We wish you a gut, gebentsht yor (a good, blessed year) this holiday season! Erev Rosheshone is Monday, September 22. We'll be starting festivities early with KlezCalYidFest beginning Friday evening, September 12. We hope to see you there! |
| Sponsored by KlezCalifornia | | Friday, September 12 - Sunday, September 14, Finnish Hall, Berkeley | | |
KlezCalifornia is rebooting our klezmer and Yiddish culture festival—and we’re excited for you to join us! KlezCalYidFest kicks off Friday, September 12 with a weekend of concerts, workshops and dancing with local and international artists from the klezmer and contemporary Yiddish culture scene.
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| | 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 Sunday, September 7 and runs through Sunday, September 28.
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| | Co-Presented by KlezCalifornia | | Wednesday, September 10, 6:30 pm, Jewish Community Library, San Francisco | | |
Zoë Aqua spent several years living in Transylvania, a region of Romania, as both a researcher and musician. In this presentation, she will share Jewish music based in local traditions, reflect on performing Jewish music in today’s Romania, and provide musical examples on violin of Transylvania’s distinctive musical character. In addition, Zoe will be teaching and performing at KlezCalYidFest.
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| | Co-Presented by KlezCalifornia | Sunday, September 21, 3:00 pm - 6:30 pm, Jewish Community Library, San Francisco | | |
Authors Deatra Cohen and Adam Siegel will discuss their book Woven Roots, a companion guide to Ashkenazi Herbalism, the first in-depth guide to the communal care, medicinal plants, and folk healers of Eastern Europe’s Pale of Settlement. The talk will include a special focus on the medicinal use of carrots (one of the simonim—symbolic foods—for Rosheshone).
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| | TASTES OF YIDDISH CULTURE SERIES | | Sunday, September 21, 2 - 3 pm, Online | | |
This free, monthly online conversation Salon is for fluent (flisik) Yiddish speakers.
אױף װאָסערע װיכטיקע אופֿנים האָט דער װעלט זיך געביטן אין די לעצטע צװאַנציק יאָר? רעכן אױס דרײַ אופֿנים
Di teme far september vet zayn: Af vosere vikhtike oyfanim hot der velt zikh gebitn in di letste tsvantsik yor? Rekhn oys dray oyfanim.
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| | | | A Yiddish Forum is being organized at U.C. Berkeley by Professors Isaac Bleaman and Roni Masel. This is a new group for students, faculty, and Yiddish enthusiasts from the wider community who will gather together every two weeks to read Yiddish texts, listen to lectures, and converse in Yiddish. | | Thursdays starting September 11, 7 - 8 pm, Congregation Beth Am, Los Altos Hills | |
Accordion player Naomi Zamir is offering a class to introduce sets of klezmer tunes she learned at KlezKanada over the past 15 years. The class is open to all instrumentalists and to anyone who wants to listen or dance to the music while we are playing.
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| | Eighty years after the khurbn (Holocaust), a Jewish circus returns to Germany. Tsirk Dobranotch, a musical circus ensemble, is presenting “Tshemodan” (suitcase, in Yiddish), a new collaboration by the Dobranotch band, East Bay native Eliana Pliskin Jacobs, and other performers. Their show has been performed in several cities around Germany since May, featuring a medley of circus arts set to a live klezmer soundscape. | | View more events and classes on our website: | | View KlezCalifornia's Honor Wall. Become a donor to post your tribute. | | | | |
Support the renewal of Yiddish culture through KlezCalifornia's Yiddish Culture Fund.
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A sheynem dank!
Thank you very much!
| | A bisl mer (a little bit more) | | | | |
