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Save the Dates!
TWO KlezCalifornia Cabarets by the Bay
New shows this Fall!
Sunday, October 22, Addison-Penzak JCC, in Los Gatos
AND
Sunday, November 5, JCC East Bay, Berkeley
Details - including the exciting performer lineup - will be announced next week in a special Cabaret newsletter - please watch for it!
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 Party in Palo Alto!
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 KlezCalifornia Semi-Annual Party
Sunday, September 10, 2 - 5pm
At a private home in Palo Alto
 This is our fun and heymish semi-annual party for donors and others who help KlezCalifornia. Food, music, singing, dancing! It is not too late to become a donor - any amount helps and secures you a party invitation! And it's easy, too: go to klezcalifornia.org/donate.
If you are already a donor, but have not received your invitation, please contact us.
More info: 415.789.7679, [email protected].
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Yiddish Conversation
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 KlezCalifornia Flisik Yidish Salon
Sunday, September 17, 2 - 4pm
Monthly conversation and a nosh for fluent Yiddish speakers.
At a private home, Walnut Creek
Free!
Mir veln zikh farzamlen September 17, fun 2:00 biz 4:00 nokh mitog.
Mir veln shmuesn vegn dray temes:
* Vi azoy trakhtn yungeh mentshn andersh vi eltereh mentshen?
* Di besteh un ergsteh tekhnologyes in undzereh lebns
* A balibst lid (ken zayn af farshideneh shprakhn) un farvos?
Shik dayn RSVP tsu 415.789.7679 oder [email protected].
Oyb ir kent, brengt epes tsu nashn. |
מיר װעלן זיך פֿאַרזאַמלען דעם 17 טן סעפּטעמבער, פֿון 2 ביז 4 נאָך מיטאָג.
מיר װעלן שמועסן װעגן דרײַ טעמעס
װי אַזױ טראַכטן יונגע מענטשן אַנדערש װי עלטערע מענטשען
די בעסטע און ערגסטע טעכנאָלאָגיעס אין אונדזערע לעבנס
אַ באַליבסט ליד (קען זײַן אױף פֿאַרשידענע שפּראַכן) און פֿאַרװאָס
שיק דײַן ענטפֿער צו 415-789-7679 אָדער
אױב איר קענט, ברענגט עפּעס צו נאַשן.
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Klezmer Workshops and Jams
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Join us for our continuing KlezCalifornia Klezmer Workshops & Jams. Each event is taught by a terrific musician and teacher and includes learning tunes with authentic klezmer style, and a traditional jam. The balance of learning by ear vs. with charts is chosen by each teacher. For all instruments; no klezmer experience needed (but it doesn't hurt!). Must be at least intermediate level on your instrument. Mute required if you are a brass player. Optional: bring recording device. To get a head start, check out sheet music and/or sound files in advance.
Registration: $25 sliding scale, for participants. Pay on site with cash or check. Refreshments included. Listeners welcome; donation requested. More info: 415.789.7679, [email protected].
Sunday, September 17, 1- 3:45pm, with Joshua Horowitz (note earlier start time)
Images of 2017-07-16 workshop in Berkeley led by Jeanette Lewicki, by Judy Kunofsky, improved by Jim Rebhan.
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Yiddish Culture in September
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Classes begin August, September, or October. Sign up now!
Exhibit through December 15, 11am - 4pm (Tuesdays through Fridays only)
Opening celebration Tuesday, September 5, 5pm.
Monday, September 4, with Joshua Horowitz; September 11 with Mike Perlmutter, September 18 with Dave Rosenfeld, October 2 with Dave Rosenfeld (rehearsal), all 7-9pm
Prepare to be part of celebration band for Simkhes Toyreh the evening of October 12
Kehilla Community Synagogue, Piedmont
$20-$30 per session, sliding scale
Tuesdays, beginning September 5, 7:30-9:30pm
More info:
Renee Enteen, 510.533.3903
Meets near JCC San Francisco, San Francisco
$100/year
KlezCalifornia Semi-Annual Party for Donors
Sunday, September 10, 2-5pm
See details above
At a private home, Palo Alto
Opening reception Sunday, September 10, 5 - 7pm
Art exhibit September 11 - November 1, 9am - 9pm
Sunday, September 17, 1:00 - 3:45pm
See details above
Jewish Community Library, San Francisco
Private home, Walnut Creek
Free!
From the Steppes to the
Shtetl, A Yiddish and Russian Folk Singing Workshop with Lorin Sklamberg (The Klezmatics) and Polina Skovoroda Shepherd
Saturday, September 23, 10:30am - 1:30pm
Singers of all levels and genders are welcome
Silk Road House, Berkeley
$45
Secular Rosh Hoshanah (Rosheshoneh) Celebration
Sunday, September 24, 2-5pm
With songs and readings in Yiddish and English
Sponsored by Workmen's Circle/
Arbeter Ring of Northern California.
