East Bay premiere of the epic story of the pioneering Jews of San Francisco. The film makes extensive use of images and documents from The Magnes and The Bancroft Library collections. Panel discussion with Jackie Krenzman, Executive Producer and Producer, to follow the screening. Space is limited, please reserve a seat: http://themagnes.eventbrite.com/
Global India: Kerala, Israel, Berkeley, curated by Francesco Spagnolo, unveils the extensive holdings of The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life documenting the history of the Jewish community in Kerala, South India. The exhibition includes over one hundred individual items, many of which were never catalogued before. Dr. Barbara C. Johnson (Professor Emerita, Ithaca College), […]
“The Ancestral Law” will focus on what it meant to be a Ioudaios in the Maccabean crisis, and ask how the Torah came to be the definitive touchstone of Judean identity. John Collins, Holmes Professor of Old Testament, Yale University Divinity School, will give the lecture as related to the construction of Jewish Identity in the Second […]
Non-Mosaic Judasim” examines whether there were forms of Judean identity for which the Law of Moses was not the definitive criterion, and consider three test cases: the colony of Judeans at Elephantine, the wisdom literature prior to Ben Sira, and the early Enoch literature. John Collins, Holmes Professor of Old Testament, Yale University Divinity School, will […]
Professor Collins will consider how the traditional understanding of the covenant was modified when it was supplemented by claims of a higher revelation in the apocalyptic literature. John Collins, Holmes Professor of Old Testament, Yale University Divinity School, will give the lecture as related to the construction of Jewish Identity in the Second Temple Period.
Sharon and Sharona Galsulkar are the last educators of their Indian Jewish community, the Bene Israel, which has been residing in the Bombay region for centuries and is now disappearing. Genuinely Zionists and concerned about their daughters' future, they are also committed to their community's needs. Whose education will they sacrifice? Introduced by Lawrence Cohen, […]
Special exhibition tours with Magnes Director Alla Efimova and Curator Francesco Spagnolo.
The Magnes opens its doors to participate in Sunday Streets Berkeley, the annual downtown street festival along 17 blocks of Shattuck Avenue.
The day culminates with a public reading by award-winning author Thaisa Frank. Heidegger’s Glasses is Frank’s startling, surreal debut novel. Part love story and part historical fiction, Heidegger’s Glasses evocatively reconstructs the landscape of Nazi Germany from an entirely original and haunting vantage point. To register, please click here.
Annual Bay Area celebration of Yiddish culture for all ages. Enjoy and celebrate Yiddish culture! For all ages, musicians and not, Yiddish speakers and not. Saturday night: Klezmer Concert and Dance Party with internationally renowned klezmer groups: Strauss/Warschauer Duo (from New York) and Veretski Pass (Bay Area). Affordable ticket prices, discounts for teens and […]
The exhibition Global India: Kerala, Israel, Berkeley brought to light the extensive holdings from Kerala, South India, collected by The Magnes since the 1960s, and their relationship with the development of South Indian studies at UC Berkeley, since the pioneering work of David G. Mandelbaum and Walter J. Fischel. A multidisciplinary panel of scholars from UC Berkeley and Stanford, including […]
Orchestra of Exiles explores the 4-year odyssey of prodigious Polish violinist Bronislaw Huberman in the founding of the orchestra that would become the Israel Philharmonic. Huberman's personal transformation and subsequent heroic struggle to get Jewish musicians out of Europe to found this orchestra are at the film's heart. Introduction by Dr. Francesco Spagnolo (The Magnes and Department […]
