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NEW EXHIBITION
Cities & Wars: Roman Vishniac in Berlin & Jerusalem 1947/1967
Cities and Wars brings together Roman Vishniac’s previously unseen images of Berlin in 1947 after the Second World War and Jerusalem in 1967 after the Six-Day War. The exhibition highlights the unique gaze of the artist, who considered both cities “home,” and carefully chronicles the devastating effects of war on urban life.
UPCOMING EVENTS
100 Years of the Yiddish Song: 1920s-2020s
Oct 26 @ 5:00 pm
Over the course of a turbulent and tortuous century, the Yiddish song has survived and is even thriving in today’s flowering of performance and songwriting. Professor Mark Slobin’s lecture will cover both the continuity and the new creativity of this history.
Latest News
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Celebrating the Jewish New Year with a fundraising match
Image: Artist unknown. New Year's postcard, 20th century. Print on card. 76.242.2 I love that the Jewish New Year coincides with the start of a new school year. Both begin with feelings of excitement and promise for the new year ahead and simultaneously invite...
The Magnes opens with new exhibition
The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life at the University of California, Berkeley opens on Tuesday, August 29th, for the fall 2023 semester with a new exhibition, Cities and Wars: Roman Vishniac in Berlin and Jerusalem 1947-1967. Drawing from the vast Roman...
The Magnes to present new exhibition of Photographer Roman Vishniac
BERKELEY — The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life announces its newest exhibition, Cities and Wars: Roman Vishniac in Berlin and Jerusalem (1947/1967), opening August 29, 2023 and featuring never before seen work by Russian-Jewish photographer Roman Vishniac...
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