It has been an exciting year! In September we had a terrific festival, the KlezCalYidFest. Later this month we will announce another round of new grants to young people from The Yiddish Culture Fund. Please open the emails from KlezCalifornia starting later this month and respond with your most generous year-end support to help us continue funding our wonderful programs. Wishing you and yours a happy Thanksgiving! |
| Grantee of the Yiddish Culture Fund | | |
Thursday, November 6, 8-9:30pm
Congregation Netivot Shalom, 1316 University Ave, Berkeley
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Sacred Music Fellowship invites people from different cultures and religious traditions to sing, play, and learn with each other. Events this fall will feature Yiddish and klezmer. In November, Rowan Katz will be leading an intro to Yiddish folk song and some foundations of vocal doina! Participants will be given lyric sheets and sent source recordings. Please wear comfy clothing and bring water and writing materials.
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| | Co-presented by KlezCalifornia | | Thursday, November 6, 7pm
Santa Cruz, address will be provided with RSVP | | |
Set to live original music by world renowned violinist Alicia Svigals and celebrated pianist Donald Sosin. East and West is a 1923 Austrian comedy. Molly Picon, a feisty young New Yorker, goes to a family wedding in Europe and gets into all kinds of mischief.
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| | NEW SEASON AND NEW LOCATION | | Fiscally sponsored by KlezCalifornia | | Sunday, November 16, 2-5pm,
NEW LOCATION: Congregation Netivot Shalom, Berkeley | | |
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 November 16, 2025 session, Israeli music will be taught by Asaf Ophir, Achi Ben Shalom, and Katja Cooper. Dance will be led by Bruce Bierman.
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| | Presented by KlezCalifornia | | Sunday, November 16, 2-3pm, Online | | |
This free, monthly online conversation Salon is for fluent (flisik) Yiddish speakers.
,װען איר װאָלט געהאַט אַן אײגענעם לאָגאָ, װערטל, אָדער לאָזונג
? װאָס װאָלט עס געװען
Di teme far november vet zayn: Ven ir volt gehat an eygenem logo, vertl, oder lozung, vos volt es geven?
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| | Co-presented by KlezCalifornia | | Sunday, November 23, 10am-5pm
Hebrew Union College in Los Angeles | | |
A free full-day festival celebrating Yiddish language, art, and culture. Attendees will enjoy lectures, performances, and workshops exploring the vitality of Yiddish in the 21st century. This Yiddish gathering will continue on the goldene keyt (golden chain) of Los Angeles’s long Yiddish history.
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| | Co-presented by KlezCalifornia | | |
Artist Jessica Tamar Deutsch invites viewers into a storybook walk of The Lost Princess, a Hasidic folktale first told by Rebbe Nachman of Breslov, where whimsical framed illustrations, Yiddish wall texts, and large-scale canvases trace a path through spiritual dislocation and the longing to return. This exhibit at JCC San Francisco will be up through January.
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A sheynem dank!
Thank you very much!
| | A bisl mer (a little bit more) | | | | |
