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Blood Libel: On the Trail of An Antisemitic Myth

Blood Libel: On the Trail of An Antisemitic Myth

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

Berkeley's Center for Jewish Studies presents Magda Teter's lecture exploring how the medieval anti-Jewish lie about the story of Simon of Trent, a boy whose death during the Easter/Passover season in 1475 led to one of the most notorious persecutions of Jews in Europe and, as cited in 2019 by the shooter of the Poway synagogue, became rooted in Christian imagination to persist into the twenty first century US and lead to his horrific crime in California.

In My Ancestors' Shoes

In My Ancestors’ Shoes: Getting Dressed in the Tenements, 1881

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

Join Vi, creator of the YouTube channel SnappyDragon, as she demonstrates how a young working-class Hungarian Jewish immigrant woman would get dressed in her best clothes for Shabbat in the […]

The Magnes 100 Years of the Yiddish Song: 1920s - 2020s. Featuring Mark Slobin Winslow-Kaplan Professor of Music Emeritus at Wesleyan University
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100 Years of the Yiddish Song: 1920s-2020s

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

Over the course of a turbulent and tortuous century, the Yiddish song has survived and is even thriving in today’s flowering of performance and songwriting. Professor Mark Slobin's lecture will cover both the continuity and the new creativity of this history.

Transmitting Anne Frank to GenZ Opportunities and challenges in telling Anne Frank’s life story to the next generation. Presented by Berkeley Dutch Studies
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Transmitting Anne Frank to Gen Z

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

Almost 80 years after her tragic death in concentration camp Bergen-Belsen, Anne Frank still figures prominently in the public domain. Over the years, her diary and her life story have been the subject of an expansive output of adaptations and engagements, giving her an iconic status. While there is an unabated interest in Anne Frank, new generations connect to her on their own terms and within their own, rapidly changing, media landscape. It poses a challenge to us to open up to their worlds and to find new ways to tell the story of Anne Frank.

To left: Magnes logo, text: Roman Vishniac, Cities and Wars, Protecting Cultural Heritage during Armed Conflict, moved to Zoom! Featuring Patty Gerstenblith, on dark blue background. To right photo of woman in burgundy suit jacket.
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Now Virtual: Protecting Cultural Heritage during Armed Conflict

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

Join the Magnes for a lecture via Zoom with Blue Shield International's Patty Gerstenblith, as she discusses the legal, ethical, and voluntary constraints that have been adopted to protect cultural heritage and in particular archaeological sites from theft and looting during armed conflict.

Photos of a female and male speaker with text: Walkers in the City. Jewish Street Photographers of Midcentury New York.
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Walkers in the City: Jewish Street Photographers of Midcentury New York

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

"Walkers in the City" documents how roving, imaginative Jewish New Yorkers, entranced by the medium of photography, transformed everyday sights into rousing, joyous, and poignant moments of time, creating visual poetry out of the fabric of social life.

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Now Virtual | 1967: The Year that Transformed Israel

The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life: Zooming In 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA via Zoom

Join the Magnes for a special lecture via Zoom with Professor Eran Kaplan as he explores the impact of the 1967 Six Day War on Israel in this insightful program in conjunction with the current exhibition, "Cities and Wars. Roman Vishniac in Berlin and Jerusalem 1947/1967."

From Lodz to Tel Aviv: The Satirical World of Dzigan and Shumacher, the Most Famous Yiddish Comedy Duo of the 20th Century
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From Lodz to Tel Aviv: The Satirical World of Dzigan and Shumacher, the Most Famous Yiddish Comedy Duo of the 20th Century

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

Join Taube Philanthropies, Berkeley's Center for Jewish Studies, and The Magnes for the Second Annual Eva and Martin Libitzky Memorial Lecture, "From Lodz to Tel Aviv: The Satirical World of Dzigan and Shumacher, the Most Famous Yiddish Comedy Duo of the 20th Century," featuring John Efron is the Koret Professor of Jewish History at UC Berkeley.

Painting of Polish shtetl
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The Afterlife of a Shtetl

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

Dr. Natalia Romik, curator, architect and 2022 Dan David Prize winner, returns to the Magnes to present an exclusive preview of her vibrant new exhibition soon to premier at the POLIN Museum, in Warsaw.

Colorful manuscript on left with program title on right
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David Moss, Deborah Ugoretz & Rachel Biale: The Art of the Ketubah 

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

Join New Lehrhaus and the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life for The Art of the Ketubah, a hybrid webinar and collections tour with David Moss, Deborah Ugoretz, and Rachel Biale.