Bride Lia Weiss welcomes more people to join the wedding party in dance during a Henna party, which explores and celebrates Middle Eastern Jewish wedding traditions, at the Magnes museum in Berkeley on Thursday, March 20, 2025. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
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The Benveniste Family in Salonika (Thessaloniki)
Dr. Guy Benveniste, Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, donated a Hebrew manuscript and four photographs of his family in Salonika (today Thessaloniki, Greece) to The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life in 2012.
Collection #
2012.2.1-5
Place of Creation/PublicationSalonika
Magnes Collection Database
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