We are pleased to tell you of three grants from the Alliance for California Traditional Arts (ACTA) for the year beginning March 2021, for:
and for two of our fiscally-sponsored projects:
On Shevuis (which begins at sundown on Sunday, May 16), the tradition is to eat milkhigs (dairy), so we bring you a picture of mouth-watering cheesecake. Find your favorite cheesecake recipe among the 113 million on the web!
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If someone has forwarded this newsletter to you,
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God of Vengeance (Got Fun Nekome)
Sunday, May 2 - Monday, May 31, stream at your leisure (100 mins)
After an acclaimed three-day run in March with over 1,000 viewers from throughout the U.S. (and Europe and Australia), Yiddish Theatre Ensemble’s online film/video production of Sholem Asch’s groundbreaking 1906 Yiddish play God of Vengeance (Got Fun Nekome) returns to the screen (yours) for the entire month of May. The production was hailed by audiences as a "Zoom masterpiece" and "a tour de force" and touted by the press.
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Yiddish Theatre Ensemble is a fiscally-sponsored project of KlezCalifornia.
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TAM/TASTES OF YIDDISH CULTURE SERIES
Presented by KlezCalifornia
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DrayMakhers, a new online social event
Wednesday, May 5, 4-5pm PDT (7-8pm EDT)
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Join KlezCalifornia for an hour of community culture building, monthly starting this Spring. Each month has a different topic: May - share recipes. June - play games. July - Jewish humor and riddles (again!).
In May, come prepared to introduce and share five of your favorite Jewish recipes and/or show us how you make them. Try it out! What can you lose? Hosted by Evie Groch.
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Ashkenazi Herbalism: Rediscovering the Herbal Traditions of Eastern European Jews, with Deatra Cohen and Adam Siegel
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Presented by Jewish Community Library
Co-presented by KlezCalifornia
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Thursday, May 6, 7-8pm PDT (5pm EDT, 10pm London, 11pm Paris, 12am Tel Aviv. Please confirm local time)
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The practice of herbal healing has seen a resurgence in the last few decades, but what if your ancestors didn’t leave a written legacy or even a hint that they had folk healers among their ranks? Among the Ashkenazim of the Pale of Settlement at the turn of the twentieth century, there seemed to be no record of any folk healers. The book reveals a hidden world of medicinal plants and the Jewish healers who knew them well.
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Presented by KlezCalifornia
Co-presented by Chochmat HaLev
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Dobridens at the Dawn of Klezmer,
workshop with Mike Perlmutter
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Sunday, May 16, 11am-12:45pm PDT (2pm EDT, 7pm London, 8pm Paris, 9pm Tel Aviv. Please confirm local time!)
Learn about and play through a selection of dobridens, slow and stately klezmer melodies used to greet guests and set the mood for various wedding traditions that have since fallen out of use, but whose beauty still beckons. Musicians with basic proficiency on their instruments are welcome, as are singers, and those who are interested in listening in and learning about this genre.
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This workshop is made possible in part by a grant from the Alliance for California Traditional Arts, in partnership with the Walter & Elise Haas Fund, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Grants for the Arts, and The California Endowment.
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Beregovsky #136 is a new, three-minute video featuring the Bay Area's Saul Goodman's Klezmer Band playing the classic Chabad nign, Avinu Malkenu. The video includes pre-World War II film footage of Eastern European Jewish life and takes its name from Moshe Beregovsky, a Jewish ethnomusicologist who traveled throughout Ukraine beginning in the 1920s to collect Jewish folk music. Without his efforts, hundreds of songs would have been lost forever to the Holocaust, like the lives of many of the people seen in this video. It was filmed during the pandemic for inclusion in a Holocaust memorial event by Yoav Potash, award-winning Bay Area filmmaker.
Actor Noah Nachbush, member of the famed Vilna Troupe (which performed in Europe and New York) recites and sings Gems of Yiddish Poetry and Folklore (with translations) on three LPs, now on YouTube: LP58, LP330, and LP340.
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Duolingo now offers a free online Yiddish language course, roughly equivalent to two semesters of college Yiddish. The course uses a specific Hasidic pronunciation (Satmar) as opposed to the "YIVO Yiddish" generally taught. Check out The Forward's review!
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Also check out In Eynem, the multi-media, fully illustrated Yiddish textbook created by Yiddish Book Center, published in 2020, and KlezCalifornia's longer listing of Yiddish textbooks.
Study Yiddish this summer through any of ten programs. This link also includes summer programs to learn Yiddish song and summer festivals.
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Other Yiddish Culture Links |
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KlezKanada's Summer Retreat returns online, August 23-29 (with perhaps some events in Montreal). This 26th annual celebration of Yiddish culture and Jewish music is an immersive week of workshops and performances. Sign up for one event, one course, one day, or the whole thing. Registration opens July 1. Artists and scholars ages 16-35 may apply for scholarships now through June 15.
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For my mother, May Gomberg Elinson, remembered for her warmth, kindness and generous spirit. With her favorite expression “Esn, fresn, gezesn,” she welcomed family and friends from far-flung places to share our table and enjoy her kneydlekh, stuffed cabbage, and mandlbrot.
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View KlezCalifornia's Honor Wall. Become a donor to post your tribute.
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Help us continue our mission to connect people and communities around the Bay Area and beyond with Yiddish culture.
If you prefer to mail a check, use the address below.
A sheynem dank! Thank you very much!
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A bisl mer (a little bit more)
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