Offers presentations to kids: Making Bobeh Proud: What Do You Know about Ashkenazi Jewish Food? (grades 5-12). and to adults: Intro to Yiddish Language & History "Yid Lit": We read a full story or a shortened version of a story by Isaac Bashevis Singer, Sholem Aleichem, or I.L. Peretz. Jewish Lives...
Leader of the band The Sway Machinery, a group that takes “golden age” khazones as the jumping off point for creating new music. Available as a soloist on guitar and voice for private engagements and club dates. Jeremiah Lockwood plays with his new duo, Book of J, with musician Jewlia...
Lecturers, Performers, Yiddish Choruses, Singers & Song Leaders / Santa Clara County
Extensive collection of Yiddish books. See also The Secular Yiddish Schools in North America (SYSNA) Collection, above.
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...
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...
Meets most Wednesday nights, 7:30-9:00pm, led by Karen K. Bergen. Repertoire is mainly Yiddish songs, with some Ladino, Hebrew, and Russian songs mixed in for spice. At least three performances a year. Songs are taught so new members can be successful even if they don't speak Yiddish or read music....
Yiddish Choruses, Singers & Song Leaders / Santa Clara County
Yiddish Club at the Oshman Family JCC in Palo Alto meets every first and third Friday of the month, 2-3:30pm, in the Plaza Room (Moldaw)/M119. No politics, no medical reports, just fun and mama loshn. Please come and enjoy shmuesing, shenken. If you are wondering about the latter, remember: Es...
Yiddish Language & Culture – Informal Learning / Santa Clara County
Pastrami, corned beef, brisket, half-sour garlic pickles, matzah ball soup. Pickup and delivery orders are available in the South Bay through DoorDash and GrubHub, and occasionally in the East Bay. A project of JW Catering.
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,...