The Second Annual John S. Sills Memorial Lecture Professor Lucette Valensi of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris), and the University of California at Berkeley, is a world-renowned authority on the history of North Africa and the Middle East. Her published books include Jewish Memories, The Last Arab Jews, Tunisian Paesants in […]
The City of Berkeley’s tenth annual Holocaust Remembrance Day will honor East Bay Survivors. Featuring Cellist Isaac Pastor Chernak, Cantor Linda Hirschorn, and UC Berkeley's Jewish A Cappella group, Kol Hadov.
Join us for the 11th annual City of Berkeley Holocaust Remembrance Day Event Honoring survivors Sam Genirberg and Kathryn Winter Music by composer Aaron BlumenfeldAdmission is free. Refreshments will be served.
The Magnes opens its doors to participate in Sunday Streets Berkeley, the annual downtown street festival along 17 blocks of Shattuck Avenue.
Celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the landmark play Fiddler on the Roof with performances, screenings, conferences, sing-alongs, and more. When Fiddler on the Roof, a musical adaptation of Sholem Aleichem’s “Tevye” stories, made its debut on Broadway in 1964 it was an immediate hit. Join us for a festive reception and dance party following the 6:30pm California Theatre […]
The Magnes hosts the 12th City of Berkeley Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Honoring Sonia Korn-Grimani Distinguished Survivor with Jenny Chabon Cantor Eliana Kissner Performer Benji Marks Bass and Guitar Stephanie Anne Johnson, PhD Theater Arts, Writer Susan D. Felix Berkeley Art Ambassador Noon-1:30 PM Followed by a Reception For additional information 510-981-7170
City of Berkeley 14th Annual Holocaust Remembrance Day Free and open to the public. Honoring Marika and Laszlo Somogyi Distinguished Survivors With David Chernyavsky, violinist Markus Pawlik, Pianist Tomasz Koncewicz, Fulbright Visiting Professor, UC Berkeley Law George Csicsery, Filmmaker "Angel of Mercy" Mark Donig, UC Berkeley Law Student Enrique Lopez, Berkeley High Student UC Berkeley Armenian Choir […]
Talk l Music l Reception Honoring Jacob "Yakov" Harari, who will share the riveting story of his family's survival in Poland, along with a musical performance by The Ensemble Bembrillo, featuring Rachel Valfer, Eliyahu Sills, and Dan Cantrell. This event is free and open to the public.
Honoring Hana Berger Moran, distinguished survivor. Featuring Joel Ben-Izzy, storyteller; Mike Perlmutter, Gerry Tenney, Dmitri Gaskin, Dusan Rustic, musicians. This event is free and open to the public. For all inquiries please contact the City of Berkeley at 510-981-7170 Priska and Hana 1949
The 17th Annual Holocaust Remembrance Day Program honors survivors, and remembers those who were murdered, those who resisted, and those who rescued victims of the Holocaust.
Almog Behar is a poet, novelist, and critic. Born in 1978, Behar now lives in Jerusalem. He has published three books of poetry: Zim'on Be'erot (Well's Thirst, 2008), Chut Moshekh Min Ha-Lashon (A Thread Drawing from the Tongue, 2009) and Shirim Le-Asirei Batei-Ha-Sohar (Poems for the Prisoners, 2016); a collection of short stories, Ana Min Al-Yahoud (I am on one of the Jews, […]
