November 2026

Sholem Aleichem Friend,

It has been an exciting year! We had a terrific festival, KlezCalYidFest, in October (pictured above). Later this month we will announce another round of new grants to young people from The Yiddish Culture Fund. To help us continue funding our wonderful programs, please open emails from KlezCalifornia starting later this month and respond with your most generous year-end support.


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UMRU/UNREST

C0-presented by KlezCalifornia
Thursday, November 5, 7 pm

JCCSF, 3200 California Street, San Francisco

Drawing from their recent albums, troubadour and multi-instrumentalist Daniel Kahn and master fiddler Jake Shulman-Ment will pair new music with Yiddish renditions of songs by artists including Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, Woody Guthrie and others. Follow the discount link for 50% off (or use the code: Klez50)


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Yiddish Song Smuggling

C0-presented by KlezCalifornia
Friday, November 6, 11 am

SFJCC, 3200 California Street, San Francisco

Daniel Kahn will lead a workshop focused on polyglot performance, traditional subversion, tradaptation (translation + adaptation), multi-musical mixology and other modes of border-crossing in modern Yiddish song work. Follow the discount link for 50% off (or use the code: Klez50)


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Veretski Pass Concert

C0-presented by KlezCalifornia
Sunday, November 8, 4 - 6 pm

St Alban’s Episcopal Church, 1501 Washington Avenue, Albany, CA

The renowned klezmer group will lead the audience through the many musical stations of a 19th-century East European Jewish wedding, which served not only to celebrate the union but to vitalize the community.

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The Joy of Jewish Music and Dance

Fiscally Sponsored by KlezCalifornia
Sunday, November 15, 2 pm - 5 pm


Congregation Netivot Shalom, 1316 University Avenue, Berkeley, CA

The first event of Joy's new season features the Romanian/klezmer connection taught by vocal star Ionela Guzic visiting from Romania along with Orchestra Euphonos.



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Flisik Yidish Salon

Presented by KlezCalifornia

Sunday, November 15, 2 - 3 pm PT, online (calculate your local time)

This free, monthly online conversation Salon is for fluent (flisik) Yiddish speakers.

Hot ir ongenumen a naye teyve far a yorn? Oyb yo, vos iz es geven? 
Tut ir es nokh? Loynt es aykh?

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Mississippi: A Yiddish Play about the Scottsboro Affair, with Alyssa Quint

Presented by the Jewish Community Library
Co-presented by KlezCalifornia

Sunday, November 15, 3 - 4:30 pm PT, online (calculate your local time)

The Scottsboro Affair began with the wrongful arrest of nine African-American youths in Alabama in 1931. The play demonstrates how important it was to Yiddish writers of the 1920s and 1930s to grapple with the persecution of Black people in America.


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Exile | Banishment | Home

Co-presented by KlezCalifornia

Sunday, November 15, 4 pm PT, live and online
Old First Concerts, 1751 Sacramento Street, San Francisco

(calculate your local time)

What does it mean to be home and yet not home? E4TT explores this duality with Shostakovich’s From Jewish Folk Poetry, sung in the original Yiddish, and the World Premiere of Skazka (fairytale), twisted Russian folktales reinterpreted and subverted by emerging composer Alex Malinas.



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Nu, What Else?

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• KlezCalifornia Event Directory (with all the events we know of) »

• Bay Area Lecturers »

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Thank you very much!

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