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PopUp Exhibition | Rachel Biale on Sex, Furniture, and Jewish Tradition

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

Rachel Biale, born and raised in Kibbutz Kfar Ruppin in Israel, is an author, clinical social worker, community organizer and educator, and parenting consultant based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her books include Women and Jewish Law (Schocken, 1984), and three illustrated children’s books. Her current project, Lost and Found, is a historical novel based on the […]

Lecture | Adrian Daub: The Mendelssohns, The Piano, and the Making of the Domestic Sphere

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

Thanks to its prominence, its wealth and its place at the center of intellectual and cultural life, the Mendelssohn family provides a privileged window into the formation of domestic culture in nineteenth-century Germany. But the story of the Mendelssohns not only reflects changes in domestic culture and the understanding of privacy, the family helped inaugurate […]

Women of the Bible: After Abel and Other Stories

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

Author Michal Lemberger will read from and discuss her new book, After Abel and Other Stories. Vividly reimagined with startling contemporary clarity, this debut collection of short stories gives voice to silent, often-marginalized biblical women: their ambitions, their love for their children, their values, their tremendous struggles, and their challenges. Lemberger’s stories honor the integrity of the […]

Taubman Lectures 2016 | Michael Gluzman: “The Poetry of the Drowned: Sovereignty and Melancholia after 1948”

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

The 2016 Taubman Lectures Michael Gluzman “The Poetry of the Drowned: Sovereignty and Melancholia after 1948” A three-part lecture series on modern Israeli poetry ·      Monday, February 22, 2016 at 5pm ·      Wednesday, February 24, 2016 at 5pm ·      Monday February 29, 2016 at 5pm, with a reception at 6:30  The Magnes Collection of Jewish […]

PopUp Exhibition | Tomasz Koncewicz on Piercing the Veil of Silence: Jewish Cultural Assets in Eastern Europe & The Case of Naftali Hertz Kon

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

Tomasz Tadeusz Koncewicz, a Fulbright Visiting Professor at the Berkeley Law School, is a professor of European and comparative law, the director of the Department of European and Comparative Law of the University of Gdansk, Poland, and an advocate specializing in litigation before both supranational courts (European Court of Human Rights and the European Court of Justice) and […]

Taubman Lectures 2016 | Michael Gluzman: “The Poetry of the Drowned: Sovereignty and Melancholia after 1948”

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

The Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Chair in Jewish Studies presents The 2016 Taubman Lectures   Michael Gluzman “The Poetry of the Drowned: Sovereignty and Melancholia after 1948”   The three-part lecture series will be held on    Monday, February 22, 2016 at 5pm   Wednesday, February 24, 2016 at 5pm Monday February 29, 2016 at 5pm, […]

Taubman Lectures 2016 | Michael Gluzman: “The Poetry of the Drowned: Sovereignty and Melancholia after 1948”

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

The Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Chair in Jewish Studies presents The 2016 Taubman Lectures   Michael Gluzman “The Poetry of the Drowned: Sovereignty and Melancholia after 1948”   The three-part lecture series will be held on    Monday, February 22, 2016 at 5pm   Wednesday, February 24, 2016 at 5pm Monday February 29, 2016 at 5pm, […]

Depth of Field: Sephardic Identities on Screen | Turn Left at the End of the World

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

Turn Left at the End of the World France-Israel, 2004. 110 min. In Israel in the late-1960s, Jewish immigrants from India are confronted with a community of Moroccan Jews. About the Depth of Field Series The term "Sephardic" indicates the descendants of the Iberian Jews who were expelled from Spain and Portugal (in Hebrew, sepharad) after 1492, […]

PopUp Exhibition | Carla Shapreau on Researching the Provenance of Lavater and Lessing with Moses Mendelssohn

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

Carla Shapreau, a member of the Berkeley Law faculty and a Senior Fellow at the Institute of European Studies at UC Berkeley, will present a case study in provenance research, reconstructing the creation and ownership of the painting by Moritz Daniel Oppenheim, Lavater und Lessing bei Moses Mendelssohn (1857), currently on display at The Magnes. Presented in […]

Music Performance | Ariana Strahl & Nicholas Mathew: Songs by Fanny Mendelssohn, Felix Mendelssohn, and Clara Schumann

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

Program Fanny Mendelssohn (1805-1847) 5 Lieder, op.10 (1850)   Clara Schumann (1819-1896) Sechs Lieder, Op. 13 (1844)   Fanny Mendelssohn (1805-1847) 6 Lieder, op.9 (1850)   Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) Minnelied im Mai, Op. 8, No. 1 (1826)   Erard Grand Piano, London, 1854       Born in Munich, Germany and raised in Fort Worth, Texas, […]

SUMMONED: Identity and Religion in a Haredi Neighborhood

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

In Summoned, Tavory takes readers to the heart of the exhilarating —at times exhausting—life of the Beverly-La Brea Jewish Orthodox community. Just blocks from West Hollywood’s nightlife, the Orthodox community thrives next to the impure sights, sounds, and smells they encounter every day. But to sustain this life, as Tavory shows, is not simply a moral […]

Great Stories | Spring 2016

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

Author and journalist Frances Dinkelspiel explores the Jewish connections in the history uncovered by her recent NY Times bestseller book, Tangled Vines: Greed, Murder, Obsession and an Arsonist in the Vineyards of California (St. Martin’s Press 2015), including Benjamin Dreyfus’ pioneering of kosher wine production in the Golden State, Isaias Hellman and Daniel Mayer’s controlling […]