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The 25th Jewish Music Festival invites you to share our joy as our friend Dan Plonsey becomes a Bar Mitzvah!

Thanks to a generous matching grant of $7,500 from The East Bay Community Foundation’s Fund for Artists, the JMF commissioned a new multimedia piece by Bay Area composer Dan Plonsey and choreographer Eric Kupers to premiere as part of our silver anniversary season. Thanks to your love of the arts and willingness to give, we have reached our goal.

Save the Date: July 11, 2010 and come celebrate Dan Plonsey’s Bar Mitzvah

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Upcoming Events

• Back to the Roots: Notions of Jewish Musical Revival
• Yuval Ron: Sacred Jewish and Muslim Music of the Middle East
• Zmiros
• Diaspora Redux - American Premiere
• Master class: Improvisation in New Jewish Music
• Saints and Tzadiks
• Klezmer Buenos Aires

Past Festivals

2009

2007 and 2008

2006

2005

2004

2003

Major Sponsors

• Alliance for California Traditional Arts
• Anisman/Sherman Family and Julie Sherman
• Bernard Osher Jewish Philanthropies Foundation of the Jewish Community Endowment Fund
• Gaia Fund
• Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund
• Gottesman-Biddle Family Philanthropic Fund (JCEF)
• Guzik Foundation
• Walter and Elise Haas Fund
• The Jewish Community Federation and Foundation of the Greater East Bay
• Koret Foundation
• Kurz Family Foundation
• The San Francisco Foundation
• Taube Foundation for Jewish Life and Culture (JCEF)
• Official Wine Sponsor: Hagafen
• Official Chocolate Sponsor: Alegio Chocolate

Back to the Roots: Notions of Jewish Musical Revival

Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 3:00 PM

Order tickets online now for Back to the Roots: Notions of Jewish Musical Revival

Forshpeis (Festival appetizer)

Efforts to revive Jewish music date back more than a century. Music scholars Benjamin Brinner (UC Berkeley), Judah Cohen (Indiana University) and Edwin Seroussi (The Hebrew University), will explore early attempts to restore Sephardic and Ashkenazi musical traditions. They will be joined by Martin Schwartz (UC Berkeley), whose record collection was seminal to the klezmer revival. Moderated by Francesco Spagnolo (The Magnes).

Co-sponsored by the Taube Foundation for Jewish Life and Culture. Presented in association with the Jewish Music Forum and the Judah L. Magnes Museum

Jewish Community Center of the East Bay
1414 Walnut Street, Berkeley
510-848-0237
$10