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Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett on Theatre of History: Presenting the Past in American Jewish Museums

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

Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett (POLIN Museum, Warsaw, and NYU) on Theatre of History: Presenting the Past in American Jewish Museums Monday, April 16, 6:30pm Presented by GTU Center for Jewish Studies, in collaboration with The Magnes, UC Berkeley What is “the problem with Jewish museums”? Whereas there were only two major Jewish museums in the United States before […]

Irvin Ungar on Arthur Szyk: Soldier in Art

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

In 2017, The Magnes acquired from Irvin Ungar, a private collector, the most significant collection of works by Arthur Szyk (Łódź, Poland, 1894 – New Canaan, Connecticut, 1951)  thanks to an unprecedented gift from Taube Philanthropies. Szyk’s works are now available to the world in a public institution for the first time as the Taube […]

Fall 2018 Opening Reception | Pièces de Résistance & Project “Holy Land”

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

The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life cordially invites you to an opening reception for its two new exhibitions Pièces de RésistanceEchoes of Judaea CaptaFrom Ancient Coins to Modern Art & Project “Holy Land” Yaakov Benor-Kalter’s Photographs of British Mandate Palestine Tuesday, September 4, 2018 at 5 pm 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley RECEPTION OPENING […]

Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History | Steven Zipperstein (Stanford) in conversation with John Efron (UC Berkeley

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

This event is free and open to the public Please RSVP here Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History (Liveright/WW Norton, 2018) by Steven Zipperstein will be available for purchase through Mrs. Dalloway's bookstore after the event. In April, 1903, 49 Jews were killed, 600 were raped or wounded, and more than 1,000 Jewish-owned houses and stores were […]

Sholem Aleichem on the South Side of Chicago: The Story and Songs of the Rediscovered 1905 Musical Stempenyu

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

This event is free and open to the public Please RSVP here In June of 1905, Sholem Aleichem—author of the Tevye Stories—met in Warsaw with theater producers Spivakovsky and Adler, and agreed to pen adaptations of his fiction works for theatrical production on stages throughout the Russian Empire. Only a few months later, caught in the […]

Around Arthur Szyk: Berkeley Scholars on Art and History

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

Additional Program Date: Tue, Nov 27, 2018 5:30pm The Taube Family Arthur Szyk Collection comprises hundreds of artworks, sketches, illustrated books, and archival documents created between two world wars and documenting the rise of totalitarianism in Europe. Szyk’s work touches on motifs drawn from the Bible, history, politics, and culture to pair extraordinary craftsmanship with […]

Around Arthur Szyk: Berkeley Scholars on Art and History

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

Poland Reborn: A State Between Democracy and Fascism John Connelly, History, UC Berkeley RSVP here This talk focuses on the divided Poland that emerged after World War I. On the one hand Poland had to accommodate the demands of generations of freedom fighters, while on the other, it quickly became a dysfunctional democracy that lapsed into […]

Spring 2019 Opening Reception | Memory Objects and the Vishniac Archive

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

The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life cordially invites you to an opening reception for the new exhibition, Memory Objects: Judaica Collections, Global Migrations and to celebrate the gift of the Roman Vishniac Archive Doors open at 5 pm Reception Opening Remarks George Breslauer, Faculty Director, The Magnes Francesco Spagnolo, Curator, The Magnes Honoring […]

Around Arthur Szyk: Berkeley Scholars on Art and History

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

Visual Judaica: Jewish Icons and Judaica Collections in the early 20th century Shir Gal Kochavi, The Magnes, UC Berkeley Please RSVP here The highly decorative works of Arthur Szyk contain key Jewish visual elements such as the Lion of Judah, the dove, and the seven spices mentioned in the bible as typical of the Land of […]

The Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Chair in Jewish Studies 2019 Taubman Lectures

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

Additional Program Dates Thu, April 11, 2019 7pm Tue, April 16, 2019 5:30pm Program Schedule Lecture One: Tuesday, April 9, 7pm: Freud, Anna O., and the Linguistic Architecture of the Modern Jewish Self Lecture Two: Thursday, April 11, 7pm: A Different Diaspora: Translation, Dispersion, and the Rewriting of Psychoanalysis in Jewish Languages Lecture Three: Tuesday, April 16, 5:30pm: Weinreich's […]

17th Annual Holocaust Remembrance Day

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

The 17th Annual Holocaust Remembrance Day Program honors survivors, and remembers those who were murdered, those who resisted, and those who rescued victims of the Holocaust.

The Sixteenth Annual Judith Lee Stronach Memorial Lecture on the Teaching of Poetry

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

Almog Behar is a poet, novelist, and critic. Born in 1978, Behar now lives in Jerusalem. He has published three books of poetry: Zim'on Be'erot (Well's Thirst, 2008), Chut Moshekh Min Ha-Lashon (A Thread Drawing from the Tongue, 2009) and Shirim Le-Asirei Batei-Ha-Sohar (Poems for the Prisoners, 2016); a collection of short stories, Ana Min Al-Yahoud (I am on one of the Jews, […]