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24th Jewish Music Festival March 21-April 2, 2009

2009 Festival Events

• Bloch Party!: The Bridge Players
• Kosher Gospel
• Bloch Party!: Young People’s Symphony Orchestra
• Andy Statman Trio
• Flory Jagoda and Friends
• Di Goldene Pave: Yiddish Muse and Mystery
• The Sisters of Sheynville and Gaucho
• Family Music Day & Finale Dance Party
• Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird
• Related Events

Major Sponsors

• Alliance for California Traditional Arts
• Anisman/Sherman Family and Julie Sherman
• Bernard Osher Jewish Philanthropies Foundation of the Jewish Community Endowment Fund
• Forest Creatures Entertainment
• 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
• The San Francisco Foundation
• Taube Foundation for Jewish Life and Culture (JCEF)
• Official Wine Sponsor: Hagafen
• Official Chocolate Sponsor: Alegio Chocolate

Welcome to the 2009 Jewish Music Festival Season

Michael Krasny

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Michael Krasny, Ph.D., is host of KQED’s award-winning Forum, a news and public affairs program that concentrates on the arts, culture, health, business and technology.

Since 1970 he has been a professor of English at San Francisco State University and is a widely published scholar, critic, former regular contributor to Mother Jones magazine and a fiction writer.

Dr. Krasny has interviewed many of the leading newsmakers and cultural icons of our time, including Saul Bellow, former President Jimmy Carter, Cesar Chavez, Noam Chomsky, Newt Gingrich, Jane Goodall, Rosa Parks, Salman Rushdie, Susan Sontag and Arcrchbishop Desmond Tutu. He is the recipient of many awards and honors, including The SY Agnon Gold Medal for Intellectual Distinction, The Eugene Block Award for Human Rights Journalism, The Inclusiveness in Media Award from The National Conference for Community and Justice, and a Koret Foundation Fellowship. He has also been named best talk show host by Focus magazine, a number of Bay Area newspapers, The San Francisco Publicity Club and Citysearch.

Dr. Krasny received his B.A. (Cum Laude) and M.A. from Ohio University, where he is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and his Ph.D. from The University of Wisconsin.