by magnes_admin | Feb 3, 2011
A native of the San Francisco area, Professor Brinner studied at the University of California, Berkeley, where he taught Arabic and Islamic studies in the Department of Near Eastern Studies from 1956 until his retirement in 1991, having served as Chair of the...
by magnes_admin | Sep 20, 2010
Shalom Sabar is Professor of Jewish Art and Folklore at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Sabar is the last Jewish baby born and circumcised in the ages old neo-Aramaic speaking Kurdish-Jewish community of Zakho. He earned his PhD in Art History from UCLA (1987),...
by magnes_admin | Aug 25, 2010
Fred Rosenbaum, an award-winning author, teacher, and educator, is the Founding Director of Lehrhaus Judaica. Rosenbaum has also been a faculty member at the University of San Francisco, San Francisco State University, and the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley,...
by magnes_admin | Aug 25, 2010
Profile by Jonathan D. Sarna, Brandeis University (Friday, August 21, 2020). Born in Brooklyn, the son of two Russian-immigrant parents who loved Hebrew (his father was a friend of the famed Israeli historian BenZion Dinur), young Moses was sent to study in the then...
by magnes_admin | Aug 17, 2010
Ava F. Kahn holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of California at Santa Barbara. She moved to the Bay Area to accept an appointment as Research Associate at the Western Jewish History Center of the Judah L. Magnes Museum. At the Magnes she edited, Birth of a...
