Music for a middle eastern western, with a latin twist! Plays anytime anyplace as long as there is either a large enough crowd, or enough gelt. Simkhes Toyreh, dance parties, bar/bas mitzveh parties, sure. Weddings, love ‘em, but we don't play “Celebrate,” or anything from “Fiddler.”
Klezmer clarinetist with the Klezmorim and the New Klezmer Trio.
World music CDs, including Adrienne Cooper, Arkady Gendler, Michael Winograd, Budowitz, Veretski Pass. Artist representation including Veretski Pass.
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...
A wholesale Jewish bakery serving the Bay Area for over 50 years — making every day a challah-day. Grand Bakery is a storied food institution that brings delicious, traditionally Jewish goods to a broad and diverse community. We've been baking in Oakland since 1959, and after a brief hiatus, we've...
Rachel B. Gross is the John and Marcia Goldman Professor of American Jewish Studies in the department of Jewish studies at San Francisco State University. She is a scholar of religious studies whose work focuses on the lives, spaces, and objects of twentieth-century and contemporary American Jews. She is currently...
Menu includes pastrami (Montreal-style) and corned beef, knishes, latkes, chicken kreplach, potato vareniki. Deserts include rugelach and babka. "We're trying to interpet Jewish cuisine with Sonoma products and a wine country mindset."
According to an article by Alix Wall in the 6/26/20 issue of "J. The Jewish News of Northern California," Hella Bagels is a home-based startup in Oakland, where chef-owner Blake Hunter can make only 100 bagels at a time, which he does Sunday mornings. Hunter delivers in the East Bay...
Henry Sapozniks' website is clearinghouse of a lifetime of his passions, enthusiasms, and projects including but not limited to old time country music, Yiddish vaudeville, scratchy old records, banjo, Tin Pan Alley, Yiddish radio, early animation, competition bullseye pistol, and black and white movies. Subscribe to the blog. Henry Sapoznik...
Linda Hirschhorn is a singer, songwriter, performer, cantor, wedding and other life cycle celebrant, composer, arranger, and choral conductor. She is founder and director of Vocolot and sole clergy at Temple Beth Sholom in San Leandro. She offers week-long residencies to communities who wish to learn and perform much of...
Performers, Yiddish Choruses, Singers and Song Leaders / East Bay
Yiddish 104, History of Yiddish Civilization (in English), MWF, 9 - 10am, with Noa Tsaushu. Offered Fall 2024. This course will trace the development of Yiddish civilization down to today from the first settlement of Jews in German lands, roughly a thousand years ago. At its peak, Yiddish was spoken...
Joshua Horowitz is an internationally renowned klezmer performer with Veretski Pass, Budowitz, and other groups.> Individual Presentations: Josh offers presentations on: The Red Herrings of Jewish Music Klezmer Music and the "Co-opting" of a Science The Hasidic World of Music The Magic Chronicles Lecture and Presentation The Jewish Tsimbl Klez...
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...
House of Bagels was opened in 1962 at the original location at 2nd and Geary Blvd., our famous bagel recipe having been brought here from Brooklyn, New York. In 1964, we relocated to its present location at 5030 Geary Boulevard in San Francisco. Traditional NY-style bagels have been made from...
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...
New 900-page, two-volume textbook with on-line companion website. Published by Yiddish Book Center in 2020. Written by Asya Vaisman Schulman and Jordan Brown with Mikhl Yashinsky, In eynem is the first fully-illustrated, multimedia Yiddish textbook that uses the communicative approach to language learning. With this book, students use language as...