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Modern Food Rituals: From the Communal Table to the Global Tasting Room

The Magnes Collection of Jewish Life and Art 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA, United States

Inspired by Gourmet Ghettos: Modern Food Rituals, a new exhibition on display at The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, UC Berkeley scholars and Bay Area authors, artists, and food activists animate a roundtable discussion about religious and secular food rituals, the ways they engage with the growing public interest in ecology, food security, and […]

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CalDay 2015 | Weekend Open Galleries

The Magnes Collection of Jewish Life and Art 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA, United States

Special Weekend Opening on CalDay! April 18 & 19, 11AM-4PM ON VIEW THIS SPRING: The Future of Memory: Jewish Culture in the Digital Age What should we remember? What should we forget? And who decides? An innovative project that includes an installation, a museum exhibition, and a digital research lab in which museum professionals, scholars, […]

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Botanical Zionism at the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life

The Magnes Collection of Jewish Life and Art 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA, United States

Special Guest: Dana von Suffrin (LMU-Munich) Currently on view at The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life is the exhibition “The Secret Language of Flowers. Botanical Drawings from Israel, 1949-1950”. This exhibition is curated by Dr. Francesco Spagnolo. The exhibition displays the works of Shmuel (Samuel) Lerner (1890-1981), a Californian artist born in the […]

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Fall Exhibition Opening | Living by the Book: The Jewish Bible and the Everyday Power of Text

The Magnes Collection of Jewish Life and Art 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA, United States

The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life cordially invites you to an opening reception for Living by The Book The Jewish Bible & the Everyday Power of Text Wednesday, September 9, 2015 at 5 pm 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley Jonah and the Whale at the Port of Haifa.jpg E. Abeshaus (1939–2008), Jonah and the […]

Lavater and Lessing Visit Moses Mendelssohn (1856) by Moritz Daniel Oppenheim

Spring Opening Event: Exhibition Opening & Musical Performances | Tuesday, January 26, 5-7 pm

The Magnes Collection of Jewish Life and Art 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA, United States

The Office of the Dean of Arts and Humanities The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life the Departments of Music and History University of California, Berkeley Cordially invite you to the opening of the new exhibition From Mendelssohn To Mendelssohn and the launch of The Mendelssohn Project Reception Remarks George Breslauer, Faculty Director, The […]

Fall Exhibition Opening: I-Tal-Yah: An Island of Divine Dew Italian Crossroads in Jewish Culture

The Magnes Collection of Jewish Life and Art 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA, United States

The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life cordially invites you to an opening reception for I-Tal-Yah: An Island of Divine Dew Italian Crossroads in Jewish Culture An exhibition marking the 500th Anniversary of the founding of the Venice Ghetto (1516) Tuesday, September 6, 2016 at 5 pm 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley     Never before […]

Spring 2018 Opening Reception

Opening Reception l High Holy Days at the Luna Park: Show-card Posters from the Firschein Press & The Karaite Canon: Manuscripts and Ritual Objects from Cairo

The Magnes Collection of Jewish Life and Art 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA, United States

The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life cordially invites you to an opening reception for its two new exhibitions: High Holy Days at the Luna Park: Show-card Posters from the Firschein Press, Brooklyn, NY, 1920–1974 & The Karaite Canon: Manuscripts and Ritual Objects from Cairo OPENING REMARKS George Breslauer, Faculty Director, The Magnes Francesco Spagnolo, Curator, The Magnes HONORING Oscar and Theda Firschein (Menlo Park) Donors of the Firschein Collection PERFORMANCE Yair Harel (Jerusalem) Piyyut Hebrew Sacred Songs from […]

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Irvin Ungar on Arthur Szyk: Soldier in Art

The Magnes Collection of Jewish Life and Art 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA, United States

In 2017, The Magnes acquired from Irvin Ungar, a private collector, the most significant collection of works by Arthur Szyk (Łódź, Poland, 1894 – New Canaan, Connecticut, 1951)  thanks to an unprecedented gift from Taube Philanthropies. Szyk’s works are now available to the world in a public institution for the first time as the Taube […]

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Fall 2018 Opening Reception | Pièces de Résistance & Project “Holy Land”

The Magnes Collection of Jewish Life and Art 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA, United States

 The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life cordially invites you to an opening reception forits two new exhibitions Pièces de RésistanceEchoes of Judaea CaptaFrom Ancient Coins to Modern Art & Project “Holy Land”Yaakov Benor-Kalter’s Photographsof British Mandate Palestine Tuesday, September 4, 2018 at 5 pm 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley     RECEPTION OPENING REMARKS […]

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Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History | Steven Zipperstein (Stanford) in conversation with John Efron (UC Berkeley

The Magnes Collection of Jewish Life and Art 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA, United States

This event is free and open to the public Please RSVP here Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History (Liveright/WW Norton, 2018) by Steven Zipperstein will be available for purchase through Mrs. Dalloway's bookstore after the event. In April, 1903, 49 Jews were killed, 600 were raped or wounded, and more than 1,000 Jewish-owned houses and stores were […]

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Around Arthur Szyk: Berkeley Scholars on Art and History

The Magnes Collection of Jewish Life and Art 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA, United States

Additional Program Date: Tue, Nov 27, 2018 5:30pm The Taube Family Arthur Szyk Collection comprises hundreds of artworks, sketches, illustrated books, and archival documents created between two world wars and documenting the rise of totalitarianism in Europe. Szyk’s work touches on motifs drawn from the Bible, history, politics, and culture to pair extraordinary craftsmanship with […]

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Around Arthur Szyk: Berkeley Scholars on Art and History

The Magnes Collection of Jewish Life and Art 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA, United States

Poland Reborn: A State Between Democracy and Fascism John Connelly, History, UC Berkeley RSVP here This talk focuses on the divided Poland that emerged after World War I. On the one hand Poland had to accommodate the demands of generations of freedom fighters, while on the other, it quickly became a dysfunctional democracy that lapsed into […]