Led by Karen K. Bergen, the Yiddish Choristers rehearse on Zoom two Thursday evenings a month, October to June. The repertoire is mainly Yiddish songs, with some Ladino, Hebrew, and Russian songs mixed in for spice. One person leads a song. Everyone else goes on mute. Lyrics are shown on...
Yiddish Choruses, Singers and Song Leaders / Santa Clara County
Yiddish and Translation, taught by Professor Gabriella Safran at Stanford University. To be offered in Fall 2024, in-person. Yiddish, a historic language of Ashkenazic Jews, is known as "Taytsh," literally the language of translation. In this class, we learn about the histories and theories of translation into and out of...
Yiddish Classes in (or online from) the Bay Area / Santa Clara County
The Kleztet is a peninsula-based band with core members Lisa Ratner, Mark Goldstein, Kathy Sherman and Naomi Temes. We play weddings, parties, b'nei mitzveh events, and celebrations of all kinds. Our music styles include klezmer, celtic, jazz, folk and classical.
Extensive collection of Yiddish books. See also The Secular Yiddish Schools in North America (SYSNA) Collection, above.
The Leyenkrayz is a Stanford graduate student-led Yiddish reading group. They meet in-person weekly to read aloud and discuss Yiddish literary and historical texts, and they occasionally host visitors in-person and online. Anyone who works with Yiddish and would like to practice reading original texts in a group setting is...
Yiddish Language and Culture – Informal Learning / Santa Clara County
Annual fall film festival which sometimes includes films about Eastern European Jewish culture.
The Collection, founded by the late Gella Schweid Fishman, covers the four major Yiddish school networks in the U.S. and Canada: Sholem Aleichem, Arbeter Ring, Farband, and Ordn schools. Friends of the SYSNA Collection assists in the identification and donation of materials; raises funds to catalogue and disseminate materials; offers...
Modest collection of Yiddish-related books and CDs.
As the OFJCC states, “[t]he OFJCC's Schultz Cultural Arts Hall continues to inspire us to program great content and talent in a salon-like ambiance. Up-close encounters with high caliber talent is a big part of our audience's experience and makes our venue a unique beacon of culture and inspiration in...
Offerings started with pastrami, corned beef and half-sour garlic pickles, and then the team branched out to matzo ball soup, challah French toast. Pickup and delivery orders are available in the South Bay through DoorDash and Grub Hub, and occasionally in the East Bay. Connected with JW Catering in Sunnyvale,...
Majorly Minor is Naomi Zamir and her band of friends playing soulful and vibrant klezmer melodies, as well as music from other Eastern European traditions. The band members are Stella Bonilla on violin, Ginny Snyder on Bass, and Naomi Zamir on accordion, with a rotating cast of surprise friends. Performs...
An outgrowth of the Stanford Klezmer Band, Klezmore Square was founded in 2016 to bring klezmer music to the Congregation Beth Am community at special events and holidays.
Judaica and Hebraica Curator, Stanford University Library
Bagels, plus lox, shears, salads, and cookies. Serves breakfast and lunch and caters. Two locations, Palo Alto and East Palo Alto. Supervised by the Vaad Hakashrus of Northern California.
Suska and Mordecai provide traditional klezmer with pinches of old time jazz, ethnic folk, theater and American popular music, simmered gently with the blues, rock and reggae, a dash of psychedelia, cooking for ten years and serving up the twanging lingering tones of Jewgrass, African, Celtic, Hawaiian, spiced with the...
PERFORMING Flute Solo or Flute and Harp for weddings, concerts, background music, or other occasions. Klezmer and other Jewish styles, classical, pop. TEACHING Teaches all types of Jewish and classical music for flute, piccolo, amd recorder; and music theory. Ages five to adult. Online and in person. Has a degree...