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Gerry Tenney sings with B'nai Tikvah students |
Welcome to our new logo and colors! We worked hard on the design, hoping to symbolically capture the spirit of KlezCalifornia. The circular shape incorporates the Yiddish letter
ק,
which is the first letter for both Klez and California. We hope you love it as much as we do!
about the work we are doing to bring Yiddish culture to Jewish kids in religious schools and day schools throughout North America.
All 26 lessons for our program,
Tam
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Tastes of Yiddish Culture for Kids & Teens, are on our website and available for you to download.
Invite KlezCalifornia
to do a presentation for kids or adults in your community!
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KlezCalifornia
Flisik Yidish Salon
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Sunday, February 18, 2-4pm
For fluent Yiddish speakers
Mir veln shmuesn vegn di temes:
* Farvos zenen yidisheh komikers azoy vitzik?
Gib a bayshpil.
* Ver is dayn balibster shrayber un farvos?
* Tsvantsik shayles.
At a private home, Berkeley
Free!
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1938-1948: Betar, Irgun, and a Memory of All That
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Sunday, February 25, 1:30 pm
Attorney Ephraim Margolin talks
about his involvement in the Zionist youth movement with other Polish Jews, conscription into the Irgun Underground, and eventual appointment as Menachem Begin's personal secretary. Margolin will provide a firsthand account of the momentous events and movements that led to the War of Independence and the establishment of the State of Israel, drawing from his forthcoming autobiography.
Co-presented by KlezCalifornia
Jewish Community Library, San Francisco
Free!
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Learn Yiddish!
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Mondays, Feb. 5 - May 7, 7:00-8:30, JCC East Bay, Berkeley
Tuesdays, Feb. 6 - May 1, 11:00-12:30, Temple Isaiah, Lafayette
Thursdays, Feb. 8 - May 3, 12:00-1:30, Osher Marin JCC, San Rafael
Presented by Lehrhaus Judaica, co-presented by KlezCalifornia
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Farshidns
This 'n That
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The Simon Carlyle Collection - a new online klezmer score archive. More than 100 klezmer transcriptions, some in multiple keys, and most for both C and Bb instruments. The result of years of work by Carlyle, the collection is part of Allen Lutins' Klezmer Guide
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The Yiddish Speakers Who Stayed Behind: Rural Ukraine, Moldova, Romania, Hungary and Slovakia. Interviews with almost 400 elderly Yiddish speakers in Eastern Europe. Searchable by categories such as daily life, food ways, Jewish life between the wars, religion and ritual, songs, poems and prayer, World War II, etc. Yiddish Memory Archive.
May all your teeth fall out, except one to give you a toothache.
אַלע צײן זאָלן דיר אַרױספֿאַלן, נאָר אײנער זאָל דיר בלײַבן אױף צאָנװײטיק
(Aleh tseyn zoln dir aroysfaln, nor eyner zol dir blaybn af tsonveytik!)
Thanks to Len Rosenberg, who directed the curse at the person who spoofed his email.
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Yiddish Culture, Dance & Music
This Month in the Bay Area
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with Michael Winograd (Yiddish Art Trio), Josh Horowitz (Veretski Pass)
Friday, February 2, 7:30pm
Congregation Sherith Israel, San Francisco
$12-$36
Sunday, February 4, 9-11am
Congregation Beth Am, Los Altos Hills
Suggested donation: $36 for five sessions (includes refreshments).
Sunday February 4, 2-5pm
Congregation Bet Haverim, Davis
Free! Advance registration requested
Congregation Emanu-El, San Francisco
Includes four songs in Yiddish!
$25-$75
Wednesday, February 7, 5:30pm
The Magnes Collection, Berkeley
Free!
Friday, February 9, 9pm
The Octopus Literary Salon, Oakland
Experimental poetry, jazz, and klezmer
Kumzits, with Jewish Folk Chorus of San Francisco
Saturday, February 10, 7:30-9:30pm
Congregation B'nai Emunah, San Francisco
Short concert followed by sing-along of
Yiddish songs
Afterparty for What They Said About Love, with Steve Budd
Saturday, February 10, 8:30pm
Choirs from Marin School of the Arts Sing Music of the Holocaust
Sunday, February 11, 2-4pm
Mercy High School, San Francisco
Yiddish resistance songs, contemporary choral responses, original student compositions.
Free, reservations required!
Sunday, February 18, 2-4pm
Memories of the Irgun, with Ephraim Margolin
Sunday, February 25, 1:30-4:30pm
San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco
Performance by several singers (including Jeanette Lewicki in Yiddish), participatory singing, and updates by activists,
presented by Workmen's Circle/Arbeter Ring of Northern California
Free!
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Yiddish Culture, Dance & Music
Next Month
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Sunday, March 4, 2-5pm
Urban Adamah (in the yurt), Berkeley
$25 sliding scale (which means pay what you can)
Wednesdays, March 7, 14, 21, 28, 1-2:30pm
JCC Sonoma County, Santa Rosa
Early American Jewish radicals were all native Yiddish speakers
Thursday, March 8, 1:15pm
Century 16 Theaters, Pleasant Hill
$10 - $11
Sunday, March 11, 2-4pm
Private home, El Cerrito
Free!
Sunday, March 11, 4pm, Congregation Sha'ar Zahav, San Francisco
Sunday, March 18, 4pm, Congregation Kol Emeth, Palo Alto
Sunday, March 25, 4pm, Temple Sinai, Oakland
$12.50 - $33
Sunday, March 18, time TBD
Jewish Community Library, San Francisco
Free!
Sunday, March 25, 5pm
Congregation Emanu-El, San Francisco
$18 - $82. Use code KLEZ for 25% discount!
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Support KlezCalifornia
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 Your support of KlezCalifornia helps Bay Area Yiddish culture and community thrive. Read more about donor benefits and donate by credit card, or mail a check to
KlezCalifornia at the address below.
A sheynem dank! Thank you very much!
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