As Berkeley's official open house, Cal Week is where the entire Berkeley campus community devotes time to engage with our newly admitted students. The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life has several opportunities for incoming students to learn more about us, including a curatorial conversation from our Zooming In series, student profiles and testimonials from our undergraduate […]
Curators Francesco Spagnolo and Shir Kochavi present insights and connections emerging from the holdings of UC Berkeley's Magnes Collection, one of the largest Jewish museum collections in the world. Zooming In: I-Tal-Yah: An Island of Divine Dew. Italian Crossroads in Jewish Culture reflects on the Fall, 2016 exhibition I-Tal-Yah, and highlights how it will be […]
Curators Francesco Spagnolo and Shir Kochavi present insights and connections emerging from the holdings of UC Berkeley's Magnes Collection, one of the largest Jewish museum collections in the world. Zooming In: Pièces de Résistance: Echoes of Judaea Capta From Ancient Coins to Modern Art reflects on the Fall, 2018 exhibition Pièces de Résistance, and highlights […]
Bringing the Light On the occasion of Hanukkah, we are partnering with the Bay Area's six Jewish Community Centers to bring you the light from the 200 Hanukkah lamps in The Magnes Collection. We invite you to join us in discovering the culturally rich stories of these unique lamps collected from Europe, North Africa, the […]
In celebrating a decade at UC Berkeley, Time Capsules revisits ten out of the over 30 exhibitions presented since the Magnes opened the doors of its new academic home to the public. Each exhibition featured in Time Capsules is unique in exploring the cultures of Jews in a global perspective, in bringing museum objects back to life, and […]
Led by curatorial staff, The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life at UC Berkeley opens its doors for a behind the scenes view of our exhibitions and holdings.
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.
