Supporters
Thank you
The Magnes greatly appreciates the generosity of supporters whose gifts make everything we do possible and enrich the lives of those in our community.
The following list includes donors who supported the Magnes between July 1, 2023 and June 30, 2024.
Institutional Funders
Alameda County Arts Commission
Berkeley Public Schools Fund
David Berg Foundation
East Bay Community Foundation
Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust
Hellman Foundation
Jewish Community Federation and Endowment Fund
KlezCalifornia
Koret Foundation
Magnes Museum Foundation
Magnes Museum Foundation’s Esther and Jacques Reutlinger Fund
San Francisco Foundation
Sunrise Foundation for Education and the Arts
Taube Philanthropies
Temple Sinai of Oakland
Walter & Elise Haas Fund
Anonymous (2)
Leadership Circle
Ruth Arnhold
Sue & Ronald Peter Bachman
Joan Bieder
Allan & Sydne Bortel
George Breslauer
Helen Bulwik
Jennifer Chaiken & Sam Hamilton In memory of Mr. Donald Chaiken
& Ms. Carole Chaiken
Barry & Debra Cohn
Sandra Coliver In memory of Mr. Norman Coliver
Susan Coliver & Robert Herman In memory of Mr. Norman Coliver
Donald & Carole Chaiken Foundation
Holly Doyne & George Rehm
Elizabeth & Norman Edelstein
Edwin & Sandra Pearl Epstein
Vallery Feldman
Herbert & Marianne Friedman
Marcia & John Goldman
Susan Goldstein & Andrew Kivel
Richard & Lorrie Levin Greene
Joan Grossman
Adele Marie Hayutin
Florence Helzel
Lawrence & Rebekah Helzel In honor of Mrs. Florence B. Helzel
Fred J. Isaac Philanthropic Fund
Lauren & George John
Randall & Jan Kessler
Andrea King
Deborah & David Kirshman
Kenneth Kofman
Carole & Ted Krumland
Susan Morris
Richard Nagler & Sheila Sosnow
Ellice & James Charles Papp
Deborah Peluse
Fran Quittel
Louise Sampson
Gary & Dana Shapiro
Valerie Sopher
Jerry & Melody Howe Weintraub
Hannah Weisman & Mike Peluse
Friends of the Magnes
Terry Alexander
Margaret Alkon & Jonathan Marshall
Victor & K. B. Alterescu
Nicholas Arzio
Fred David Astren
David & Vivian Auslander
Susan & Marc Backer
Jaimie Baron
Deborah Bayer
Barbara A. Berger
Alan & Joanne Bernstein
Marsha & Stephen Berzon
Rachel Biale In memory of Dr. David J. Biale
Barbara Bibel
Harvey & Bonnie Bichkoff In honor of Rabbi Michael P. Lerner
Steven Birnbaum
Leslie & Paul Blachman
Beverly Blatt & David Filipek
Judith Bloom
Barbara & Howard Bomze
Denah Bookstein In honor of Dr. Francesco Spagnolo & Hannah Weisman
Mike & Ruth Botchan
Joan Lori Bradus & Dale Friedman
David Brandon
Sheila & Art Braufman
Marc Brenman
Lisa Brinner
Robert Brody & Andrea Jacoby
Richard Brooks
Jerome Burke
Philip Charney
Donna Chazen
Ekaterina Chirikova
Judy Chong
Kay Churgel
Janis Clark
Sara Cleveland
Maya & Steven Cohn
Robbie Cohn
Richard James & Marilyn Collier
Susan David
Barbara Gross Davis
Howard Davis
Frances Dinkelspiel & Gary Wayne
Martin & Jill Dodd
Linda Dow & James Asher Morgenstern
Rebecca Golbert
Christopher Dueñas
Kenneth & Christina Einstein
Angela & Eli Eisenpress
Dianne Ellsworth
Harold & Diana Feiger
Michael Anthony Fein & Maria David
Anita & Steven Feinstein In honor of Hannah Weisman
Lewis Feldman
Ron Feldman
Sam Ferman
Doris Renee Fine
David Fisher
Thomas Flynn
William & Andrea Foley
Selma & Paul Forkash
Shelly Forster
Aileen Frankel
James Frazin
Ednah Friedman
Nick Gerson & Jackie Rosenson
Muriel Gillick
Allen & Shirley Ginzburg
Christa & Andrew Goldblatt
Michaela Goldhaber
Stephen & Elisabeth Katz Goodman
Rosann Greenspan
Barry Gross In memory of Mr. Marvin H. Lewis, Esq.
