Rowan Katz is a Bay Area–based vocalist, composer, music educator, and performance artist whose work sits at the crossroads of diasporic Jewish music, contemporary songwriting, and embodied voice practice. Drawing from Yiddish, Ladino, Eastern European, American theater/folk, and related song traditions alongside original material, Rowan treats the voice as a...
The Kehilla Klezmer Band features members of Kehilla Community Synagogue of Piedmont (right on the border with Oakland) but is open to non-members, California. Members of Saul Goodman’s Klezmer Band have been collaborating with Kehilla since 2017. The collaboration culminates each year with a Simkhes Toyre dance party.
Judaica and Hebraica Curator, Stanford University Library
Renna Khuner-Haber is a longtime Jewish community organizer and song leader. She is a collector of Jewish melodies old and new and ran the Bay Area Nigun Collective (www.nigun.community) for four years. She has taught workshops and supported individuals around the country in starting their own wordless singing groups. Renna...
Performers, Yiddish Choruses, Singers and Song Leaders / East Bay
Opened in 2012, King Knish is known for their variety of knishes. Some flavors are more adventurous than others, but the classic flavors remain, as do their latkes.
Gale Kissin, a.k.a. Gishe Reyzl, is a Yiddish folksinger and guitarist.
Performers, Yiddish Choruses, Singers and Song Leaders / Sonoma County
KlezCalifornia is a non-profit San Francisco Bay Area organization founded in 2003 that connects people and communities with Yiddish culture. You are on KlezCalifornia's website! As KlezCalifornia celebrates our 20th anniversary connecting people and communities with Yiddish culture in 2023, we are announcing our transition to a facilitating organization. We...
Community Event News and Calendars Online, Other Resources, Yiddish Culture Online, Youth Programs / Online
Links to resources for learning about and playing klezmer music, generally and for specific instruments, collected by Jim Rebhan.
Klezmer and Israeli music, and some bluegrass at events large or small
Bands radioshows, events, sheet music recordings, instruments, organizations and classifieds http://www.klezmershack.com/
All facets of Jewish vocal and instrumental music (especially dance music) and songs in Yiddish, Ladino and Hebrew. Klezmer, Sephardic, folk,religious and contemporary Jewish song, singers and musicians! This is our Klezmer/Jewish Music hubpage. We have 16 carefully chosen sites for you to choose from below. We hope you'll visit...
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.
Since 2010, KlezNu has been hypnotizing audiences with their fusion of klezmer and modern jazz. Led by the Bay Area's cherished performer Barry Reich, KlezNu performs original and traditional Klezmer tunes which take away your daily woes. Check out their music at https://www.reverbnation.com/kleznu.
Even the casual klezmer listener knows what a krekhts is, even if not by name. A krekhts (קרעכץ) is a crack – a shrill cry of the clarinet, a break in the voice. An imperfection, but one which comes straight from the heart. Krekhts pulls together its repertoire from the...
Based out of Chabad North Peninsula in San Mateo, Krembo bakes Jewish treats for all occasions. Beyond their namesake, the Israeli krembo, Krembo’s menu includes Ashkenazi favorites like babkas and mandelbrot, and lekach for Rosh Hashanah. They are also the only pareve kosher bakery in Northern California.
Professor Kronfeld teaches Hebrew, Yiddish and Comparative Literature at U.C. Berkeley with a special emphasis on modern poetry. She is the author of On the Margins of Modernism: Decentering Literary Dynamics which won the MLA Scaglione Prize in 1996 for Best Book in Comparative Literary Studies. Her co-translation (with Chana...
