Super Mensch, coming to San Francisco in July 2025, is a restaurant and cocktail bar inspired by the soul and nostalgia of iconic Jewish delis from New York and New Jersey. They will host deli classics like matzo ball soup, house-cured and smoked pastrami, latkes, Reuben sandwiches, challah French toast,...
Like its counterpart Mark ’n Mike’s, One Market remains true to its owner’s Jewish roots. Opened in 1993 by Michael Dellar and James Beard award-winning chef Bradley Ogden, One Market has persisted for over 30 years as a classic San Francisco restaurant. Its menu contains Ashkenazi mainstays: latkes, matzo ball...
Opened in 2012, King Knish is known for their variety of knishes. Some flavors are more adventurous than others, but the classic flavors remain, as do their latkes.
"Welcome to Union Square's oldest Jewish Deli, a charming 1952 diner known for its breakfast and generous portions. A family-run establishment along Theater Row, with a nostalgic atmosphere and horseshoe counter—the last of its kind on the West Coast—invites you to savor a taste of history. Founder David Apfelbaum once...
Valentine Erman, a Parisienne pastry chef, brings her experiences of French babkas to the Bay with Braid Bakery. With six babka roll flavors, a babka cake, a babka pie, and consistent new challah variations, Braid Bakery is sure to be a new Ashkenazi hit. Braid’s babka rolls are also available...
Iggy’s Place is a restaurant founded by Igor “Iggy” Teplitsky, connecting with his family’s Ukrainian roots and introducing Eastern European comfort food to a new generation of adventurous diners. While not always traditional, the menu hosts spins on Jewish classics like their beef tongue sandwich, brisket sandwich, latkes, and matzo...
"A whole lot of experience, skill and love goes into every detail at Mark ‘n Mike’s. We hope you enjoy eating as much as we enjoy cooking and welcoming you. If you’re hungry, let’s fress!" Mark ’n Mikes is a pop-up New York style delicatessen at One Market Restaurant in...
A Jewish bakery with a selection of famous babka loaves, knots, and rolls, along with a variety of other diasporic foods.
Sherith Israel is a Reform congregation in San Francisco that sometimes presents klezmer and Yiddish concerts.
Ami Goodman has been a Jewish song leader since his youth, and led the Kumzits Jewish Songswap and Workshop for twelve years in San Francisco. He enjoys leading sing-alongs of all genres of easily accessible Jewish music, including Yiddish, Ladino, Israeli, Hasidic and songs from the liturgy. He sings with...
From Schlok's website: In April 2020, with the restaurant industry suddenly in flux and James and Zack’s respective next ventures put on pause, the two friends decided to have some fun. Knowing James was always up for a culinary challenge, Zack floated the idea of a bagel concept and...
The Sascha Jacobsen Quartet has performed for historically significant premieres of previously lost silent films including A City Without Jews, based on the novel of Hugo Bettauer, and Broken Barriers based on the novel Tevye the Dairyman by Sholem Aleichem. Both films were unseen for almost 100 years before being...
Wise Sons Jewish Delicatessen is dedicated to building community through traditional Jewish comfort food. Founded in San Francisco’s Mission District, Wise Sons pairs classic Jewish recipes with the best Californian ingredients to make delicious deli fare that would make your bobe proud. Numerous San Francisco locations: 24th St., Fillmore, Hayes...
Bay Area klezmer trio Baymele brings together fiddler Matthew Stein, cellist Misha Khalikulov, and accordionist Dmitri Gaskin in a deep exploration and celebration of Jewish folk music from Romania and Poland. Here they are in a concert video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkRsTXWR6-Q And here they are playing with Romanian musicians Sergiu and Valeriu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nvSKGgATjs
Ben Brussell created the band KLEZMANIA! in 1989, and then after the first album, "The Wailing Wall" in 1992, he formed Benny Be Music Productions. Benny Be Music Productions is a complete special event live music and DJ/MC service for all Jewish life cycle events in all Jewish cultural and...
This Italian from New York is a fluent Yiddish speaker, linguist, and teacher. See current CLASSES.
Fosters Jewish – especially Yiddish – culture, education, and the pursuit of social and economic justice.
Promotes interest in Jewish genealogy and sharing of genealogical resources. Fifteen meetings per year in San Francisco, Los Altos Hills, Oakland. Speakers, programs, workshops, quarterly journal ZichronNote.
A San Francisco-based global collaboration of language specialists and native speakers working to build a publicly accessible digital library of human languages. Has held Yiddish recording sessions.
Dedicated to the education, documentation, research, and remembrance of the Holocaust. Extensive multilingual research library on Eastern European Jewish communities and their fate in the Holocaust, along with public programs.