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,...
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.
"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.
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...
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...
"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...
Sherith Israel is a Reform congregation in San Francisco that sometimes presents klezmer and Yiddish concerts.
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...
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...
Lectures on the history of Yiddish theatre with video clips of Yiddish actors, suitable for non-Yiddish speakers with an interest in theatre and/or Yiddish cultural history. Also lectures on Yiddish and Jewish comic strips. Professor of Theatre Arts, San Francisco State University. Author of Messiahs of 1933, about Yiddish theatre...
Professional children’s entertainer and edu-tainer since 1997.
This Italian from New York is a fluent Yiddish speaker, linguist, and teacher. See current CLASSES.
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.
International ensemble with clarinet, accordion, and tapan drum. Repertoire from Eastern Europe and the Balkans/Turkey. They create a rich interactive experience through performance, music therapy, and education. Available for private events, weddings, clubs, house concerts, services, multi-cultural senior centers, and, music education.
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.
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...
