Jason Ditzian is a wind instrumentalist who has composed and performed numerous works for dance, movie and theater. He has been manager of Kugelplex for over 15 years. When he's not playing klezmer, Jason performs and records with many Bay Area ensembles, including Charming Hostess and inkBoat. He is the Managing Director...
Down Home Music was established in 1976 by Arhoolie Records founder Chris Strachwitz as a (brick & mortar) retail outlet for Roots music releases from various labels throughout the world. Located at 10341 San Pablo Avenue, in El Cerrito, California, we continue to open our doors to customers 6 days...
Drewish Deli, founded by its namesake Drew Ross, is a fresh, made-from-scratch deli that "brings together the traditional flavors of a Jewish deli with the beloved goodness of freshly baked bagels.” They get their bagels fresh from the Healdsburg Bagel Company at the same site, and the menu contains many...
Elementary Yiddish 101A and 102, taught by Noa Tsaushu and Alec Burko, at U.C. Berkeley. To be offered in Fall and Spring 2024, respectively, all online. 101A: MWF 1-2pm In this beginners' course students will learn to speak, read, and write Yiddish, the original lannguage of East European Jews. Using...
Yiddish Classes in (or online from) the Bay Area, Yiddish Classes Online / Online
Started in April 2020, Ethel's has nine flavors of bagels. Bagels, shmears, pastries (babka!), sandwiches, salads, and other noshes. "A West Coast bagel with an East Coast attitude." They sell at the Larkspur and Kensington Farmers Markets as well as at the brick-and-mortar delicatessen.
Poetry readings, classes, and workshops on Yiddish and Hebrew women poets by a poet and translator from Hebrew and Yiddish. Author of The Book of Blessings (a re-creation of Jewish prayer from a gender-inclusive perspective). Translations include With Teeth in the Earth: Selected Poems of Malka Heifetz Tussman (from Yiddish),...
Yiddish Musical Comedy collection: https://rsa.fau.edu/judaic
Workers Circle/Arbeter Ring of Northern California is offering free, biweekly online Yiddish classes with instructor Marianne Tatom (Mirl) in Fall 2024. There are two levels of classes: Advanced Beginners and Intermediate. You must know the Yiddish alphabet (alef-beys) for both classes. Regular classes resume September 13 and continue twice a...
Yiddish Classes in (or online from) the Bay Area, Yiddish Classes Online / Online
“A Key to Jewish Life in Europe & America in the 20th Century.” Over 4,000 recordings, primarily in Yiddish and Hebrew. Over 35,000 entries in the trilingual recording database catalogue. Part of the Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text & Image (SCETI) at The University of Pennsylvania Libraries
Classically trained musician with 15 years of klezmer performing experience offers online and in-person lessons (Shasta County) in Classical and Klezmer violin and viola. Past or current member of • Stanford Klezmer Band • Accidental Klezmer • Open Embrace International Ensemble • LOFT (La Orquesta Fusion Tango) • Nova Vista...
Bay Area resident Avner Yonai spearheads a memorial project of reviving the Jewish Mandolin Orchestra that was active in Gora Kalwaria, Poland between 1920 and 1930. Most of its members were murdered in the Holocaust.
The “Singing Jewish Cowboy,” Scott comes from a secular left-wing Jewish agricultural community near Petaluma, where Yiddish culture and activism for social justice were very important. He has worked in agriculture all his life, mainly on cattle ranches. Sings country, folk and cowboy songs, but Yiddish “shtetl folksongs,” sung to...
Performers, Yiddish Choruses, Singers and Song Leaders / Sonoma County