Open to all. RSVP requested from
Diana Scott
JCC San Francisco, San Francisco
Free to WC/AR members, donation from others
The
Izba, the
Shtibl, and the Global Village: Lorin Sklamberg, Polina Skovoroda Shepherd, and Kitka in Concert
Sunday, September 24, 4:00pm and 7:30pm
Russian romances, folk melodies in Yiddish, bilingual songs from the Odessa underground, klezmer tunes, collective farm songs from a century ago, and original material exploring connections between the steppes and the shtetl.
Piedmont Piano Company, Oakland
$25 advance / $30 door
Monday, September 25, 1:15-2:15pm
More info: 415.202.1200, jccsf.org.
JCC San Francisco, San Francisco
Free!
Monday, September 25, 5:30pm to 7:00pm
RSVP to 510.643.2526
Exhibit September 28 - January 28, 2018
More info: 415.655.7800
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Farshidns (This 'n That)
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YIVO online courses this Fall: "Discovering Ashkenaz: Jewish Life in Eastern Europe," taught by Professor Samuel Kassow, and "Folksong, Demons, and the Evil Eye: Folklore of Ashkenaz," taught by Professor Itzik Gottesman.
Broadway's "Indecent," in Yiddish with English subtitles, is scheduled to be shown on PBS on November 17 at 9pm (yes, on Shabes). Based on Sholem Asch's "God of Vengeance," the play's director won a Tony, and PBS videotaped the show before it closed. A history of the play is in the McGill alumni newsletter.
(thanks to Anita Feinstein, McGill alum)
Spain will create a Ladino Academy in Israel to help preserve this Jewish language.
Proverb of the month:
If you haven't experienced pain, you are not fully human.
(Nit visn fun keyn yesurim heyst nit zayn keyn mentsh)
ניט װיסן פֿון קײן יסורים הײסט ניט זײַן קײן מענטש
(from "Words Like Arrows," compiled by Shirley Kumove)
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Honor Wall
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Harvey and Carmen Gotliffe: To all our dear family members and friends who inspired us to relearn about our Yiddish heritage and language, we say a dank. We are especially grateful to our seventeen relatives in Europe we recently visited, who inspired us once again to remember where we came from.
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Preview of Yiddish Culture in October
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Fall season begins Monday, October 2, 7:30pm, and subsequent Mondays
Traditional and contemporary songs in Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino, and English, arranged for two, three, and four parts.
JCC East Bay, Berkeley
Tuition charged.
Friday, October 13, 12:30-1:00pm
Free with museum admission
Sunday, October 15, 2:00-4:00pm
For fluent speakers.
At a private home, Oakland
Free!
Sunday, October 15, 2-5pm
Includes refreshments.
Thursday, October 19, 6:30-8:30pm
Yiddish, Hebrew and Ladino art songs and theatre songs
Seating on a first-come, first served basis
707.664.2324
Klezmer Creek
Wednesday, October 25, 6:30-8:30pm
Part of (usually) 4th Wednesday Klezmer Wednesdays Night
707.544.2491
Gaia's Garden, Santa Rosa
Free with minimum $5 purchase.
"Yiddish Culture in American Jewish Life (Yiddishania: The Gantseh Cholent)"
Thursdays, October 19 & 26, and November 2 & 9, 7 - 8:30pm
We hope you will sign up for this participatory exploration of Yiddish culture in American Jewish life today, including songs, klezmer music, family origins, religious practices, Yiddish phrases, and historical debates of what languages Jews "should" speak. No Yiddish knowledge required, although it doesn't hurt! Offered by KlezCalifornia through Lehrhaus Judaica. Teachers will be Ken Blady, Reb Tsvi Bar-David, and Gerry Tenney.
JCC East Bay, Berkeley
$60 - $75.
KlezCalifornia Cabaret by the Bay
Sunday, October 22, 4-6pm
Addison-Penzak JCC, Los Gatos
$25 general / $20 APJCC members / $18 students, seniors
Sunday, October 29, 1:30pm
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Support KlezCalifornia
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Donate to KlezCalifornia and receive:
- Invites to exclusive parties [next September 10, Palo Alto]
- Yiddish-themed "thank you" gifts
- Posting on our Honor Wall
- Our undying gratitude!
Your donations help KlezCalifornia keep Bay Area Yiddish culture and community vibrant and thriving. Read more about donor benefits here.
Donate by credit card
here or mail a check to
KlezCalifornia, 1728 Allston Way, Berkeley 94703.
A sheynem dank! Thank you very much!
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