Led by curatorial staff, The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life at UC Berkeley opens it's doors for a behind the scenes view of our exhibitions and holdings.
Berkeley's Center for Jewish Studies presents a spring poetry panel featuring Dan Alter with Erika Meitner and Daniel Khalatschi, two of the most exciting Jewish poets working in the US, with new books out now and in the spring. Naomi Seidman will moderate a discussion and reading, offering poetry as a lens into how particular sensibilities navigate these issues in a time of uncertainty and possibility.
Berkeley's Center for Jewish Studies presents acclaimed historian Jeffrey Veidlinger's lecture discussing the Pogroms of 1918-1921. Drawing upon long-neglected archival materials, including thousands of newly discovered witness testimonies, trial records, and official orders, Professor Veidlinger shows for the first time how this wave of genocidal violence created the conditions for the Holocaust.
This inaugural installation from the Roman Vishniac Archive shares many of Roman Vishniac’s (1897-1990) most iconic images documenting Eastern-European Jewish life in the years immediately preceding the Holocaust. This group of images in An Archive of Archives: Roman Vishniac's Exhibition History | New York, 1971-72 were originally presented in an exhibition at the Jewish Museum in New York […]
Celebrating the richness of the Roman Vishniac Archive, this 2-day event combines an Open House featuring "A Glimpse of Vishniac," a digital display of photographs of Jewish life from Eastern and Central Europe from before World War II, as well as a day-long Symposium with internationally acclaimed scholars discussing the historical context and content of the photographs Vishniac took.
Arthur Szyk’s compelling political cartoons placed Nazi genocide, tyranny and racism on the covers of America’s most popular magazines during World War II. Highlighting how Szyk used his art to take immediate, direct action in bringing attention to the Holocaust as it was being perpetrated, In Real Times. Arthur Szyk: Art & Human Rights (1926-1951) showcases over fifty […]
Arthur Szyk’s compelling political cartoons placed Nazi genocide, tyranny and racism on the covers of America’s most popular magazines during World War II. Highlighting how Szyk used his art to take immediate, direct action in bringing attention to the Holocaust as it was being perpetrated, In Real Times. Arthur Szyk: Art & Human Rights (1926-1951) showcases over fifty […]
In celebrating a decade at UC Berkeley, The Magnes Collection's exhibition Time Capsules revisits ten exhibitions from this time. Each exhibition featured in Time Capsules is unique in exploring the cultures of the Jews in a global perspective, in bringing museum objects "back to life," and in offering ever-changing ways to understand the past in […]
The National WWII Museum invites you to the opening of In Real Times. Arthur Szyk: Art and Human Rights, a special exhibition showcasing the work of illustrator and political cartoonist Arthur Szyk. Join exhibit curator Francesco Spagnolo, PhD, of The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life at UC Berkeley, which organized the exhibit, as […]
In collaboration with UC Berkeley's Center for Jewish Studies, Faculty Director John Efron welcomes the German and Israeli Consul Generals to a reception and program showcasing Leo Baeck Institute’s traveling panel exhibition, Shared History Project: 1700 Years of Jewish Life in German Speaking Lands. The program will feature Koret Professor of Jewish History at UC […]
Alumni and Parents Weekend at Homecoming is scheduled for September 23–25, 2022. Join us as we come together to celebrate the Cal community with three days of engagement with fellow Golden Bears, lectures and other learning opportunities, special tours, and much more. This homecoming weekend discover one of the preeminent Jewish collections in the world, […]
Tuesday, October 11, 2022 Reception: 5:30pm Lecture and Discussion: 6:30pm In person at The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley Inaugural Lecturer: Fred Rosenbaum Award-winning educator, teacher, and author (with Eva Libitzky) of the best-selling "Out on a Ledge: Enduring the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, and Beyond." “Liberated, Not Yet Free: […]
