of Laurel R. Fox for her persistence and passion. | | View KlezCalifornia's Honor Wall. Become a donor to post your tribute. | | A bisl mer (a little bit more) | | | | |
