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Shared Appeals to Different Gods: Jews, Christians and Medieval Prayer

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

Berkeley's Center for Jewish Studies presents Elisheva Baumgarten's lecture focusing on private prayers found in Hebrew manuscripts from medieval northern France that both adapt and adopt known Christian prayers. It will trace the ways in which these prayers would have been known by Jews, and discuss the adaptations made by Jews to make these prayers usable.

Blood Libel: On the Trail of An Antisemitic Myth

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

Berkeley's Center for Jewish Studies presents Magda Teter's lecture exploring how the medieval anti-Jewish lie about the story of Simon of Trent, a boy whose death during the Easter/Passover season in 1475 led to one of the most notorious persecutions of Jews in Europe and, as cited in 2019 by the shooter of the Poway synagogue, became rooted in Christian imagination to persist into the twenty first century US and lead to his horrific crime in California.

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Soul House: A Book Reading with Mireille Gansel and Joan Seliger Sidney

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

Join us for a bilingual reading featuring acclaimed French poet and translator Mireille Gansel and her English translator, poet Joan Seliger Sidney, on the occasion of the publication of Soul House (World Poetry, 2023), Gansel’s first book of poetry in English translation and her second book in English since her important contribution to Translation Studies, Translation as Transhumance (Feminist Press, 2017). The reading will be followed by a discussion with the author and translator.

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Walkers in the City: Jewish Street Photographers of Midcentury New York

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

"Walkers in the City" documents how roving, imaginative Jewish New Yorkers, entranced by the medium of photography, transformed everyday sights into rousing, joyous, and poignant moments of time, creating visual poetry out of the fabric of social life.

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Now Virtual | 1967: The Year that Transformed Israel

The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life: Zooming In 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA via Zoom

Join the Magnes for a special lecture via Zoom with Professor Eran Kaplan as he explores the impact of the 1967 Six Day War on Israel in this insightful program in conjunction with the current exhibition, "Cities and Wars. Roman Vishniac in Berlin and Jerusalem 1947/1967."

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The City Without Jews: A Centenary Film Soirée

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

Join us for a special screening of the historic silent film "The City Without Jews" accompanied live with original music composed and performed by klezmer violinist Alicia Svigals and silent film pianist Donald Sosin. The screening will be followed by a conversation with UC San Diego Professor Emerita Cynthia Walk and UC Berkeley Professor Philipp Lenhard.

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From Lodz to Tel Aviv: The Satirical World of Dzigan and Shumacher, the Most Famous Yiddish Comedy Duo of the 20th Century

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

Join Taube Philanthropies, Berkeley's Center for Jewish Studies, and The Magnes for the Second Annual Eva and Martin Libitzky Memorial Lecture, "From Lodz to Tel Aviv: The Satirical World of Dzigan and Shumacher, the Most Famous Yiddish Comedy Duo of the 20th Century," featuring John Efron is the Koret Professor of Jewish History at UC Berkeley.

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Atrocities’ Truth Tellers: Armenian and Jewish Victim Testimony in Interwar Europe

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

Join the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life and Berkeley Center for Jewish Studies for Atrocities' Truth Tellers: Armenian and Jewish Victim Testimony in Interwar Europe, the Annual Pell Lecture with Williams College Professor Alexandra Garbarini.

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Victoria Hanna at In Plain Sight: Sounds Create Worlds

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

Join the Magnes, the Helen Diller Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies, and UC Berkeley's Center for Jewish Studies for a special performance by multi-disciplinary Israeli artist, Victoria Hanna.

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Happy Ottoman Purim! Commemorating Muslim Victories through Jewish Holidays, 1516-1860

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

Helen Diller Annual Lecture Presented by Berkeley's Center for Jewish Studies. Co-Sponsored by the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life and Berkeley's Center for Middle Eastern Studies. This talk will explore the history of Jewish communities in the Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire. Orit Bashkin looks at the ways in which Jews in […]

Radio, Propaganda, Terror: Austrian-Jewish Refugees and the Media

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

2024 Annual Feldman Lecture by Paul Lerner. Presented by UC Berkeley's Institute of European Studies, Center for Jewish Studies, Department of History, German Historical Institute Washington | Pacific Office Berkeley, and OPEN Austria.