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New Exhibition
AUGUST 27, 2024 – MAY 15, 2025
In Plain Sight: Jewish Arts and Lives in the Muslim World
Co-curated by Magnes Curator Dr. Francesco Spagnolo and scholar of Islamic art Dr. Qamar Adamjee, In Plain Sight: Jewish Arts and Lives in the Muslim World showcases Jewish objects originating from Muslim lands that reflect cultural affinities and common threads.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Restless Lexicons: Contemporary Hebrew Poetry in Translation
Jan 23, 2025 @ 5:30 pm
Two translators, two books by important and divergent voices in contemporary Hebrew literature. Yakir Ben Moshe’s Take a Breath, You’re Getting Excited walks “a tightrope of levity and weight” in its portrait of a younger poet’s frenetic, serial search for love in Tel Aviv. Simon Adaf’s Aviva-No, a cycle of elegies on the death of the poet’s sister, inhabits an opposite pole of grief and loss.
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Happy Holidays!
Thank you for being part of the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life's community. We wish you and yours a holiday season filled with light and happiness. Please enjoy and share this curated selection of Hanukkah, memorial, and bench lamps from the Magnes's...
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Remembering Florence Helzel
Florence B. Helzel, a former Curator of Prints and Drawings and dedicated supporter of the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life passed away on November 4, 2024, at the age of 103. We are saddened by the loss of our dear friend and our thoughts are with her family...
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