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 One of the many ways KlezCalifornia supports Yiddish culture in the Bay Area is
by providing fiscal sponsorship services for selected arts, culture, and education projects. We accept projects that involve the Jewish community or other communities among which Jews have lived.
Over the years, we have been delighted to support many exciting endeavors. They include Veretski Pass and their current foray into the work of Sofia Magid, as well as several of their earlier projects; Jewish Circle Theatre, an Israeli-American company that produces plays about the relationship between Israeli and American Jews; and Heather Klein's
Yiddish Spring: Living Composers in Yiddish. Check out the
complete list.
If you need fiscal sponsorship for a venture, please
email us for details!
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 Flisik Yidish Salon |
Fluent in Yiddish? Come to our
free monthly conversation salon!
Sunday, February 17,
2-4 pm, private home in Berkeley
Email or call
415-789-7679
Di temes veln zayn:
- Ver iz der mentsh (lebedik oder toyt) vemen ir bavundert tsum merstn? Zogt undz farvos.
- Ver iz der mentsh (lebedik oder toyt) vemen ir hot tsum merstns faynt? Zogt undz farvos.
- Vos iz ayer balibtsteh lid (es makht nit oys in velkher shprakh)?
Oyb ir kent, brengt epes tsu nashn oder trinkn.
Next Salon: Sunday, March 17, 2-4pm, Berkeley
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KlezCalifornia's Monthly Klezmer Workshops!
Spring Schedule
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Sunday, February 24
with Cookie Segelstein
12:30-3:30pm
Jewish Community Library
1835 Ellis Street, SF 94115
Mixed Grill Special
Polish, Ukrainian, Turkish, Moldavian music all in one set? How about in one tune? In this workshop we combine co-territorial music the way it was done by traditional klezmer musicians, to facilitate wedding dances. This is both a reading and by ear class, with a concentration on merging traditional styles of music throughout and beyond the Pale of Settlement.
Let us know if you are coming (but it's ok to drop in).
Sunday, March 31 with Jeanette Lewicki
3:30-6:30pm
Kehilla Community Synagogue, Piedmont
Sunday, April 14 with Josh Horowitz
3:30-6:30pm
Kehilla Community Synagogue, Piedmont
Sunday, May 19 with Dmitri Gas
kin
12:30-3:30pm
Jewish Community Library, SF
Sunday, June 23 with Cookie Segelstein
3:30-6:30pm
Kehilla Community Synagogue, Piedmont
Workshops in Santa Cruz, Santa Clara and Sonoma Counties being planned!
Monthly workshops in 2019 are made possible by a grant from the Alliance for California Traditional Arts, in partnership with the Walter and Elise Haas Fund, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and Surdna Foundation
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Farshidns
Tidbits of Yiddish culture from around the world
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The Magid Chronicles -
a new CD by Veretski Pass with clarinetist Joel Rubin. It is based on pieces collected by Sofia Magid, the Jewish ethnographer who worked intensively to document Jewish music in Belarus and Ukraine during Stalin's regime in the 1920s and 30s. Magid's six hundred recordings contain rare examples of women's songs.
A fiscally-sponsored project of KlezCalifornia.
Zey, Mayn Kind-
performed by Khave Rosenblatt. See my child, how there is in this world a little piece of paper (money, that is). It turns great ones into small ones... idiots into brilliant ones, the wise into crazy ones.
Shtisel
- J, the Jewish News of Northern California, had a great write up on the Israeli hit TV series Shtisel, which is now on Netflix with English subtitles. What The J
neglects to mention is that the show, set in a Haredi community, has a healthy helping of Yiddish.
Gib a kuk!
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Yiddish Culture, Dance & Music
February
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Yiddish Singing with Jeanette Lewicki, part of
Presented by The Workmen's Circle/Arbeter Ring of Northern California
Sunday,
February 3, 1:30-4:30pm
Public Library - Civic Center (Latino Meeting Room), SF
Sunday, February 17, 2-4pm
Berkeley
Monday, February 18, 7pm
Napa Center for Thought and Culture, at Congregation Beth Shalom, Napa
Alicia Svigals and Uli Geissendoerfer
Tuesday, February 19, 7:30pm
Stanford University, Stanford
FREE!
with Loretta Denner
Thursdays, Feb 21, 28, March 7, 14, 2-4pm
Jewish Community Center, Santa Rosa
Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell & Veretski Pass
Thursday, February 21, 7pm
JCC East Bay, Berkeley
Dmitri Gaskin & Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell
Saturday, February 23, 8pm
Starline Social Club, Oakland
Sunday, February 24, 12:30-3:30
Jewish Community Library, San Francisco
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See You at the Movies!
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Yiddish and klezmer-themed films
around the Bay Area.
Jewish Film Institute's WinterFest
Sunday, February 17, 5:45pm
Roxie Theater, SF
Jewish Community Library, SF
East Bay International Jewish Film Festival
The Last Suit (klezmer-driven score) 
Sunday, March 3, 9:30am
Century 16 Downtown Pleasant Hill
Sunday, March 3, 9:45am
Century 16 Downtown Pleasant Hill
A Bag of Marbles
(some Yiddish)
Sunday, March 3, 4:30pm
Vine Cinema @ Alehouse, Livermore
and
Sunday, March 3, 4:45pm 
Century 16 Downtown Pleasant Hill
Menashe
(Yiddish, with English subtitles)
Tuesday, March 5, 10:30am
Century 16 Downtown Pleasant Hill
Saturday, March 9, 7:30pm AND
Sunday, March 10, 4:15pm
Century 16 Downtown Pleasant Hill
Sunday, March 10, 10:15am
Century 16 Downtown Pleasant Hill
Sunday, March 10, 4pm
Century 16 Downtown Pleasant Hill
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Coming in March
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with Heather Klein and Josh Horowitz
Friday, March 8, 8:30pm (services begin 8pm)
Temple Beth Sholom, San Leandro
Fridays, March 8-29, 10am-12noon
Acalanes College, Walnut Creek
Sunday, March 17, 2-4pm
Berkeley
Jewlia Eisenberg, Jeremiah Lockwood
Sunday, March 17, 6pm and 7:30pm
SFJazz, SF
Sunday, 3/31, 3:30-6:30pm
Kehilla Community Synagogue, Piedmont
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Honor Wall
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Preeva Tramiel and Leonard Tramiel:
In memory of Chaya Adler
Libbat Shaham:
In memory of Paul Ellis, lover of fiddling, art, and Northern California
Elaine Moise and Bob Grodsky:
In memory of Joseph and Lillian Grodsky, who loved the Yiddish language and culture
Robin Braverman:
In memory of my maternal grandparents, Pauline and Andres "Bundy" Lang
Judy Kunofsky:
In memory of my parents, Pauline (Levine) Kunofsky and Israel Kunofsky
View KlezCalifornia's Honor Wall. Become a donor to post your tribute.
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Donate
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Help us continue our exciting mission to connect people and communities around the Bay Area with Yiddish culture. Donate $18, $36 or $54
here
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If you prefer to mail a check, use the address below.
A sheynem dank! (Thank you very much!)
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