Marsha & Ralph Guggenheim
Larry Hanover
Ann Hasse & Erich Gruen
Dorith Hertz & Teven Laxer
Stanley Hoffman
Betsy & William Houston
Mark & Estie Sid Hudes
Jurdy Hughes & Patricia Bordonaro In memory of Ernst Siegmar Valfer, Ph.D.
Rachel Humphrey
Elizabeth Ingersoll
Jane Kaasa
Patty Kates & Henry Brady
Ethan Katz
Deborah Kaufman & Alan Snitow
Dianna & Robert Kehlmann
Marjorie Kirk
Cathy & Jim Koshland
Amy Kronenberg
Judith & Edouard Kujawski
Joan Kung & Howard Levy
Barbara Kuperstein
Steven Kusnitz
Valerie Lapin
Sherrill & Janos Laszlo
Michael Levine
Ann Lofgren Glaser
Doris Marx
Willy & Susan Springer Mautner
Barbara Meislin
Paul & Roni Melmed
Mr. Irving Rabin
Mary & Peter Mills
Marilyn Morris
Morse Family Foundation
Leonard Katz
Carol Sue Mimura & Jeremy William Thorner
Patricia Keer Munro
Goldie Negelev
Gregory & Lisa Niemeyer
Daphne & Samuel Noily
Carol & Kenneth Ogren
Lenore Olmstead
Steven & Joan Ominsky
Mary Owen & Norman Weinstein In honor of Prof. Emer. Edwin M. Epstein
Garry I. G. Parton
Ruth & Barry Phillips
Kenneth & Joyce Polse
Mel Pomerantz In memory of Ms. Evelyn Pomerantz
Linda Rafferty
James Rebhan
Janette Reid
Sherri Richards Flynn In memory of Mr. Seymour Fromer
William Ringer & Robin Berry
Bernard & Yetta Robinson
Brian Rogol
Susan Rose
Regina E. Rosen
Howard Roy Rosenberg
David & Phyllis Rothman
Rita Rowan
Raine Rude
Alan & Maxine Rudy
Dorothy Saxe
Elisabeth Scharbaum
Barbara Schick
Karine Schomer
Theodora & Bruce Schwab
Michael Several
Dan Slobin
Sandra Spector In honor of Mr. Michael E. Spector
Gail & John Swartzberg
Stuart Swiedler & Judith Weiss
Dolores Taller
Ryan Terribilini
Anne Tick
Isabella Tomas
Malcolm Trifon & Selma Sarah Meyerowitz
Julie Tsivia
Lisa Vandenberg
Gerald & Bobbie Wagger
Jeffrey Warwick
Gerald Weintraub
Gigi Weisman In memory of William Mendelson; In honor of Hannah Weisman
David & Kathryn Mickle Werdegar
Gerald Westheimer
Bruce & Margaret Hartmann Winkelman
Diane & Joshua Wirtschafter
Leslie Wolf
Marian Faye Wolfe & Scott Scheffler
Bill Zarchy
Vicki & Steve Zatkin
Sheldon & Martha Zedec
Anonymous (11)
In Kind Gifts
Sonia Melnikova-Raich
Richard Nagler
Programming Partners
Campus Partners
Austrian Center at the Institute of European Studies
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Center for Jewish Studies
Department of English
Department of German
Department of History
Dutch Studies
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
Helen Diller Institute for Israel Studies and Jewish Law
Community Partners
Berkeley Unified School District
Goethe-Institut San Francisco
Jewish Film Institute
Open Austria/Austrian Consulate San Francisco
Taube Philanthropies
theatre dybbuk
Yiddish Theatre Ensemble
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