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Community Conversations with Executive Director Hannah Weisman

Magnes Collection of Jewish Life and Art 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA, United States

Join Executive Director Hannah Weisman and museum staffers for a conversation about The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life over a cup of coffee. Hannah will share a brief update on the museum’s current activities. Bring your favorite Magnes stories from the past along with your thoughts and questions about the present and creative ideas for the future.

Community Conversations with Executive Director Hannah Weisman

Magnes Collection of Jewish Life and Art 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA, United States

Join Executive Director Hannah Weisman and museum staffers virtually for a conversation about The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life. Hannah will share a brief update on the museum’s current activities. Bring your favorite Magnes stories from the past along with your thoughts and questions about the present and creative ideas for the future. […]

Community Conversations with Executive Director Hannah Weisman

Magnes Collection of Jewish Life and Art 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA, United States

Join Executive Director Hannah Weisman and museum staffers for a conversation about The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life over a cup of coffee. Hannah will share a brief update on the museum’s current activities. Bring your favorite Magnes stories from the past along with your thoughts and questions about the present and creative ideas for the future.

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100 Years of the Yiddish Song: 1920s-2020s

Magnes Collection of Jewish Life and Art 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA, United States

Over the course of a turbulent and tortuous century, the Yiddish song has survived and is even thriving in today’s flowering of performance and songwriting. Professor Mark Slobin's lecture will cover both the continuity and the new creativity of this history.

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Transmitting Anne Frank to Gen Z

Magnes Collection of Jewish Life and Art 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA, United States

Almost 80 years after her tragic death in concentration camp Bergen-Belsen, Anne Frank still figures prominently in the public domain. Over the years, her diary and her life story have been the subject of an expansive output of adaptations and engagements, giving her an iconic status. While there is an unabated interest in Anne Frank, new generations connect to her on their own terms and within their own, rapidly changing, media landscape. It poses a challenge to us to open up to their worlds and to find new ways to tell the story of Anne Frank.

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Open House | Roman Vishniac Archive

Magnes Collection of Jewish Life and Art 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA, United States

Stop by The Magnes Collection’s Open House to learn more about the Roman Vishniac Archive and our newest exhibition, Cities and Wars: Roman Vishniac in Berlin and Jerusalem 1947/1967, before heading over to BAMPFA for a special screening of Laura Bialis’s documentary Vishniac.

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Now Virtual: Protecting Cultural Heritage during Armed Conflict

Magnes Collection of Jewish Life and Art 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA, United States

Join the Magnes for a lecture via Zoom with Blue Shield International's Patty Gerstenblith, as she discusses the legal, ethical, and voluntary constraints that have been adopted to protect cultural heritage and in particular archaeological sites from theft and looting during armed conflict.

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Walkers in the City: Jewish Street Photographers of Midcentury New York

Magnes Collection of Jewish Life and Art 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA, United States

"Walkers in the City" documents how roving, imaginative Jewish New Yorkers, entranced by the medium of photography, transformed everyday sights into rousing, joyous, and poignant moments of time, creating visual poetry out of the fabric of social life.

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Now Virtual | 1967: The Year that Transformed Israel

The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life: Zooming In 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA via Zoom

Join the Magnes for a special lecture via Zoom with Professor Eran Kaplan as he explores the impact of the 1967 Six Day War on Israel in this insightful program in conjunction with the current exhibition, "Cities and Wars. Roman Vishniac in Berlin and Jerusalem 1947/1967."

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Big Give 2024

Magnes Collection of Jewish Life and Art 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA, United States

Thursday, March 14, the whole UC Berkeley family comes together for Big Give — our annual 24-hour fundraising event. Take part and show your support by coming together with the Cal community to shine a light on programs like the Magnes. Let’s make this our most successful Big Give yet!