Posted By Kali Cozyris on Sun, Jan 31, 2021 at 8:00 AM If you’re kicking yourself because you missed
Temple Beth El’s Yiddish Music Festival last year, don’t kvetch, it’s back!
The Humboldt Jewish Music and Culture Festival, a celebration of Yiddish and Sephardic culture, music and cuisine, is happening
Feb. 4-11 via Jewish music, such as local cellist Kira Weiss Sephardic musical event on Tuesday, Feb 11.
Due to the pandemic, the festival is being presented as an expanded Zoom event with highlights that include
Cabaret Culture in Interwar Poland, a multimedia presentation by Jewish music specialist Dr. Ellie Shapiro, an independent scholar focusing on Polish-Jewish relations. In 2018, Shapiro completed a dissertation on contemporary Jewish culture festivals in Polish small towns. Formerly the director of the Bay Area-based Jewish Music Festival for 18 years, she first visited Poland in 2003 as a guest of the Polish