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...
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...
Blog about food and Yiddish by The Chocolate Lady
This online project has been created by some prominent Yiddish singers and scholars: Michael Alpert, Walter Zev Feldman, Itzik Gottesman, Ethel Raim, Josh Waletzky, and Mark Slobin. (In their words:) First, we identify the genre of the folksong within the culture of eastern Ashkenazic Jews and the surrounding European societies....
Search online for this book. KlezCalifornia does not sell it.
Searchable collections of recordings, e.g., George Blood collection Jewish, Yiddish, Pepi Litman
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.
Bi-weekly magazine about Jewish life in Northern California, as well as this event calendar.
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...
Now also includes the East Bay.
Presenter of free educational programs evenings and Sundays. Circulating collection of hundreds of Yiddish books and instructional materials, klezmer/Yiddish recordings and sheet music, and Yiddish videos. Programs and readings on Yiddish culture. Additional branches at the San Francisco and Oshman Family (Palo Alto) JCCs. All programs and services are free...
Meets Tuesday nights, 7:30-9:30pm. Repertoire is mostly Yiddish but also includes Ladino, Russian, and Hebrew songs. Performs for audiences around the Bay. Prior knowledge of these languages is not necessary, but always welcome. The 4th Tuesday evening of every month, 7-8pm, is a "Groyse (Large) Workshop" to which the public...
Extensive links to Jewish music archives and info http://jmwc.org/
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.