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Homecoming Weekend Gallery Opening and Tours

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

Homecoming Weekend is UC Berkeley's largest annual gathering welcoming thousands of alumni, parents, and students to campus for three days of fun. Festivities include alumni parties, family events, the Bear Affair BBQ, faculty seminars, campus tours, museum and library open houses, the Homecoming football game, and more. The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life marks this […]

PopUp Exhibition | Andrea Sinn

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

The Magnes is proud to continue its series of pop-up lunchtime exhibitions with a feature presentation by Andrea Sinn, who is the Visiting Professor in the History Department at UC Berkeley. Professor Sinn is an expert on German, Jewish and migrations history. She was a fellow of the German National Merit Foundation and is the […]

PopUp Exhibition | Carla Shapreau

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

Join us for an exciting discussion about the rescue of Jewish cultural property looted by the Nazis across Europe, centering upon the photographs and letters (1945-1946) of Koppel Pinson kept in The Magnes Collection. Nazi era looted books and other items were processed after WWII at the Offenbach Archival Depot. The mission of the U.S. Monuments […]

Holocaust Author Reading Series

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

Kathryn Winter reads from her book Katarina Kathryn Winter was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, before the the start of the Second World War. Her father left for England in the late 1930s, hoping to get his family out of Czechoslovakia, but did not succeed. Kathryn survived the war hiding in barns, farms, an orphanage, and wandering […]

Popup Exhibition | Harriete Estel Berman

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

The Magnes is incredibly excited to welcome Harriete Estel Berman to its PopUp Lunchtime Series! Harriete is a nationally-admired artist, who uses recycled materials and post-consumer content to create art with a social commentary. Her work ranges from teacups, to jewelry, to large montages. Harriete produces Judaica-inspired art as well: her work focuses on the Jewish concept […]

PopUp Exhibition | Christine Liu and Daniel Viragh

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

Join us as we celebrate three centuries of Jewish History in the Czech lands this week! The Magnes is pleased to welcome you to this installment of our PopUp Exhibition Series, which will feature our undergraduate research apprentice Christine Liu,  and Daniel Viragh, our post-doctoral scholar. Their presentation will focus on the papers of the […]

Holocaust Author Reading Series | Lucille Eichengreen reads from From Ashes to Life

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

Please join Jewish Family & Children’s Services of the East Bay for the continuation of our special series featuring Holocaust survivors reading from their published works. All events will take place at the Magnes Collection of Jewish Life & Art in Berkeley. You’re welcome to bring a brown bag lunch. Thursday, November 6, 2014 12:00 […]

Liana Fink: “The Bintel Brief” | The American Jewish Experience Speaker Series

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

THE AMERICAN JEWISH EXPERIENCE SPEAKER SERIES  LIANA FINCK ON "THE BINTEL BRIEF" "Liana Finck talks about her graphic novel, adapted from letters written to the Yiddish daily Forward newspaper's popular advice column in the early 1900s.”  The column documented the economic, social, and personal tribulations of Jewish newcomers to America. Finck's book was described in the New York […]

PopUp Exhibition | John Efron

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

The Magnes is extremely pleased to welcome John Efron, Koret Professor of Jewish History at Berkeley, to its series of weekly popup lunchtime exhibits. Professor Efron is a specialist in German-Jewish history and his book, German Jewry and the Allure of the Sephardic will be published by Princeton University Press in the Fall. Professor Efron will speak […]

Piyyut: Hebrew Poetry and World Music: Robert Alter, Yair Harel, and the Tafillalt Ensemble

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

Hebrew poems (piyyutim), chanted for centuries across the Diaspora, have been adapted to different melodies, evolving into a form of  “Jewish world music” with roots in Europe, the Mediterranean, North Africa, and the Middle East. This singing tradition, a core component of synagogue practice, has also entered secular life in Israel through public performances, workshops, […]

The Helix Project: Sharing the Story of Jewish Life in Europe

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

Join Rob Adler Peckerar, Executive Director of Yiddishkayt, a Yiddish cultural and educational center in Los Angeles, and Helix Project Instructor, Mindl Cohen, and alumni of the Helix Project to learn about the only educational summer program that brings the 1000 year history of Jews in Eastern Europe to life. The presentation will include photographs and short films from the […]

PopUp Exhibition | Jonathan Sheehan

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

The Magnes Collection warmly welcomes Professor Jonathan Sheehan to its weekly series of PopUp Lunchtime Exhibitions. Professor Sheehan is a historian of Early Modern Europe, with particular interest in Judaeo-Christian relations. He is the author of The Enlightenment Bible: Translation, Scholarship, Culture (Princeton University Press, 2005), which whon the 2005 George L. Mosse Prize from the American Historical Association. Professor […]