KlezCalifornia All-Stars perform at Yerba Buena Gardens Festival (San Francisco, September 2006)
Stephen Saxon,
Gerry Tenney, Michael Arrow, Stu Brotman, Our monthly email newsletters summarize news and events that KlezCalifornia presents, co-presents, co-sponsors, or recommends. The most recent issue and a complete archive of past issues are available online. Our compilation of Yiddish culture resources in the Bay Area (and some in Sacramento, Davis, and Santa Cruz). Our Khevruse* Directory (* activity partner) provides a way to indicate how you would like to participate in Yiddish culture and find others with similar interests. To connect with others who speak Yiddish, form a klezmer band, read Yiddish literature, dance, sing, etc., please join. Access to listings is only for those who participate. Posts by and for klezmer musicians and dancers, Yiddish singers and speakers, and others in the KlezCalifornia community.
Venues for Klezmer Performances A list of local, international and virtual places to learn Yiddish, compiled by Dorrit Geshuri (a board member of KlezCalifornia) and Jordan Kutzik. An extensive unannotated 2003 listing of resources for information about Yiddish culture, history, language, music, dance, etc., collected by Ari Davidow, Helen Winkler, Gerben Zaagsma, and Joshua Horowitz.
Yiddish Songbooks
- Available from KlezCalifornia, info[at]klezcalifornia.org (415.789.7679), KlezCalifornia, 1728 Allston Way, Berkeley CA 94703
- KlezCalifornia Songbook, 3rd edition ($3.00 + S/H donation) Yiddish songs in transliteration, with translations
- View as PDF or Download as PDF
- Available from Gerry Tenney, gerry[at]klezcalifornia.org (1.510.465.7911)
- Lomir Zingn a Yidish Lid (paperback,
$20.00 + S/H) (The original publisher Kinderbukh is out of
business.) Includes Yiddish songs in transliteration, full translation,
and music with chords
- Available from The Jewish Book Center of The Workmen’s Circle (jewishbookcenter.com)
- Pearls of Yiddish Song
(“the Red Book”), compiled by Chana and Yosl Mlotek (paperback, $17.95; Now on sale for $10.00 + S/H)
Includes words in Yiddish, words in transliteration, translation
(sometimes full, sometimes a summary) and the music with chords
- Mir Trogn a Gezang, The New Book of Yiddish Songs (“the Blue Book”), compiled by Chana Mlotek (paperback, $19.95; Now on sale for $10.00 + S/H). Similar format
- Songs of Generations, New Pearls of Yiddish Song (“the Purple Book”), compiled by Chana and Yosl Mlotek (paperback, $24.95; Now on sale for $10.00 + S/H). Similar format
- Yiddish Song Book, by Jerry Silverman ($19.95 + S/H). Includes words in transliteration, full translation, and music with chords
Major Bay Area Jewish Arts Presenters
Yiddish-Jewish Culture on the Web
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