Tayere Fraynt (Dear Friends),
In the midst of these continued challenging times, Rosheshone (Rosh Hashanah) is coming in a few days, bringing renewed hopes for a better and healthy year filled with Yidishkayt and music! We at KlezCalifornia wish you and yours...
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לשנה טובה תּכּתבֿו L'shone toyve tikoseyvu!
May you be inscribed for a good year!
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Our monthly DrayMakhers event will meet again October 13.
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If someone has forwarded this newsletter to you,
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TAM/TASTES OF YIDDISH CULTURE SERIES
Presented by KlezCalifornia
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Mame-loshn? Yiddish in Israel, with Yael Chaver
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Sunday, September 12, 11am-12:45pm PT (beginning 2pm Eastern, 7pm London, 8pm Paris, 9pm Tel Aviv. Please confirm local time.)
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Yael Chaver will trace the trajectory of Yiddish in pre-statehood Palestine and in the State of Israel. Zionist ideology set up Yiddish as the most noticeable symbol of life in Diaspora – goles – and called for its rejection in the new Zionist community. Learn what happened as the years passed.
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WORKSHOP SERIES Presented by KlezCalifornia
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Dancing For and With the Torah on Simkhes Toyre, with Steve Weintraub
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Sunday, September 26, 11am-12:45pm PT (beginning 2pm Eastern, 7pm London, 8pm Paris, 9pm Tel Aviv. Please confirm local time.)
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On Simkhes Toyre (Simkhat Torah), we are meant to express our love and joy by dancing with the Toyre (Torah). In this workshop three days before yuntif, learn how to dance in a stylistically Jewish way on the holiday and beyond.
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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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Klezmer & Yiddish Music Links |
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Kinderland, du Tsoyberland (Kinderland, you magical land, under the open skies...). a celebration of Camp Kinderland performed by KlezCalifornia's own Gerry Tenney, who was a camper, counselor, and music teacher there. Part of Yiddish Song of the Week.
Arye Menachem's Cornucopia of Yiddish Song consists of recordings of hundreds of Yiddish songs with lyrics (transcribed by Arye) and Arye's translations into English. Some include translations into Russian or Polish.
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Classic Yiddish tales are being brought back to life — and in English too! David Forman’s newest book, the first translation of Yiddish writer Solomon Simon's The Clever Little Tailor, is rich with tales of giants, the Tudor court, and highwaymen besieging a humble Jewish village. The story is from Simon’s 1933 collection of stories about Shnayderl the Tailor. See a book review.
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The new Oxford School of Rare Jewish Languages (OSRJL) will begin in October to offer free online language classes on eleven vernacular Jewish languages spoken and/or written from the Middle Ages until today, including Judeo-Arabic (Baghdadi and classical), Judeo-French, Judeo-Greek, Judeo-Italian, Judeo-Neo-Aramaic, Judeo-Persian, Judeo-Tat, Judeo-Turkish, Karaim, Ladino, and (of course) Yiddish. Register by September 27.
Southern Californian Hershl Hartman discusses his work as a Yiddish journalist, educator in secular Yiddish-oriented schools, and translator from Yiddish to English in an interview (in Yiddish) on the Boston-based radio show Dos Yidishe Kol (The Yiddish Voice). This July 29 interview is one of numerous episodes of the Yiddish Voice podcast.
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Other Yiddish Culture Links |
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The National Library of Poland has digitized dozens of vintage Jewish postcards, designed and printed in Poland 1912-1939. Several feature beautiful depictions of women performing commandments and many would make great suke decorations. The images are all in the public domain and may be printed and distributed without any restrictions. One card (above is a composite of two sections) says, in Yiddish, "May you be inscribed (for a good year). Because of the merit we derive from performing the mitsve of shaking the lulav, oh, help us, great God, and give us renewed strength to observe your commandments (In Yiddish this rhymes).
The Forward's century-old advice column, A Bintel Brief (as they spell it), A Bundle of Letters, is now a podcast for the 21st century, with new episodes every Thursday. Co-hosted by two very different Jewish mothers, the podcast addresses the dilemmas of Jewish-American life, identity, culture, and politics. Listen wherever you get podcasts, or sign up to get it in your in-box.
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In loving memory of my grandfather, David Berman, who was born in 1884 in a shtetl in Poland. He had a horse and wagon and would deliver groceries from Warsaw to the shtetl. He happened to drop his cap in a market square and so was arrested as a spy. Then he was sent to prison in Siberia. There, he was in jail for eighteen months and then miraculously released. He persevered through much hardship to make it back to his family in the shtetl, and finally came to America, sending for his family two years later.
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In memory of my Great-Grandpa Ruben Smith, who was born in 1873 in Russia/Lithuania, and became "Smith'"in 1890 upon arrival in the USA–he was a blacksmith. I first met him and Great-Grandma Sarah in their Los Angeles home when I was 11. He took us all to his blacksmith shop, an L.A. anachronism, complete with pin-up girl calendars, hearth, and bellows. At 92 he still made custom tools for the City, and was a front page feature in the L.A. Times. He proudly told me he never shoed horses, and gave me a set of knives, which I still cherish, along with his memory. |
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In honor of Judy Kunofsky and all the time and energy she has put into promoting Yiddish culture. |
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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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