Sholem Aleichem, Friend of Yiddish Culture, |
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KlezCalifornia’s Yiddish Culture Fund, launched with an $18,000 matching grant, will support the next generation of Yiddish culture leaders. Your gift — $36, $180, $360, any amount — will be matched dollar-for-dollar, going twice as far to support Yiddish culture.
To date, $11,000 has been raised — and will be matched. Please donate here today!
KLEZCALIFORNIA IS CHANGING
As KlezCalifornia celebrates our 20th anniversary connecting people and communities with Yiddish culture, we are announcing our transition to a facilitating organization. We will now support the next generation of Yiddish culture leaders with grants for community projects from The Yiddish Culture Fund. We will provide event publicity to our 3,000 member mailing list and offer mentoring.
Some things will remain unchanged. We will continue to provide a home for fiscally-sponsored projects and for our online Yiddish conversation salons. Our Honor Wall will continue to enable donors to pay tribute to their loved ones and their heritage. We will send e-blasts and sometimes co-present events of interest to our community.
KlezCalifornia looks forward to distributing grants from The Yiddish Culture Fund — supporting vibrant Yiddish culture makers and a new generation of leadership. The grant application process will be announced in July. Please support this important effort with your donation today.
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If someone has forwarded this newsletter to you,
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WORKSHOP SERIES
Presented by KlezCalifornia
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Sunday, June 4, 11am - 12:45pm PT (calculate your local time HERE)
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The Broderzingers, including Pepi Litman, were wandering entertainers who helped create modern Jewish comedy with their satirical Yiddish songs about life in Eastern Europe at the turn of the twentieth century. Some were ex-choir singers, former cantors, or clowns from Hasidic rabbis’ courts; some were male, some female; many were cross-dressers; all pushed the boundaries of “proper” behavior and mocked hypocrisy wherever they saw it.
Singer/accordionist Jeanette Lewicki will teach a number of Broder songs, including some from Pepi’s repertoire.
Register in advance up to four hours before this Zoom event begins. No video will be available.
No charge; donations encouraged - and will be matched dollar-for-dollar!
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Sunday, June 4, 2pm PT (in person only)
Co-presented by KlezCalifornia
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Adrienne Cooper — singer, musician, activist, and teacher — inspired audiences around the world with her riveting interpretations of Yiddish song. Her advocacy of Yiddish music was instrumental in the klezmer revival while her arts activism never left her social justice activism behind.
Offering insights into the sources and the vision that drove her many collaborations, The Jewish Folk Chorus of San Francisco will present a sample of Adrienne Cooper’s Yiddish song legacy, paying loving tribute to this mother of the 1980s klezmer-Yiddish song revival.
At Jewish Community High School of the Bay, San Francisco.
$18 at the door for general admission
$16 at the door for students, seniors, disabled
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TASTES OF YIDDISH CULTURE SERIES
Presented by KlezCalifornia
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Sunday, June 18, 2 - 3pm PT (calculate your local time HERE).
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This monthly online conversation Salon is for fluent (flisik) Yiddish speakers. No charge.
Di teme far yuni vet zayn:
װאָס זענען די פֿינף װיכטיקסטע מכשירים װאָס איר נוצט אין קיך? ברענגט
זײ מיט אױף זום
װײַז זײ צו אונז און מיר װעלן טרעפֿן װאָס זײ זענען
Vos zenen di finf vikhtikste makhshirim (utensils) vos ir nutst in kikh? Brengt zey mit af zoom. Vayz zey tsu unz un mir veln trevn vos zey zenen.
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In memory of Avraham Kimelman and Pessie Charash Teltser. Avraham is my paternal grandfather; Pessie is my maternal grandmother. Both spoke Yiddish and loved music, and I wanted to honor them with this donation to a Fund that will support future generations of Jewish music. |
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In memory of Anne Ruth Lehr Holt. Among the good things my mother gave me was a true love of Yidish. Would that she were alive now so we could really speak to each other in Yidish. Would that she could see how many people are keeping di mameloshn alive. It would be such a mechaye.
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In memory of Leonard Rosenberg. I learned some Yiddish as a child and I still love it. Our cousin Leonard Rosenberg taught himself Yiddish and championed it. This is a thank you and a gift in Leonard's memory.
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In memory and appreciation of our aunt, “Auntie Sylvia” Manger, who gave us a starter Yiddish vocabulary when we were very young. |
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Ed Anisman & Claire Sherman: |
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In honor of Judy Kunofsky and the entire KlezCalifornia Board of Directors |
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Harvey Niebulski & Marianne Tatom:
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L’koved unzere tayere Bobes, Zeydes, and countless members of our mishpokhe who spoke Galitsyaner un Litvish Yiddish and whose beautiful lives steeped in Yidishkayt graced the towns of Rymanow & Lida.
Sadly, we were only fortunate to get to know you in some small measure through a few photographs, stories recounted in Yiddish and Hebrew, and family trees. Although we never had the opportunity to meet you personally, we are honoring your memory and legacy and unzer traditsye. We are mamesh pleased to have the opportunity to carry it forward into the future.
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View KlezCalifornia's Honor Wall. Become a donor to post your tribute.
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KlezCalifornia launched
with an $18,000 matching grant! Your gift — $18, $36, $180 — will be matched dollar-for-dollar, going twice as far to support Yiddish culture. Please donate here today! Or mail a check to the address below.
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A sheynem dank! Thank you very much!
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A bisl mer (a little bit more)
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