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We wish you a
zisn un freylekhn khanike – a sweet and happy Hanukkah – beginning the evening of Sunday, December 14!
Over the next few weeks we will announce exciting new grants to young people from The Yiddish Culture
Fund. Please open the emails from KlezCalifornia and respond with your
most
generous year-end support to help us continue funding KlezCalifornia's
wonderful programs.
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Grantee of the Yiddish Culture Fund
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Thursday, December 4, 8-9:30pm
2727 California Street, Berkeley
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Sacred Music Fellowship invites people from different cultures and religious
traditions to sing, play, and learn with each other. In December, Mike Perlmutter will teach singable instrumental klezmer tunes. Participants
will be given lyric sheets and sent source recordings.
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Presented by Jewish Community Library
Co-presented by KlezCalifornia
Sunday, December 7, 3pm, online
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In his new book,
The Tourist’s Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City, Henry Sapoznik offers a look at over a century of New York’s Yiddish popular culture. Culled from more than five thousand Yiddish and English newspaper articles and a wealth of previously inaccessible
materials, this book offers fresh insights into the enormous influence of Yiddish culture on New York City.
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Michael Winograd & Ira Khonen Temple
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Co-presented by KlezCalifornia
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Monday, December 8, 7pm
Jewish Community Center of San Francisco More
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Tuesday, December 9, 7pm
Private Home in Santa Cruz More
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An evening of new klezmer sounds, Yiddish anthems, and radical joy with two
of today’s most thrilling and inventive artists redefining Jewish music for a new generation.
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Fiscally sponsored by KlezCalifornia
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Sunday, December 14, 2-5pm
NEW LOCATION: Congregation Netivot Shalom, Berkeley
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Join the October-May monthly series celebrating The Joy of Jewish Music
and Dance! Great for musicians, dancers, and enthusiasts to meet, learn, play, shmooze, or simply to take in the beauty of these rich traditions. Bring your instruments and dancing shoes. For the December 14 session,
music will be taught by The Klezmatics,
the only klezmer band ever to win a Grammy.
Yiddish dancing will be led by Bruce Bierman.
Online ticket purchase ends Friday, December 12, noon. Buy your ticket now to be sure you can get in!
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If you would prefer to just listen to a Klezmatics concert – rather than play, sing, or dance – check
out their three
Bay Area shows in Healdsburg, Santa Cruz, and San Francisco.
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Yiddish Conversation Salon
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The Salon is taking a break in December and will resume meeting in January.
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Presented by New Lehrhaus
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Co-presented by KlezCalifornia
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Sunday, December 21, 4-5:30pm Pacific Time, online
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Around the turn of the twentieth century, a group of Yiddish-speaking educators,
authors, and cultural leaders undertook a bold project: creating a corpus of nearly one thousand books and several periodicals, which flourished in conjunction with the secular Yiddish school systems that spanned the globe in the 1920s and 1930s. These stories,
poems, and plays furnish a novel record of the movements that made Ashkenazi Jewry fully modern.
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Presented by New Lehrhaus
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Co-presented by KlezCalifornia
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Tuesday, December 23, 6-7:30pm Pacific Time, online
Back in Europe, Yiddish-speaking Jews traditionally let loose on Christmas
Eve with feasting, drinking, dancing, and gambling. Scholars have previously assumed this was some sort of antagonistic counterculture to Christians celebrating Christmas. In this presentation, Jordan Chad reveals that while Jews never celebrated the birth
of Jesus, their Christmas Eve celebrations were essentially what they looked like: Jews celebrating Christmas.
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Yiddish Culture Fund Grantee
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Wednesday, December 24, doors open 7:30pm, show 8pm
Ashkenaz Community Center, 1317 San Pablo Ave., Berkeley
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After
an unforgettable, sold-out night last year, Borscht Bay's Nitl Nakht Yiddish Cabaret is back and bigger! This X-mas eve, “unshoulder the bitter yoke of Christian hegemony“ with a night full of music, dancing, and Yiddish irreverence.
Last year was quickly sold out so get your tickets in advance!!
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Our sister organization, Yiddish New York, is having their annual event December
20-25, with concerts, some instrumental workshops, lectures, shmoozing, vocal workshops, and Yiddish language programs online or hybrid.
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View more events and classes on our website:
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View KlezCalifornia's
Honor
Wall.
Become a donor to post your tribute.
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Support exciting Yiddish culture through
a
donation to KlezCalifornia.
You may also mail a check payable to KlezCalifornia to the address below.
A sheynem dank!
Thank you very much!
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A bisl mer (a little bit more)
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