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PopUp Exhibition: Alan Elbaum | Between Magic and Medicine: Karaite Manuscripts at The Magnes

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

Alan Elbaum is a second-year medical student at the UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical Program. While at Berkeley, he is working toward a master's degree in the history of medicine, using manuscripts from the Cairo Genizah. More broadly, Elbaum is interested in the literature and culture of the Jews of Arab lands; historical perspectives on medicine […]

Drawn from Water: An American Poet, an Ethiopian Family, an Israeli Story

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

What do we mean by home? In Drawn From Water, Jewish American writer, Dina Elenbogen explores her thirty-year friendship with Ethiopian Jewish immigrants in Israel as theystruggle in a new country while dealing with her own desire to join them there. Thirty years ago, Operation Moses airlifted thousands of Ethiopian Jews to Israel, where today […]

PopUp Exhibition: Rachel Deblinger on the Holocaust in the Age of Digital History

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

This week’s PopUp Exhibition falls on March 8th, International Women’s Day. In solidarity with a national protest making March 8th “A Day Without a Woman,” Dr. Rachel Deblinger will turn her presentation into a teach-in about the role of museums and archives as places of resistance, focusing on Holocaust testimony, memory and oral history. Rachel […]

Book Lecture l Patrizia Guarnieri, The Racial Laws in Fascist Italy: Enzo Bonaventura From Florence to Jerusalem

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

Patrizia Guarnieri, Professor of Cultural and Social History in the S.A.G.A.S. Department at the University of Florence, Italy, will give a talk on her book Italian Psychology and Jewish Emigration under Fascism: From Florence to Jerusalem and New York (Palgrave Macmillan US 2016). The book focuses on how the field of psychology was affected by […]

PopUp Exhibition: Adam Naftalin-Kelman on the History of Berkeley Hillel

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

Rabbi Adam Naftalin-Kelman is the Executive Director of Berkeley Hillel. Upon completing his undergraduate degree at the University of Rhode Island, he initially worked in the financial sector as a business consultant. He later pursued a Rabbinic degree from the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies in Los Angeles, and was ordained in 2005. Before serving […]

Event Series The 2017 Taubman Lectures l David Biale “On Jewish Heresy “

The 2017 Taubman Lectures l David Biale “On Jewish Heresy “

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

The Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Chair in Jewish Studies invites you to the 2017 Taubman Lecture Series by Professor David Biale. On Jewish Heresy I A Three Lecture Series Lecture 1 Rabbinizing Heresy: Korah in the Midrash When: Monday, March 13, 7:00 p.m. Lecture 2 The Afterlives of Baruch Spinoza and Shabbatai Zvi When: […]

PopUp Exhibition: Ron Feldman on Keeping (Jewish) Time

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

Ron Feldman is a Visiting Scholar at the Graduate Theological Union, where he earned his PhD in History of Culture and Religion with an emphasis on Judaism. In addition, he earned his MBA from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, and has been serving as the Chief Financial Officer of the JCC of the East […]

Reclaiming the Self in Jewish American Culture

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

More than any other generation, Post World War II Jewish American authors were continually engaged in challenging their own tradition and defied any attempt to characterize their texts as distinctly “Jewish.” This talk will portray a new style of writing in literature that redefined a new sense of Jewish self in American culture. Even though […]

PopUp Exhibition: Eric Drooker on the Art of Political Activism

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

Eric Drooker's drawings and posters are a familiar sight in the global street art movement, while his paintings appear frequently on covers of The New Yorker. A Berkeley resident for many years, Drooker was born and raised in New York City, where he began to slap his images on the streets as a teenager. Over […]

PopUp Exhibition: Ira Fink on El Lissitzky’s Had Gadya: Context and Meaning

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

Alongside a distinguished career in college and university planning, Ira Fink has assembled a significant research collection of books on synagogue architecture and Jewish ceremonial art. A graduate of UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design and a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, Dr. Fink’s family collection includes one of the few surviving sets […]

Film Screening + Discussion: Israeli Artists in Conversation with Israel

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

The Magnes is delighted to co-sponsor, The Berkley Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies' Israeli Artists in Conversation with Israel, An International Conference on Israeli Art and Society Wednesday, April 5 Conference Opening: Film Screening, at The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA 94720 5:30pm RECEPTION 6:00pm FILM […]

Israeli Artists in Performance: Israeli Artists in Conversation with Israel

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

The Magnes is delighted to co-sponsor, The Berkley Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies' Israeli Artists in Conversation with Israel, An International Conference on Israeli Art and Society Thursday, April 6 ISRAELI ARTISTS IN PERFORMANCE 6:00pm DINNER RECEPTION 6:30pm PERFORMANCES Yair Dalal c.a.t.a.m.o.n dance troupe Ibrahim Miari 8:30pm End of Program