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The Last Arab Jews: The Community of Djerba, Tunisia. Lecture by Professor Lucette Valensi, EHESS (Paris)
Judah L. Magnes Museum, BerkeleyThe Second Annual John S. Sills Memorial Lecture Professor Lucette Valensi of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris), and the University of California at Berkeley, is a world-renowned authority on the history of North Africa and the Middle East. Her published books include Jewish Memories, The Last Arab Jews, Tunisian Paesants in […]
Raoul Wallenberg: A Biography
Magnes Collection of Jewish Life and Art 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA, United StatesBengt Jangfeldt is a Professor of Literature and best-selling writer in Sweden. He is the author of several books on Russian literature, and has twice been awarded the August (Strindberg) Prize, the Sweedish equivalent of the Booker Prize. His forthcoming biography of Raoul Wallenberg (Wahlström & Widstrand, June 2012) is timed with the worldwide commemoration […]
Litquake’s Berkeley Ramble
Magnes Collection of Jewish Life and Art 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA, United StatesLitquake, San Francisco’s annual literary festival, comes to Berkeley’s Allston Way. The day starts at The Magnes with the appearance of Rabbi Joshua Plaut, author of A Kosher Christmas: ‘Tis the Season to be Jewish (Rutgers, October 2012). "With humor and insight Rabbi Joshua Plaut, Ph.D. recounts the meaning of Christmas to American Jews. This 'only in America' […]
Annual Kristallnacht Commemoration; Author Alex Kershaw on “The Liberator”
Magnes Collection of Jewish Life and Art 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA, United StatesA Program in Commemoration of Kristallnacht: The Night of Broken Glass Best-selling author and noted historian Alex Kershaw discusses his latest book, The Liberator, which follows one American soldier’s 500 day odyssey from the beaches of Sicily to the liberation of Dachau. Presented by The Jewish Federation and The Jewish Community Foundation of the East Bay and The […]
Emma Goldman Papers Project Reception
Magnes Collection of Jewish Life and Art 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA, United StatesReception to honor the publication of the third in the four-volume series, Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years- 1890-1919 (Stanford University Press, November 2012). Readings from the work of the eloquent advocate of universal social justice.
The Book of Genesis: A Biography
Magnes Collection of Jewish Life and Art 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA, United StatesRonald Hendel will introduce his forthcoming book, The Book of Genesis: A Biography (Princeton, November 2012) in conversation with Rabbi Stephen Pearce of Temple Emanu-El, San Francisco, and the Very Rev. Jane Shaw, Dean of the Grace Cathedral, San Francisco. The book traces how Genesis has shaped views of reality, and how changing views of reality have […]
Book Reading: Artist Helene Aylon
Magnes Collection of Jewish Life and Art 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA, United StatesArtist Helene Aylon on her memoir- Whatever is Contained Must Be Released: My Jewish Orthodox Girlhood, My Life as a Feminist Artist (The Feminist Press, 2012). Aylon's book reading includes a slideshow and short video. "Never afraif to question sacred texts, ancient rituals, and religious bias- Aylon is a role model for all artists. Whatever is Contained […]
Tragic Komiks: Immigrant Identity in Translation
Magnes Collection of Jewish Life and Art 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA, United StatesMarina Temkina is considered one of the most important Russian poets of her generation. Born in St. Petersburg, she emigrated from the former Soviet Union in 1978 and now lives in New York. Temkina published five books of poetry. She writes on gender, Russian-Jewish identity, and immigration with a sense of history lived through and […]
Writing Identity: Sayed Kashua
Magnes Collection of Jewish Life and Art 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA, United StatesSayed Kashua was born in the Arab town of Tira in central Israel. He has become one of the most important contemporary voices on the complexities of identity through his three novels, his column in the Ha’aretz newspaper, and the groundbreaking Israeli sitcom Arab Labor, which he wrote and created. His latest novel, Second Person Singular, was published in […]
Robert Alter on his new book
Magnes Collection of Jewish Life and Art 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA, United StatesRobert Alter’s award-winning translation of the Hebrew Bible continues with the stirring narrative of Israel’s ancient history. To read the books of the Former Prophets in this riveting translation (published by W.W. Norton & Co., 2013) is to discover an entertaining amalgam of hair-raising action and high literary achievement. Alter's immense achievements in scholarship ranging […]
Litquake: Thaisa Frank
Magnes Collection of Jewish Life and Art 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA, United StatesThe day culminates with a public reading by award-winning author Thaisa Frank. Heidegger’s Glasses is Frank’s startling, surreal debut novel. Part love story and part historical fiction, Heidegger’s Glasses evocatively reconstructs the landscape of Nazi Germany from an entirely original and haunting vantage point. To register, please click here.