Jeanette Lewicki, who lives in Oakland, is a long-time singer of Yiddish songs as well as an accordionist, artist, writer, and klezmer musician. She leads her own band “the gonifs” and she loves to teach. Jeanette first picked up the accordion in the vegan commune where she started living at...
Lecturers, Performers, Yiddish Choruses, Singers and Song Leaders / East Bay
Klezmer performances, East European folk and gypsy music. Romanian, Russian, Ukrainian. Balkan and Israeli folk dance music. Workshops for instrumental and vocal music. Accordionist, band leader, workshop leader, booking agent. Plays accordion, balalaika, tzimbl, guitar, percussion, and vocals. Member of the Bay Area's original Klezmorim, Troika Balalaikas, Hatsegana, Silver String...
Includes Yiddish songs in transliteration, full translation, and sheet music with chords. Original publisher Kinderbukh is out of business, but available for $20.00 + S/H from Gerry Tenney, gerry@klezcalifornia.org, 510-465-7911
A Jewish bakery with a selection of famous babka loaves, knots, and rolls, along with a variety of other diasporic foods.
From Loveski's website: Loveski is a “jew-ish” deli born out of Northern California by Christopher and Martina Kostow. Featuring handmade sourdough bagels, house-made pickles and other ferments, vegetables from our farm, and the best cured and smoked meats. With elements of Martina’s Thai upbringing, and the sensibilities of our time...
Baritone, with BFA in musical theatre. Cantor, Congregation Emanu-El, San Francisco. Musical revue Moishe Oysher: The Master Singer of His People! It has been performed in New York City, L.A., Chicago, Paris, URJ Biennial, Havah Nashira and elsewhere. The full production is presented with singer/actress Sari Greenberg, a seven piece...
Performers, Yiddish Choruses, Singers and Song Leaders / San Francisco
Majorly Minor is Naomi Zamir and her band of friends playing soulful and vibrant klezmer melodies, as well as music from other Eastern European traditions. The band members are Stella Bonilla on violin, Ginny Snyder on Bass, and Naomi Zamir on accordion, with a rotating cast of surprise friends. Performs...
International ensemble with clarinet, accordion, and tapan drum. Repertoire from Eastern Europe and the Balkans/Turkey. They create a rich interactive experience through performance, music therapy, and education. Available for private events, weddings, clubs, house concerts, services, multi-cultural senior centers, and, music education.
Gale Kissin, vocals; Suzanne Shanbaum, guitar; Rhonda Findling, percussion.
"A whole lot of experience, skill and love goes into every detail at Mark ‘n Mike’s. We hope you enjoy eating as much as we enjoy cooking and welcoming you. If you’re hungry, let’s fress!" Mark ’n Mikes is a pop-up New York style delicatessen at One Market Restaurant in...
"MARLA is an acronym composed of the first letters of the names of our family members who taught us to cook and bake. Food does not spring forth from the ether, it is informed and shaped by the past and is as much of a product of a memory as...
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,...
Originally part of a New York-style deli chain with mile-high sandwiches, old-school feel & upbeat atmosphere, Max’s now includes three separate restaurants. Though they are no longer connected, Max’s Opera Cafe in SF, Max’s of Burlingame, and Max’s Restaurant and Bar in Auburn all retain the same original deli ambience....
Founded in 2010, the Mayrent Institute for Yiddish Culture at the University of Wisconsin–Madison is one of the nation’s leading centers for the study, documentation, and dissemination of Yiddish music and culture. The collection contains over 8,000 78rpm discs including Yiddish theater, popular and traditional music, cantorial songs, klezmer music,...
Klezmer Music and Yiddish Song - Online Resources, Yiddish Culture Online / Online
Founded in 1990 by Lowell Milken, chairman and co-founder of the Milken Family Foundation, The Milken Archive of Jewish Music is committed to preserving and presenting music of the American Jewish experience; music that reflects the scope and variety of Jewish life in America, and also demonstrates the universality of...
Klezmer Music and Yiddish Song - Online Resources, Yiddish Culture Online
Compiled by Chana Mlotek (paperback). Similar format to Pearls of Yiddish Song (includes words in Yiddish, words in transliteration, full or summary translation, and sheet music with chords.) NOTE: Search online for this book. KlezCalifornia does not sell it.
Nathaniel Deutsch is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he holds the Baumgarten Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies. He is also Director of the Center for Jewish Studies and Director of the Humanities Institute. His areas of expertise include Jewish Studies and Judaism, Religion and...
Band for adults and teens that rehearses weekly on Tuesdays, 7-9pm at Congregation Netivot Shalom in Berkeley. Directed by Cantor Pamela Sawyer.
Yiddish research guide covering general resources, article and books, folklore, genealogy, linguistics, literature, music and dance, oral history, theater, film, radio, translation and student resources.