We wish you a gut, gebentsht yor (a good, blessed year) this holiday season! Erev Rosheshone is Friday, September 11. Start it off right with some inspiring Yiddish-related activities.
The Yiddish Culture Fund: The deadline is approaching for submitting applications for grants — please submit your creative project ideas! See details below.
KlezCalifornia will award a seventh round of grants from The Yiddish Culture Fund, whose goal is to develop the Next Generation Yiddish Culture Leaders in the San Francisco Bay Area. Proposals due Monday, October 19, with awards announced in late fall.
Jewish Community Library, 1835 Ellis Street, San Francisco
Based on a true story from the nineteenth century, Max Nosseck’s 1940 Yiddish musical drama stars the great Moishe Oysher as a celebrated Vilna cantor who is recruited to sing with the Warsaw Opera. The fame he achieves comes at an enormous cost, as he struggles to balance the appeal of his newfound celebrity with feelings of guilt and responsibility toward the family and community he left behind. In Yiddish with English subtitles.
KlezCalYidFest, KlezCalifornia’s annual klezmer and Yiddish culture festival, kicks off Friday, October 9, with a weekend of concerts, workshops and dancing with local and international artists from the klezmer and contemporary Yiddish culture scene.
