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The 2018 Taubman Lectures | Annette Yoshiko Reed: “Forgetting the Jewish Past between Rupture and Renewal”

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

The Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Chair in Jewish Studies invite you to the 2018 Taubman Lecture Series by Professor Annette Yoshiko Reed, NYU. Lecture 1 What Was Lost with the Dead Sea Scrolls When: Monday, March 12, 7:00 p.m. Lecture 2 How the Jewishness of Christianity was Forgotten When: Wednesday, March 14, 7:00 p.m. Lecture […]

The Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Chair in Jewish Studies 2019 Taubman Lectures

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

Additional Program Dates Thu, April 11, 2019 7pm Tue, April 16, 2019 5:30pm Program Schedule Lecture One: Tuesday, April 9, 7pm: Freud, Anna O., and the Linguistic Architecture of the Modern Jewish Self Lecture Two: Thursday, April 11, 7pm: A Different Diaspora: Translation, Dispersion, and the Rewriting of Psychoanalysis in Jewish Languages Lecture Three: Tuesday, April 16, 5:30pm: Weinreich's […]

The Sixteenth Annual Judith Lee Stronach Memorial Lecture on the Teaching of Poetry

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

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, […]

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Roman Vishniac. In Focus: 1922-2022

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

Celebrating the richness of the Roman Vishniac Archive, this 2-day event combines an Open House featuring "A Glimpse of Vishniac," a digital display of photographs of Jewish life from Eastern and Central Europe from before World War II, as well as a day-long Symposium with internationally acclaimed scholars discussing the historical context and content of the photographs Vishniac took.

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Shared History Project: 1700 Years of Jewish Life in German Speaking Lands Exhibition Reception and Program

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

In collaboration with UC Berkeley's Center for Jewish Studies, Faculty Director John Efron welcomes the German and Israeli Consul Generals to a reception and program showcasing Leo Baeck Institute’s traveling panel exhibition, Shared History Project: 1700 Years of Jewish Life in German Speaking Lands. The program will feature Koret Professor of Jewish History at UC […]

1st Annual Eva and Martin Libitzky Memorial Lecture

2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA via Zoom

Tuesday, October 11, 2022 Reception: 5:30pm Lecture and Discussion: 6:30pm In person at The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley Inaugural Lecturer: Fred Rosenbaum Award-winning educator, teacher, and author (with Eva Libitzky) of the best-selling "Out on a Ledge: Enduring the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, and Beyond." “Liberated, Not Yet Free: […]

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Exhibit Opening and Book Launch | Anatomy of Torture: Testimonies from the Berkeley Archive

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

Don't miss Professor Ron Hassner's special exhibit opening and book launch, Anatomy of Torture: Testimonies from the Berkeley Archive, to celebrate the publication of his newest book, “Anatomy of Torture," (Cornell, 2022) making a trove of original manuscripts from the UC Berkeley archives that detail the persecution of Spanish Jews in the 16th and 17th […]

Lawrence Rinder on Rina Kimche

UC Berkeley Art Museum and the Pacific Film Arcive 2155 Center Street, Berkeley, CA, United States

Presented by BAMPFA, guest curator Lawrence Rinder looks at Rina Kimche’s ceramics in the context of Israeli Modernism, as well as touching on her connections to other international artistic currents. He focuses in particular on the works in the current exhibition, which date from the 1970s to the 2010s and show diverse expressions of her key themes: history, fragmentation, resilience, and survival.

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Hideouts. The Architecture of Survival in the Holocaust

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

Co-hosted by Taube Philanthropies, The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life and UC Berkeley Center for Jewish Studies. Please join us for Hideouts. The Architecture of Survival in the Holocaust Reception and Program featuring Dr. Natalia Romik, 2022 Dan David Prize Laureate, scholar, curator, Holocaust researcher, and architect in conversation with Francesco Spagnolo, Curator […]

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Fashion Metropolis Berlin 1836-1939: The Story of the Rise and Destruction of the Jewish Fashion Industry

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

Based on his book "Fashion Metropolis Berlin 1836-1939: The Story of the Rise and Destruction of the Jewish Fashion Industry," Uwe Westphal’s lecture will examine Jewish participation in Berlin’s fashion industry and how Nazi loyalists within the industry contributed to the Holocaust.

Shared Appeals to Different Gods: Jews, Christians and Medieval Prayer

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

Berkeley's Center for Jewish Studies presents Elisheva Baumgarten's lecture focusing on private prayers found in Hebrew manuscripts from medieval northern France that both adapt and adopt known Christian prayers. It will trace the ways in which these prayers would have been known by Jews, and discuss the adaptations made by Jews to make these prayers usable.