Advisory Council
Michael Alpert
Teacher, Historian, Writer, & Musician
Zachary M. Baker
and Head Librarian of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
Rachel Biale
Co-Founder New Lehrhaus, author, Jewish educator, and family therapist
Achi Ben Shalom
Musician & Choral Director of Adama & Nigunim Chorus
Sharon Bernstein
Yiddish Singer & Cantor of Congregation Sha’ar Zahav (San Francisco)
Isaac Bleaman
Assistant Professor, U.C. Berkeley Department of Linguistics
Stuart Brotman
Musician, Veretski Pass & Brave Old World
Yael Chaver, Ph.D.
Lecturer in Yiddish language & literature, Dept. of German, UC Berkeley
Julie Egger
Co-founder of KlezCalifornia, Educator and Musician
Howard Freedman
Director, Jewish Community Library
Donny Inbar
Yiddish Theatre Expert & Blogger
Stuart Kelman
Founding Rabbi, Congregation Netivot Shalom (Berkeley), director of Netivot Shalom’s Jazz-Klezmer band.
Eitan Kensky, Ph.D
Judaica and Hebraica Curator, Stanford University Library
Yankl Levitow
Yiddish Language Teacher, Stanford University & U.C. Santa Cruz
David Rosenfeld
Musician & Educator
Gabriella Safran, Ph.D.
Professor, Dept. of Slavic Languages & Literatures, Stanford University
Joel Schechter, D.F.A.
Professor, Theatre Arts Department, San Francisco State University
Reyna Schaechter
Yiddish Singer, the elder of the singing duo Di Shekhter-Tekhter (yiddishsisters.com)
Martin Schwartz, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Near Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley
Cookie Segelstein
Musician, Veretski Pass
Naomi Seidman, Ph.D.
Chancellor Jackman Professor in the Arts, University of Toronto
Ellie Shapiro
Educator and former Director of Jewish Music Festival, a project of the Jewish Community Center of the East Bay
Francesco Spagnolo
Musician, musicologist, & Curator of Collections, Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley
Daniel Stein
Rabbi, Congregation B’nai Shalom (Walnut Creek)
Harvey Varga
In Special Memory
~ Zikhroynem l’vrokheh ~